Russia contemplates re-starting WW2 wunderwaffe production

skillissuer , 5 months ago

some ww2 era colonel thawing after being pulled from siberian permafrost: what is MANPADS?

gravitas_deficiency , 5 months ago

is simple. You give man a pad for cushion; is now manpad.

SomeAmateur , 5 months ago

Imagine being the poor guy that had to reload all of these after

mindbleach , 5 months ago

He was mildly autistic with a wooden thumb, and it was his favorite week of the year.

JustUseMint , 5 months ago

My hands would be tired but at least I’d be alive, could you imagine fighting in the red army in WWII lmao

mctoasterson , 5 months ago

I mean this thing would be beyond impractical, right?

If I recall the largest PPSh drum magazines held about 70 rounds. And it is a very fast firing SMG with a cyclic rate of 1,250 rounds per minute. Meaning any one of those guns is gonna be empty after about 3-4 seconds.

Unless they flew over extreme concentrations of troops to target, the juice wouldn’t be worth the squeeze. Changing mags would be difficult or impossible mid flight

mindbleach , 5 months ago

If you set them to single-fire (giant asterisk) or three-round burst, it’d be a fantastic way to perforate an area instead of a line. Maybe mix-and-match so each pull gets you a dense wavefront, then a thinner hail of bullets, and then a couple streams that stop working shortly after contact with the enemy.

At the very least, have a separately-triggered one in the middle, set to single-fire and filled with tracers. Walk it in to be about right… and “about right” will get the job done.

mindbleach , 5 months ago

The less-ridiculous version of this would be “metal storm” sequential cartridgeless rounds. Basically a tube that goes rifling, bullet, powder, bullet, powder, bullet, powder, bullet, powder, etc. Pull one trigger and get a very tight grouping for an absolute stream of lead. Skimp on rifling and it’s more of a death cone.

Of course the goal is probably closer to a one-gauge shotgun. You want a flying ball of death that says, fuck everything in this general direction. Ideally with the visual impact of the shotguns in Armored Core 6, because god damn, reach for the stars.

p03locke , 5 months ago

Ideally with the visual impact of the shotguns in Armored Core 6, because god damn, reach for the stars.

I mean, if you ain’t trying to make military weapons that resemble mech weapons, you’re just doing something wrong.

iknowitwheniseeit , 5 months ago

I mean, it worked pretty well in the last Star Wars movie, didn’t it?

mindbleach , 5 months ago

See also machinegun jetpack.