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[MangaDex]

 

[es_kan]

Imagine being in a dogfight with only a pistol for a weapon.

 

[Le_Flemard]

@es_kan
Well, tis much like early ww1 airplanes fight, they didn't have synchronised firing gear at first and the engines were too flimsy to put the guns on the wings.

 

[Kirin-kun]

@Le_Flemard actually, at first, they were just firing straight through the propeller arc and "hoped for the best".

The blades were fitted with "deflectors" to avoid damaging the propeller.

Synchronized gear came a bit later.

 

[Le_Flemard]

@Kirin-kun
that wasn't until october 1914. Before that :

Wikipedia[/url]]As Dickson had predicted, initially air combat was extremely rare, and definitely subordinate to reconnaissance. There are even stories of the crew of rival reconnaissance aircraft exchanging nothing more belligerent than smiles and waves.[10] This soon progressed to throwing grenades, and other objects – even grappling hooks.[12] The first aircraft brought down by another was an Austrian reconnaissance aircraft rammed on 8 September 1914 by Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov in Galicia in the Eastern Front. Both planes crashed as the result of the attack killing all occupants. Eventually pilots began firing handheld firearms at enemy aircraft,[10] however pistols were too inaccurate and the single shot rifles too unlikely to score a hit.

 

[OP_Zed]

@es_kan well it was just yelling words at other pilots and pistols back in WW1. That's how dogfighting came to be and established the doctrine of air combat.

All and all, this is some ace combat shit in today's chapter

 

[RexNemorensis]

War Thunder meets RDR on next chapter apparently