If the C-130 Gunship strikes fear in the hearts of the enemy now, then the Soviet Fire Hedgehog did so to the Nazis way back during the World War II. Used by the red army the plane a TU-2 was loaded with 88 PPSH like machine guns. Due to the limited range of the machine guns it flew at low altitudes and on seeing an enemy regiment the pilot would open the doors and shower them with lead. The ground troops would not stand a chance against 88 machine gun firing at the same time a combined 80,000 rounds per minute.

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