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    The Gatling gun is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling. It is an early machine gun and a forerunner of the...
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    Richard Jordan Gatling (September 12, 1818 – February 26, 1903) was an American inventor. He is best known for having invented the Gatling gun, which is considered...
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  • invented in the 1860s by Richard Jordan Gatling. He later replaced the hand-cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively...
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    Rotary cannon (redirect from Rotary gun)
    rotary autocannon, rotary gun or Gatling cannon, is any large-caliber multiple-barreled automatic firearm that uses a Gatling-type rotating barrel assembly...
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  • The Gatling Gun originally titled King Gun is a Western shot in 1969 in New Mexico that features then New Mexico Governor David Cargo in a small role....
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    Muharram, (MGG-50) is an indigenous 6-barreled 12.7x108mm (.50 caliber) Gatling gun of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The weapon is most commonly...
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    more famous counterpart the Gatling Gun, saw only limited use. The Gatling gun, patented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling, was the first to offer controlled...
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    to claim the gun was unreliable, but in actuality the Gatling functioned surprisingly well." Hatch, 1997, p. 81: "...The [Gatling] guns were mounted on...
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  • of the Civil War, Richard Gatling, creator of the gatling gun, offers his invention to the Federal Government. But Gatling is kidnapped by two assassins...
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    Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling-style autocannon that is primarily mounted in the United States Air Force's...
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  • Gatling Guns M134 Minigun (US – Gatling gun – 7.62×51mm NATO) GAU-2/A Minigun (US – Gatling gun – 7.62×51mm NATO) GAU-2B/A Minigun (US – Gatling gun –...
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    escape the Gatling fire. Parker, John H. (Lt.), The Gatlings at Santiago, Middlesex, U.K.: Echo Library (reprinted 2006): The three Gatling guns expended...
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    M61 Vulcan (redirect from Vulcan (gun))
    September 2010. Archived copy of US Patent #502,185 by R.J. Gatling, for an electric-powered Gatling-gun Wahl, Paul F; Toppel, Donald R (5 October 2005) [Arco...
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    without each barrel overheating. Richard Gatling later replaced the hand-cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively...
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    to hobbyist usage. In 1861, Richard Jordan Gatling invented the Gatling gun, the first successful machine gun, capable of firing 200 gunpowder cartridges...
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    The M197 electric cannon is a 20 mm three-barreled electric Gatling-type rotary cannon used by the United States military. The M197 electric cannon was...
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    rotary-barrel firearm is the Gatling gun, invented by Richard Jordan Gatling in 1861, and patented on 4 November 1862. The Gatling gun operated by a hand-crank...
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    Gun was a rapid-fire weapon developed in the late 19th century. It was a multiple barrel weapon similar to the much more commonly known Gatling gun,...
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    Springfield. The cartridge was also used in the M1893, M1895, M1897, and M1900 Gatling guns. Though the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps had adopted limited numbers of...
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    1945. Gatling gun – 1860s multi-barrel rapid-fire gun Ripley machine gun Gardner gun – Machine gun Bailey machine gun – type of Heavy Machine GunPages...
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    demonstrated a number of basic concepts that were employed in the design of the Gatling Gun that was patented the following year. The design, as patented, consists...
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    Qing Minigun XM214 Microgun M197 Gatling gun Komodo Armament Eli gun Nordenfelt Gun Gast Gun Chain gun Gatling gun, the 1860s firearm that originated the...
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    rapid-firing guns, such as the manually-cranked Mitrailleuse of 1851, the Gatling gun of 1861, the Gardner gun of 1874, or the Nordenfelt gun of 1873. The...
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    of order." The two M1895 guns were transferred to Lt. John Parker's Gatling Gun Detachment, who used them in the siege of Santiago. The M1895 in 6mm...
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  • crank" (and by extension Gatling gun) is a machine gun as was determined by the ATF in 2004. The devices have elicited scrutiny by gun control advocates and...
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    An anti-aircraft vehicle, also known as a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) or self-propelled air defense system (SPAD), is a mobile vehicle with...
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    John Henry Parker (general) (category Early machine guns)
    John Henry Parker aka "Gatling Gun Parker" (September 19, 1866 – October 14, 1942) was a brigadier general in the United States Army. He is best known...
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    machine-gun pods with 750 rounds. It has a high rate of fire (4–5,000 rounds per minute) and is also one of the few self-powered guns of the Gatling type...
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    PGL-XX (Code name 625) air defense gun-missile system Unnamed prototype vehicle featuring a 6-barrel 25 mm gatling gun and four FN-6B (FN-16) for short-range...
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    of 600 yards by a single ten-barrel .30 Gatling Gun atop San Juan Hill manned by Sgt. Green of the Gatling Gun Detachment. According to Spanish commanders...
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