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  2. M134 Minigun - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Gatling gun - Wikipedia

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    The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by defeating indigenous warriors mounting massed attacks, including the Zulu, the Bedouin, and the Mahdists. [22] Imperial Russia purchased 400 Gatling guns and used them against Turkmen cavalry and other nomads of central Asia. [ 39 ]

  4. GAU-8 Avenger - Wikipedia

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    The A-10 engines were initially susceptible to flameout when subjected to gases generated in the firing of the gun. When the GAU-8 is being fired, the smoke from the gun can make the engines stop, and this did occur during initial flight testing. [4] Gun exhaust is essentially oxygen-free, and is capable of causing flameouts of gas turbines ...

  5. The first female commander of the Air Force's A-10 demo ... - AOL

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    The A-10 Thunderbolt II is the only jet purpose-built by the US military to provide close-air support to ground troops — its most fearsome feature being its powerful 30mm Gatling gun.

  6. M61 Vulcan - Wikipedia

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    The success of the Vulcan Project and its progeny, the very-high-speed Gatling gun, has led to guns of the same configuration being referred to as "Vulcan cannons", which can sometimes confuse nomenclature on the subject. [citation needed] Most aircraft versions of the M61 are hydraulically driven and electrically primed.

  7. GAU-19 - Wikipedia

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    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)

  8. List of multiple-barrel firearms - Wikipedia

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    Feldl gun 11x50mmR Bavaria: 1867 Fokker-Leimberger: A.H.G. Fokker & Leimberger: 7.92×57mm Mauser Germany: 1916 Fyodorov–Shpagin Model 1922: 6.5×50mmSR Arisaka Soviet Union: 1922 Gardner gun United States: 1874 Gast gun: 7.92×57mm Mauser Germany: 1915 Gatling gun United States: 1861 GAU-8 Avenger: General Electric: 30×173mm United States ...

  9. List of aircraft weapons - Wikipedia

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    Modern European fighter aircraft are usually equipped with the revolver cannon, whereas the United States and to some extent Russia generally favor the Gatling gun. The Gatling gun quickly became the weapon of choice for most air forces. ADEN cannon (UK) [1] 20 mm Becker (Germany) Berezin B-20 (USSR) Berezin BS (USSR) Berezin UB (USSR) 40 mm ...