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To: carriage_hill
10/22 uses a magazine, not a clip.

Do the miniguns still use a 50,000 round ammo can?

29 posted on 08/11/2016 6:54:21 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: mountainlion

I have a friend (Captain pilot of AC-130 Spectre or Spooky, can’t remember) who was in PANG in Afghanistan, and he/his wife gave me a 105mm howitzer shell casing and clip of 4 40mm cannon shells. Still have them. I don’t know what the minigun can capacity was. As fast as they fire, 50k was probably not near enough.


30 posted on 08/11/2016 7:04:50 AM PDT by Carriage Hill ( Peace is that brief glorious moment in history, when everybody stands around reloading.)
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To: mountainlion
1500 rounds with the cardboard wafers between layers. Take out the cardboard, and one can link 2200 rounds continuous on one belt.

Kinda nice just to hook the end to the M60 and depress the butterflys...........'course you then need to flip the switch, shake out the barrel and insert another.

Fond memories.

80 posted on 08/11/2016 7:00:18 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma deuce)
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