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Russian hedgehog
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This is called a Russian hedgehog. Its at least 88 tommy gun like sub machine guns attached to a low flying russian plane. It was designed to fly slow over large groups of german soldiers open the doors and unleash all these gus at once.
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Does make one wonder if someone got the idea for old "Spooky" from this thing.
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IIRC this was only a proto type and it actually never saw action.
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Uh, shouldn't this be in the Soviet forces section? Still, it's pretty impressive; reminds me of comic books!
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that would never work totally flawed
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Yeah, that's the first i've seen this also. Pretty good idea though.
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Precursor to today’s minigun armed Specter gunships? Never heard of this before
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The guns look like PPsh-41's, but I can't tell for sure from this view. The bomb on the shackle out-side of the bombay would do plenty of damage on its own - wonder why no bomb on other mount?