Guns, guns, and more cool guns.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 8:26 pm

I like the rubber band gattling gun, it's an awsome mofo.

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:07 pm

El Banana wrote:Yeah, those old GG where nasty.

You talking about this?

.45-70, baby!

Veldrin · Post by **Veldrin** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:09 pm

http://www.securityarms.com

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:15 pm

I suppose I should mention that the site I found that pic from had that very same antique minigun listed at $55,000.

CaTaClYsM · Post by **CaTaClYsM** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:17 pm

does this gun actually spin the barrle so that the bullet spins more when it goes out of the chamber?

kthulhu · Post by **kthulhu** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 9:51 pm

It's hand crank. Anyhow, I think it came from a listing for an auction that has already passed.

Metro · Post by **Metro** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 10:03 pm

does this gun actually spin the barrel so that the bullet spins more when it goes out of the chamber?

No it spins the barrel so it can fire more bullets. While one barrel is firing a round another is ejecting a cartridge, another is being chambered, another is being cocked etc...
Modern guns, like the old gatling gun, use multiple barrels to increase the rate of fire . Lots of heat is generated when a gun fires at a high rate and this damages the barrel and affects the ballistics of the bullets.
This is bad.
The multiple barrels of a modern gating style gun overcomes this problem because each barrel only fires 1 out of every 3 bullets in a 3 barrel gun, 1 out of every 8 bullets in a 8 barrel gun etc...

GAU 8/A Avenger - undoubtedly the most powerful gun in the world even though I have always been partial to the Sig Sauer 226

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 10:13 pm

What caliber rounds does it use?

30mm, the whole gun is 4 meters long and the kickback slows down the plane... aii.

Metro · Post by **Metro** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 10:28 pm

It fires .30 HE or Depleted Uranium AP shells

GAU 8

El Banana · Post by **El Banana** » Wed Apr 09, 2003 10:30 pm

Yep, same gun then.