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I found some video game footage on youtube with that model of minigun
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I think it lacked a platform. Anything that could carry a microgun could carry a minigun so why bother? Maybe when we get powered exoskeletons...
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Do you think a single person could carry it around Predator style?
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5.56 means about double the ammo for the same weight/bulk as 7.62X51.
I'm thinking gun trucks, patrol vehicles like the polaris side by sides, etc. That is a LOT of hurt in a hurry to bust out of an ambush. Don't care. We need about 30,000 in the inventory. At least a couple foreward thinking units will come up with an appropriate use. |
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Pointless in 5.56 needs a round with more legs and mass on target. More than .308 but not a barrel destroyer like .300WM or .338LM perhaps 30-06?
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When I make it big and have conex boxes full of gold and cash, I'm gonna have a 5.7 super-minigun made
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double the amount of ammo a light vehicle or aircraft could carry. I could see if this could go back into production a big advantage for a light autonomous atv. Would eliminate the need for it to reload.
Imagine drone atvs that see with thermal vision / xray and shoot like CWIS but now for humans! Combined with aircraft drones it could be very bad and you would have a hard time fighting them off |
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They also marketed it on a tripod mount with a NiCad battery as the "GE Six Pack".
They developed a gunpod with it, for use on helicopters and light aircraft. |
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5.56 means about double the ammo for the same weight/bulk as 7.62X51. I'm thinking gun trucks, patrol vehicles like the polaris side by sides, etc. That is a LOT of hurt in a hurry to bust out of an ambush. Don't care. We need about 30,000 in the inventory. At least a couple foreward thinking units will come up with an appropriate use. View Quote Supposedly they've gotten the cyclic up to around 12,000 RPM. I curious what sort of carnage can be had if used with the experimental duplex rounds from the 60's. Nothing quite says "Go away!" like 400 projectiles per second. On a more serious note, weren't they looking at this weapon for use as a CIWS for tanks, to stop ATGM's? |
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View Quote Now I really want one! |
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View Quote shit, I didn't realize it was that small. Man portable baby!!!!! |
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Para-Rescue shop at RAF Woodbridge had one of those miniguns back around 1986/87. My unit borrowed it for a few days for some fun and mounted it on at least one vehicle along with some kind of battery pack.
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I want a couple mounted on the roof of the house for home defense! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
I want a couple mounted on the roof of the house for home defense! You could build a home version of the cwis with it! |
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Quoted: You could build a home version of the cwis with it! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I want a couple mounted on the roof of the house for home defense! You could build a home version of the cwis with it! Blowing away zombies while laying on the couch
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Quoted:On a more serious note, weren't they looking at this weapon for use as a CIWS for tanks, to stop ATGM's? View Quote I actually remember reading an article in Popular Science magazine about a similar technology/gun being used on larger satellites and space stations to use against meteors and such. |
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Supposedly they've gotten the cyclic up to around 12,000 RPM. I curious what sort of carnage can be had if used with the experimental duplex rounds from the 60's. Nothing quite says "Go away!" like 400 projectiles per second. On a more serious note, weren't they looking at this weapon for use as a CIWS for tanks, to stop ATGM's? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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5.56 means about double the ammo for the same weight/bulk as 7.62X51. I'm thinking gun trucks, patrol vehicles like the polaris side by sides, etc. That is a LOT of hurt in a hurry to bust out of an ambush. Don't care. We need about 30,000 in the inventory. At least a couple foreward thinking units will come up with an appropriate use. Supposedly they've gotten the cyclic up to around 12,000 RPM. I curious what sort of carnage can be had if used with the experimental duplex rounds from the 60's. Nothing quite says "Go away!" like 400 projectiles per second. On a more serious note, weren't they looking at this weapon for use as a CIWS for tanks, to stop ATGM's? When I was in Leonard Wood in 98 I saw a pic of an M1 Abrams with one of these mounted on the turret. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world at the time. |
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I think it lacked a platform. Anything that could carry a microgun could carry a minigun so why bother? Maybe when we get powered exoskeletons... View Quote It was intended to be tri-pod mounted and used by infantry. They called it the "Six Pack". I have a t-shirt that says "GE - We bring great guns to life" and features a pic of the tri-pod mounted Micro Gun. |
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You can carry more 5.56 than you can .308. The way these things burn thru ammo, that's a nice benefit. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I think it lacked a platform. Anything that could carry a microgun could carry a minigun so why bother? Maybe when we get powered exoskeletons... You can carry more 5.56 than you can .308. The way these things burn thru ammo, that's a nice benefit. If you could calibrate it to a GPS iPhone Twitter Facebook interface....hol-eee hell....the things that could be made right........ Put it in a a geo-stabilized color coordinated tote bag. Now that would be $43,000 big purse worth owning. |
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How about a 5.7x28 nanogun? Might end up light enough to fire from the shoulder with a lithium ion power pack.
