The M134 GAU-17 “Vulcan” cannon is a six-barreled, air cooled, medium machine gun used primarily as a fire suppression weapon in aircraft for the U.S. military. The so-called “Gatling ...

It fires from six barrels like a Gatling Gun but rotates not through a hand crank or gases like ordinary machine guns but through a 24-volt battery or vehicle power. The guns fitted to the AC-47 ...

the MK15 Phalanx is a Gatling-style gun. The system, which weighs up to 13,600 pounds, is an autonomous last-chance defense system. The latest version of this radar-guided giant machine gun can ...

From the early days of the hand cranked Gatling Gun to the modern chain gun, technology, industrialization and innovation automatic weapons have evolved. Hosted by Colin D. Heaton. Forgotten ...

Most people believe that the first rapid-fire gun was the Gatling gun, which was invented ... The Puckle gun was considered the world’s first machine gun (though it doesn’t quite qualify ...

But the Russians left out the most important part – they failed to incorporate a powerful machine gun like the one that dominates the A-10’s airframe. Rather than a powerful Gatling gun of the ...

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 shooting up to 6,000 rounds of ...

the gatling-style M134 Minigun, at 6,000 rounds per minute. The Metal Storm has a maximum effective firing range of 984 feet and is chambered for 9mm bullets. The widespread use of machine guns in ...