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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.
All four crewmen (or crewwomen, since the Soviets had 9 combat squadrons flown by female crews only) ...
Liberal wet dream
Communist real life 😎
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
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
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.
This was the wacky shit you could get away with if your main opponent in the war was Italians
ww1 airplanes were made of paper so it probably would work fine lol
They were slow too, so yeah, likely not the worst idea ever
Dude, when you think about, this guy is probably dead.
That's very pessimistic. I choose to believe he's still alive and still up there fighting for his country.
the ghost of wien
Retvrn to strapping a bunch of pistols together
Reloading ten mausers, one clip at a time, must have been such a pain in the ass
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.
We Tervell posting up in this
I won't lie, it goes kinda hard.
Quite similar to the Vilar Perosa - essentially 2 submachine guns strapped together: https://youtu.be/WLFA8VXVkRQ?si=Gv-yySX8nJeWF10o
Saw use by Italy on the ground and in planes I think.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: