The M61 Vulcan is a Gatling Gun on Steroids

The M61 Vulcan is a hydraulically, electrically or pneumatically driven, six-barrel, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style rotary cannon that fires 20 mm rounds at an extremely high rate. The M61 and its derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of United States military fixed-wing aircraft for sixty years.
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[@kingley45]

If you hear the bullets, the shot wasn’t intended for you.

[@unitt3237]

That is a very interesting quote.

[@Dimaz42]

an overused comment

[@TheShoegazer]

@@Dimaz42 agreed

[@someguy1688]

@@TheShoegazer yuppp

[@theverminator8048]

Or the pilot just missed by a lot

[@franzfranz]

I've eaten a few times at Taco Bell and produced a similar rate of fire.

[@seanriopel3132]

Being lactose intolerant I'm familiar with the idea.

[@seanriopel3132]

Sounds the same too.

[@imk.6941]

Fuckin rights 😂

[@ryzenman3099]

Lmfao

[@Tiago-Gomes]

Lmao

[@ryanrisse2505]

Gatling: "Too many people are dying of disease in the battlefield." Also Gatling: "People can't die of disease if there's nothing left of them."

[@eriknelson9490]

Yes. More deaths by Gatling guns means less deaths by disease. What a fucking hero

[@kerlowsc3397]

Aren’t pilots more likely to get cancer due to their planes ?

[@andrewwhite8762]

He was a true humanitarian. If only there was a Nobel peace prize back in the day.

[@firstnamelastname8058]

@@andrewwhite8762 I know there is a joke in there somewhere.. something about winning an award for making a human slaughter machine from the guy who made TNT and calling it a peace prize! The irony being: when everybody is dead there will be peace.

[@krikeydial3430]

I love the BRRRRZZTT guns. Nice of the A-10s to lend them to you.

[@colincraigo5793]

Enemy in that direction! Yes sir! Removing that direction!

[@RicardoSilva-qp4bb]

LOL😅

[@jaquestraw1]

🤣🤣🤣

[@michaelstone481]

"You see that hill soldier?" "Yes, Sir." "Remove it."

[@slugcult-10_years_and]

😂 This gets my vote for comment of the month.

[@merlegilmore794]

I trained on the Vulcan in 1965 on the F4, one hell of a gun.

[@clarityanalytics]

you must be really old

[@jordanbabcock9349]

​@@clarityanalyticsI mean .. just read the username. Not common these days.

[@merlegilmore794]

Yes I am, I still have some of the training amo we used back in the 60s@@clarityanalytics

[@williambrown6721]

​@@clarityanalyticsNot as old as your momma!!!

[@williambrown6721]

​@@clarityanalyticssend us the address to your parking lot where you and your squatters friends are living and we will send you a trump hat 2024..

[@miss_bec]

Damn, Gatling really saw the death rate from disease and thought "I can beat that."

[@aaabbb-py5xd]

Quick death is far more humane than death by disease

[@dan311633]

Gatling ..."Hold my beer."

[@eater_of_garbage_]

No, it was developed as a deterrent to make war too horrifying to fight

[@southerneruk]

So even more men died of disease

[@FrenchCanadianGuy]

@@eater_of_garbage_ my understanding exactly

[@homiehomerson2705]

I built my beautiful home way out in the woods of Grayling Michigan. So quiet and tranquil....until the A-10 Warthogs from Grayling National Gaurd base fly directly over at 3am. 10 seconds later they let thier Vulcans rip. And the sound is actually a "ripping" sound. Sometimes it sounds like a long burp.

[@bobmorgan1575]

The cannon on the A-10 is the Avenger, and it's a 30mm round. I worked ground maintenance on the A-10 for a few years.

[@lewislambert4590]

@@bobmorgan1575 Nailed it

[@BadBoyDeGekste]

@@bobmorgan1575 Such a dumb name for a gun if you think about it.

[@gameringdudeguy1126]

​@@BadBoyDeGekstehonestly Avenger sounds kinda sick for a big ass gun

[@FullMetalCleric]

We call it The burp gun.

[@dimag4499]

That's a whole lotta freedom.

[@tristanlassche3560]

Me after accidentally pressing reload and having to wait 3-4 business days

[@richelieu5406]

Underrated

[@venerablebrothergoriate5844]

You mean you ain’t running slight of hand? Cmon, bro, GET WITH THE PROGRAM XD

[@frumsmcnoodles323]

@@venerablebrothergoriate5844 Then he would only need to wait 1-2 days.

[@equ1noxii599]

@@richelieu5406 sooo underrated

[@deadman45326]

I'll buy some ammo and spare parts with you. I'll cover like 18% of total cost after all the settlements get sent in.

[@DigitalJedi]

The fact that it sounds more like a chainsaw than a machine guns speaks a lot to the rate of fire by itself.

[@michaelryan3818]

They sound like an insanely loud, wet fart in person. It's hilarious and terrifying.

[@Skjaldr_Vindskyter]

it could probably be _used_ as one as well

[@aydin5978]

It's just a bullet chainsaw at this point

[@LordofDarknessX]

A digital jedi seeking a DIGITAL DEATH.....

[@chrdestruction]

For me it sounded like someone with a weedhacker outside

[@robertrickett7816]

when I was in the Army, I watched a Vulcan turn a APC into pebbles in a matter of seconds, most impressive thing I ever got to witness up close. There was a fan of dirt, and gravel in front of the barrels, just like Ma Deuce makes, just larger by yards. They emptied a deuce & a half box of ammo, and ears rang every where even with plugs in place.

