Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!news1.exit109.com!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!207.217.77.43!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!nntp.earthlink.net!usenet From: look@my.big.freakin.gun (QuakeFish) Newsgroups: alt.games.quake2,rec.games.computer.quake.playing,rec.games.computer.quake.misc,alt.games.quake Subject: Re: Gun specialists? What about *REAL* guns? Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:43:43 -0700 Organization: ELLS Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <35334ed9.3100497@news.telia.lt> <3533AFE2.445@NO-SPAM.sgi.net> <9F1E1CE5939590DE.8F99CBAC45F5F3C8.216E19D1E5E6930D@library-proxy.airnews.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.255.123.175 X-Newsreader: Anawave Gravity v2.00 Xref: clanworld.com rec.games.computer.quake.playing:38918 rec.games.computer.quake.misc:27643 alt.games.quake:27874 In article <9F1E1CE5939590DE.8F99CBAC45F5F3C8.216E19D1E5E6930D@library- proxy.airnews.net>, Cerberus says... > And if you think somebody could remain standing after pulling the trigger > (while standing, or sitting for that matter) on a 20mm chain gun, man are > you FUCKED up! You could not hold it! I guess you've never spent time in the > military and seen the A-10 Warthog fire the one in it's nose, it actually > slows down the plane/jet... I was at an airshow where they had an A-10 display with the cannon mounted by itself on as a display. The cannon the A-10 carries is something like 15 feet long (including reciever/bolt system) and probably weighs several hundred pounds. It's been 10 years so I don't remember the actual numbers. Anyway, my point is that the recoil would be the LAST OF YOUR WORRIES! The 'minigun' is the nose gun from a Cobra attack helo (?). I think there was some doorgunner version for the Huey or Jolly Green Giant that they tested during the Vietnam era, but I could be mistaken Oh yeah... a "chaingun" means that the weapon's action (reloading, firing, cycling, etc.) is driven by a motor independently (using a chain ;). Where a 'normal' gun uses the energy from firing a round to cycle itself. So not only would you have to carry the gun and ammo, but you'd have to carry a POWER SOURCE too! -- ++++ lame sigline here ++++ Reach me at RyanFisher@home.com.DieSPAMMERS! =>remove .DieSPAMMERS! to reply <= Or look for QuakeFish on a server near you! :) Flames or Frags welcome...