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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.
I think the assumption is the enemy pilot will only have one pistol. Also I wanna say tail gunners in WW1 were more about the idea of keeping the enemy pilot off your ass so you can swoop around and attack them from above.
That was the strategy almost all of the time in early dogfights. Get above the enemy, then dive at them while firing short bursts. And I mean firing from a pistol or rifle because the aircrafts didn't always have reliable maccine guns. Some pilots would even throw grenades.
This is wild to imagine. It sounds like the sort of bullshit you'd get in an anime.