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Here We Talk About Military Light Weapons From Every Country, From Every Era, From Every Ammunition Type, From Bullets To Rockets.
weapon info:
name: Minigun
manufacturer: general electric
in service in: US, philippines and many other countries.
in service since: 1962
purpose: vehicle mounted gun, stationary manned/unmanned defense
rate of fire: 2000-6000 rounds per minute
muzzle velocity: 869 m/sec
feeding system: Disintegrating cartridge belt or linkless feed; dependent on installation.
The ancestor to the modern minigun was made in the 1860s. Richard Jordan Gatling replaced the hand cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. Even after Gatling slowed down the mechanism, the new electric-powered Gatling gun had a theoretical rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute, roughly three times the rate of a typical modern, single-barreled machine gun. Gatling's electric-powered design received US Patent #502,185 on July 25, 1893. Despite Gatling's improvements, the Gatling gun fell into disuse after cheaper, lighter-weight, recoil and gas operated machine guns were invented.
During World War I, Germany was working on the Fokker-Leimberger, an externally-powered 12 barrel Gatling gun in the 7.92x57mm Mauser round capable of firing over 7,000 rpm, but its spent brass ruptured. None of the guns became operational during the war except the Siemens example which was tried on the Western Front with a victory using it during air combat. However, the Fokker-Leimberger was used in development of what eventually became the Minigun.
time to mow down some zombies...
Is this anti air? :P
It's anti-everything!
totally. anti-infantry, anti air, anti zombie. anti-vehicle if equipped with the raufoss mkII round.
u forgot anti bieber :D
BRING THE DEATH MACHINE TO A NEW LEVEL!!!!!!!
This, dear children is something us adults call overkill. LOLz
i'd rather have overkill on my side than on the enemies' side shooting at me :-)
Extremely practical for AA or mounted on a Light recon vehicle. Being 7.62, There's alot of applications for it and it's not too much over kill.
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