Guns that shoot around corners
Regardless of the technical merits, numerous methods employed since WWI to shoot around or over cover.
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There’s much more.
The Germans had such a periscope rifle in WWI as well.
Parascope is a modern low-tech but clever approach to the problem.
http://www.ar-15.us/Articles.php?action=detail&g=content1203811894
and there are several less clever, compact folding mirror competitors around.
The “camera an rifle + helmet-mounted display” concept was explored in several recent soldier modernization programs (Land Warrior, FELIN and others).
Sven, nifty, I had not seen the parascope before.
I have always thought that using a direct fire weapon for indirect fire was the epitome of stupidity. In WWI, before the invention of rifle-grenades, this made some sense, but we’ve come a long way since then. Things like the corner shot are terribly unnecessary.