The Fire Hedgehog
In the tail end of World War 2, a pair of Soviet ground crew men looked at a shipment of rapid-firing submachine guns and hatched a plan to provide some very rapid firepower to the bottom of a bomber. This idea, brilliant at first thought, but flawed in the end, is remembered as the ‘Fire Hedgehog’.
The main ingredient of the Hedgehog was the Pistolet Pulemjot Schpagina model of 1941, or rather just PPSh-41. With 88 of these guns attached to the belly of a medium bomber, you had a flying bad time attached to a set of wings.
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