[@adamblack1908]

0:23 what a terrific sound.

[@michaelzoran]

What a great man Gattling was - preventing all those deaths from disease by making sure the deaths occurred by bullets instead.

[@mk6315]

I guess it reduced suffering? 🤷‍♂️

[@tommyb6611]

Ah yes, pretty much the modern interpretation of medicine and healthcare systems. You are retired are you?! Well, you're no more use for us, you aren't producing anything for the overlords, it would be a shame if some virus appeared out of nowhere to thin out the heard a little bit. Because bullets are considered mean nowadays, viruses and fungi work wonder to help the sickly elderly. Also, life expectancy is higher in the present days?! Lets raise the age for when you can retire, slave. Work more, pay taxes more.

[@ezg8448]

Reduced suffering but increased terror 1 million fold.

[@Ayyoub_Isa_Allen]

Guillotine was a great sympathetic man as well

[@mk6315]

@@ezg8448 yes because war is a safe space 🤖

[@MrSquiggles.]

Gatling's logic: "Hm, our men are dying to diseases and that's no good" Gatling's logic again: Gun go Brt brt brt brt brt brt

[@thecommentguy9380]

I mean it worked...

[@Talisman09]

Please shut up

[@MrSquiggles.]

@@Talisman09 To lazy too brt brt brt brt

[@cockpiss9260]

2020: People dying of Covid-19 Mr Gatling: Hmmm, space lasers.

[@kaeaja]

How much brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt do you want your gun to have? General Dynamics: YES!

[@TheColosiss]

My friend and previous boss was a tank commander. He has worked through so much trauma it is inspiring. He told me one story. Encircled and surrounded, his convoy was attacked and nearly decimated. He recalled that when the enemy heard the report in the air; it was already too late. Entire football fields were reduced to dust, shreds of metal, and pink mist... When a hardened Marine is speaking in pure reverence, you know that $H!T just got real...

[@hardheadjames3624]

81-84 Air defense artillery. 16 Romeo senior gunner. Older I get the more proud I get of my time at Ft. Bliss and Wackernheim Germany. Thank you for listening to an old man.

[@albertawheat6832]

How many people did you kill ?

[@tritherail9812]

The F-16 strafe video in the begging is such a cool sound. It’s like first you hear a hard crash and then you hear a futuristic sound that sounds SOO cool.

[@stanky-_-bird8048]

I agree that VRRRRRRRRRR was so sick!

[@painiscupcake5433]

@Mr. DickButt Smaller but angrier. Like a honey badger

[@veteranassassin4591]

0:21 THAT SOUNDS SO DEADLY. THE SPEED OF SOUND AFTER IT FIRED

[@HistoryShell1786]

That’s the A-10 of the fighter jets right there

[@LaughingSaint66]

It’s like special effects from alien movies !!😩

[@mrsamuel5572]

STAR SCREAM

[@yoboikamil525]

It went "VROOM"

[@yosep0017]

Nice

[@33LB]

gatling gun: fired into the ocean. fish: 👁👄👁

[@keegobricks9734]

Gatling: Develops gun to reduce casualties in wars. Also Gatling: makes wars many thousands of times more deadly.

[@carwynthomas5836]

“M61 is a Gatling gun on steroids” GAU-8: am I a joke to you?

[@attilakovacs5040]

Honestly the GAU-8 cannot be equipped on jets like the Raptor or similiar,only for the Warthog since that cannon shreds everything to meat and metal scrap and ruins only,but it's rate of fire and pushback is one of the main reasons that the Warthog is equipped with it,since it slows the jet down due to these factors,so they can lift the jet up in time.

[@henne5348]

@@attilakovacs5040 yes but the title says 'gatling gun on steroids' If there is one gatling gun on steroids it's the gau8

[@erichvonmanstein6876]

@@attilakovacs5040 who told you that stupid s#$t they lied to you

[@sweetangel0deth845]

Gau is slower tho?

[@henne5348]

@@sweetangel0deth845 but got much more of them steroids

[@47thshan96]

Me after hearing the reason why gatling guns was made : thats kinda twisted thnking you got there pal

[@shadowbandit3975]

there was some "mercy" in the thought process. Dude was like I rather gun down my enemy quickly then him die slowly from disease.

[@hellbent7062]

Gatlins mentality reminds me of Thanos twisted thinking. Kill half of all life in the universe with the a snap of a finger as a painless show of mercy in order to create abundance of resources, food and wealth for the other 50% that survived the snap to be thankful for. It almost worked but as long as there are people who remember and mourn their love ones who were vaporized they will always try to undo my solution. Enter my new upgraded solution: Doubledown. Increase kill rate from 50% to 90% to Kill everyone in the universe that has any knowledge of history. Lol that's pretty much everyone over the age of 4 and leaving only sociopaths to survive.

[@closethedoornow7538]

@@shadowbandit3975 it’s not about stopping the enemy die from disease, it’s about not having to field as many of your own troops onto a battlefield and thus having less of your own die from disease.

[@torlakkarstad4251]

You misunderstood. He wanted to make it less necessary to have many people on a battlefield when you can have just a couple with more firepower. Therefore reducing the chance of people contracting diseases from being in the field

[@orderlyhippo1569]

Ending a war end faster is better than prolonging it with disease. All wars are about destruction. It’s the sad truth, but the good fight must be fought.

[@Itsjustme1982]

i love the sounds it makes. So crispy yet super deadly.

