Wednesday, March 14, 2012
M134 Minigun
The M134 Minigun is a 7.62 mm,
multi-barrel machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per
minute), employing Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power
source. In popular culture, the term "Minigun" has come to refer to
any externally-powered Gatling gun of rifle caliber, though the term is
sometimes used to refer to guns of similar rates of fire and configuration,
regardless of power source and caliber. Specifically, minigun refers to a
single weapon, originally produced by General Electric.
The "Mini" of the name
is in comparison to designs that use a similar firing mechanism but larger
shells, such as General Electric's earlier 20 mm M61 Vulcan, and
"gun" referencing the delineation between a cannon, that of a caliber
higher than 20 millimeters—and gun—within certain ranges.
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