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u/Inside_Ad_7162 3d ago
sums up the insanely random violence of WW1 really, like the two bullets that hit each other.
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u/Experimental_Salad 3d ago
What's really crazy about the bullets is the fact that someone actually found them.
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u/lehtomaeki 3d ago
Except that a few sources that dug into that specific image (the Gallipoli one) deduced that one of the bullets was never fired and more likely was hit while carried in a bandolier and then either got dislodged from the casing by the force of the impact or the casing was removed and then it was taken as a souvenir.
Which while still rare is far less so with bandoliers carried by soldiers on their chest while machine guns are being aimed and fired at their center mass. There is even a picture of something similar happening where a German bullet pierced 4 British bullets in a stripper clip carried in a bandolier.
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u/WarmCannedSquidJuice 3d ago
MGs are assigned a zone of fire, they aren't normally aimed at individuals
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u/lehtomaeki 3d ago
That is very fair and was a bit of hyperbole on my part, the main point is that a lot of bullets would be headed towards you, usually firing at chest or gut height in order to maximise likelihood of hitting
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u/catwithbillstopay 3d ago
Question: if this was a modern helmet would he have survived?
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u/Gimmell 3d ago
It looks roughly like a 60mm mortar bomb. Let's assume ~ 2kg weight for an HE round and a terminal velocity of 90-120 m/s. This would roughly equate to 128 kilonewtons of force or 13 metric tons of force across a very small area. No you're dead no matter what your helmet is made of.
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u/National_Search_537 3d ago
Probably not, I use to be in the army and short or a glancing blow from a round and small shrapnel you’ll still die.
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u/According_Berry4734 3d ago
It is the jaunty angle that gets me.
Would be a fashion statement for Benetton in different times.
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u/uxoguy2113 3d ago edited 13h ago
Looks like a 60mm mortor. Even if it never detonated, that was a fatal hit, had to of been.
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u/donaudelta 3d ago
Interesting but the helmet model looks more like Soviet or even ww2 US. Doesn't check up any of the major powers of WW1.
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u/Fakawaka 3d ago
Not ww1, looks like a russian ssh40 helmet and german ww2 mortar. Also this seems staged as the angle of impact is off and the damage would be more severe
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u/LennyJay86 3d ago
Killed by a dud what a way to go…minus the explosion it did its job.