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To: exnavy
Why not one with a quad 50 and a couple of Mark 19s for the anti-personell role?

Maybe it's just me, but this old grunt likes to be able to throw a lot of lead downrange. Maybe one with a couple of coax mounted 7.62 mini-guns.....

L

13 posted on 02/02/2006 3:13:33 AM PST by Lurker (In God I trust. Everybody else shows me their hands.)
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To: Lurker
Why not one with a quad 50 and a couple of Mark 19s for the anti-personell role?

I've observed a Central American WWII-era built M8 armored car [6-wheeler, Mogas engine] fitted with the power turret and quad .50s of an M55 mount, more usually found fitted in the back of an M16A1 halftrack or duece-and-a-half truck. At the time they were also reworking their M20 versions [and old WWII M3A1 and M5A1 light tanks] fitted with a single-shot 37mm AT gun, for replacements with 20mm autocannons. I imagine the possibility of a 25mm Chain Gun is do-able, but their Escuadron de Caballeria seemed to think that the 20mm guns were quite an improvement.

Maybe it's just me, but this old grunt likes to be able to throw a lot of lead downrange. Maybe one with a couple of coax mounted 7.62 mini-guns.....

L

Dillon Aero boss Mike Dillon, whose company rebuilds and reworks M134 miniguns for the U.S. military and other customers, had [and may still have!] an old quad .50 mount with a single M134 replacing all those .50s. For any thin-skinned targets less than an armored vehicle, that allows the minigun to carry ammunition WAY in excess of that most mounts could handle [usually just the 3000-round aircraft ammo can] But I'm sure Mike could set his up with twin guns very easily if he was so inclined.

Of course, there's always Jon Ciener's triple minigun setup...


19 posted on 02/02/2006 1:24:29 PM PST by archy (The darkness will come. It will find you,and it will scare you like you've never been scared before.)
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To: Lurker

That or a pair of miniguns. My PSG and I were talking about that very thing. And an ability to reload inside the vehicle would be nice. Oh well.


21 posted on 02/02/2006 4:00:17 PM PST by Future Snake Eater (The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.)
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