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> I urge you to look at our entire aviation history of vehicles with guns strapped on

Stabilizing moving firing platforms has a fascinating history going back to Bronze Age chariots.

As for planes and helicopters, there is a reason their big guns are mounted into the airframe, and why the biggest cannons in the air are on fixed-wing aircraft.



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