Autocannon
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An autocannon, automatic cannon, machine cannon or anti-tank machine gun, is a fully automatic gun that is capable of rapid-firing large-calibre armour-piercing, explosive or incendiary shells, as opp
US M242 Bushmaster 25 mm autocannon mounted on an M2 Bradley armoured fighting vehicle
QF 1-pounder Mk II "pom-pom" of 1903
ZU-23-2, a twin barrel 23×152 mm anti-aircraft autocannon from the 1960s still in service with some former members of the Warsaw Pact
German BK 5 50 mm aircraft autocannon displayed in front of the Me 262A jet, a design once tested with it
Rotary cannon
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A rotary cannon, rotary autocannon, gatling cannon, gatling autocannon, or incorrectly a minigun, is any large-caliber multiple-barreled automatic firearm that uses a Gatling-type rotating barrel asse
Autocannon
…indicates a non-rotary weapon with a single barrel. When multiple rotating barrels are involved, such a weapon is referred to as a "rotary autocannon" or "rotary cannon". If it uses a single barrel with a rotating cylinder with multiple chambers, it is known as a "revolver autocannon" or "revolver cannon"; both of these…
The GAU-8 Avenger seven-barrelled 30 mm rotary cannon of an A-10 Thunderbolt II
Four Soviet/Russian rotary cannons arranged in ascending caliber, from the left: GShG-7.62, GSh-6-23, GSh-6-30, AO-18
Barrel heating in a 7.62mm NATO GAU-17
GShG-7.62, one of the few self-driven Gatlings.