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
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.
Gatling gun
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The Gatling gun, also known in Russia as the Gorloff, is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling of North Carolina. It is an early machine gun and a forerunne
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 assembly to deliver a sustained saturational direct fire at much greater rates of fire than single-barreled autocannons of the…
1876 Gatling gun kept at Fort Laramie National Historic Site
Mitrailleuse Gatling modèle APX 1895
A British 1865 Gatling gun at Firepower – The Royal Artillery Museum
Patent drawing for R. J. Gatling's "battery gun", 9 May 1865