From: Bobby Joe Pendleton (bjpendleton@charter.net)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 14:20:36 PDT
yes, it was 24 volt motor. When I was at the Knob Creek Machine gun shoot a
few years ago there was three .308 EG miniguns and One 20MM Vulcan. quit a
sight to see and hear.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jonathan Boos" <acfarer@cox.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, 13 October, 2003 17:11
Subject: Re: [MV] Miniguns
> Correct me if I'm wrong guys, wasn't the mini gun powered by General
> Electric as opposed to a recoil or gas operated unit? I mean really, who
is
> going to carry the power supply? While the Predator unit was a hoot to
watch
> and they were relatively accurate in thier rate of fire multiplied by the
> time the weapon was engaged = amount of ammo used, equation, they also did
a
> good job of hiding the extension cord that made the barrels spin.
> I also seem to recall an article in a shooting magazine written after the
> movie came out and they actually made an attempt at running one from the
> hip. They said that they could not manage it for more than a few rounds at
a
> time. I guess Jesse Ventura was not available for the test firing. (Insert
> tongue in cheek here)
> JB
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Edwin M. Dyer, III" <sturmtiger1944@yahoo.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 1:38 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] Miniguns
>
>
> > There was a "man pack" minigun, the XM214, IIRC. Thing
> > is, a minigun wouldn't be very practical as a squad
> > weapon. As some of you know, grunts hate carrying more
> > weight than they have to. A minigun would consume
> > massive amounts of ammunition and to make it
> > worthwhile, about every squad member would need to be
> > toting ammo to feed the thing, let alone the
> > complaints from the gunner having to carry it.
> >
> > Asides, to make it "portable", the caliber would have
> > to be small. The XM214 was 5.56mm. A .50cal., asides
> > from not being a ravenous consumer of ammo, has a much
> > more powerful round and can even penetrate light skins
> > with the right ammo. Thus, the twin .50s would be much
> > heavier hitting but obviously, not having the volume
> > of fire of a minigun.
> >
> > BTW, there is a guy who makes a .177cal. replica of
> > the minigun from Predator. It costs about $4,000. It
> > comes complete with weapon, feed chute, and the
> > backpack. Also, Long Mountain gun works ( I think that
> > is their name ) sold the blank firing 5.56mm minigun
> > from Terminator 2 for about $200K.
> >
> > - Ed
> >
> >
> > > From: "Paul A. Thomas" <bluewhale@jaxkneppers.com>
> > > > 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?
> >
> >
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