Gatling guns guard Calif. nuclear lab

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Am I reading this right? The government has a multibarrel machinegun system named after Mike Dillon?
 
hksw said:
Am I reading this right? The government has a multibarrel machinegun system named after Mike Dillon?
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Appears that Dillon designed, manufactured and marketed the weapon to the military. It bears his name.
 
PinnedAndRecessed said:
Appears that Dillon designed, manufactured and marketed the weapon to the military. It bears his name.
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Not exactly. General Electric (GE) designed the Minigun originally. They ceased supporting the weapon some time back and Dillon bought the spares, parts, and the rights. His company now supports the weapons in service and manufactures parts and spares. I believe he also makes new weapons. I'm sure Dillon Aero has added to the design over time, but the original design was by GE.
 
Trebor said:
Not exactly. General Electric (GE) designed the Minigun originally. They ceased supporting the weapon some time back and Dillon bought the spares, parts, and the rights. His company now supports the weapons in service and manufactures parts and spares. I believe he also makes new weapons. I'm sure Dillon Aero has added to the design over time, but the original design was by GE.
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Thanx for the clarification.
 
Guys, I don't know how many of you have seen these fired... Let's say that Ab-duh-l pulls up at the gate, and tries to ram through... Odds are that the mini will take out the car, the gate, any personnel in the area, and if the operator twitches a little, a house or two...

Targeting an older aluminum block engine vehicle, it's possible to pulverize enough aluminum and iron oxide to make an interesting mix, which will then ignite... And that's only in a second or so... Let's say that the operator holds the trigger down while traversing 100 yards of perimeter in one second... That's one bullet per yard, going Bob only knows where.
 
. . . the phrases "nuclear lab" and "across the street from suburban homes" sound bad together.
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It all depends on the nature of the "nuclear" research. When I was an undergrad, we did a number of experiments in physics during our lab courses which would be considered "nuclear" in nature, but they really posed less danger than the toxins you'd find in your local Home Depot. (The 1 curie Pu source we found in the back of a storage room would be a hazard if intentionally misused . . . but since we weren't terrorists, that's another story.)

And as for proximity, I'd have to ask the question "What was there first, the lab or the homes?"
 
HankB said:
And as for proximity, I'd have to ask the question "What was there first, the lab or the homes?"
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It's like everyplace else in Kal. The houses are eating up the landscape. Sometime I'll tell you about urban sprawl shutting down the firing ranges.
Even though the firing ranges were a) built on nothing but empty land and b) put there first.
 
I certainly hope Livermore Lab's security forces are much better trained than the security forces at Georgia Power's nuclear plants. The range I shoot at is about 2 miles from Plant Vogtle. Had a couple of their security officers shooting AR-15's one day. They were prepraring for qualification fire according to their conversation. After a while, I took pity on them and showed them how to adjust the sights on their AR-15's. I keep thinking about that DEA agent,"I"m the only one in this room professional enough-BOOM!"
 
Byron Quick said:
I certainly hope Livermore Lab's security forces are much better trained than the security forces at Georgia Power's nuclear plants. The range I shoot at is about 2 miles from Plant Vogtle. Had a couple of their security officers shooting AR-15's one day. They were prepraring for qualification fire according to their conversation. After a while, I took pity on them and showed them how to adjust the sights on their AR-15's. I keep thinking about that DEA agent,"I"m the only one in this room professional enough-BOOM!"
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If you watch the video of this weapon, I don't get the impression you actually have to know how to aim. It simply vaporizes everything in front.

(Just kidding, of course.) :)
 
PinnedAndRecessed said:
If you watch the video of this weapon, I don't get the impression you actually have to know how to aim. It simply vaporizes everything in front.

(Just kidding, of course.) :)
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I have no doubt that is exactly what the "genius" who made the decision to buy them thought.:barf:
 
And as for proximity, I'd have to ask the question "What was there first, the lab or the homes?"
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It doesnt matter. The houses were certainly there before the lab turned into a military instalation featuring a Dillon Aero M134D.
 
Herself said:
I'd rather see the Atomic Police with BARs, if they're in need of serious firepower. Probably issue 2 or 3 for well under the price of a single Dillon Aero.

--Herself
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Heck with bars, give em an M249! Or M240.

Or MG3...

Bars work. :D

PS- isnt iron oxide and aluminum shavings a way to make thermite?
 
Three things to consider:

1) It can stop or chew apart just about anything short of a tank.
Good just in case someone decides to turn a truck or small aircraft into a bomb and drive it through the front gate.

2) Whats behind the gate is considerd more worthy of defense than whats in front.
Welcome to governments hypocrisy that the rkba advocates have been complaining about for the last few decades.

3) would you try to suicide-charge an installation with miniguns?
Just having them there means they are fending off potential attacks.


If it ever had to be fired in an emergency, I think they wouldnt care much about the houses behind yonder truck bomb.
A blatent violation of the 4th rule, but the authories never cared much for those rules anyway.
 
I think there's an experiment in creating particle weapons there, and probably a lot of other things. Maybe this means they found a way to make particle beams work, err propagate in atmospherer;)

BTW I saw that Chev Suburban video too. Did the one you saw have a remote-operated turret that raised out of the back of the truch and up through the roof?
 
The reason for this type of weaponry is because L.L. Labs IS part of the DOD network. It could be targeted, although it is highly unlikely given the nature of terrorists only wanting to bomb highly public places, my guess would be fisherman's warf. They do lots of research in conjunction with UC Berkely. The A-Bomb was designed by scientists/teachers and non-paid student interns at UCB, and also at the lab. The lab is also a gov't think tank. This is where your friends who got 4.5gpa's and math scholarships go to work.
 
In my previous business I sent deliveries there. Very secure. So secure that they didnt like how my truck placarded, so they sent an employee out thru the gate on a forklift, received the item, and went back inside. I had a good natured 'argument' with the receiving folks via the cell and that the best we could both do.
 
A guy I used to work with had worked at the Hanford Nuclear facility. He told me that they had long hallways leading into and inside the facility with 2 gun ports at each corner wall where a Marine would be stationed to be able to shoot down each corridor.
 
cracked butt said:
A guy I used to work with had worked at the Hanford Nuclear facility. He told me that they had long hallways leading into and inside the facility with 2 gun ports at each corner wall where a Marine would be stationed to be able to shoot down each corridor.
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I used to work for my father (a defense contractor) in Fort Knox, Ky. IIRC, you could see the gold vault (yes, where they kept the gold) from the road. And there were two 50 caliber machine guns guarding the entrance.

Then that movie, "Goldfinger", came out. It wasn't long after that they split the gold up. Shipped it by train through Indiana.
 
LLNL with M-134s!:uhoh:

Will have to mention this to a buddy of mine...

SNL gets by with M-203 w/HEDP and HK-21Es.

LANL has M-2s.

Guess they had to one up the competition.;)
 
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