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Ukrainian soldier with a 12.7 mm large-caliber DShKM-TK machine gun. (imgur.com)

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[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

"I could kill a building with this thing"

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You could. This type of gun is not intended primarily for use against people (although this particular gun might be modified to serve the role of a sniper rifle). It's for shooting aircraft and lightly armored vehicles. By that I don't mean cars; I mean armored personnel carriers. The bullets would go right through a building's walls.

I can't quickly find a photo of this gun's 12.7 mm bullet doing its thing, but here's what the very similar American 50 cal bullet does to six-inch-thick concrete:

[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I want one.

Edit: what I really want is one of those 20mm rifles that can take AA rounds. That'd be fucking sick. Just point it at something and boom! It's not a problem anymore!

Edit 2: the reason why I like obscenely high-caliber rifles is because it's fascinating to see all the different configurations that militaries have tried in an attempt to make a mobile, "hand-held" rifle capable of firing such a huge bullet without destroying the user's shoulder in the process.

[-] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Shoulder? Have you seen the power of recoilless weapons?

If they weren't recoilless, the person firing them wouldn't have a torso hahahahaha

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

Bitches love cannons.

[-] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Wow, I think that's a modified DShK, which entered service in 1938. It's not a museum piece - these guns are still in widespread use.

[-] Vikthor@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Similar role and similar longevity to the M2 machine gun.

[-] Marduk73@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Thinking of that girl cop in Vampire Hunter D. That rifle she has.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

Seras Victoria is from Hellsing, and that's a 30mm anti tank rifle, a weapon that (as far as I know) doesn't exist. Even the bigger antitank rifles only went to 20mm.