User Panel
User Panel
User Panel
|
Posted: 6/26/2001 8:37:17 PM EDT
[#1]
Yeah, I carry one in my Galco Royalgaurd IWB holster. I've had to draw it to shoot a few thousand rounds at a guy who was trying to rob me at the ATM. Didn't jam.
Sorry, I just couldn't resist. |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/26/2001 8:39:39 PM EDT
[#2]
Remember, there are 6 barrels there. The rate of fire for each barrel is relatively low, that's why they went back to the gatling platform. Barrel wear is less than with a conventional single barrel.
Also, I've seen film of them reversing the setup and ejecting problem rounds, along with several good rounds, then returning to proper rotation and firing immediately. Remember, electric operation. No manual charging after stoppages. Big problem is voracious ammo consumption. |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/26/2001 8:42:57 PM EDT
[#3]
We've got four 20 mm vulcan cannons at work.
They're 76 caliber Close-In Weapon System Mk 15. Its a totally intergrated system with its own search and tracking radar using a closed loop servo to track both the target and the train of bullets. The caliber is 20 mm but they are discarding sabot rounds - the penetrator is just 12.75 mm of tungstin. Muzzle velocity is about 3650 ft./sec. and the round weighs 1200 grams. Range is 1500 meters effective and we get about 3000 rpm out of a 1580 round drum. The weapon is shot in small 100-200 round bursts not trying to destroy an incoming missle but to drive it stupid. At this speed you don't hear rat-a-tat-tat, you hear a long boom! The gun is so accrate that it aims for the incoming missles nose cone where the sensors are. Once it figures it has hit the nose cone a number of times it quits. The system is smart enough to know if an in bound missle has the ability to hit the ship. If it's mearly going to fly-by the weapon will track it until it passes. I've been on the flight deck pointing a telemetry dish at the drone during a live fire exercise. These things so wicked that if it flys it dies - our own birds stay well clear when these things are lit up. |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/26/2001 8:43:56 PM EDT
[#4]
You might want to ask the Mall Ninja. I know he used to use the 7.62 Mini Gun back in the day. You remember, right? Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were doing all those mall concerts. You havent known fear until a pack of a few thousand prepubescent teens go berserk in your loval mall!
|
|
|
|
Posted: 6/26/2001 9:06:05 PM EDT
[#5]
Quoted: We've got four 20 mm vulcan cannons at work. quote] Your in the Navy? And are you describing the Phalanx? My buddy served on the Nimitz as a Jet powerplant mechanic- I think they wore green uniforms on the flight deck. He sent me some empty 20mm cases. That's a lot of brass! |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/27/2001 6:07:31 AM EDT
[#6]
Mike Dillon re-designed the de-linker system for the 7.62mm GE miniguns, and now they are much more reliable, and don't waste as much ammo. The old de-linker would cycle quite a few unfired rounds through the action when the "trigger" was released, and they'd go overboard.
Now, you don't get links in the action, you have rounds aligned perfectly for feeding, and all the rounds fed are fired. Kokalis thought that this was such an innovation, he devoted an entire article just on this. Semper Fi! Ken Little |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/27/2001 4:06:29 PM EDT
[#7]
I was gunner on a gun truck in Plieku, Viet Nam. We had two M2 BMG 50 cal. and a mini-gun mounted on it. It was an absolutely amazing weapon. Only problems we had was if a round was knocked out of the belt slightly. This would make it bind up in the feeder tube and break the link. Not good in an ambush. We escorted convoys from the coast up to the highlands to Plieku, Kontum and Dak To. If we carefully checked each round before loading it into the feeder box if worked great. It was hard to haul enough ammo to run a while but the short bursts you fired made it OK. Except for the delinker, it was a very simple and easy weapon to maintain.
Ther was a lot parts, but there was 6 of everything so that made it a lot easier. All in all an incredible weapon. |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/28/2001 7:46:33 AM EDT
[#8]
Hmmm... A hand-cranked 50BMG Gatlin? ATF Legal?
I do believe this idea has warped my fragile little mind![;D] Semper Fi! Ken Little |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/28/2001 8:44:24 AM EDT
[#9]
why hand crank it..have two guys hooked up to bicycle pedals crank and chain...pour a few gallons of coffee into them or jolt cola to vary the cyclic rate
|
|
|
|
Posted: 6/28/2001 8:50:30 AM EDT
[#10]
There's a thought. Get one of those towed AA mounts, and have pedal-powered "tilt-o-whirl-o'-death!
Heavens! I do believe I have a chubby! Wait. No. That was just my car keys.[;D] Semper Fi! Ken Little |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/28/2001 9:36:00 AM EDT
[#11]
One in each door of a UH1N. 10,000 rounds loaded. Both left triggers taped down to yield 4000 rpm each. Windows in pilot doors open, elbows in! Shallow 80 knot dive. Punch the button. Gets very, very loud! Muzzle blast like being slapped repeatedly on the cheeks by two kids at 4000 slaps per minute, per cheek. Aircraft slowed to about 60 knots by recoil. Brass shower behind. (Remember Matrix?)
Cool... |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/28/2001 10:03:37 AM EDT
[#12]
The 30mm used in the A-10 is a much bigger round than the 20mm. In the first flight where they test-fired it, the gun gasses caused the engines to flame out. Couldn't restart, nice slow-motion movie of the pilot ejecting. The recoil is enough that it could slow the AC to stall speed if fired long enough.
I've been in an F-14 and F-18 when firing the 20mm Vulcan. The ground impact looks more like a shotgun blast than a machine gun. Sweet! Like Paul noted, when they test fire the Phalanx system, it's a target on a 10,000 foot cable towed behind an aircraft. The one test I saw, the Phalanx shot the cable apart just ahead of the target, then popped the target a few for good measure. No modern day Kamikazes need apply. |
|
|
|
Posted: 6/28/2001 2:56:45 PM EDT
[#13]
The GAU-2 I shoot on the HH-60 is sweet. We don't have many problems with them. If we do it's usually an AMMO problem. The left thumb trigger shoots at 2000 RPM and the right trigger turns them out at 4000 RPMs.
|
|
|
Win a FREE Membership!
Sign up for the ARFCOM weekly newsletter and be entered to win a free ARFCOM membership. One new winner* is announced every week!
You will receive an email every Friday morning featuring the latest chatter from the hottest topics, breaking news surrounding legislation, as well as exclusive deals only available to ARFCOM email subscribers.
AR15.COM is the world's largest firearm community and is a gathering place for firearm enthusiasts of all types.
From hunters and military members, to competition shooters and general firearm enthusiasts, we welcome anyone who values and respects the way of the firearm.
Subscribe to our monthly Newsletter to receive firearm news, product discounts from your favorite Industry Partners, and more.
Copyright © 1996-2024 AR15.COM LLC. All Rights Reserved.
Any use of this content without express written consent is prohibited.
AR15.Com reserves the right to overwrite or replace any affiliate, commercial, or monetizable links, posted by users, with our own.
