Handheld minigun

The M Minigun is an American 7.

The M Minigun is a six-barreled, electrically-driven rotary gun originally designed by General Electric. Essentially a miniaturized version of the 20mm M61 Vulcan chambered in 7. Boasting a fire rate of up to 6, rounds per minute, the minigun proved far more capable than any single-barreled weapon in this role and, through numerous updates, remains in it to this day. A distinctive invention of fiction is the hand-held M minigun, a concept which was popularized by the film Predator. Physically demanding even for a slowed-down minigun firing blanks, such a weapon would be near impossible, and highly impractical for a human being to either carry or operate. This fact has not stopped it appearing frequently in other works, especially in video games.

Handheld minigun

The XM Microgun is an American prototype 5. It was designed and built by General Electric. The XM was first developed for aircraft applications. The complete Six-Pak system weighed 85 pounds The basic gun in the Six-Pak weighed 27 pounds, or The system could be carried by a team of two soldiers and mounted either to an M tripod or a vehicle's pintle mount. The overall length is cm, the gun only is The width including ammunition case is Sighting was usually by optical telescope. The Six-Pak consisted of the XM, the power module, and the ammunition module consisted of two round, factory packed, and disposable cassettes mounted to a holding rack. Linked ammunition was fed through a flexible chute to the gun; when the first cassette was empty, ammunition would then feed from the second cassette, tripping a visible signal that a new cassette needed to be added to the rack. The power module contained a volt nickel-cadmium battery , a 0. Unless the battery was plugged into a vehicle's power supply, the battery's charge would be depleted after 3, rounds. The system could be broken down quickly into two portable loads of roughly 42 pounds 19 kg apiece.

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Seen at Tribunist. Movies have always been known for giving us ideas we want to see come to reality — flying cars, lightsabers one day… one day , the Batmobile, etc. Thanks to one genius designer, the hand-held minigun is now reality. The XM Microgun was designed and engineered around the 5. It was meant to stand in place of anywhere high suppressive fire wanted without the weight or footprint of the larger M electrically driven Gatling gun system. The current XM Microgun is smaller and lighter than some current 5.

The M Minigun is a six-barreled, electrically-driven rotary gun originally designed by General Electric. Essentially a miniaturized version of the 20mm M61 Vulcan chambered in 7. Boasting a fire rate of up to 6, rounds per minute, the minigun proved far more capable than any single-barreled weapon in this role and, through numerous updates, remains in it to this day. A distinctive invention of fiction is the hand-held M minigun, a concept which was popularized by the film Predator. Physically demanding even for a slowed-down minigun firing blanks, such a weapon would be near impossible, and highly impractical for a human being to either carry or operate. This fact has not stopped it appearing frequently in other works, especially in video games.

Handheld minigun

The M Minigun is an American 7. 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. The term is sometimes used loosely to refer to guns of similar rates of fire and configuration, regardless of power source and caliber. The Minigun is used by several branches of the U. Air Force and U. The ancestor to the modern minigun was a hand cranked mechanical device invented in the s by Richard Jordan Gatling. He later replaced the hand-cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor , a relatively new invention at the time.

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Zombieland: Double Tap. Toggle limited content width. Terminator Salvation. In Iraq, US Army Special Forces units on the ground were frequently engaged by opposition forces, so they mounted MD miniguns on their vehicles for additional firepower. Army Helicopter Weapons". New York: Grove Press, Inc, Then from to , the Navy began mounting Dillon miniguns on specialized small boats. Patent , on July 25, If you have been locked out of your account you can request a password reset here. The Night Manager. Mount for medium and heavy machine guns onto naval, ground, or air vehicles [36]. The minigun is composed of multiple closed-bolt rifle barrels arranged in a circular housing.

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The th SOAR were impressed by the delinker's performance and began ordering them by Multiple-barrel firearms. While the weapon can feed from linked ammunition, it requires a delinking feeder to strip the links as the rounds are fed into the chambers. China 7. United States. Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D. Disintegrating M13 linked belt or linkless feed; dependent on installation [,round belt]. Mounted and used by enemies, but can be detached and carried by player. The initial units were unreliable and were withdrawn almost immediately. Splinter Cell: Conviction. Retrieved 5 February