• gibmiser@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Imagine being an animal not knowing what is going on and a ear damaging loud noise occurs repeatedly from the heavy metal machine on your back.

    I’d freak the fuck out.

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      10 months ago

      Oh, I get it. You think the gun was mounted on the horse for whatever reason.

      Rest assured, Maxim guns usually needed a small team to be operated properly. I highly doubt anyone was stupid enough to try and fire a Maxim gun from a horse.

      But the thing is nearly 30kg heavy, so loading it on a horse to move it around is what you’d would do if you had the option.

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        10 months ago

        Ah. Yup that was it. In hindsight makes sense they were just showing off what the captured - not how they planned to use it.

        And now that it’s not really what happened I am enjoying the idea of a fictional version of a drive by on one of those.