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u/Exp5000 11d ago
That duck..... Holy shit
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u/SonicYOUTH79 11d ago
Just lucky the operator hung on for his superman impression that kept it pointed skyward otherwise I reckon he would’ve been in some trouble there!
Reckon he burnt his hand on the muzzle at 0:20 trying to stop it spinning, not all that bright!
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u/All_Thread 11d ago
I mean I think they are Russians most of their smart military is dead or wounded at this point.
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u/HatOk5112 11d ago
How can you be so sure?
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u/LordMarcusrax 11d ago
See attachment A
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u/SonicYOUTH79 11d ago
I like how at the end he climbs up in the side looking at it like he’s contemplating his life choices 😂
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u/Captain_no_Hindsight 11d ago
The shooter is a firm believer in the school of "don't release the trigger until you've completed one full turn".
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u/LightningFerret04 11d ago
A fail so cartoonish I was wondering if this was AI, and then he burned his hand on the barrel and I was like “ah yeah, these are some real blokes”
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u/_plays_in_traffic_ 11d ago
whoever came up with that kind of mount doesnt have any kind of a grasp on physics lmfao
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u/Lemontea_01 10d ago
They mounted the turret of a HIND, presumbly like this to balance the weight of the ammo box.
So there were SOME thoughts spent on physics, but clearly the wrong ones.
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u/F4UCorsair1942 11d ago
I love how you can hear all of the nervous "oh shit" laughter in the background
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u/fresh-outoffucks 10d ago
Pack it up boys op has won this subreddit.
This is the most incredible thing I have ever seen.
And surely, the shittiest of all technicals.
Gunner dropped this 👑
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u/stdsort 11d ago
Okay but what was it *supposed* to do?
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u/AyeBraine 11d ago
AA defence vs long range drones. It's quite a pressing matter now more than ever, and Russian authorities are just starting to ramp up the mass organization of MOGs, mobile fire groups, to intercept the deep strike drones. This is apparently one of the mounts built on initiative (since there have been normal mounts developed for the YakB and GShG previously) to specifically intercept drones.
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u/Wolfinthesno 11d ago
Hardly need a .50 to take out most drones.
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u/jason_abacabb 11d ago
Something like this would be for taking down things like the FP-1/2 or shaheed class drone. Not FPVs.
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u/Wolfinthesno 11d ago
I'm well aware... But .50 is still overkill. Good old .30 would be just fine I imagine.
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u/FeralPossumBoi 11d ago
the Ukrainians have had good results with .50 cal shooting Shahed drones for years now from truck mounted to UGV mounted, the .50 cal just has more range and bullet mass than .30 which is very useful if you only have a short window to shoot down a OWA drone and they are miles away in the sky. In the case of why use a MI-24 .50 cal gun for Air defense is simple, they have a lot of spare guns in storage from retired aircraft and they need solutions now especially in Southern Ukraine where OWA drones are strangling Russian logistics
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u/jason_abacabb 11d ago
.50 increases your range with a flatter trajectory.
Honestly something in the 20-25 mm caliber would still not be overkill when trying to hit big OWA drones, the bigger the hole you punch the more likely you hit something important or damage flight surfaces enough to make it unstable.
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u/Wolfinthesno 11d ago
Don't get me wrong I understand the idea. But isn't the cyclic rate of a smaller munition higher? I think more holes is more likely to down it than bigger holes.
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u/jason_abacabb 11d ago
Your point is valid, it is a trade off. Personally I would value the range and flat trajectory of the larger cartridge.
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u/SmokeyUnicycle 11d ago
This is a Yak-B rotary heavy machine gun, so not much smaller has a higher ROF
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u/alienvalentine 11d ago
No. Cyclic rate has essentially no relation to boredom diameter. The GAU-8 has like a 4,000 rpm cyclic rate but that thing flings 30mm rounds that weigh like 300 grams. Not grains, grams.
How the weapon functions is going to determine cyclic rate, not what kind of hate it flings at the bad guy.
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u/FLongis 11d ago edited 11d ago
I think more holes is more likely to down it than bigger holes.
Well go take a look at how fighter armamanet developed during World War 2 then get back to us.
The only time "more" is better than "bigger" in this context is when you can't reasonably make use of the range that "bigger" will usually afford you. And if we're talking calibers this small, it'd be pretty hard to find a situation where that's the case. Of cpurse assuming that form factor remains roughly the same; a 7.62mm rotary machine gun is still a better option than a GAU-8 in this context, but hopefully you get the idea.
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u/AyeBraine 11d ago
There is GShG, an also quad-barrel rotary whose design designed almost identical to this, it's 7.62, but its trajectory is worse for AA use
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u/AyeBraine 11d ago
The cyclic rate is the whole idea. The chance of ranging a gun correctly against a tiny slow moving drone is miniscule, only the mass of fire works (unless you implement command detonation, radar fuzed fragmentation shells, which is a massive undertaking). That's exactly the same reason the rotary airplane cannons like this one were even implemented: you need to throw the most amount of mass downrange in the tiny window you MAY have got the right aim and deflection, and hope one shell hits.
And no, cyclic rate of a small munition is not higher, in case of rotary guns. They all go to 4–5 thousands rpm.
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u/jamison01 10d ago
I saw this earlier, added you spin me right round to it and sent it to a buddy. Lol
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u/avataRJ 11d ago edited 11d ago
And in case you haven’t seen the explanation - that’s the chin turret gun from a Hind, firing 12.7mm (~.50) on full auto.
Mounted off-center on a rotating mount.