Posted on 06/24/2017 11:28:32 AM PDT by rktman
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Mini Gun vs Machine Gun
Which one wins?
... the minigun won “by a wide margin” ... sad ...
False comparison. .50 cal. vs. 7.62mm. Different ammo for different missions.
Same mission: dead guys. Mini gun wins overwhelmingly
Different missions: equipment vs. personnel. The .50 cal. was developed against light armor and latter aircraft. The 7.62mm is purely anti-personnel.
Also, given that the .50 cal. is an anti-vehicle weapon, they should have used a vehicle sized target.
Regardless of their effectiveness, I would not want to be looking down the barrel end of either one in a fire fight.
Given 200 rounds the .50 would have gotten more on target. THAT would have been an apples to apples comparison.
Very odd test methodology...
Ummmm...accuracy don’t mean shit in combat. How many you can hit and disable is highly desirable. In VN, it took a minimum of 2000 rounds to hit an enemy. HIT him, not take his eye out.
And the mini gun at 7.62mm is the junior version of that weapon. Its bigger brothers come in at 20mm (Army Vulcan) and 30mm (AF A-10 Warthog) The Navy Phalanx is one of those larger calibers too. I am familiar with the Vulcan because I had a platoon of self propelled Vulcans in Germany in the late 70s. Its since been retired.
BINGO ......agree ! Loved the GAU-2B and the MaDuce .... M134 variant came along after I retired.
Good weapons both.
Not if your selling M134’s .....:o)
A guy I know was developing an agile little combat vehicle, akin to an overgrown zero-turn riding mower. I called Dillon Aero about the possibility of having one of the mini-guns mounted on it for show & tell. I didn’t get much traction with the sales manager. I never bothered following up and trying to speak with the boss, Mike Dillon.
Mike personally owns some motor operated 50 cal and mini-gun platforms. Maybe a quad 50 and a dual minigun. Impressive. He did a couple videos. One is “Firestorm in the Desert”.
And 50BMG is an incredible sniper round at 2 miles.
With a scope and a single round you would not have the problem of recoil that makes it less accurate than a smaller 7.62.
And in Raqqa?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DC6z4xHWAAATqlZ.jpg
(similar to 50 cal sniper rifle, made locally in Syria and accurate)
Explanation: On the Lonely Iraq-Syria Border, Snipers Battle for a Strategic Road
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