[@lethalbox909]

But, can it pierce a Nokia 3100? 🤔

[@shadyg999]

maybe, but definitely not the 3310.

[@anonymouspersonthefake]

dont you think this joke is getting old

[@owenwoolley3394]

@@anonymouspersonthefakeunlike the Nokia, which will stand the test of eternity.

[@genericuser8157]

This is Arnold Schwarzeneggers wet dream all you need now is to put this into a mobile unit and he can carry it on the next terminator movie 🤣

[@develynseether4426]

He would strap 2 units to his back and just have dual Vulcans!

[@loganjefferies3927]

@@develynseether4426 the thing is, the recoil is like shooting a 20mm AT rifle 100 times per second. Even Arnold would enter an orbit

[@aruhe6650]

For a second I thought you meant "mobile suit" lol

[@zabintasrik4488]

@@loganjefferies3927 just attach a rocket that pushes you forward at the same force

[@mikeamber2528]

@@zabintasrik4488 then your organs will become jelly lmao

[@patraic5241]

I've seen the US Army's ADA version of the Vulcan in operation. Every 10th round was a tracer. it looked like a laser firing.

[@cameronjenkins5902]

WHAT?

[@michaelsullivan6854]

Every 10th round being a red tracer round yields the visual of a single red light going DOWNRANGE… very impressive especially at night

[@brantithbranttith9295]

@@michaelsullivan6854 My unit in the Army we had 12 Vulcans do a Night Ground Fire Some Officer thought would be cool to do the Mad Minute, Alot of people wish we had video cameras or cameras at all; let us say the fireworks was great, from the tracer rounds. Things went everywhere, and a lot of Officers were standing in front of the Cornel and higher. Let us say Ground Vulcan systems did not have built in night optics

[@mbolster0]

I was a crewmember on one of those Vulcans.

[@ajkendro3413]

@@michaelsullivan6854 I worked on the M61 for years in the military. Usually tracers were put in at intervals of 5 or 7 so the tracers would go down a different barrel and all barrels would wear at the same rate.

[@Boblabla79]

During my time in VF102 I got the pleasure of hearing the CIWS just below deck while on a carrier quals detachment. You could feel the vibrations when the gun was shooting.

[@Mondays_Coffee]

Always remember that the people who made such terrifying weapons of mass destruction, such as the M61 and GAU-8, are the same people who made the most dinky washing machines and toasters

[@rodgerwoods4971]

GE has their feet into alot..

[@OldManGamer1985]

"Precision shot? narr mate, hit everything. Can't miss if you hit everything." Murica.

[@andyvalentine9791]

Nah, that's the Soviet Union with the Tsar. Can't land a precision nuke? No probs, just make it as big as you don't have to aim. 😃

[@ali_240gl]

goated comment^^^

[@liciniusscapula7696]

@@andyvalentine9791 Except they can't use it on anyone otherwise we will send them to the shadow realm. The Gatling is active.

[@firstnamelastname8058]

"Can't miss if you hit everything!". I'm so going to use that from now on.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

The M-61 is surprisingly (to you as a ground pounder) accurate. The real world is far more manly than Call of Duty.

[@Bugholeexcalibur]

That logic though: I saw carnage in war so I made a weapon that kills more, with less people operating it. Genius.

[@georgejones5019]

Mad scientist

[@giggle6070]

That is indeed logical; all he did was make a weapon deadlier so people would suffer a less painful death. Which still sounds horrible but hey it's the 1800s, wait until you see the medicine /j

[@Schregger]

@@giggle6070 "I stubbed my toe." **grabbing bone saw to remove leg** "Alright, get on the table."

[@jdkingsley6543]

@@giggle6070 no, he made a weapon that would replace the need for more soldiers. The less soldiers the less of them to fall ill. In term he also created a very efficient killing machine . The logic is actually sound, the intent however not so good.

[@giggle6070]

@@jdkingsley6543 apparently it wasn't obvious I was joking

[@fredflintstone8817]

Imagine having a couple of these M61 Vulcan's on base during the Vietnam war, when 10's of thousands of troops attacked the US base at “Khe Sanh” ...? The absolute carnage...! No air power, need be required…!

[@pistolpete65]

Hmm.. I worked for a while with the SUU-23 gun pod, which housed the M61 Vulcan cannon in 20mm on phantom F.4 (for my experience). I also worked with the Aden gun 30mm revolver style gun developed around the same time, (on harrier and hawk aircraft but was also fitted to many aircraft of that period). Also the 27mm Mauser MK-27 equipped in the Tornado and now equipping the Typhoon aircraft. The SUU-23 had problems in my experience, mainly due to complexity of the gun, particularly with the conveyor system and the helix mag, to a lesser degree the electronic clutch or the electrics in general, the Aden gun had problems with mal ejections, ammunition misalignment and link discharge. The Mauser MK-27 overcame some of the problems of the Aden gun with the re cocking system, but was still open to the same type of faults as it was basically an Aden Gun in 27mm with an added re cock system. Things may have moved on since my time with these pieces 80's-early 90's, but probably not that much. They both are impressive pieces of equipment and have pro's and con's, and I must admit that I enjoyed working on both systems. From a personal perspective, I believe that the Aden/ Mauser, revolver style gun was more reliable, per rounds fired, basically relying on disposable high wear parts to save the whole guns life. The M61/ SUU-23 was based more on a disposable system, whether that was just the barrels or other parts or the system as a whole i.e. the phantom could-would just ditch the gun pod as a whole, unlike more modern aircraft where it is built in. Europeans seem to favour the revolver style systems, Americans more the Gatling style, so that may have some influence on my experience and views (UK based ex-RAF) but as the rate of fire is similar in both systems it boils down to two things, calibre and ammunition capacity. The aircraft design and role generally dictate the ammo capacity by design, so that leaves calibre, I would rather have a couple hits with 30mm than two or three with 20mm, but I was never a pilot only a knuckle dragging plumber.

