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And then thanks to a certain XKCD what if article: https://what-if.xkcd.com/21/

We learn about a certain russian gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gryazev-Shipunov_GSh-6-30

That can apparently produce 40G of recoil force...

Towards the end of it all, it is starting to look like the premise of a certain mobile game: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.halfbrick....




> The airframe vibration led to fatigue cracks in fuel tanks, numerous radio and avionics failures, the necessity of using runways with floodlights for night flights (as the landing lights would often be destroyed), tearing or jamming of the forward landing gear doors (leading to at least three crash landings), cracking of the reflector gunsight, an accidental jettisoning of the cockpit canopy and at least one case of the instrument panel falling off in flight.




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