• mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    10 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

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      10 months ago

      If you set them to single-fire (giant asterisk) or three-round burst, it’d be a fantastic way to perforate an area instead of a line. Maybe mix-and-match so each pull gets you a dense wavefront, then a thinner hail of bullets, and then a couple streams that stop working shortly after contact with the enemy.

      At the very least, have a separately-triggered one in the middle, set to single-fire and filled with tracers. Walk it in to be about right… and “about right” will get the job done.