SSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 16 days agoA Northrop P-61 Black Widow firing all four Browning .50 caliber machine guns in the top turret along with the Hispano 20 mm cannons in the lower forward fuselage while on the ground at night.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1130arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1129arrow-down1imageA Northrop P-61 Black Widow firing all four Browning .50 caliber machine guns in the top turret along with the Hispano 20 mm cannons in the lower forward fuselage while on the ground at night.lemmy.worldSSTF@lemmy.world to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 16 days agomessage-square13linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBuccaneerScientist@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 days agoIs it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren’t invented before 1977?
minus-squareclockworkrat(he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·16 days agoTracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.
minus-squareBuccaneerScientist@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·16 days agoI just DuckDuckGo’ed it. Turns out the laser was actually invented in 1960 it was just considered a useless invention until Star Wars proved it could be uses for weapons.
minus-squarewyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 days agoMy birth was a byproduct of that, rumor has it.
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 days agoTracers that point both ways.
Is it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren’t invented before 1977?
Tracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.
I just DuckDuckGo’ed it. Turns out the laser was actually invented in 1960 it was just considered a useless invention until Star Wars proved it could be uses for weapons.
My birth was a byproduct of that, rumor has it.
It’s the heat…
Tracers that point both ways.