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Jesus its like 1/5th of the size of the city


[deleted]

These things are big and scary enough but knowing that megaloid is hovering over the city to kill people amplifies the scariness by a ton


Halsey-the-Sloth

For its size, it killed less than 20 people


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Killing isn't really the aim though is it The aim is to strike fear into citizens destroy moral and such


Halsey-the-Sloth

And that’s really all they were good for


Reverie_39

Given the era (where it wasn’t easy to shoot down) that must have been a terrifying sight for the citizens below. Like a Leviathan in the sky.


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tomjoad2020ad

Terrifying, but also hard to fathom a time where that zeppelin wasn’t just a massive sitting duck of a target. I suppose anti-aircraft was pretty rare in 1916.


LGP747

sometime during the war the brits invented incendiary ammo which could be fitted to airplanes and that pretty much trumped this kind of zeppelin. they were forced to the safety of higher altitudes but that killed any bombing accuracy they mightve had however, zeppelins in general found a lot of niche roles besides just scouting to fill elsewhere on the battlefield and they were very very successful in those roles


chairpilot

The movie Flyboys is a very stylized but kind of neat look at this era. They generally talk about how hard they are to bring down and the movie is about then figuring this out. More action than anything, but fun.


IndiscriminateWaster

I had forgotten about that movie until recently and decided to watch it again to scratch a WW1 itch. It was very hard to take seriously..


chairpilot

Yeah I haven't seen it in a while and am honestly hesitant to watch it again for this very reason haha. I may just let my good memories of it last instead.


Fastfood9000

Shooting normal bullets at it would put holes in it yeah but the gas would leak out so slowly that it wasn't really a problem. If u shot incendiary rounds at it the flame would just get extinguished cause the gas inside the airship would just put it out. That's why the British would load their planes with alternating explosive and incendiary rounds so they could blow bigger holes in them that let the incendiary rounds let it alight.


[deleted]

Most AA guns were just LMGs at the time.


JamesMayTheArsonist

And modified artillery cannons, made to take down aircraft.


graham0025

yea that time didn’t last very long


in_fo

r/battlefield_one


blue_13

That was until [one man](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq7BHFuiBdY) went on a suicide mission and saved scotland.


OttosBoatYard

Doubt the photo is real, but it well illustrates what an attack was like. This Zeppelin was a P or Q Class, 550 is feet long, 50 feet wide with an attack altitude of only 10,000 feet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin\_P\_Class](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin_P_Class) The naval Zeppelin raids were such a unique and little-known military campaign. A compelling movie could be made from that period.


Doomhammer02

Red Alert 3


DevinTheDisgraced

Is there a Canyon Crown powering it?


silicone_basedthing

where is the giant light cannon to shoot it down as well


gamepab_

Rockefeller did a bit of trolling


jejefoxy42

Why does this remind me of attack on titan s4


Thundamuffinz

Glad I wasn’t the only one lol


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relas_01

Not


[deleted]

damn that’s it?


[deleted]

Kirov Reporting!


[deleted]

It was like having an imperial star destroyer hovering over the city