I ran across this oddity from WW1 today but I'm not finding very much about how it works.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Davis_gun.jpg/1000px-Davis_gun.jpg
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Davis_gun
They apparently mounted them in nose turrets... better be careful of that backblast! The pilot, wings, engines... all behind him.
Sparse info about it. Does anyone have more info?
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/Davis_gun.jpg/1000px-Davis_gun.jpg
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Davis_gun
His design connected two guns back to back, with the backwards-facing gun loaded with lead balls and grease of the same weight as the shell in the other gun, acting as a counter. His idea was used experimentally by the British and America as an anti-Zeppelin and anti-submarine weapon[2] mounted on the British Handley Page O/100 bomber and the American Curtiss HS-2L and H-16 (flying boats)[1] respectively. The direct development of the gun ended with World War I, but the firing principle has been copied by later designs.
They apparently mounted them in nose turrets... better be careful of that backblast! The pilot, wings, engines... all behind him.
Sparse info about it. Does anyone have more info?