[@mistamemewide]

"Patterson, give them a Warning Shot." "Sir, we are firing a M61 Vulcan." "Eh, Potato Potato. Fire."

[@meemcat188]

bussian gadder

[@bmanrandom893]

Potato potato ? WTF

[@thamonito]

@@bmanrandom893 Po tay toe Po tah toe

[@fridtjofschussler6434]

@@thamonito and in Englisch?

[@thamonito]

@@fridtjofschussler6434 It is English. I wrote it phonetically so it would be easier to pronounce the way the original poster intended it to be said.

[@ZipperOfficial]

"She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar custom tool cartridges and ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds"

[@blackpanther6655]

Pootis

[@Chilli1234]

I am heavy weapons guy

[@paulcoover7057]

Wonder if biden will limit it to ten round belts, lol

[@hunterhalo]

@@paulcoover7057 bro, no, 6 barrels, 6 rounds

[@paulcoover7057]

@@hunterhalo lol

[@mwilk19]

Then Oppenheimer said, "Hold my beer."

[@megabolt5898]

I love how for aircrafts it lights up a target on the ground but, you don't hear the sound of it being fired out of the barrels until a few seconds after that. Remember: "Thunder always comes after Lightning"~😏😏

[@Izawwlgood]

The best description I've heard of a gatling gun is that it isn't a gun that shoots projectiles, it's a device that conveys a solid line of hot lead.

[@pirobot668beta]

Matthew Loony had a rifle that was called an 'infinite repeater': it fired an actual stream of molten lead at nearly 3 times the speed of sound. A teleportation system carried lead from the factory to the weapon, recoil is transferred back to a damping system at the factory.

[@chrisc7265]

I read this in drill sergeant voice and it sounded really cool

[@Shizkeb]

@@pirobot668betain which world war was this used?

[@Njazmo]

@@Shizkeb with the aliens

[@Randomyoutubecommenter]

The USA is unstoppable people need to stop with this fear of WW3

[@hetzer5926]

Gatling: so many men died from disease during the war, it was horrible. Also Gatling: *invents the precursor to what could be considered to be the deadliest gun in existence*

[@hetzer5926]

@@wulfengel, your a little confused, but your on the right train of thought

[@kaynel4033]

@@wulfengel not a gun

[@jdsim9173]

How would you rather die, gunshot or slow death from disease during the civil war?

[@Neo2266.]

@@hetzer5926 *You’re

[@hail2jigglypuff168]

That's ironically his point. The more people you can actually kill in war the less people have to die from other causes in general, and the less people need to be lined up closely together that enables the rapid spread of disease. I guess people join arms development for many different reasons. And I wouldn't say it's the deadliest, it's a beast that will shred your entire body apart no doubt but there are better options now. I'll give the honor of deadliest gun to the old M2 Browning. It's barely changed since WW1 and it's still going strong across the world.

[@hobopiesforeveryone]

My sister is currently in the navy and tends to the CIWS system. Pretty amazing stuff. I have one of the 50 cal shells on my mantel.

[@enlightendbel]

So, when you see a jet fly by and it farts, you know somebody is in trouble.

[@scott1395]

It's really cool how it works! As a weapons mechanic in the US Air Force on AC-130 H gunships I was responsible with maintenance of the m61 gatling gun, 40 mm bofors cannon, 105 mm howitzer! We maintained then in the aircraft, removed and replaced/rebuilt these systems!! The m61 internal workings is really a simple yet ingenious system with the breech bolts rollers running thru a track moving bolt in and out of battery!!! The rate of fire still amazes me!!!!

[@chronic01uk]

downside is the cleaning of barrels after a shoot on all guns mentioned, especially after you think you did a good job then realise the damn things sweat and look like you did nothing lol.

[@Darknamja]

Did my time in the gun shop while assigned to an F-4E aircraft wing in the '70s.

[@chronic01uk]

@Srt worked that system too very similar to the phalanx in setup and the way it works, most hated part of it's maintenance was the batteries below deck, those things are heavy and awkward to remove lol.

[@DookRahool]

I was an FC on CV-64. I used to help load and test fire the Phalanx. Two port sponsons, bow and Stern and on up on the O7 level starboard. When test firing they need a spotter directly behind the cannon mount. I was that guy for 6 tests straight. When it spins up and fires it feels like your nuts are going to rattle right out of your sack. 50% hearing loss from it too. Ear plugs and sound powered phone muffs don't do anything to muffle that screaming beast. But it's one hell of an adrenaline rush!

[@DookRahool]

@Srt Yup. Radar guided in the sense that it tracks its own rounds down range and compensates for error and target azimuth/elevation. Onboard naval vessels the mount is on a gyroscopic gimbal that takes into account pitching seas and safety limits so that it won't hit the ship while still precision firing on target. It's amazing to see in person.

[@danielsoto8934]

Tommy gun: Swarm of angry bees M61: Swarm of angry supersonic flying buses

[@Blashmack]

I can't believe they built a plane around this gun.

