From: Greg (czechsix@cox.net)
Date: Wed Oct 08 2003 - 19:43:20 PDT
I'd still take the PIVAD, but before I'd take that I'd do a couple of M2's
and a few SAWs or FN MAGs. Cheaper, more usable in close quarters, and you
can cover more.
Problem with the man portable mini-gun is that it's hollywood. No can do
for a simple grunt - can't carry enough ammo, and then you've got the rest
of your team humping the batteries, flex feed, 5000 rounds - oh, and don't
forget the medics when the torque from spinning up and then firing tears
some tendons. Even the microgun is too torquey.
The best thing we could do is find some equally crazed fundamentalists that
would fight against the current guerillas and let them drive, man, and
deliver the goods. Everyone that wants to gets to go to heaven that way.
I wonder if we could develop some kind of RF device that would deliver
transients over a short range and detonate the buried devices?
IAC - MV Content - does anyone out there have a lockset (ignition switch and
door locks) for a 1975 Dodge Custom 200? I think something from an M880
should crossover just fine?
Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Thomas" <bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 6:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] HEY! This is an MV List!
> > Screw twin 50's. Give me an M163 PIVAD on one of those M113 hulls on a 5
> ton chassis. THAT's a gun truck for > the next generation. With that
> powerpack pulled out, I bed you could mount a nice large 20mm ready use
> > magazine.
>
> umm... I never hear anything on list about the weapon the movie makers
have
> loved the past 10 years, the 'man held' mini-gun. ( see Arnohld movies
> like Predator, T2... or Steven Segal's Under Seige ) Is the idea
> deterrence or wiping out any opponents? In the scheme of things I can't
> believe the cost difference between twin 50's and a mini gun would mean
> anything. Or would the powers that be worry about the ... cong, Iraqi old
> regime, whomever getting a functional mini-gun to use on us? I never
> considered that, but it Would be a devastating weapon to be used on
> us. Perhaps they could fit it with a 'failsafe' self destruct if we lost
it?
>
>
> Puzzled in Bay Pointe, Ca.
> MVPA@ 24986
>
>
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