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Subject: Gatling artilerary
Sucari    4/10/2007 3:38:59 PM
Just an idea sparked in my imagination by reading the gatling guns on tanks thread in the armour section... would would be the effect of a gatling/autocannon/revolver style singlebarrel artilery peice. Lets say a 20rps is achieved, whould this be useful ? it could lay out a lot of hurt fast, and if combined with a moving barrel setup while still firng could decimate a large area in a blink of an eye. Imagine a few of these could make any place a living hell very quickly completely satchuarting a large area before anyone has time to hide.
 
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Sucari       4/10/2007 3:47:27 PM
Not to mention if these were mounted on a mobil platform, it could fire A LOT of shells and move before any enemy coutner artileryfire could be shot.
 
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flamingknives       4/10/2007 5:43:51 PM
1) We have MLRS, which already does this.
2) The horsepower needed to spin up and feed a multi-barrel gatling in artillery calibres would be horrendous
3) The accuracy would go to pieces. Those guns rock about quite a bit after each shot.
4) It would probably damage the vehicle with multiple very heavy shots in a short period
5) You couldn't fit the necessary recoil mechanism into a vehicle, and it probably wouldn't be compatible with a repeating mechanism
6) 20 RPS with anything in current artillery scale (105mm upwards) is insane.
 
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Carl S       4/12/2007 9:34:17 PM
May be worth some R & D for some caliber in the light zone.  5, 6 maybe even 7 cm?  With the high volume burst, the cheaper precision guidance from the cute new fuzes with vanes, and and low launch energy/moderate range it could be worth  a look.
 
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hybrid       4/13/2007 1:51:51 AM

May be worth some R & D for some caliber in the light zone.  5, 6 maybe even 7 cm?  With the high volume burst, the cheaper precision guidance from the cute new fuzes with vanes, and and low launch energy/moderate range it could be worth  a look.

This whole idea reminds me of the game Warship Gunner 2 on the playstation2. There you had gatling 16in.turrets.It was always fun going up to an enemy and broadsiding them with those.
 
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Carl S       4/15/2007 4:37:45 PM
Largest gatling style gun I know of is the 30mm used in the A10 aircraft.  There must have been something larger on the R&D bench even if never in production.  Anyone know of any examples?
 
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00_Chem_AJB       4/15/2007 5:38:39 PM
What about the lager caliber "Metal Storm" systems?
 
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00_Chem_AJB       4/15/2007 6:17:37 PM
What about the lager caliber "Metal Storm" systems?
 
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Sabre       4/15/2007 9:02:49 PM
Someone asked of a gatling that was bigger than the GAU8 - heh, don't forget the 6-barrel, 37mm Vigilante (I grew up in Aberdeen, MD, and went to see the vehicles at the Ordinance Museum often).

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Jeff_F_F       4/16/2007 12:25:44 AM
A gatling gun firing the 40mm rounds of the Mk 19 would be interesting. Not sure it is needed but I wouldn't want to be infantry on the receiving end of it. In an indirect fire mode it would have an impact similar to DPICM but without having to throw a big, heavy round. The range would be a lot less than a full scale howitzer but it wouldn't need all heavy a mounting due to the reduced recoil impulse. The normal deviation of a dumb round wouldn't be all that bad a thing, giving a burst some spread over the target area.
 
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Carl S       4/16/2007 12:10:10 PM
40mm might be big enough for one of those PGM fuzes that have been in the news.  Maybe not pinpoint accuracy, but enough to compensate for high winds & other variables.

Now what about a low recoil system like mortars.  Or are the current auto loading mortars good enough?
 
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