[@fbisbrother5863]

disease : "I almost wipe out the whole army" Gatling: "NUH UH"

[@six66996]

“I am heavy weapons guy. And THIS is my weapon.” -Heavy TF2

[@Wizard_Cat]

Took me 10 seconds to find this....

[@BlackDiamond2718]

and 12 seconds to read...@@Wizard_Cat

[@krunken_isok]

She weighs 150kg, fires 200$ custom-tooled cartridges at 10,000 rounds per minute. It costs 400,000$ to fire this weapon... for 12 seconds.

[@Wizard_Cat]

@@krunken_isok *cuts to maniacal mass murder followed by the title card*

[@ultrahorace2682]

Nom nom nom

[@hootinouts]

I remember seeing the movie "The Green Beret" as a kid and there's a scene where John Wayne calls in "Puff The Magic Dragon" to strafe the fort that has been overrun by VC's. That sequence terrified me. I asked my uncle, who took me, what that was and he was clueless. He was a Korean War vet and never saw anything like that before. The footage inside the plane of those miniguns firing left me spellbound.

[@raywhitehead730]

Actually, a gattling type gun, ..rotating barrels..

[@waffleman2370]

@O R Wrong "Puff the Magic Dragon" refers to the Douglas AC-47, which could be fitted with either 3 M134s, or 10 Browning M1919s. The 3 M134s functioned better, jamming less, firing more, more accurate, and didn't over heat as easily.

[@mstover2809]

@@waffleman2370 Right, I thought the AC-130 was nicknamed "spectre" but could be wrong 🤔.

[@waffleman2370]

@@mstover2809 Depends on the model of AC-130 really, you could have AC-130A, AC-130B, so on, so fourth

[@rbarbetta1978]

@@waffleman2370 The AC130 that supported us was a Spectre armed with a Vulcan, 40mm Bofors and a 105 O believe. They let us inside once and gave us a quick tour. Was pretty badass. We took a couple shell casings from the 105 and used them as little trash bucket in our barracks.

[@4fit816]

Great narration. Full of info....no bs. Thanks for uploading

[@spike178]

Just what I need next time I visit London.

[@BendtSten]

YES! And going to bed at night, knowing that the Phalanxes were there to protect you night and day in Iraq; was the best sound after the alarm had sounded👍🤠 Thank you for being there, from a Danish brother in Arms🇩🇰👍🇺🇲

[@williamwilson6499]

Wasn’t a Phalanx....C-RAM.

[@bokiNYC]

@@williamwilson6499 Got it...but what's the actual difference between the two?

[@cheesehat6420]

thank you for your service

[@Elim_84]

@@williamwilson6499 Phalanx B platform deployed to Iraq in 2004, so may have been

[@Sandtman]

The C-RAM has a better alarm than what I was used to in the first few months in Iraq. We used a pole and hit a rim from a Humvee.

[@Double_D__]

It's so funny how multi-barrel firearms were mostly designed for volleys instead of sustained fire, but now whenever most people think of a multi-barrelled firearms, all people can think of is something like the Vulcan.

[@candle_eatist]

Well when you think of military ships you don't think of the 1700s warship do ya, unless you're that one weirdo

[@proudamerican183]

@@candle_eatist Me: *thinking of the Constitution*

[@erictalkington5674]

My dad has an old pepper box black powder revolver. That's what I think of too lol. It's a cool old piece with 6 barrels. It looks like a big revolver cylinder on the front that shoots it's bullets straight out the cylinder.

[@torturachina6452]

We've evolved and realized that volleys are a waste of ammo

[@proudamerican183]

@@torturachina6452 Wasteful, but so cool.

[@MonGoalian]

Puff The Magic Dragon have our outfit cover at night on a few occasions. Beautiful high pitch wail that was music. Tracers were beautiful to see and have us peace on those tense nights.

[@bre4k00]

General Electric, making guns, engines for commercial and war aircraft, hair dryers, doing mobile clinics. Amazing.

[@mountainryder3056]

We used these on an AH-1G in RVN, left side with a wrap under fuselage ammunition feed with ammo storage on the right side. They were mainly used as bunker penetrators. During testing in combat it was found the shrapnel from rounds exiting the barrel damaged the left side fuselage and plexiglas side window so an armored 'shield' was devised….was one kickass piece of ordnance

[@vinniethegooch7830]

I love this paragraph

[@trespire]

Isn't the gun on the Cobra a three barrle ?

[@et76039]

It sounds like you are referring to the M-134 minigun that was chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO.

[@et76039]

@@trespire, looks like there were both three and six barreled versions of the M134. I had also been aware of only the triple-barreled version.

[@devdog99]

@@trespirethe cobra uses the 3 barrel M197 20mm

[@POVShotgun]

Gatling: “my boy died during battle! He’s a martyr!” Army: “uh yeah he got gangrene and died” Gatling: “for fucks sake”

[@firstnamelastname8058]

...A month later... "Here boys, now you can kill each oth'r good and proper!", "Don't let dem Diseases win!"

[@pgh1all1]

used to love to see these fire on my old cruiser. They pulled a dummy missile behind one of the jets from the carrier and it put 156 20MM holes in the missile in under 3 seconds. 20MM brass all over the deck. Just plain badass,like a deep sound of a sheet ripping. You just had to be there. Would not want to be an attacking jet,lol!

[@bomjman9450]

3:53 "I am Heavy Weapons Guy...and this is my weapon. She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar, custom-tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon...for twelve seconds."

[@4catsnow]

They put the big brother in the A-10 and fed it depleted uranium...

