Posted on 01/31/2005 2:42:50 PM PST by datura
I just found this over at Vampire Bat, did a search for it in here, and didn't find it. I know there are lots of posters in here who have never had the opportunity to see a Vulcan or other multi-barreled weapon fire - well, HERE IT IS!! Once you see this video you'll want to show it to everyone you can........Damn I wish we'd have had those machine guns in our units when I was in.
If you have a dial up connection, be patient. IT IS WORTH THE TIME TO DOWNLOAD THIS VIDEO!!!!
I'm gonna ask Santa for one of those....LOL
Nice video. Too bad the audio sucks rocks. You don't get the true effect without the belch. JMO. Blackbird.
Yeah, but if you start reloading now, you should be able to have enough ammo to fire the thing for almost two seconds!
Mark
I'd rather be looking down than up.
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.
I want one!
"Check out Goofy in Iraq.
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Nice to see the guys having fun."
That was too funny watching the marine commandos stuck in the mud.
God Bless them.
i have seen some cool stuff in my life, but that was awesome!
mark for later
BTW, does anyone know the name of the classical piece (not the Metallica song) being played in the video? That is a great tune.
holy SHNIKEES!
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.
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. :)
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. :)
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.
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. :)
And to think...this is what Al-Qaeda is up against in Afghanistan.
Awwwwww, what a wonderful world.
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