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

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

[2nd amendment mama]

I'm gonna ask Santa for one of those....LOL

[BlackbirdSST]

Nice video. Too bad the audio sucks rocks. You don't get the true effect without the belch. JMO. Blackbird.

[MarkL]

Just great! It's FOUR weeks PAST CHRISTMAS. A little late for my wish list. Not that it would do any good, I didn't get my pony either.

Yeah, but if you start reloading now, you should be able to have enough ammo to fire the thing for almost two seconds!

Mark

[Conspiracy Guy]

I'd rather be looking down than up.

[Wilum]

Saw the M61 demo at Lowery as I was learning to become a muzzle --er 462X0. They loaded 35 rounds in her and told us not to blink. Sounded like a bad case of beans!
Ended up babysitting the M39A2 in F-100D/Fs, 1800 rounds a minute, four in each sled. Dependable but when they jammed it was hammer and chisel time.

Wilum

[.44 Special]

Electric Gatling guns are not new. in the 1970's I read of 30-03, forerunner of the 30-06, electric Gatling guns that were attaining 3,000 rounds per minute. These were were being tested in the early 1900's as coastal defense weapons.
Unfortunately searches of the web have proven fruitless for info on this weapon. I would love to see a photo of one.

[Uncle Vlad]

I want one!

[sweetiepiezer]

"Check out Goofy in Iraq.

http://vampirebat.com/war/

Nice to see the guys having fun."

That was too funny watching the marine commandos stuck in the mud.
God Bless them.

[Drawsing]

Richard Gatling

[thefactor]

i have seen some cool stuff in my life, but that was awesome!

[Jack of all Trades]

mark for later

[RetiredArmy]

I know, I know. But when I think of Gatling gun, I think of that gun mounted on two wheels being pulled by a couple of horses and a blue coated calvary man riding along side.

[Dissident Aggressor]

Awesome video!

BTW, does anyone know the name of the classical piece (not the Metallica song) being played in the video? That is a great tune.

[King Prout]

holy SHNIKEES!

[El Gato]

Every fifth round is a tracer.

That is the usual practice, but some of those shots looked more either every other round a tracer or maybe all tracers. The individual rounds are just too close together for it to be every fifth round.

[El Gato]

Ended up babysitting the M39A2 in F-100D/Fs, 1800 rounds a minute, four in each sled.

You know we stole that basic design from the Germans. Of course it wasn't as cool as when we stole some stuff from the Soviets, without kicking their heines first, back in the bad old days. I could tell you what, but then I'd have to shoot both of us. :)

[El Gato]

The M1C1 is designed to be an A-10 infantry support fighter on the ground.

It would be nice, but probably as heavy as an M1A1 or M1A2, and thus as hard to deploy. Now if you could mount a GAU-4 or GAU-8 on a Stryker.... but then it, especially with the -8, would probably flip the Strkyer over the first time it cut loose. :)

[philetus]

I've seen miniguns work out at night, from helos.
It looks like a solid red line.

5000 rounds a minute = 83.3 rounds a second.

[El Gato]

Is this similar to the Gatling in the A-10 (Warthog)?

It's similar, in the way a Ford Escape is similar to an Excursion. The basic principal is the same, but the scale is totatly different.

The A-10's gun is a big 30mm. Each "catridge" is about the size of a liter bottle, with the slug sticking out about the size of a small banana. Most of the ones shown in the video seem to be 7.62mm(x51 or .308 Winchester). The "slugs" the GAU-8 fires weigh about 2/3 of a pound. The Gatlings on other fighters are only 20mm. Even the 30mm mounted on the Apache fires a lighter round than the A-10's GAU-8. Only some anti cruise missile Gatlings, mounted on ships come close to the GAU-8, in fact some of them are GAU-8s in a different mount. :)

[mowkeka]

And to think...this is what Al-Qaeda is up against in Afghanistan.
Awwwwww, what a wonderful world.