A novel solution to the age old problem of ‘How can I avoid getting myself killed in a fight?’.

This design allowed a WW1 soldier to fire from complete cover. All sides had some similar variant of this concept.

  • awnery@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    a little mild recoil into the good eye of a rifleman repeatedly. cool.

    i like your posts

    • FireTower@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      I suppose I’d rather get hit by a scope than a bullet.

      Thanks, I noticed a couple people mentioning Forgotten Weapons in passing while browsing then decided to see if we couldn’t get a community started.

      • awnery@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        i thought i’d seen you post about that nine barrel volley gun, maybe somehere else, but that’s a heckuva wiki trail, with the “infernal machine” and the Korean hwacha medieval rocket-powered arrow barrage

        • FireTower@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Yeah, that was me too. If you’ve seen a picture of a gun on Lemmy in the past 2-3 days that’d probably be me.

          I’m trying to grow the community to a point where it’s kept alive by just other people posting. I’ve posted like 10+ times a day since then & spread out so I’m not spamming all.

          Pretty much every design you see today has some aspects that someone did long before it. Like how the Gyrojet I posted about shot rocket ammunition just like the Volcanic Pistol I posted.