[@frostdeath-4280]

lol so I guess you play gunship battle

[@markmierau5189]

@@frostdeath-4280 I knew this information too but never played that game

[@stephenbarrosse831]

Nah. They made the gun then built a plane around it. The A10 is a gun with wings.

[@andrewmeyer1278]

I was stationed on an A10 base. The 30 and the 20 are completely different beasts but both very effective.

[@ovs564]

nono it’s more of Fighters: my plane has a gun! A-10: my gun has a plane.

[@foodank_atr817]

I worked with a guy that was in the Navy on one of the first ships to test and deploy the Phalanx gun. He said they had problems at first and had to dial back the sensitivity because the weapon would destroy the incoming missile, then shoot the parts as they fell, then expended all its ammo chasing the splashes in the sea from the debris and bullets it was still firing.

[@kriegertechpriest7011]

Phalanx: *D I E D I E D I E* Crewman: *Visble worry and confusion*

[@R.A.D.G59]

Absolutely beautiful. Imagine a convoy rolling in with those mounted on top….

[@texasdad2372]

My dad was track commander of of M113 APC's converted with the Vulcan on them for the 2/5 Ironsides Anti-Aircraft out of Ft Hood Texas in Vietnam.

[@NevermindThee]

Beautiful piece of tech, terrifying as it may be.

[@mikelisteral7863]

soon there will terminators walking around maintaining the peace. lol

[@ElitePortraits]

@@mikelisteral7863I see more likely to see these machines firing at Chinese fighter jets than seeing terminators keeping the order of the world walking around with their smile.

[@trentonmatteuzzi8621]

They really are. Getting everything to line up right and fire at that rate is amazing

[@superpayaseria]

@@mikelisteral7863 Are u a programmer or roboticist?

[@mikelisteral7863]

@@superpayaseria robots could spread like a virus once they take over some factories.

[@SteveWhipp]

I saw these placed as anti-motar / rocket defence in a base in Iraq. Apart from a bit of a rough start they got up to a fairly good "hit" rate and I was very thankful we had them. I also remember they had self-detonating rounds to prevent fall out into any inhabited areas. A spectacular bit of kit, especially at night.

[@romancandlefight1144]

We need them on the UK coast

[@saileencruileen2163]

I'm glad you had them over there and that you're now back here!

[@slugcult-10_years_and]

You can literally vaporize a human in seconds with that thing. The body would actually be turned into a human smoothie.

[@CR-uq5bu]

0:58 if people don’t know what this is it is called a C ram it’s an anti-air turret it’s mainly for shooting missiles while they’re in the air

[@ViperSRTnACR]

Fun fact, when Fairchild Republic was developing the A10, the much larger 30mm GAU8 from GE was still in development so the first prototype planes were fitted with this gun for testing. As powerful as the Vulcan is, the Avenger takes it to another level.

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

Wonder if they were surprised that the recoil impulse of the massive 30mm beast forced them to offset the gun slightly?

[@torturachina6452]

The GAU8 is no machine gun, it's the cannon the Ottomans used to take Constantinople

[@0neDoomedSpaceMarine]

@@torturachina6452 I like saying "Machinecannon" because it readily paints a picture of what kind of ordnance you're looking at.

[@fernandoalbarran8600]

The pilot of the A-10 Warthog is seated above the spinning barrels. I wonder if it gets hot in there?

[@f4ephantom]

Another fun fact, back in 83 or 84 we tried using a GPU-5 gun pod on the centerline weapon station of an F-4E. This is a 4 barreled version of the GAU-8 gun. The gun was mounted so low that nobody had a loader for it, so we had to stuff ammo into it one round at a time. We tried it on the range and the gun tried to kill our F4. It turns out that the muzzle hung just underneath door 22 where alot of the birds hydraulics ran. The muzzle blast was so severe it broke a bunch of lines and the pilot had to head home from the range declaring an inflight emergency. After punching off the pod into the swamp by the base, he then had to catch the barrier on the runway because the gear would not come down. It turns out that the A-10 guys were right, you really do need to build the plane around the gun! 🤩

[@jockellis]

One of the guys - ex army special forces - who worked with me at a GE machine shop had a tee shirt with a picture of GE’s version of the modern Gatling gun and underneath it GE’s slogan “We bring good things to life.”

[@krapeevids6992]

Thats perfect

[@mothball5425]

That's the kind of statement that in Europe would be called irony.

[@nunyabizness199]

I have that very shirt...😁

[@JCGver]

@@mothball5425 You should see the painting on the bunker door for the minutemen ICMBs: Delivery anywhere in the world in 30 minutes or less, or the next one is free.

[@marktate2683]

This video just took me back to my time working on F18s in the Marine Corps. 😎

[@sydtopia1]

My whole pay check fired off in about a ten of a second.

[@lfla0179]

"You just shoved 49 pounds of hot lead into that Mig" I heard in an interview. Even if it is not explosive and didn't damage anything, it would alter the center of gravity of the plane. HAHAHA.

[@UltraMagaFan]

0:22 and 2:54 were the most adorable BRRRTTTTs i have ever heard.

[@plebulus]

That first one is a fierce, and ravaging VVVVVVT! and the other one is a little toot!

[@Scottocaster6668]

Brrrts, that's a nice way to describe it.

[@BackwoodsTruther]

0:22 wasn’t cute, IT WAS VIOLENT!!! 🇺🇸

[@UltraMagaFan]

@@BackwoodsTruther Really? Have you ever heard of the A-10? I don't think you're American.

