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A 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.world)

submitted 4 months ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/historyphotos@piefed.social

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[–] BuccaneerScientist@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Is it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren't invented before 1977?

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[–] clockworkrat@slrpnk.net 10 points 4 months ago

Tracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.

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[–] BuccaneerScientist@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 4 months ago

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.

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[–] wyldrstallyns@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

My birth was a byproduct of that, rumor has it.

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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

It’s the heat…