GATLING GUN!! MUST SEE VIDEO!!!!!

Vampire Bat.com ^ | 25 Jan 05 | Compfused.com

[datura]

I just found this over at Vampire Bat, did a search for it in here, and didn't find it. I know there are lots of posters in here who have never had the opportunity to see a Vulcan or other multi-barreled weapon fire - well, HERE IT IS!! Once you see this video you'll want to show it to everyone you can........Damn I wish we'd have had those machine guns in our units when I was in.

If you have a dial up connection, be patient. IT IS WORTH THE TIME TO DOWNLOAD THIS VIDEO!!!!

GATLING GUN

[Boiling point]

I agree. I have been to the Knob creek shoot a couple of times in the eighties. Saw mini-guns being fired first hand. The sound is not to be believed. 6000 rounds per minute of .308 sounds like the loudest, most pissed off chain saw on earth. While talking to the owner, (same gun used in Predator and Terminator 2), he said that the director thought the audience wouldn't believe what it actually sounds like so they recorded It dry firing to get that "whirring" sound, then mixed it with the sound from a more traditional sounding machine gun. He also stated that at 650 continuous pounds of recoil, that if it were not firing blanks, Arnold could have pointed it at the ground and taken off like a rocket!

[El Gran Salseron]

Corrupt download. Try again.

[Raffus]

Okay - after further review, this does appear to be the mini gun. We started the action and then Dillon took over. The mini is 7.62mm. The GAU-19 is a better gun.

[marblehead17]

PING!!!! This is awesome.

[tang-soo]

I worked with the F-16 for decades and have never seen one that was equipped with a "Gatling Gun". You're probably talking about the A-10, Warthog.

I may have jumped the "gun" when I said Gatlin gun. My memory is going back 20 years. It was a machine gun of sorts - I think it was made by Westinghouse. I was not thinking of the A-10. I helped design and test components on the f-16. My memory is not that bad.

[Lazamataz]

You know the best part?

The entire time the guy is yelling "Get some! Get some! Get some!"

[Euro-American Scum]

That was awesome.

[Billthedrill]

I need one. Moles in the front yard.

[Rockpile]

Jesse Ventura had the minigun in Predator.

He must have been pulling the world's longest extension cord.

[Starboard]

SUV on Steroids! LOL.

[Trailerpark Badass]

I thought the F-16 has the M-61A1 20MM cannon?

[Raffus]

Not to cut in, but yes. The F-16 has the M61A1. See previous GDATP website post.

[Eaker]

We SO gotta get some of these....

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tang-soo]

Found this in a couple of minutes. It was a Gatlin gun!

However, in the twentieth century, rapid advancements were seen in the development of automatic firing weapons with the development of the recoil blowback concept, and the Gatling Gun gradually lost ground to the more advanced, fully automatic machine guns. In 1911, the US Army declared the weapon obsolete. But the weapon was to return, and this time it returned from the skies, reincarnated as the M61 Vulcan – a hydraulically driven, six barreled gun with a firepower of 6000 rounds per minute. Mounted on aircrafts like the F-16, the F-22 fighters and the B-58 bomber, it is an ideal weapon for short range air-to-air combat and for strafing ground based targets.

A spinoff of the old General Dynamics company further explains it here.

[kAcknor]

worked with the F-16 for decades and have never seen one that was equipped with a "Gatling Gun".

Hmmm, got a few years on the F-16 myself, and I remember things a bit differently.

The General Electric M61A1 Vulcan is a 6-barrel 20mm cannon of the gatling-type. It fires standard M50 ammunition at 6,000 rounds per minute (rate selectable in certain installations)

Today, after a period of neglect (when guns were thought to be rendered obsolete by missiles), the M61 in one form or another, is an integral part of the armament of modern fighters such as the F-15, F-18 and of course the F-16.

A 419th FW, 466th FS 'Diamondbacks' FS F-16C with access panels to the gun, ammo drum and barrels open. The barrels have been removed for maintenance. (F-16.net photo)

[jackbill]

I may have jumped the "gun" when I said Gatlin gun. My memory is going back 20 years. It was a machine gun of sorts - I think it was made by Westinghouse.

I worked for Westinghouse. We provided the fire-control radar and ECM pods for the F-16. I'm not aware of any guns that we provided.

Apparently, since I retired in 1991, the 20 mm version has been adapted to the F-16, at least in the Pakistani version, as #110 states.

In looking around, I was surprised to learn that the F-14A also carries the gun.

GE makes the Vulcan. "The Vulcan was carried on a wide variety of aircraft, including the A-7, F-4, F-14, F-15, F-16, F-104, and F-105."

If you look at the link that you provided, the gun has the capability of 6000 rounds per minute, but the F-16 carries only 511 rounds. That's a five second burst. Need to keep a light trigger on that puppy.

The Vulcan is also on a lot of Navy ships, for air defense. My son's ship, the Theodore Roosevelt had a number of them. No round inventory problem on a carrier.

[Constitution Day]

download tomorrow

[mad_as_he$$]

Mike Dillion is a smart guy. He improved the GE Mini-gun into this fire belching liquid lead spewing machine. Oh yea his relaoding equipment works real good to.

[mad_as_he$$]

Dillionprecision.com

[Raffus]

I've worked in the machine gun industry over 10+ years. We make both the guns and the ammo handling systems. Go to Jericho VT - that is where the range is at. Hard to get in, however, without ID.