Well, I don't know. It's do on Summer and Winchester, I suppose, but the 240 bypass traffic offers longer ranges than ideal for the 20mm and 25mm Gatling upgrades. How about a LOSAT instead....
Posted on 02/28/2005 9:34:21 AM PST by Ambient
This video is totally awesome, it shows the power of the gattling gun used on the apache and hueys.
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If you haven't seen the video "Thank You America" then check that video out also, it can get you choked up.
No but most machine gun shoots feature them. Incredibly expensive, but for a few seconds you own the range.
I saved it too. Incredible video!
Why would you want to ruin a good video with crappy music?
I guess you only want to watch rock videos!
I've seen this video however someone told me a gattling gun is never used on an Apache...do you know anything about that?
While the video is impressive on its sheer raw power, i am kind of worried that instead of focusing on the dark side of this video, the only thing that seems to brought up is its positive. Yes, we can kick the crap out of anyone with a gatlin gun, however, who is to say that it cant bring our own destruction?
The Apache has a 30mm Chain gun (Machine Gun).
Can I get one? ;-)
Well, I don't know. It's do on Summer and Winchester, I suppose, but the 240 bypass traffic offers longer ranges than ideal for the 20mm and 25mm Gatling upgrades. How about a LOSAT instead....
The 30mm gun used on the Apache is a single-barrel chain gun, rather than the multibarrel rotary Gatling. But as both are mechanically or power-operated weapons rather than being dependent on the gas generated by their firing, both weapons systems are similar, close cousins if not brothers.
Apache's *chin-mount* underbelly chain gun:
Gatling *mini-gun* in use:
20mm M61 *Vulcan* Gatling-type aircraft gun:
mini-gun mounted as helicopter dsoor gun:
Puff the Magic Dragon [the AC47] was indeed formidable, with 3 7.62 miniguns firing out its portside gun ports. Bank the aircraft left and maintain an orbit around a pointr while those guns cranked out 300 shots each second, and those on the ground became believers in the value of air support.
But when Puff was replaced [or at least supplanted] by its next generation big brother Spooky, the AC119 based on the C-119 Flying Boxcar, not all that fondly known to Army paratroopers as the *Dollar Nineteen* or the *Vomit Comet*, progress reared its ugly head, indeed: Spooky carried four miniguns...and a pair of GAU-4 20mm M61 Vulcan cannons with high explosive projectiles, as well.
Either was something pretty awesome to witness at night. Add in occasional flare drops, and it was downright spectacular.
So amazing that a weapon debuted in the Civil War could have grown into such a monster. Especially as it was laid aside in favor of gas powered water cooled machine guns by the First World War.
They've still got a few bugs to work out though:
Hey guys, ya'll got any of these down at the range?
I guess you're a bit old and that's why you don't like good music. I won't hold it against you. I, too, love Elvis and Johnny Cash. I really do!
Man, that looks like fun!
What is the song playing at the very beginning and the middle?
Errr.... the current version of Puff, the Spectre, has TWO of these AND a 105 artillery piece on board.
OUCH.
Is the whole thing a metallica song? Cuz I wanna know what the classical piece is that it's based on. I wanna download that on gnutella.
I drive the 240 northern loop everyday and one of those darlings would do just fine. It would sure cut a path and eliminate a lot of competition from trucks and those who woke up mad at the world and those that think they do indeed own the road. A great equalizer that would be.
Still waiting on Cowboy to buy one!
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