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I think it lacked a platform. Anything that could carry a microgun could carry a minigun so why bother? Maybe when we get powered exoskeletons... View Quote One of the things it suffered from was too high a rate of fire. They decided supply chains couldn't keep up with the need for ammo if it were fielded. |
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Quoted: Pointless in 5.56 needs a round with more legs and mass on target. More than .308 but not a barrel destroyer like .300WM or .338LM perhaps 30-06? View Quote You are aware, of course, that 7.62x51mm was designed to provide the same ballistic performance with the same bullet as .30'06 M2 Ball (7.62x63mm). .30'06 has a lot of empty case. |
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I had 2 of them on a computer operated automatic mount, with a rocket launcher on the top. It was a pretty sweet setup until some assface with a mask over his face attached a transistor radio to it and blew it up.
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Someone needs to manufacture furniture for that baby; then.............group buy.
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Deer, before: http://www.deer.com/content/modules/rhino.pages/files/uploads/deer/deer-hunting-info-at-your-fingertips/img-006.jpg Deer, after: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQD-XUQj5N6n7VH4i-MmNmU48hJIjpnNkdJcTeT5_kMoVvPHotw View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Can you even deer hunt with that bro? Deer, before: http://www.deer.com/content/modules/rhino.pages/files/uploads/deer/deer-hunting-info-at-your-fingertips/img-006.jpg Deer, after: https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQD-XUQj5N6n7VH4i-MmNmU48hJIjpnNkdJcTeT5_kMoVvPHotw Good way to justify it to the missus - 'look at the money I'll save on processing costs'. |
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View Quote Wow are they tiny! Seems like mounting these things on stuff like little birds would make sense. Save a lot of weight. |
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Wow are they tiny! Seems like mounting these things on stuff like little birds would make sense. Save a lot of weight. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
Wow are they tiny! Seems like mounting these things on stuff like little birds would make sense. Save a lot of weight. 7.62 is the minimum effective caliber for anything fired from a helicopter. |
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Quoted: 7.62 is the minimum effective caliber for anything fired from a helicopter. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Wow are they tiny! Seems like mounting these things on stuff like little birds would make sense. Save a lot of weight. 7.62 is the minimum effective caliber for anything fired from a helicopter. Or fire it from a helicopter on a turntable? |
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Quoted:What if you fire 5.56 from a helicopter flying really fast?
Or fire it from a helicopter on a turntable? View Quote That's all pseudo-scientific nonsense meant to misdirect the masses and keep them from achieving Tier -1 doorgunnery. What you really need is a treadmill, but the trick is it goes inside the helicopter. *nods sagely* |
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I would like to see video as well.
The video linked in this thread is a 7.62 minigun. |
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"The XM214 is a prototype 5.56 mm rotary-barreled machine gun. It was designed and built by General Electric, but it never reached mass production. Also known as the Microgun, the XM214 was a scaled-down version of the M134 "minigun", firing M193 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition." http://i41.tinypic.com/2u5qao0.jpg Are are there any videos out there of this thing firing? I want to see them! View Quote Oooh, that would keep Lake City running for another decade! Think of all the jobs. Building the Microgun and the boolits to feed it! What fun. |
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