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.
4 months ago by SSTF to c/historyphotos
Tracer rounds? Not sure they were doing particularly high speed photography with this image.
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.
My birth was a byproduct of that, rumor has it.
Tracers that point both ways.
It’s the heat…
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Is it shooting lasers? I thought laser weapons weren't invented before 1977?
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