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That's 10 Mauser C96 handguns with 10 round clips welded together. They're chambered in 7.63mm Mauser, which is more powerful than 9mm but not at all a rifle round. I can't find anything about this online but would wager it was early war experimentation.

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[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Lucien@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All four crewmen (or crewwomen, since the Soviets had 9 combat squadrons flown by female crews only) ...

Liberal wet dream

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Communist real life 😎

[–] Des@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who knew the Russians could be so innovative. Perhaps it went down like this: “Hey, Andrei, what do you think would happen if we took 88 of these here burp guns and tied them to the bottom of that there plane over there?” Sergei rubs his beard and says, “Hell yeah. We’d better get on that.”

uggghh

[–] WeedReference420@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I tried to find an article about the plane with minimal Wacky Russians or Gommunism Bad cringe and this was the best one I could find lmao

[–] Azarova@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

hahaha holy shit wtf is that? i wonder how much the plane was pushed upward by firing all those at once. the noise must have been something else too.