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GATLING GUN!! MUST SEE VIDEO!!!!!
Vampire Bat.com ^ | 25 Jan 05 | Compfused.com

Posted on 01/31/2005 2:42:50 PM PST by datura

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To: basil

I'm gonna ask Santa for one of those....LOL


161 posted on 01/31/2005 9:48:39 PM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org • Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: datura

Nice video. Too bad the audio sucks rocks. You don't get the true effect without the belch. JMO. Blackbird.


162 posted on 02/01/2005 3:17:32 AM PST by BlackbirdSST
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To: BipolarBob
Just great! It's FOUR weeks PAST CHRISTMAS. A little late for my wish list. Not that it would do any good, I didn't get my pony either.

Yeah, but if you start reloading now, you should be able to have enough ammo to fire the thing for almost two seconds!

Mark

163 posted on 02/01/2005 3:55:47 AM PST by MarkL (That which does not kill me, has made the last mistake it will ever make!)
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To: speed_addiction

I'd rather be looking down than up.


164 posted on 02/01/2005 4:41:04 AM PST by Conspiracy Guy (If only I used my evil genius for good !)
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To: Jack Deth
Saw the M61 demo at Lowery as I was learning to become a muzzle --er 462X0. They loaded 35 rounds in her and told us not to blink. Sounded like a bad case of beans!
Ended up babysitting the M39A2 in F-100D/Fs, 1800 rounds a minute, four in each sled. Dependable but when they jammed it was hammer and chisel time.

Wilum
165 posted on 02/01/2005 5:06:01 AM PST by Wilum (Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
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To: datura

Electric Gatling guns are not new. in the 1970's I read of 30-03, forerunner of the 30-06, electric Gatling guns that were attaining 3,000 rounds per minute. These were were being tested in the early 1900's as coastal defense weapons.
Unfortunately searches of the web have proven fruitless for info on this weapon. I would love to see a photo of one.


166 posted on 02/01/2005 5:12:28 AM PST by .44 Special (Death to Traitors!)
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To: datura

I want one!


167 posted on 02/01/2005 5:17:32 AM PST by Uncle Vlad
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To: Shooter 2.5

"Check out Goofy in Iraq.

http://vampirebat.com/war/

Nice to see the guys having fun."

That was too funny watching the marine commandos stuck in the mud.
God Bless them.


168 posted on 02/01/2005 5:19:57 AM PST by sweetiepiezer ((((((((((((((MARINES))))))))))))))
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To: All
Richard Gatling


169 posted on 02/01/2005 5:26:18 AM PST by Drawsing (Congress doesn't need to see the light...they just need to feel the heat..Ronald Reagan)
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To: datura

i have seen some cool stuff in my life, but that was awesome!


170 posted on 02/01/2005 5:26:56 AM PST by thefactor
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To: datura

mark for later


171 posted on 02/01/2005 6:01:20 AM PST by Jack of all Trades
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To: Southack
I know, I know. But when I think of Gatling gun, I think of that gun mounted on two wheels being pulled by a couple of horses and a blue coated calvary man riding along side.
172 posted on 02/01/2005 7:51:32 AM PST by RetiredArmy (The Democratic Party would make Uncle Joe Stalin Proud!)
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Awesome video!

BTW, does anyone know the name of the classical piece (not the Metallica song) being played in the video? That is a great tune.

173 posted on 02/01/2005 8:02:48 AM PST by Dissident Aggressor
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To: datura

holy SHNIKEES!


174 posted on 02/01/2005 7:30:56 PM PST by King Prout (Remember John Adam!)
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To: philetus
Every fifth round is a tracer.

That is the usual practice, but some of those shots looked more either every other round a tracer or maybe all tracers. The individual rounds are just too close together for it to be every fifth round.

175 posted on 02/01/2005 7:42:14 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: Wilum
Ended up babysitting the M39A2 in F-100D/Fs, 1800 rounds a minute, four in each sled.

You know we stole that basic design from the Germans. Of course it wasn't as cool as when we stole some stuff from the Soviets, without kicking their heines first, back in the bad old days. I could tell you what, but then I'd have to shoot both of us. :)

176 posted on 02/01/2005 7:46:24 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: Southack
The M1C1 is designed to be an A-10 infantry support fighter on the ground.

It would be nice, but probably as heavy as an M1A1 or M1A2, and thus as hard to deploy. Now if you could mount a GAU-4 or GAU-8 on a Stryker.... but then it, especially with the -8, would probably flip the Strkyer over the first time it cut loose. :)

177 posted on 02/01/2005 7:50:49 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: El Gato

I've seen miniguns work out at night, from helos.
It looks like a solid red line.

5000 rounds a minute = 83.3 rounds a second.


178 posted on 02/01/2005 7:58:26 PM PST by philetus (What goes around comes around)
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To: Barney59
Is this similar to the Gatling in the A-10 (Warthog)?

It's similar, in the way a Ford Escape is similar to an Excursion. The basic principal is the same, but the scale is totatly different.

The A-10's gun is a big 30mm. Each "catridge" is about the size of a liter bottle, with the slug sticking out about the size of a small banana. Most of the ones shown in the video seem to be 7.62mm(x51 or .308 Winchester). The "slugs" the GAU-8 fires weigh about 2/3 of a pound. The Gatlings on other fighters are only 20mm. Even the 30mm mounted on the Apache fires a lighter round than the A-10's GAU-8. Only some anti cruise missile Gatlings, mounted on ships come close to the GAU-8, in fact some of them are GAU-8s in a different mount. :)


179 posted on 02/01/2005 8:03:08 PM PST by El Gato (Activist Judges can twist the Constitution into anything they want ... or so they think.)
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To: datura

And to think...this is what Al-Qaeda is up against in Afghanistan.
Awwwwww, what a wonderful world.


180 posted on 02/01/2005 8:11:18 PM PST by mowkeka
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