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  2. M134 Minigun - Wikipedia

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    The ancestor to the modern minigun was a hand cranked mechanical device invented in the 1860s by Richard Jordan Gatling. He later replaced the hand-cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. Even after Gatling slowed the mechanism, the new electrically powered Gatling gun had ...

  3. List of U.S. aircraft gun pods - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. List of multiple-barrel firearms - Wikipedia

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    30 mm caliber Soviet Union: 1981 GShG-7.62 machine gun: KBP Instrument Design Bureau: 7.62×54mmR Soviet Union: 1968 Hotchkiss Revolving Cannon: Hotchkiss et Cie France: 1872 In-Line: AAI Corporation: 7.62×51mm NATO United States: 1969 M61 Vulcan: General Electric: 20×102mm United States: 1959 M134 Minigun: General Electric: 7.62×51mm NATO ...

  5. U.S. helicopter armament subsystems - Wikipedia

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    The mount is otherwise the same. The USAF equips its HH-60/MH-60 Pave Hawk with one or two GAU-15/A, GAU-16/A, or GAU-18/A.50 caliber machine guns, and or GAU-2 series 7.62mm NATO Miniguns. Example; One .50 caliber MG in the floor, firing out of an open door and two 7.62mm NATO miniguns mounted in the door gunner positions. ESSS

  6. XM214 Microgun - Wikipedia

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    XM133 Minigun – type of Gatling-type machine gun, a gas-operated, 7.62×51mm variant. EX-17 Heligun – Two-barrel 7.62 mm calibre machine gun, a rival to the M134. Fokker-Leimberger – Externally powered, 12-barrel rifle-caliber rotary cannon - Imperial Germany.

  7. Rotary cannon - Wikipedia

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    A rotating-barrel Minigun being fired from a gunship during the Vietnam War. The Minigun is a type of rotary machine gun. During the Vietnam War, the 7.62 mm caliber M134 Minigun was originally created to

  8. Police illegally sell restricted weapons, supplying crime

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    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 ...

  9. Douglas AC-47 Spooky - Wikipedia

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    FC-47 Early version with 10 .30 cal machine guns (later replaced by minigun modules) AC-47D US conversion of C-47 with M134 7.62-mm minigun; AC-47T Colombian military conversion of civilian DC-3 by Basler Turbo with infrared sensor pod with upgrade PT-6A engines and GAU-19.50 caliber triple Gatling guns (replacing .50 cal machine guns)