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To: GreyHoundSailor

The gun isn’t ‘new’ - it’s the 20mm GE Vulcan design that’s been around for decades. That part doesn’t really need to be tested especially since this company’s been making them for years. What is new is the system they’ve already been making for a while is now in a palletized form, that’s pretty much it.


13 posted on 05/08/2015 9:23:36 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr
it’s the 20mm GE Vulcan design that’s been around for decades

The company that I went to work for right out of college hired the project manager on the Vulcan from GE and I wound up working in his R&D group for several years. He had a scale model of the gun sitting on his desk.

People called him "the little ball of fire", he had a full sized traffic signal set up in the hallway with all the lenses replaced w/ green. He said it represented his "go, go, go" attitude. He handed out tie bars w/ a miniature of the Go Go light to his "untermenchen", I never got one. I always thought the "all green lights" traffic signal was emblematic of one hell of a traffic jam.

Regards,
GtG

25 posted on 05/09/2015 6:15:25 AM PDT by Gandalf_The_Gray (I live in my own little world, I like it 'cuz they know me here.)
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To: Spktyr

Forgot to mention with an expected 10-12 meter CEP at angels 10, this setup wouldn’t even be good for go-fast boats.


34 posted on 05/11/2015 12:59:21 PM PDT by GreyHoundSailor
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