# How do kill someone with an antiaircraft gun? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 13, 2015, 9:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925 "2015-05-13T09:31:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/61 "2015-05-13T20:35:27Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Kim has really got them over a barrel. Yes, that’s true. I read it in a magazine. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/62 "2015-05-13T20:38:19Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > Yes, that’s true. I read it in a magazine. Were you looking for coupons to clip? ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/63 "2015-05-13T20:44:49Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Being shot with an anti aircraft guns would kill you almost instantly with little time to sense pain. If you were hit in the lower abdomen by a single round only, your death might be quite slow and agonizing indeed. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2015, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/64 "2015-05-13T22:39:26Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > If you were hit in the lower abdomen by a single round only, your death might be quite slow and agonizing indeed. Depends if it were the dinky .57 mentioned in the article, or a German 88. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/65 "2015-05-14T02:29:01Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Erwin Rommel was by all accounts a very nice man. Hermann Goering had good taste in art and probably would have been a lot of fun to go beer drinking with. And Hitler was a _terrific_ dancer! ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/66 "2015-05-14T05:00:33Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Nonsense. He may very well have risen through the ranks because he’s a competent administrator or soldier. Erwin Rommel was by all accounts a very nice man. In totalitarian countries, competent generals like Rommel or Zhukov tend to rise to the top during wartime - by being so good that the political echelon realizes it \*needs \*them in order to win. North Korea hasn’t fought a war in over 60 years. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/67 "2015-05-14T07:21:04Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Hermann Goering had good taste in art and probably would have been a lot of fun to go beer drinking with. And Hitler was a _terrific_ dancer! Not to mention he was a great painter too. He could do a whole apartment in one afternoon. TWO COATS! Um, from what I read, the NKs used quad 14mm machine guns on the guy. Just a little bigger than our .50 cal Brownings (which in metric shoot 12.7mm). The US had quad .50s mounted on the back of half tracks for anti-aircraft use during WWII, Korea, and maybe Vietnam too. Pretty effective against low and slow aircraft. Maybe a F-16 busting mach flying low might zoom by before an AA crew could point it and aim it, but I would NOT want to be riding in a chopper landing in an LZ that was covered by one of those. ---
**Author:** ![Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac8455/32.png) [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Your_Great_Darsh_Face)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/68 "2015-05-14T07:50:16Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Were you looking for coupons to clip? Yeah, I’m too mean to shell out the full price. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/69 "2015-05-14T07:59:48Z")
[Newly Sworn-In North Korean Official Wondering How He’ll Eventually Be Executed.](http://www.theonion.com/article/newly-sworn-north-korean-official-wondering-how-he-50411):rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/70 "2015-05-14T13:10:21Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > In totalitarian countries, competent generals like Rommel or Zhukov tend to rise to the top during wartime - by being so good that the political echelon realizes it \*needs \*them in order to win. North Korea hasn’t fought a war in over 60 years. Fair point, though I believe the official NK line is that they’re still at war. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/71 "2015-05-14T14:23:59Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > "They are my people! I am their sovereign! I LOVE Them. > > Pull!" _snicker_ It’s good to be the king 😛 > [@Folacin](#): > > As God is my witness, I thought Air Force generals could fly. _snicker_ ---
**Author:** ![Richey84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Richey84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richey84)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/72 "2015-05-14T15:46:20Z")
> [@Donnerwetter](#): > > On a more serious note, how certain can we be that all these reports from North Korea about executions being carried out in a highly unusual manner (eaten by dogs, shot with antiaircraft cannon, shot with mortar) are actually true? Chosun Ilbo, a South Koren new site, posted a satellite photo of what they believe to be the execusion. Link [here](http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/05/01/2015050100982.html). ---
**Author:** ![Precambrianmollusc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/precambrianmollusc/32/63_2.png) [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2015, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/73 "2015-05-14T15:55:20Z")
> [@Your\_Great\_Darsh\_Face](#): > > Yeah, I’m too mean to shell out the full price. AAW, this is a casing point of how puns derail a thread, time to Buk the trend before someone causes us HARM. ---
**Author:** ![JustinC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justinc/32/8083_2.png) [@JustinC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JustinC)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/74 "2015-05-15T16:44:35Z")
I’m enjoying these puns so much I forgot what the thread was about! Am really enjoying people shoot from the hip. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/75 "2015-05-15T17:13:03Z")
> [@Grey](#): > > "They are my people! I am their sovereign! I LOVE Them. > > Pull!" “Your Highness! The peasants are revolting!” “Yeah, they stink on ice!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925/76 "2015-05-15T17:27:23Z")
> [@JustinC](#): > > I’m enjoying these puns so much I forgot what the thread was about! Am really enjoying people shoot from the hip. Oh, you mustn’t do that with an anti-aircraft gun! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-kill-someone-with-an-antiaircraft-gun/719925.md?page=3)