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The M134 Minigun is an American 7.62×51mm NATO six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute). [2] It features a Gatling -style rotating barrel assembly with an external power source, normally an electric motor .
M61 Vulcan – 20 mm Gatling-type rotary cannon; M134 Minigun – American rotary machine gun; XM214 Microgun – American prototype 5.56 mm rotary-barreled machine gun; M197 electric cannon – 20 mm Gatling-type rotary cannon; GAU-12 Equalizer – 25 mm rotary aircraft autocannon; GAU-8 Avenger – American 30mm autocannon (since 1977)
A competing universal turret design to the M97 put forward by Emerson Electric, the XM120 could be fitted with a number of weapons including the M60C 7.62×51mm machine gun, M134 Minigun, M197 20 mm three barreled cannon, XM188 30 mm three barreled cannon, and was in fact tested with the XM140 30 mm cannon.
Adair, Iowa, had a population of 794. So, it seemed suspicious when its three-person police department asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns, including an M134 Gatling-style minigun capable of ...
The M134 Minigun fires 7.62mm ammunition at 3,000 to 4,000 rpm. The M3P Machine Gun , an M2 variant with a higher rate of fire mounted on the Avenger Humvee . The GAU-19 , a rotary gun that fires .50 caliber ammunition.
Main components of the XM18 Gun Pod (less M134 machine gun) Perhaps the most widely used gun pod developed by the US military, fitted with a single GAU-2 7.62×51mm Minigun. [3] This weapon was produced in three generations, with separate designations applied by both the US Army and US Air Force.
Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...
All models of Gatling guns were declared obsolete by the U.S. military in 1911, after 45 years of service. [20] The original Gatling gun was a field weapon that used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose (no links or belt) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper. The Gatling gun's ...