Enjoy!

  cool video 

I love the tracers at night.

We did that with high powered airsoft guns.  And it was fun. Foam airplanes can take a good beating.  And it's not as easy as it looks.

I liked the elegant simplicity of the disposable target aircraft.  I wonder who designed them. 

But I guess if you can afford to own registered machineguns and registered desructive devices plus their ammo, you can afford to wreck a couple of model engines and radio control equipment.

As far as "difficulty" goes, I reckon that's a matter of practice.  I think it was Jablonski in his quadrilogy "Airwar" who remarked that in every war, Generals have to re-learn how vulnerable aircraft are to massed small arms fire.

I seem to recollect we had to re-learn that with the C-130 gunships, which, as I recall, kept meeting the ground or withdrawing from the field because of small arms fire.  (My memory on that one is sketchy, though. "Citation needed," as Wiki is so fond of saying.)

Terry, 230RN

REF:
Airwar. Doubleday. 1971. (1979 ISBN 978-0-385-14279-3)

Now that's an awesome range day.

I got a couple of questions, though.  What machine gun is shown in this frame from the video at ~00:46?

After WWII, there was a lot of surplus stuff sold, and my father had mounted a DEWAT (DEactivated WAr Trophy) machine gun on the back of his 1929 Ford  pickup truck.  The truck was parked in the back yard, and I remember playing with it, but the only thing I remember specifically was that it had the dual grips with a trigger button between them, like this one in the movie frame, and a water jacket..  I've always wondered what that gun was, but without an in-depth search, I never figured it out.

So, what kind of machine gun is this?

Was this kind of trigger mechanism mounted on any other machine guns? 

Did this type of machine gun use other kinds of trigger mechanisms?

(Never in the military, so I occasionally have to ask for help with military weaponry.)

Terry

That video is awesome!  Reminds me of this video I saw awhile back!

 

I wouldnt mind building one. The combat fliers use choroplast and cardboard for airplane bodies. Where would we shoot at it?

Damn now that's a range day, looks cool and fun as shit wish we could do something like that over here! Talk about killing two birds with one stone shoot guns and have new years at the same time!!

I got a couple of questions, though.  What machine gun is shown in this frame from the video at ~00:46?

After WWII, there was a lot of surplus stuff sold, and my father had mounted a DEWAT (DEactivated WAr Trophy) machine gun on the back of his 1929 Ford  pickup truck.  The truck was parked in the back yard, and I remember playing with it, but the only thing I remember specifically was that it had the dual grips with a trigger button between them, like this one in the movie frame, and a water jacket..  I've always wondered what that gun was, but without an in-depth search, I never figured it out.

So, what kind of machine gun is this?

Was this kind of trigger mechanism mounted on any other machine guns? 

Did this type of machine gun use other kinds of trigger mechanisms?

(Never in the military, so I occasionally have to ask for help with military weaponry.)

Terry

Looks like a browning m2 Da "Ma Duece"