Funny Tail Gunner Pic

Ran across this and had to share.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/7d03vm/austrohungarian_tail_gunner_armed_with_ten_mauser/

Update for those wondering, still waiting to hear back from Fire Safety Engineer. This is as of last night 11-14-17, I spoke with Chuck, who is handling the FSE.

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Come to find out the Soviets went bigger,

The Tupolev Tu-2 was a Soviet bomber built to compete with the German JU-88 and the Murican B-26. Drunk Russians then decided to mount 11 rows of 8 PPSh-41s to clear out a trench. Unfortunately, even if all 88 guns didn’t malfunction (which they did) the Hedgehog would expend all its ammo in 4 seconds, which required 100 man hours to reload all the drum mags. Even at its max speed of 325 mph (at an unloaded weight) it would only cover a 4x1900 ft area with bullets. At the much more likely cruising speeds it would bomb at, it would cover under a 4x1000 ft area before running out of ammo. On top of that, since the PPSh-41 only shot the 7.62x25mm which topped out at 570 ft-lbs (770 J), the bomber would have to dive under 800 ft to actually be effective, making it a sitting duck. Alas it never flew a combat mission 

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Pilot to tail gunner: Status report!

Tail gunner to pilot: A-OK. Please send back more juice boxes!

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Ah! Life before all this safety nonsense.

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Also, back when they realized that children were easily replaceable chattel…

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Metal Storm -

This would be more effective.

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