The 4x23mm guns can be depressed below the horizontal for "crowd control."
Kind of difficult to hide, though.
Posted on 11/02/2016 6:13:52 AM PDT by C19fan
One of the more brutal weapons to see use on both sides of the war in Iraq is the KPV, a belt-fed heavy machine gun designed to take down aircraft — using a round dating back to tank-busting guns in World War II. The 14.5x114-millimeter KPV is not as pervasive as the smaller DShK, a rough equivalent to the U.S. M2 Browning. But the 108-pound KPV is nonetheless a big, unwieldy and extremely dangerous threat the Iraqi Army and Kurdish Peshmerga have encountered on their push toward Mosul. The Islamic State seized dozens of them in Syria and Iraq, bolting the guns onto pickup trucks to increase their mobile and intermediate range firepower. Over the years, Russia supplied the Iraqi and Syrian armies with KPVs as vehicle guns, and as part of multi-barreled ZPU-type anti-aircraft weapons.
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IIRC, the original Gatling round was .58cal.
"Aircraft" at Gatling's time was a tethered hot-air balloon.
Mounted on a Dodge truck. Good ad material.
The 4x23mm guns can be depressed below the horizontal for "crowd control."
Kind of difficult to hide, though.
The scene in Saving Private Ryan where the Germans were blasting the GIs on the Tiger tank with the 20mm AA gun was pretty dramatic. I thought Geneva had outlawed the use of these on personnel? I could be mistaken.
In Scout training at Knox we were told the M2 .50 could only be fired at “equipment”. They told us to aim for the enemy’s canteens as they were “equipment”.
I’ve always known that David Axe, the writer of “War is boring” had a leftist lean but after his article “Yes, Trump is a fascist.”, I deleted everything that Axe is connected with.
https://warisboring.com/yes-trump-is-a-fascist-heres-the-checklist-1920ad4d8163#.cw4ls93a7
Good call. War is Boring has an ulterior motive. It is apparent.
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