GE Minigun photo

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that's one thing i would NOT have expected General Electric to make! i thought they did, like, electrical-related stuff?
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Its got an electric motor to spin it, so that counts, right? At least that's what the engineers that developed it probably told their bosses so that they could justify developing it :D .

P.S. Does Dillon need any more EEs to further test his new ones? :cool:
 
That’s definitely an M134. Used in vehicle mounts, aircraft mounts and just about anywhere you want some serious firepower.

I worked with them on the older series AH-1 Cobra helicopters, before they went to the M197 20 MM cannon. (Think minigun scaled up. With only three barrels.)

All in all, an awesome fun gun. Got to shoot it a couple of times after all the pilots had qualified and we had enough ammo left. Talk about a stupid looking grin touching the ears!!! :evil: :D
 
M-134/GAU-2B/A is the 7.62 x 51mm 6-bbld version, found on choppers.

M-61A1 20mm Vulcan 6-bbld version is found in the fighters like F-14/15/16/18

GAU-12U is the 5-bbld 25mm version that is mounted on USMC Harrier IIs.
 
ts got an electric motor to spin it, so that counts, right? At least that's what the engineers that developed it probably told their bosses so that they could justify developing it .
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that's what i thought, but i didn't think just the motor would qualify it being GE's... and i didn't really know GE had gunsmithing experience. =)

~TMM
 
that's one thing i would NOT have expected General Electric to make! i thought they did, like, electrical-related stuff?
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GE has done defense contracting for years. Mostly missile and aerospace stuff. But I wouldn't put it past them to build a few bang-toys here and there.

As for the item in the picture --- I could mount that in my bedroom window -- something to drown out the sounds of car alarms in the morning. :evil:
 
GE got into defense when someone realized that the power plant turbines they were building were almost identical to jet engines. Lots of odd bedfellows out there- my M1 carbine was made by the signal lights division of General Motors, and there are quite a few others made by Underwood Typewriter. They get into stuff like this in an emergency, and often just keep doing it after the war.
 
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My math says 3600 revs/min times 6 barrels=21600 rounds/min divided by 3000= a tad over 7 sec burst.
Does the rifling spin the bullets the same or the opposite direction as the rotation of the barrel asssembly?
 
I think the "3600 rpm" means Rounds Per Minute. Isn't max 6000 RPM?. Still, 60 rounds per second is spitting them out pretty fast!
 
Speaking of which, I've heard there's an Army demo film out there where they turn a rabbit loose in the middle of a football field and an aircraft then passes over firing a minigun.

Several tries, and the rabbit never survives.
 
There used to be two motors for the M134. One is 300o ROUNDS pre minute and the other was around 4500rpm. They are all issued with the 3000rpm motor at this point.
 
I have a GE demo tape that show trade show films from the late sixties and early seventies when GE was trying to market these things. about forty five minutes of sheer giggles. they show 308 cal, in long and short barrel models, 50 cal, 20 mm and 30 mm. they have two fifty cals mounted on a m113 chassis connected to a towed radar unit and that thing literally has brass pouring out of it like rain. A F100 target drone just gets sawn into little pieces. The show 20 round bursts, 100 round bursts and then they show a thousand rounds or six seconds burst on a m113 with the 20mm and when the close up shows the APC, there is a two foot hole chewed right through the near AND far walls of the track. They also showed a flip up mount that was to be used on discrete carry in a truck. the tarp of the truck covers the bed flat and a soldier pulls a lever and the minigun pops up to action in about a second. GE and Orlikon made a three barrel 57 mm AAA that made it atleast to the proto type stage, but the wieght of ammo was too much for the thing to be useful for more than one burst without resupply.

Also the CIWS or cheesewhiz vessel defense system the Navy uses on ships as a last gasp against closein targets (within the fusing range of missles) is a 20 mm selfcontained system and the Goalpost system uses the 30mm Gau 8 for land defense, during the testing of the CIWS on a barge, The weapon performed exactly as designed in ripping to shreds an incoming drone, and as the wreckage of the drone scattered, the CIWS reaimed and fired at four or five different pieces of wreckage as the parts floated down, As the parts rained on the water, a flock of gulls roosting by the barge also took off and the CIWS dutifully registered them as warheads and engaged three and turned all three into puffs of feathers before the commander of the test aborted the event.

in some movie the guy has something like this fitted to an armored up Suburban. If i recall Car and Driver magazine tested the thing,, it had a metal grate floor to lose the empties.

Ofcourse GMC will offer this next year as an option against car jackers.
http://www.ibistek.com/viper_gallery.asp?title=main
 
Neat pics of the gun, now here's a couple of pics of the thing "doing it's job in VietNam. I took these pics in I Corps, between Cam Lo and Khe Sanh. Enjoy

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Some of you might remember this as well....

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I can think of many uses, but the one that comes to mind right now is protecting your property from gangs of looters in the event of a natural disaster, such as oh...say...a hurricane? Anyone see the footage of the looting on Fox & CNN? :uhoh:

"So you want that TV, do you? Then say hello to my leetle friend..." :fire:
 
When I first saw the picture I thought "why would they paint the barrels red?" Then I read the text. DUH!

Wow, just wow! :evil: :evil: :evil:
 
JayB- Good pics of Puff at work :D My Uncle was one of the test pilots for Spooky at England AFB, LA and I saw both Puff and Spectre work a few times over Nam.

For those who weren't there, those pics are of a SINGLE GE 7.62 6000 rpm minigun firing from the main cabin door aft of the wing on the left side of the AC-47. They used 3000 round tubs to provide ammo to the gun, and later used 9000 round chained stacks for longer duration fire with a total of 54,000 rounds carried per mission. :what:

It was aimed by the pilot drawing a circle and crosshairs on the side window with either a grease pencil or scope marker (for night flights). And as an earlier poster indicated, Spooky would put a round in every square yard of a football field in 1 minute of fire.
 
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