• Nine year olds crew a Browning 1917 MG
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[media]https://youtu.be/MMhzh8Sc6xc[/media] The old image remains true, children are not meant for rifles! They are meant to crew mortars and machine guns, clearly!
That's actually pretty badass.
Just for this thread [IMG]http://op-for.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Crew-Served-for-Little-Ones.jpg[/IMG]
I'm not sure what to think of a bunch of 9 year olds manning a machine gun
[QUOTE=Complifused;48550056]I'm not sure what to think of a bunch of 9 year olds manning a machine gun[/QUOTE] Adorable is what it is. I pretty much dawed when they all yelled, "And what does the last man do?!" and the little kid comes up and shouts, "I carry the ammo!"
[QUOTE=Complifused;48550056]I'm not sure what to think of a bunch of 9 year olds manning a machine gun[/QUOTE] Who cares, they're being supervised and know proper gun safety. My only complaint is don't wear flipflops to a range. Nothing like hot brass burning your toes.
Interesting little historical fact. When he presented his machinegun to the army, Browning set up the weapon and fired it for forty minutes straight with no interruptions and with no overheating.
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;48550587]Interesting little historical fact. When he presented his machinegun to the army, Browning set up the weapon and fired it for forty minutes straight with no interruptions and with no overheating.[/QUOTE] Holy crap that's like 20'000+ rounds
That's actually quite adorable.
[QUOTE=Complifused;48550056]I'm not sure what to think of a bunch of 9 year olds manning a machine gun[/QUOTE] If they have been trained properly they're less likely to hurt themselves than your average adult. A mounted machine gun puts less physical stress on the user than even a handgun, all that needs to be done to ensure safety for the children is adults nearby and a clear range, of which you can see both in the video.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;48550705]i can see a mg being relatively safe but children firing a mortar just sounds like a recipe for disaster[/QUOTE] I don't know, if you had a really smart kid who know about angles and shit you could probably do it.
Mortars teach maths
they're ready for the trenches
Nazis had the right idea
[QUOTE=RichyZ;48551219]im trying to come up with something witty about context and can't think of anything[/QUOTE] The 1945 vision of a German playground and elementary school was a fortified weapons emplacement. :v: The Germans were right about not letting children use guns back then, though. Imagine one of the 9yo kids in this video try to fire a Mauser or a Gewehr; the recoil on those things would break their shoulders and they'd probably shoot someone friendly on accident.
[QUOTE=croguy;48551441]The 1945 vision of a German playground and elementary school was a fortified weapons emplacement. :v: The Germans were right about not letting children use guns back then, though. Imagine one of the 9yo kids in this video try to fire a Mauser or a Gewehr; the recoil on those things would break their shoulders and they'd probably shoot someone friendly on accident.[/QUOTE] Naaaaah. Bolt action rifles mean that once the shot fires off, there's no chance of it accidentally going off again after blowing through the 9 year old's shoulder blade! G43 however. Now I'm curious
[QUOTE=Ganerumo;48550587]Interesting little historical fact. When he presented his machinegun to the army, Browning set up the weapon and fired it for forty minutes straight with no interruptions and with no overheating.[/QUOTE] A similar gun, the british Vickers MG was tested in 1963 for how long it could endure constant fire, (with things like changing the water, swapping barrels, reloading etc) and it actually fired for 7 days and nights almost continuously with little to no stoppages. Resulted in almost 5 million rounds fired from the single gun, about 700 000 for each day
[QUOTE=TornadoAP;48550791]I don't know, if you had a really smart kid who know about angles and shit you could probably do it.[/QUOTE] Funfact, in the last years of WWII Nazi Germany actually had children fire panzerfausts at incoming american and british tanks.
[QUOTE=NeverGoWest;48553099]Funfact, in the last years of WWII Nazi Germany actually had children fire panzerfausts at incoming american and british tanks.[/QUOTE] i thought that was common knowledge
God that MG sounds awesome
[QUOTE=ashton93;48553059]A similar gun, the british Vickers MG was tested in 1963 for how long it could endure constant fire, (with things like changing the water, swapping barrels, reloading etc) and it actually fired for 7 days and nights almost continuously with little to no stoppages. Resulted in almost 5 million rounds fired from the single gun, about 700 000 for each day[/QUOTE] Well the thing with ww1 machine guns is that they were all heavily overbuilt, it meant the gun would never fail mechanically but it also meant the guns were in the range of 100 lbs minimum, before you add armor and water, they are built so that as long as you feed them and cool them they will keep firing where that doesn't really work in modern weapons nor is it practical But in a zombie apocalypse if you had enough bullets and water you would never need to worry about a horde
[QUOTE=Sableye;48565394]But in a [B]Great War[/B] if you had enough bullets and water you would never need to worry about a [B]hun[/B][/QUOTE] FTFY
While this seems like overkill for children I am pretty sure they didn't start here. I grew up around guns and by age 10 I was confident with a 12 gauge shotgun. But I had to work up to that point, first gun I learned on was a bolt action .22 which in retrospect was completely safe. Like the guy said above only one shot at a time so there is no chance of double firing. And from there I slowly worked up through the calibers until I was 12 years old and able to shoot a .44 magnum. This MG actually seems like a great idea for an extreme firearm that a kid can handle, since it is on a tripod the chances of it turning back on the shooter seem very slim.
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