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Rudy Rose wrote: Firing a .50 wouldn't lift a five year old off of the ground.

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I looked into that. There is correlation between recoil and knockdown power meaning that if the projectile is strong enough to knock the target off of its feet (almost no gun can do this irl), then the recoil will be powerful enough to knock down the shooter. Guns in reality that could possibly lift the targets off of their feet upon impact would probably be vehicle-mounted guns (something like this) which are mounted to vehicles not because of the massive recoil but because the sheer size and weight of the gun. Ruby and Yang's weapons would have to simulate this amount of firepower (probably not even this, more like tank blasts) in order to fling themselves around. Of course, Yang's fiery ability probably creates a thruster-like lift.