Gatling's electric-powered design received U.S. Even after Gatling slowed the mechanism, the new electric-powered Gatling gun had a theoretical rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute, roughly three times the rate of a typical modern, single-barreled machine gun. He later replaced the hand-cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. The ancestor to the modern minigun was a hand cranked mechanical device invented in the 1860s by Richard Jordan Gatling. History Background: electrically driven Gatling gun 2.1 Gun pods and other mounting systems.1.1 Background: electrically driven Gatling gun.Versions are designated M134 and XM196 by the United States Army, and GAU-2/A and GAU-17/A by the U.S. The Minigun is used by several branches of the U.S. The term is sometimes used loosely to refer to guns of similar rates of fire and configuration, regardless of power source and caliber. 'Minigun' refers to a specific model of weapon that General Electric originally produced, but the term 'minigun' has popularly come to refer to any externally powered rotary gun of rifle caliber. The 'Mini' in the name is in comparison to larger-caliber designs that use a rotary barrel design, such as General Electric's earlier 20 mm M61 Vulcan, and 'gun' for the use of rifle ammunition as opposed to autocannon shells. It features a Gatling-style rotating barrel assembly with an external power source, normally an electric motor. The M134 Minigun is an American 7.62×51mm NATO six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute). 85 lb (39 kg), 41 lb (19 kg) lightweight mod.ĭisintegrating M13 linked belt or linkless feed dependent on installation ĭependent on installation no fixed sights

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