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Gatling Guns
« on: March 09, 2020, 08:10:02 AM »
If I missed the topic on this subject then please let me know and I will merge this bit with the OP. 

Link to a YouTube video from General Electric on the 30mm Gatling Gun system that resulted in the Goal Keeper CIWS system. 

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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #1 on: March 09, 2020, 08:46:01 AM »
Martin Marrieta/General Electric product video for the GPU-2A 20mm Light-Weight Gun Pod
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #2 on: March 09, 2020, 08:47:43 AM »
General Electric product video for the GE GPU-5A 30mm Gatling Gun Pod
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #3 on: March 09, 2020, 08:50:39 AM »
Point Mugu video on the Gatling Guns in use by the United States Navy: The Aircraft Gatlings
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #4 on: March 09, 2020, 09:04:26 AM »
United States Navy video on the General Electric GAU-12 25mm Gatling Gun
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #5 on: March 09, 2020, 10:21:30 AM »
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #6 on: March 09, 2020, 11:14:51 AM »
Dr. Gatlings Infernal Device.

Early electrified variants.

The November 15, 1890 issue of Scientific American contained an article on the Crocker-Wheeler Co.'s
development for the US Navy. Article and illustration scanned from The Gatling Gun, Paul Wahl and Don
Toppel (1965), ARCO Publishing edition 1978.


Dr. Gatling's Patent #502,185 for an integral electric drive version:
http://www.google.com/patents?id=Sy1EAAAAEBAJ&zoom=4&dq=502%2C185&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=502,185&f=false
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2020, 11:16:04 AM »
Camel Gatling.

A popular illustration from the late-19th century, however there is no evidence that the gun was ever used in such a fashion.    :-\
Rather Camel Gun was the name attached to the short-barreled Model 1874 for marketing purposes.
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2020, 11:30:35 AM »
Pity the poor camel if they had actually used it in that fashion.  :smiley:
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #9 on: March 14, 2020, 04:01:41 AM »
New release:



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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2020, 05:31:51 AM »
I watched the movie Jonah Hex last week, it had the 'mother-of-all-gatling-guns'.  The cannon balls were as big as basket balls.   ;D ;D ;D

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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #11 on: March 15, 2020, 02:54:17 AM »
Speaking of big gatlings, I would love to see a model or conversion for the T249 Vigilante:


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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #12 on: March 15, 2020, 05:57:11 AM »
Take that new AFV Club M108 or the old Italeri M108 kit and give it a Gatling Gun make over? 
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #13 on: March 16, 2020, 11:58:56 AM »
That was basically what I did with the M111 Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun:




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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #14 on: March 16, 2020, 12:44:53 PM »
Brian, great work and very, very plausible.

I have the Timpo Gatling

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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #15 on: January 23, 2023, 03:42:43 AM »
For all of you Gatling Gun fans.  A short video with the Dillon Aero M134D Mini-Gun mounted on a pickup truck at the range tearing up an anatomically correct ballistic dummy:
Utreon > Administrative Results > "How Fast Will A Mini-Gun Melt You?"
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Re: Gatling Guns
« Reply #16 on: January 27, 2023, 04:22:23 AM »