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Posted: 11/15/2013 8:01:45 PM EDT
"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."

Are are there any videos out there of this thing firing?  I want to see them!
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 8:04:15 PM EDT
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I found some video game footage on youtube with that model of minigun
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 8:10:24 PM EDT
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That kind of stuff was all I could find as well.
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 8:12:31 PM EDT
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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...
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 8:15:53 PM EDT
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Do you think a single person could carry it around Predator style?
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 8:16:47 PM EDT
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Firing blanks?  Easy-peasy
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 8:18:14 PM EDT
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Oh no, crotch mount is the way to go.
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 8:18:50 PM EDT
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Fpsrussia did with a mini gun
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 10:50:34 PM EDT
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Google is your friend.

bottom row 2nd from left. At least, the video says it's the xm214.
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 11:26:00 PM EDT
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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.





Link Posted: 11/15/2013 11:36:50 PM EDT
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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?
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 11:42:51 PM EDT
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Only if your a damned sex-u-al tyrannasaurus!!!
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 11:44:49 PM EDT
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Can you even deer hunt with that bro?
Link Posted: 11/15/2013 11:59:32 PM EDT
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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
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 12:21:18 AM EDT
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No deer or squirrels with machineguns in Texas, but rabbits & hogs are aok.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 12:24:03 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 12:29:06 AM EDT
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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
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 1:00:06 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 1:24:31 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/16/2013 1:27:23 AM EDT
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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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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?
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 1:54:53 AM EDT
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Now I really want one!
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 2:17:51 AM EDT
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shit, I didn't realize it was that small. Man portable baby!!!!!
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 2:22:24 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 2:49:59 AM EDT
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I want a couple mounted on the roof of the house for home defense!

 
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 2:59:13 AM EDT
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You could build a home version of the cwis with it!
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 3:01:33 AM EDT
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You could build a home version of the cwis with it!
I would have them wired into my wifi network and control them from my IPad.

 



Blowing away zombies while laying on the couch
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 3:02:46 AM EDT
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Deer, before:




Deer, after:




Link Posted: 11/16/2013 3:33:57 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 3:38:04 AM EDT
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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?
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 4:05:44 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:06:24 AM EDT
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Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:10:15 AM EDT
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lolwut?
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:11:00 AM EDT
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Osprey delivers
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:17:41 AM EDT
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300 Blackout version?
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:20:02 AM EDT
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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.
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:20:18 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:22:40 AM EDT
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Or "we're coming for ya!"
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:23:37 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:26:56 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:30:22 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:32:26 AM EDT
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Someone needs to manufacture furniture for that baby; then.............group buy.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:35:10 AM EDT
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lolwut?
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lolwut?


I was looking for this comment.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:40:17 AM EDT
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:41:56 AM EDT
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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.
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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.


7.62 is the minimum effective caliber for anything fired from a helicopter.


Link Posted: 11/16/2013 5:55:08 AM EDT
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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.




7.62 is the minimum effective caliber for anything fired from a helicopter.





What if you fire 5.56 from a helicopter flying really fast?





Or fire it from a helicopter on a turntable?  



 
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 6:01:06 AM EDT
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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*
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 6:05:22 AM EDT
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I would like to see video as well.

The video linked in this thread is a 7.62 minigun.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 6:07:47 AM EDT
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Oh no, crotch mount is the way to go.
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Oh no, crotch mount is the way to go.

?????  

Link Posted: 11/16/2013 7:46:10 AM EDT
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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!
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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.
Link Posted: 11/16/2013 7:47:02 AM EDT
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I need two of those for my car.
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