[@BackwoodsTruther]

@@UltraMagaFan ohh trust me I have and I am American! I live in Oklahoma I’m moving to Missouri soon! But the F-16 sounds a lot more sporty and violent than the A-10

[@thedarkwolfv7233]

Army: "How much ammo do you want to waste" Gatling: "yes"

[@mrchampion7134]

Now imagine a giant power suit with a handheld M61 A2 Vulcan.

[@terrydouglas5008]

The F4E also had a select switch between 4000 and 6000 rounds a minute. The F4E carried 640 rounds.

[@mikenewtonninja9379]

so at 6000 rounds per minute (approx 100 a second), a magazine with 640 rounds is gonna last around 6 seconds - who the fuck you shooting at bruh, fucking wonder woman? (she can dodge bullets, Matrix style apparently, if you were forced to endure the latest one, where there's 6 references to heels in 30 minutes and just as many female empowerment messages)

[@terrydouglas5008]

@@mikenewtonninja9379 well on an F4 you have a radar/computer controlled sight. At about a mile your gonna hold the trigger for half a second and sent 50 rounds towards the target, the gun firing will shake the aircraft and the bullets will be a cone pattern and the bullets alternate between armor piercing and high explosive and incendiary with about every fifth a tracer. The sight is very accurate,bit takes into account range, acceleration, angular speed, change of angular speed and other components.

[@troyelliott6552]

Ahh the phantom gun pod

[@terrydouglas5008]

@@troyelliott6552 the E had a built in nose gun.

[@troyelliott6552]

Cheers mate i didn't know that until now thankx bloke

[@everready19373]

I used to work on those when I was a weapons troop in the Air Force. I worked on F-15's and F-16's. I remember doing the functional checks when I'd have to hold the 'last round by-pass' switch. That gun would scare the crap out of me every time.

[@SSgtBigSwole]

And if you’re not careful you’ll get shocked when holding that switch. It’s fun watching the newbies have it happen.

[@joshuaformetoknow7011]

Ya that was always fun! I was on our squadrons weapons maintenance crew and can’t tell you how much time we spent pulling this POS gun in and out every week. Everyone thinks this thing was hot shit but on C&D model 16s it was a nightmare!

[@justing42]

462’s UNITE. I hated pulling that gun!

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

General Electric: “we make everything” US Government: “yeah right” GE: “allow us to introduce the M61” US Gov: “shutup and take our money!”

[@laughingachilles]

Just the sound of the thing is terrifying.

[@krispy_kornflake]

"Developed by inventor John Gatling" Screen: "Richard Gatling, American Inventor"

[@note2119]

"What if we gave jets a chainsaw that shot bullets?" -said the designer, shortly after taking a hit from his bong

[@DRAGONgaming-jf4gm]

Hahaha that is funny you made me laugh have a great day

[@mullcrumthesage6303]

When that thing fires..it sounds like the ship is taking a giant fart on the terrorists.

[@Chris119.]

The end of the video where it shows the ship mounted gun, that thing is eerie bro. Something you dont wanna piss off.

[@junkgyre5301]

Very Dr. Who Dalek-like.

[@verdantgrottobarbell5279]

The last few seconds of the video reminds me of when I had that gas station burrito last week... And just as deadly

[@eldritchmorgasm4018]

And then, just like that, me magic was gone! Still, very sexy...

[@mirthenemrys]

M61 Vulcan: exists... A-10 Warthog: isnt that cute, do you even BRRRRTTTTTT

[@hycron1234]

20mm vs 30mm

[@wizenedprawn1369]

Isn't the M61 Vulcan the gun that was equipped to an A10 ?

[@mirthenemrys]

@@wizenedprawn1369 the a10 uses the GAU-8. 30mm. Also known as the avenger cannon.

[@nickbuckley4371]

Every minigun go big brrrttt

[@tnoldman57ify]

I trained and and used the Vulcan in 1976thru79 its a mean toy, loved it.

[@thuroB30]

This gun turns any object into a mist. “It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.”~T-800

[@robertevans9148]

Worked on them in the RAF over 45 years ago bloody awesome piece of kit. Even now I could take one apart and reassemble they were truly brilliant.

[@AhmedAAlsaeed]

"A higher rate of fire is necessary" - America

[@jasonomnia9295]

Allahu akbarrr

[@unknownentity8256]

That they found out when they faced the MG42's first in North Africa and then in Europe.

[@bender0428]

@@unknownentity8256 well i mean M2 Browning 50 cal>MG42 sorry, and we had that in North Africa and Europe lol. Reason being, The M2 provided multiple uses aside from just buzz sawing advancing enemies that would be mowed down by just about any machine gun at that point. The M2's capabilities as an anti-air weapon make it particularly useful during ww2 when aircraft were much slower before jet engines. The MG42 could of course be used for anti-air if absolutely necessary but its high rate of fire along with needing to change out its barrel frequently make it rather clunky in said role. Especially due to being unable to take slow methodical shots at your target if it be in the air or far off in sight, while also having each individual shot having just about guaranteed killing power on light vehicles and even aircraft if hitting vital areas. Dont get me wrong the MG42 is a beautiful piece of engineering, and in terms of every other armament just about made by Germany in ww2 they were almost always superior to the allies counterparts. aka Mp40/STG 44 vs thompson, Panther/Konigstiger vs Sherman/M26 Pershing (although an argument could be made for pershing vs Konigstiger).

