Author Topic: New! Vultch-O-Matic™ (Read 662 times)

juzz · « **on:** June 08, 2001, 08:44:00 AM »

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six thousand, two hundred and forty eight shots - or only six thousand, two hundred and forty seven? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as these are 88 PPSh-41's, the most submachineguns fitted to any aircraft in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya PUNK?!

Sascha JG 77 · « **Reply #1 on:** June 08, 2001, 09:33:00 AM »

*click, click, click*

Seriously..what was the purpose of this..err..unique setup? Transporting the guns to the front?

Sascha

Superfly · « **Reply #2 on:** June 08, 2001, 10:04:00 AM »

I smell a perk plane!

-lynx- · « **Reply #3 on:** June 08, 2001, 10:25:00 AM »

Just wondering who came up with this idiocy? PPSh fired small (pistol size) 0.30 round which would probably take you head off at close range but would be totally useless at any distance... I'd also hate to be a reloader on this sucker

popeye · « **Reply #4 on:** June 08, 2001, 11:46:00 AM »

It was used to aerate the base commander's lawn.

SOB · « **Reply #5 on:** June 08, 2001, 12:17:00 PM »

I gots to know!

...and I gots to have one!

SOB

Jigster · « **Reply #6 on:** June 08, 2001, 03:07:00 PM »

You should see the one of a Lancaster with a belly full of Enfields and Brens.

Those are parachute packs, right?

Tac · « **Reply #7 on:** June 08, 2001, 05:07:00 PM »

well, if you think about it.. even a 22 cal. pistol bullet fired from 20k will make a damn hole on a person. Add dispersion..and a small formation of these planes...

and you get a damn good infantry support weapon

hazed- · « **Reply #8 on:** June 08, 2001, 06:37:00 PM »

very strange..what could this do that 14000lbs of bombs couldnt?

maybe it was used to stop those fighters that flew up vertical to hit the bombers belly?
heh big suprise when they opened up!

My theory is its a german fireman killer.After they drop thousands of incideries this baby flies over and mows the poor firemen down <snicker> after all those poor 78 year old firefighters were future SS when hitler drafted the poor sods into the army gave them a tin hat and a panzerfaust and told em to stop the russian army

right?

Superfly add it add it

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ra · « **Reply #9 on:** June 08, 2001, 08:02:00 PM »

An early attempt at VTOL.

ra

Sorrow[S=A] · « **Reply #10 on:** June 09, 2001, 01:37:00 AM »

IIRC it was designed to be flown over german coloumns of supply trucks and horse and wagons. At 1,000 ft or so the danger from one pass is fairly minimal to the bomber but with 88 guns spitting lead out the effect on the road, vehicles and horses below looked somewhat like an organic pincushion.

BTW I think all the guns were linked to a common hopper holding enough ammo for 20 secs continuous fire. Since the PPSH was fairly resistant to jamming it worked ok.

BTW this is a shot of the test bed- the system looked different later.

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bloom25 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 09, 2001, 01:42:00 AM »

Hmm, I prefer my guns to fire ahead, rather than down.

Anyone for the 20+ gun version of the b25? (75mm might be fun too. )

Staga · « **Reply #12 on:** June 09, 2001, 01:58:00 AM »

hmmm Tupolev...

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Jigster · « **Reply #13 on:** June 09, 2001, 04:29:00 AM »

I can only go on what I've seen carried in the Lanc to be dropped to the French Resistence.

Basically the same set up, paracrates that dropped out of the belly where the drop point was arranged for whatever ever military/resistance group needed them.

If they could fire like that, I'd love to meet the guy who figured out how to remotely activate 88 trigger devices, or reload each of the drum magazines on each PPSh.

Boroda · « **Reply #14 on:** June 09, 2001, 01:52:00 PM »

It's a Tu-2FT.

FT stands for "Frontovoye Trebovanie" - "Frontline Request".

AFAIK it was supposed to be used on "shturmovka" (ground attack) against enemy trenches.

Let me recalculate it. 88 PPSh each fireing 1000 bullets per minute, it's 88 thousand bullets each minute! Or - 1467 bullets per second. 10 times more then modern Gryazev's 6-barrel gatling without the slow-down device...

If the plane moves at 400 km/h (111m/s) and fires this monster - it equals 13 bullets per meter... Pretty hard to miss anything bigger then a cat.