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Strike Witches
Strike Witches (ストライクウィッチーズ ,Sutoraiku Witchīzu) is a mixed-media project originally created by Humikane Shimada via a series of magazine illustration columns. It was later adapted into two light novel series, two manga series, an anime OVA, and a televised anime series. The story revolves around teenage girls who are essentially moe anthropomorphizations of military planes. The OVA preview episode was released on January 1, 2007. The televised anime series later premiered on July 3, 2008, concluding September 18. Official confirmation of a second season of the anime was announced on February 27, 2009.
Plot
Set in a world similar to Earth in the mid twentieth century, Strike Witches tells the story of a fight to protect that world using a combination of magic and technology. The titular Strike Witches are young women with high magical potential who are recruited into militaries around the world to fight against the enigmatic Neuroi, which began an invasion of unprecedented scale on human territory in the year 1939. This puzzling enemy force has appeared frequently and without warning in many areas across the world throughout history. The weapons of the Neuroi mostly take on forms similar to aircraft, but their most troubling tactic is the spreading of a corrosive miasma. Not only do normal humans have no defense against this miasma, but the remnants of the land affected by it are processed by the Neuroi into new weapons, crumbling huge sections of former nations into the sea. As the miasma seems to be unable to spread across large bodies of water, humanity has designated such areas as their main lines of defense.
In order to bring out their potential for use in battle, each Witch equips a unique machine onto their legs: the Striker Unit. With the Striker Unit equipped, they gain the ability to fly and their tapped magical potential provides the strength to utilize weapons far too heavy and powerful for a normal person. Also created is a defensive field that can protect the Witches from the Neuroi's miasma as well as other physical weaponry, making them humanity's trump card in the war. The franchise's main media focuses on the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, defending the Britannian home islands, in a parallel to the Battle of Britain.
Gun
Real gun
STEN
Calibre: 9x19mm Parabellum
Action: Blowback operated,open bolt
32 round magazine
PPK/S
Strike Witches gun
MG42
Calibre: 7.92x57mm Mauser
Action: recoil operated, roller locked
Rate of Fire: 900-1500 RPM (with different bolts)
Magazine Size : 75 rounds (※In anime, all MG42s has spring type 75-round dual drum magazine.)
BREN
Calibre: .303 Brittish
Action: Gas operated,tilting bolt
Rate of Fire:500-520 RPM
Magazine size: 30 round detachable box
BOY'S
Calibre: .55 Boys
Action: bolt action
Magazine Size: 5 round detachable box
BAR
Calibre: .30-06 Springfield (7.62x63mm)
Action: gas operated, tilting breech block
Rate of fire: 500-650 RPM Magazine size: 20 round detachable box
M1919A6
Calibre:.30-06 Springfield (7.62x63mm)
Action: recoil operated/ short recoil action
250 round belt Rate of fire: 400-600 RPM
Type99
Fliger Hummer (modified fliegerfaust)
[1] wikipedia page for the real life Fliegerfaust. simmilar to Sanya's Fliegerhummer