Everybody watch
action movies like that of Sylvester Stallone whereby the possession of an
automatic weapon turn a mere man into one army spraying bullet at trained
killers. That’s very much unwholesome. The portrayal in movies are a way to big
to realize that gun shoot out are more ferocious than you think. Imagine
spilling the content of an MG for 7 minutes non-stop. That's only possible in
movies not reality.
I
am not criticizing Sylvester Stallone but I am trying to make clear what real
shoot-out look like in real life situation. Movies machine guns can turn
anybody into one-man-army-Just stick one in the hands of a protagonist and
multiple platoons of trained soldiers are mowed down like weeds.
If you try this you are dead
If you try this you are dead
Sure! You must have
watched one of those action movies where the protagonist hold a M60 at the hip
and spill the whole content of the nozzle to his enemies for 5 minutes. In
reality if you do that the gun explode and then you die.
A trained experience
Combat Veteran explained that.
"
Each time any gun fires, the barrel heats up a little bit, After all the bullet
is being propelled by a tiny explosion and its creating a serious friction all
the way down the barrel. If you keep shooting
( Passing a lot of bullet in a row ) without giving it a chance to cool
down, the whole gun gets damned hot, so hot that it will eventually start
igniting the bullets without waiting for the trigger to be pulled"
Literally that means
that you are now holding a possessed machine gun that is randomly spraying
bullets on its own, of course its going to hit you too. I can recall that while
I was a kid, my dad a war veteran in Nigeria
once told me that during one of their bloody battles, Their rifles got so hot
that they al had to use their camou-cap to hold it, if not the heat will ruin
ones hands.
That is to say Those
guys in the movies don’t use Rules Of Engagement (R.O.E). There is a technique
used in handling machine guns. Just like in music where we have talking drums.
There is also something called gun talking. Using the cliché of the popular
Yoruba drum gangan. Set of gangan drummers don’t just drum at the same time at
times but they do some break and halts and takeovers.
So for the Military
too. In reality combat units that have MG handlers as members. They just shoot
at once in unision but this what they do. Example a combat team with 4 MG
handlers and a bunch of rifle men normally do their drum talking routine in
this way during attacks.
M.gunner
1 fires a short burst and then stops
M.gunner2
takeover and give its own short burst
M.gunner
3 fires and then the turn goes back to M.gunner 1 to complete his routine.
This process is just
to make sure nobody gun melts. The primary use of the weapons at that staging
is taking advantage of the fact that they are scary. Then they "talk"
their way through the firefight in short bursts while the rest of the team (riflemen)
advances. Then if things go sour and everybody has to retreat, that’s when
everyone goes full auto again to cover.
* DURING
GUN FIGHTS YOU CAN HARDLY HEAR A THING.
don’t believe those
crazy movies when people are in metal hallway, ripping out rounds while
talking, like all they have to do is let goof the trigger long enough to have a
casual conversation.
Guns
are damned Loud.
Grenades
can destroy your ear drums.
Artillery
fire are damned ridiculous .
After each
explosion, you will keep hearing echo dangling hell in your head. I see movies
where somebody tries to disarm an assailant welding a pistol. The two of them
end up wrestling for control of the pistol thus shooting mostly at the thin air
thus exhausting the cartridge. In reality, the sound of a gunshot can cripple
the disarmer during the struggles thus giving the assailant an upper hand and
the victim ending up remaining a victim. Gun shot are fucking loud! No wonder
the major health effect of war among the veterans apart from Post Traumatic Disorder(P.T.S.D) is deafness.
* How many movies
have you seen portray short breaks during battles. None! What you see is just
sporadic shootings from the protagonist and cool moves. One armored division vets said that he once drove
his tank blindly into a position that he couldn’t determine what fires were
hitting his team tank. Whether enemies fire or friendlies because he was out of
communication with others and every where is damned smoky, he suppose he must
have been separated by his flock but he couldn’t verify. So he had to wait and
receive fire for long minutes without firing back. Imagine that kind of pause
in battles, but what we see in action movies are just action!action!action!
Spare historical one for now.
How many times have
movies portray a protagonist take some break during shoot out to Piss or
vindicate the toilet? No answer unh! Don’t let Movies and game play ruin your
head. Be wise. Gunfights are more than what you think. Get a life Mr. Man.
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Waoh. This true facts indeed. Too much of Lies in movies just made every one a fool of themselves
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