• @[email protected]M
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    208 months ago

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

    • @JustUseMint
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      27 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

  • @[email protected]
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    98 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