Wed Jun 30, 2004 6:53 pm by warzog
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.
Watch your 6!
Edited by - warzog on 6/30/2004 7:59:42 PM