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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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
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.
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
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 ...
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)