Copy editing is a tragically lost art. Also that thing is hilarious. Run out of bullets and you can just punch the enemy planes with your serrated brass knuckles.
I wonder how often it would occur that the pilot would shoot his own instrument cluster. Like when you’re holding two things, one to put in the trash, and one to save, and you brainfart into throwing away the item you intended to save, just staring at the trash in your hand waiting for your brain to catch-up…
“Oops, there goes my altimeter… dangit.”
It would be cool to have a brass catcher for rifles. If I was designing one it would attach to the picatinny rail on top. I hate hunting for brass but I want to keep things looking nice and do a bit of reloading
Edit: One google later and yeah people make them. Sick!
They’re cool in theory, but suck to use.
The bag full of shells flaps and clanks every time you shoot. Then it fills up and you have to stop to empty it about once per magazine.
Yeah you have to decide whether you hate policing the brass more than using the bag.
I don’t reload for the AR so I just rake/sweep it all up into a dustpan when I’m done.
…so not worth it.
I’ve seen bag types used in heli ops.
Would it not have been simpler to just use a revolver?
Less ammo capacity innit.
Bring 12 revolvers
Have they considered just not using a pistol to try and take down a plane?
Why didn’t they just use F/A-18F Super Hornet supersonic twin-engine, carrier-capable, multirole fighter aircraft in 1914? Are they stupid?
Based on military strategy at the time I’m going to go with yes! They were very stupid.
Military strategy and tactics are forced to constantly play catch up to technology and context. Looking at history, it helps to take off the hindsight goggles and meme filter and look at why people did what they did, with the resources they had, with the goals they were given.
There were many missteps and mistakes, some of them were simply bad, but WW1 is very prone to being reduced to memes that strip away any nuance and only magnify the failures.
To be fair, the French military published a very brilliant and prescient paper on the nature of the coming war and the tactics it would require a handful of years before the War broke out… and the brass proceeded to completely ignore that paper in favor of ‘tried and true’ tactics.
Pigheadedness and tunnel-vision may not be stupidity per se, but it’s close enough that few observers are going to care about the difference.
If there’s a single period of military history where contemporary and future experts agreed that the military leaders of the time were mostly blood thirsty and delusional morons who did not care how many people their inbred and willful idiocy got killed, it’s WW1, so that’s a pretty forgiving take for some of history’s most ineffective commanders.
Which battlefield commanders would you say did not adjust their tactics over the course of the war?
Tragically, John Wick was born too late to be a WWI pistol fighter ace.
Fuck, now I want to see that
No one’s ever considered this, they just developed more and more elaborate pistols.
Imagine how much more awesome that timeline would have been
You don’t need to bring down the plane, just the pilot, probably traveling at 30mph in open cockpit
Sure bro. That’s why the skies were an absolute bloodbath even before the invention of turret mounted and propeller synchronized machine gun mounts.
1911s (and their ammunition) were already on hand. It is easier and faster to create a non-precision piece that attaches to the grip than it is scrounge up entirely new weapons and ammo.
Not like this lasted long anyway. In short order planes began getting proper armament.
Pilots had to learn to shoot left handed?
No they just had to stop masturbating when enemies came close.
Why would you say that? It’s being gripped with the right hand in the picture.
Oh, it was hard to tell. Looked left handed to me. I’m on a phone, so the picture detail isn’t great. I can see it now though. They kind of messed up the bottom fingers.
