Path: clanworld.com!news.webspan.net!opus.ies-energy.com!news.cs.utwente.nl!Cabal.CESspool!bofh.vszbr.cz!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.mindspring.net!news.mindspring.com!not-for-mail From: Andy Purugganan 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 21:54:20 -0400 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 61 Message-ID: <3534134C.D9D28FEB@mindspring.com> References: <35334ed9.3100497@news.telia.lt> <6h0j5d$inu$1@ha2.rdc1.tn.home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: user-37kbaiv.dialup.mindspring.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 15 Apr 1998 01:55:51 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) Xref: clanworld.com rec.games.computer.quake.playing:38917 rec.games.computer.quake.misc:27642 alt.games.quake:27872 Hey, 3Fingers, isn't there anything *technical* that you don't know about? :-) not for long anyway Thanks for the Tweak guide, Sensei Brett Jacobs wrote: > > The General Electric Vulcan Mini Gun is manufactured in the following > calibers (5.56 nato, 7.62 nato 20mm and 30mm) and is nothing more than an > electric version of the Civil War Gatling Gun. The 20mm and 30mm guns are > mounted mostly in the nose of helicopters or attack jets and are used mainly > to blow up tanks (30mm) or shoot down other planes (20mm). The 7.62 nato > versions were mounted in aircraft and helicopters during the Vietnam War. As > many as 8 mini guns (42,000 rounds per minute) would be mounted on one side > of a plane and the plane would circle the target raining down total hell on > the enemy. This plane's only mission was to fire these mini guns, and > carried ammo for the mini guns in excess of 250,000 rounds. A test was > conducted were one of these planes flew over a football field and opened > fire. There was at least one bullet strike every square foot covering the > whole field. I used to know the name of the plane but it evades my memory > right now. The nick- name for the plane was "Puff The Magic Dragon". The > 5.56 version is used for very specialized operations and is mainly used by > elite groups within the military and probably mounted on jeeps or dune > buggies. Cyclic rate is anywhere from 2500 rounds per minute (30mm) to > 10,000 rounds per minute (5.56). Versions of the mini gun are also mounted > on the side of US Ships to fire a hail of bullets in hopes of knocking down > incoming missiles. > > The mini gun in the movie "Preditor" was a 7.62 nato version. There is one > scene, while under attack, the operator of the hand held 7.62 mini gun fired > for at least 45 seconds non stop. Considering the gun weighs approximatley > 85 LBS. Add the weight of a 12 volt battery and the roughly 6000 rounds he > fired. He was carrying about 200LBS. Not very likely. > > The machine gun is nothing I have ever seen. It looks vagulely like about 50 > different models. The hyperblaster is clearly modeled after the AK-47. Take > that spinning barrel off the end and you pretty much have an AK-47. > > There were some belt fed grenade launchers made during the Vietman War, but > not to any degree. They fired the M-79 round and had a range of about 150 > yards. Cyclic rate was about 20-25 rounds per minute. When encountered they > were usally mounted on a jeep. > -- > Regards, > Brett "3 Fingers" Jacobs > http://www.voodooextreme.com/3Fingers/ > > <<<---The 3 Fingers' Quake 2 Tweak Guide--->>> > <<<---The 3 Fingers' Ultimate Tweak Guide For GL Quake & QW--->>> > > bong wrote in message <35334ed9.3100497@news.telia.lt>... > > > > Hm, I have an interesting question (for me at least:). > >I've heard that the real prototype of chaingun in real life is GE M134 > >"Vulcan" mini-gun. > >And the machinegun is just the good ol' AK (Automat Kalashnykowo). -- 'You could own the whole arena, Beavis, but you still wouldn't score!' Andy Purugganan aka 'Jazz' annandy AT dc DOT seflin DOT org