The M 134 machine gun is a six-tube aviation machine gun based on the "Vulcan" 20 mm gun, which was developed by the American General Electric Company during the Vietnam War. It is mainly equipped on helicopters and can also be used as a vehicle-borne weapon for mechanized infantry. Its main purpose is to kill and assemble living targets and air defense. Readers who have seen the American film "We Used to be Soldiers" must be deeply impressed by the great power of this weapon: in the blink of an eye, a well-prepared army was killed by "M i n i g u n" just on a helicopter, which was terrible. It's no exaggeration to say it's a gun.
M 134 machine gun has extremely high firing rate and excellent reliability. Because the external power supply is used to drive the barrel to rotate and complete the actions of feeding, firing and shelling, it is not affected by the firing performance of bullets, and a few duds have no influence on it. It can shoot continuously, with a reliability of 200,000 rounds and a minimum life of1.5,000 rounds. What is particularly commendable is that such a fierce machine gun is not much heavier than ordinary machine guns, only about 16 kg. Wasn't Schwarzenegger's Future Warrior shot in his hand? With the same caliber, the M60 general machine gun weighs 10.5 kg, and the M2 H B 12.7 mm machine gun weighs 38.2 kg, all of which are single tubes, so the firepower can't be compared with that of M 134 at all.
M 134 also has a modified version-M 214 "MICR OGU N" machine gun, which weighs only 10.2 kg, and weighs 38.6 kg when carrying 1000 bullets. It can be carried by individual soldiers with constant firing rate and is widely used by American special forces.
Gatling is the inventor and patent holder of Gatling machine gun.
Gatling machine gun is a multi-barrel weapon, which uses mechanical power to launch, pull out the shell and push the bullet into the bore. It is different from the general single-tube automatic weapon, which uses the recoil of ammunition to complete the automatic shooting action.
Gatling machine guns are fired from multiple tubes at the same time, so the total firing rate of weapons is several to ten times higher than that of ordinary single-tube weapons. 7.62mm gatling Mini machine gun, 6 tubes, firing rate 6000-7500 rounds/minute. It is 5- 10 times the firing rate of single-tube automatic weapons with the same caliber.
Because the rotating tube is an automatic action controlled by mechanical force, and all parts work closely, it is better than the single-tube automatic weapon in shooting accuracy. In addition, its own system is huge, usually installed on large platforms, such as airplanes, warships, armored vehicles, etc., so its accuracy will be better than that of single-tube automatic weapons controlled by personnel.