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To: wastedyears
Not a surface to air missile, but I’d sure like a turret with a 30mm six-barrel beast on it.

How about this chain gun?
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15 posted on 11/19/2007 11:27:55 AM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: Cobra64

Just three separate turrets with one gun each. You know, leave no stone unturned and all.

:)


16 posted on 11/19/2007 11:36:50 AM PST by wastedyears (One Marine vs. 550 consultants. Sounds like good odds to me.)
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To: Cobra64
A chain gun is a type of machine gun or automatic cannon that uses an external source of power, rather than diverting energy from the cartridge, to cycle the weapon, and does so via a continuous loop of chain similar to that used on a motor or bicycle. "Chain gun" is a registered trademark of Alliant Techsystems Inc.[1] for a chain-powered weapon.

It is a common misnomer to refer to Gatling guns (rotary cannons) as chain guns; even in some video games, such as Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, the player carries a minigun referred to as a chain gun. In fact, most Gatling-type guns—weapons such as the M61 Vulcan, the M197, the GShG-7.62, the M134, and the XM214—are externally-powered but are not chain guns.

They instead function by directing the power source (usually electricity) to a unit known as a rotor, which contains each of the multiple barrel-and-breech assemblies that make up the distinctive shape of a rotary gun and is free to rotate within a fixed outer sleeve. A cam projecting from each breech unit runs in a shaped, recessed track within the sleeve. To fire, power is applied to rotate the rotor which in turn causes each breech to cycle as its cam is forced to follow the recessed track. Each barrel therefore fires independently.

There is no one place on the face of this Earth than FR where you have to be REALLY careful about describing guns, and the nomenclature thereof...

18 posted on 11/19/2007 2:44:38 PM PST by jonascord (Hurray! for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears the Single Star!)
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To: Cobra64
Hmm, if I cut down the sides of an F-250 dooley, think that'd fit?
22 posted on 11/20/2007 1:17:34 AM PST by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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