Date: May 31st, 2026 10:31 AM
Author: Only sane guy in the room
For visual reference:
Here's an Oerlikon, a very common and popular 20mm AA cannon system. You'll notice that 1. it's large, larger than a 12.7mm/.50 caliber machine gun system and 2. it needs to be bolted to the ground with a solid metal support to fire without the recoil knocking whatever it's on to the ground. Such a thing placed on a paraglider, even assuming you could get it off the ground (probably impossible but I'm not an aeronautics guy), would knock the thing from the sky with a single round fired.
https://images.guns.com/wordpress/2013/04/preseved_twin_20mm_ok_gun_on_museum_ship.jpg
Here's a 30mm german system on a "Wildcat" self propelled anti-aircraft gun. https://defencehub.live/attachments/1620069909599-png.19993/
You'll notice more of the same.
Wounds from autocannon fire do not resemble that of machine gun fire at all, are far more gruesome/lethal, and they do not use solid rounds but rather fire explosive "shells" (there are also other types of shells but this is a quibble) that macerate whatever non-armored target that they hit. Many of the images of the dead that I saw on 10/7 were not just perforated by bullets, they were macerated. Many of these images have since been scrubbed from the internet. There's also not much english language "eyewitness" content from Israel, not doctored and dressed up by a mainstream media news outlet, reporting on the actual nature of the attacks.
The obvious inference is what I stated above regarding inflating the casualty numbers through deliberately indescriminate fire.
It should also be noted that 2026 is an electoral season for the knesset. The topic of Haredi conscription is highly contested and had some issue for the Likud coalition as Netanyahu has been trying to force a bill through opening up the Haredi community to further recruitment.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5870228&forum_id=2~#49908437)