14 Jun 08 11:37, Cindy Haglund wrote to bob klahn:


 bk>>  Hey people, those things fire in the thousands of rounds a
 bk>>  minute. That's why they have multiple barrels.

 CH>  Then they had to go get high tech and take years to design and
 CH> build them and then another few years or so to test them and another
 CH> few years to work out all the bugs then by that time the thing is
 CH> obsolete and and you know the rest...

They're the offspring of the Gatling Gun, invented around the end of the
Civil War.  With modern technology comes a modern version of it. They're
high tech and shoot lots of rounds per minute, but the basics are the same
as the original. The uniqness of the design is that it has multiple
barrels that rotate as it fires. If it has ten barrels, then each barrel
only fires 100 rounds per minute out of the thousand rounds fired.
Friction in the barrel of any other machine gun would burn it up, not to
mention that it couldn't chamber and fire that many rounds in one minute.

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