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when our unit received the GE gatling guns for the gunships we were impressed. One gunship was no longer air worthy, and the miniguns went to the flight line armory. Quite a few beers later, we had it mounted on a slick, with a hand crank, later replaced by a motor. Gave Charlie (with a capital C) quite a surprise.

If it is mechanical, some GI's with time and a few beers will dream up the solution to put that baby on "fry" mode.

Oh, the stories about crazy crap we came up with.

While I was still with fixed wings, not directly involved, but the night crew (I was day crew) maintaining the Mk-4 gunpods decided to crank off a few 20mm rounds out toward the hills in Chu Lai. You could do that with the ground test gear.

Or rigging up a 19 shot 2.75" rocket pod on a jury-rigged tripod. Ripple fire was impressive, particularly as the blast of each rocket leaving kicked the whole mess up a bit each time. Scared hell out of us that it would go vertical before empty.........