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The M134 is a minigun manufactured by General Electric. Download high resolution version (1234x712, 118 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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A minigun is a fully-automatic multi-barreled machine gun with a high rate of fire, employing Gatling style rotating barrels to prevent overheating. ...
The General Electric Company, or GE, (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ...
When the US entered the Vietnam War during early 1960s, they found they needed to arm their helicopters to provide additional firepower against enemy infantry. Those applications also required a high rate of fire delivered in short bursts, so General Electric designers simply scaled down the 20 mm M61 Vulcan for 7.62 x 51 mm NATO ammunition. The resulting weapon, known as the M134 Minigun, could fire up to 4000 rounds per minute, and was soon adapted to the various helicopter mounts. It was mounted on CH-47 Chinook turrets, in wing pods on AH-1 Cobra attack helicopters, on door, pylon and pod mounts on UH-1 "Huey" Iroquois transport helicopters and on many other helicopters and aircraft. US,Us or us may stand for the United States of America us, the oblique case form of the English language pronoun we. ...
The Vietnam War was fought from 1957 to 1975 between Soviet and Chinese-supported Vietnamese nationalist and Communist forces and an array of Western and pro-Western forces, most notably the United States. ...
The General Electric Company, or GE, (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ...
Mounted Vulcan The 20mm M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically driven, six-barreled, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling gun with an extremely high rate of fire. ...
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The CH-47 Chinook is a highly versatile, twin engine, twin rotor heavy-lift helicopter. ...
AH-1W SuperCobra of the U.S. Marines The AH-1 Cobra, usually called the Huey Cobra, is an attack helicopter, designed by Bell Helicopter Textron. ...
// Overview The Bell UH-1 Iroquois, commonly (or officially in the USMC) known as the Huey, was a multipurpose military helicopter, famous for its use in the Vietnam war. ...
Several larger aircraft were outfitted with miniguns, specifically for close air support, including famous "Gunship" airplanes like the Douglas AC-47 ("Spooky" aka "Puff the Magic Dragon", converted Douglas DC-3's), AC-119 Gunships[1] ("Shadow" and "Stinger", converted Fairchild "Flying Boxcars"), and the original AC-130 "Spectre" Gunship (converted C-130 Hercules cargo planes). Close air support (often abbreviated CAS) is the use of military aircraft in a ground attack role against targets in close proximity to friendly troops, in support of ground combat operations. ...
The AC-47 Spooky was the first in a series of gunships developed by the United States Air Force during the Vietnam War. ...
Puff, the Magic Dragon is a song written and popularized by Peter, Paul and Mary in the 1960s. ...
Douglas DC-3 VH-AES at Avalon in 2003. ...
For other uses, see Fairchild (disambiguation). ...
AC-130 deploying flares The AC-130 Gunship is an armed variant of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules. ...
The Lockheed C-130 Hercules, a four-engine turboprop aircraft, is the main tactical air transport aircraft of the United States and United Kingdom military forces. ...
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Sources http://www.stormpages.com/monkeypool/minigun.html http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/equip/m134.htm http://world.guns.ru/machine/minigun-e.htm |
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