You could. This type of gun is not intended primarily for use against people (although this particular gun might be modified to serve the role of a sniper rifle). It's for shooting aircraft and lightly armored vehicles. By that I don't mean cars; I mean armored personnel carriers. The bullets would go right through a building's walls.

I can't quickly find a photo of this gun's 12.7 mm bullet doing its thing, but here's what the very similar American 50 cal bullet does to six-inch-thick concrete:

MossyFeathers@pawb.social · 16 pts · 1y (2 replies)

I want one.

Edit: what I really want is one of those 20mm rifles that can take AA rounds. That'd be fucking sick. Just point it at something and boom! It's not a problem anymore!

Edit 2: the reason why I like obscenely high-caliber rifles is because it's fascinating to see all the different configurations that militaries have tried in an attempt to make a mobile, "hand-held" rifle capable of firing such a huge bullet without destroying the user's shoulder in the process.

LowtierComputer@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Shoulder? Have you seen the power of recoilless weapons?

If they weren't recoilless, the person firing them wouldn't have a torso hahahahaha

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Bitches love cannons.

Marduk73@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Thinking of that girl cop in Vampire Hunter D. That rifle she has.

Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 1y

Seras Victoria is from Hellsing, and that's a 30mm anti tank rifle, a weapon that (as far as I know) doesn't exist. Even the bigger antitank rifles only went to 20mm.

smokin_shinobi@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Hellsing has the cop sniper with the mega cannon I think.

StrongHorseWeakNeigh@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

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ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Wow, I think that's a modified DShK, which entered service in 1938. It's not a museum piece - these guns are still in widespread use.

Vikthor@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Similar role and similar longevity to the M2 machine gun.

Etterra@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What's its name? Nobody has a gun like that and doesn't give it a name.

thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe · 2 pts · 1y

Natascha ?