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Complaint about the chain gun

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Post Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:03 am

Complaint about the chain gun

the animation doesnt look like a chain gun till it runs out of energy. is it supposed to be like a gatlin gun?

Post Wed Jun 30, 2004 5:32 am

Err, what mod do you mean Privateer in Sirus or Reckoning. I dont remember this mod having any chain gun.

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Post Wed Jun 30, 2004 11:56 am

The Chain Gun is in Acid's Privateer mod.
It's not part of the Privateer: The Reckoning mod.
You may want to post this in his thread.
It'll either be in the General Mod forum, of the Mod Announcement forum.

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Post Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:53 pm

Oh...
Almost forgot...
A Chain Gun, and a Gatlin Gun are not identical terms.
A Gatlin Gun has more than one Barrel.
Chain guns have their ammo in long "chains.'
So, a Gatlin Gun can be a Chain Gun...
However, the Original Gatlin Gun had the ammo in clips.
There are several single-barrelled Chain guns, like the M-20.
The most famous Chain Gun was the Vulcan M-61 Gatlin gun that was used on the F-4E Phantom Jet, and in the Phalanx AMS.
In fact, most fighter aircraft use chain guns, even the old WW II aircraft.
(It's much easier to feed ammo to them in chains.)
The A10, and F-4E, are the only ones I can think of that had Chain-fed, Gatlin guns.

Edit:
The main advantage of a Gatlin gun, over a single-barrelled gun, is it's Higher Firing Rate.
(A single-barrel would melt at those speeds.)
IIRC-The Vulcan M-61 Gatlin gun fires at 3,000 rounds per minute.
They only load 1,500 rounds, because anymore would be to heavy, and firing any longer would melt the 6 barrels, causing it to explode when a round couldn't get through the melted barrels.

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Edited by - warzog on 6/30/2004 7:59:42 PM

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