[@lubu4u312]

*faster. more. bigger. FASTER. MORE. BIGGER. FUCKING FASTER MAKE IT SHOOT FASTER AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH* -some general some where circa 1971 probably

[@itstheMR]

If the M61 is a Gatling on steroids, then the GAU-8 must be a Gatling on an infinity stone.

[@jr92684]

I remember I use to love and hate seeing these things going off at night. Love because it looks like a light show going off at night and hate because it’s most likely a bomb coming down on base.

[@risingredstone5949]

0:24 that sound, I've heard it 20 times already, can't get enough of it

[@Michael-kv9bg]

Same

[@gonulluomer]

i was about the write same comment ,very impressive sound

[@cyberlord64]

Was looking for this comment

[@jakartaisme]

now thats is satisfying sound..

[@Cris_the_coder]

yeah freedom

[@nuqirs]

i wonder how many fish just get impaled by randomly falling bullets sheeeesh lol

[@steelionx9255]

How dare the government stop the average person from owning this in their home!

[@darthfader6835]

Loved working on that gun as part of the Phalanx system and was lucky enough to have a Captain who loved shooting the system a lot. Even at the reduced firing rate of 3000 rpm of the early CIWS "Block 0" mod, the sound of it firing is simply indescribable.

[@blakeh6250]

First system blk 0 to blk 1B..then added mk160. Did my 20 yrs FCC

[@SLO_5oh]

CIWS (Captain it won't shoot)

[@do_notknow_much]

...yeah, you military war mongers have no issue burning through taxpayer's money in a very wasteful way.

[@davidsmith8853]

Great system! Mine was a Block 0. Block 1’s were replacing them in the fleet and they were just then developing the surface capability. Very reliable and VERY accurate and effective!

[@rationalthoughtandlogicple5392]

I was a block 1b guy. The surface capabilities were pretty awesome.

[@davecundiff3663]

I was also CIWS tech, block 0 as well. I had great time working on them.

[@TWEEMASTER2000]

these things are insanely loud irl especially if you're anywhere near it, you'll feel it in your chest it's wild

[@strangedays1]

The most world turning event ever so far. The GATLIN Gun. Why we dont have a memorial & a 1 hour silence for Mr Gatlin every year is beond comprehensive study.

[@prsearls]

I loaded these (SUU-16 gun pods) on F-4's back in 1966-67. In weapons tech school, we got to fire an M-61 with 25 rounds; ZIP! and it was all over. Pretty impressive. Using a combination of armor-piercing and high-explosive incendiary ammunition in the drum, you can handle almost kind of target. We used this combination in the 20 mm cannons on the B-57's in Vietnam.

[@Romans--bo7br]

We also had the early predecessor ("Gooney Bird"), the AC-47... to the AC-130 (Lockheed), which became known as "Puff", or.. "Puff the Magic Dragon" in Nam as well... had quite a few of them in operation covering our "butt's", up in the A-Shau during my first "tour". B-52's as well.... but rarely saw them, only "heard" them... up there, somewhere..... but certainly saw and "felt" their resulting presence on numerous occasions. Never had much, if any.. effect on even slowing down the NVA, though.... they had better "intel" than we did, and would just disappear underground in their vast tunnel network and would re-appear somewhere else after the bombing was over.... what a waste, in So Many ways.. that "war" was. You can have All the "fire-power" in the world, but it won't do you a bit of good.. if you're Not there to actually Win it. The Only way we could have "won" that war, would be if we had B-52's flying wing tip to wing tip, and literally "Carpet Bomb" the entirety of North VN from the DMZ all the way to Hanoi and beyond and from east to west with 1000 pounders, and literally Nuked Hanoi and the port of Haiphong into complete oblivion..... and with their resilience, and resourcefulness, I'm not sure that even THAT, would have deterred them for very long! I easily knew it was a "Lose/Lose" deal for us, within literally, the first week I was over there. It sure wasn't "rocket science" to be able to "see" and understand what the "end result" was going to be for "us" over there... when I arrived on the 3rd day of the infamous TET (VN's Lunar New Year) Offensive, Feb. 3rd, 1968. Welcome to VN. As a side note in regards to the aforementioned AC-47 / AC-130's... It's a misconception that "spooky" and "puff" were two different aircraft... they were Not. The USAF's official designation for the re-armored / re-outfitted plane (the Lockheed AC-130 / "A" designation for "Attack" version) with its firepower (M-134), was "Spooky".... but it was the Ground troops who nick-named it "Puff the Magic Dragon" or simply "Puff" because of what the quick, rapid bursts and literal flames/"fire" from the guns, sounded and looked like from the ground, and the term "stuck" from there, on... in fact the Air Force, based at Tan Son Nhut... changed the official call sign from "Spooky" to "Puff" in some area's of operation.

[@trespire]

@Paul Searls In '73, we got about 2 squadrons of beat up USAF Phantoms straight out of Vietnam. The IAF pressed them into service while still in USAF dark green paint. We called them "karpada" which means toad in Hebrew because of the dark green. Later they all received heavy maintenance and upgrades, to serve long and lustrous lives. The last Phantom squadron was converted in 2006. I was an airframe fitter. Long live Spook.

[@prsearls]

I have the highest respect for the IAF. Both for the pilots and their maintainers. I would say the Phantoms went to a very good home.

[@trespire]

@@prsearls Thanks, that means a lot. The Phantoms served the IAF hard and well for just over 3 decades. They were the backbone of the IAF. Some birds faught in Vietnam, then got to live a second life fighting for the IAF. They could haul loads not even an F-15 could carry. Loved maintaining them.

[@magicsinglez]

You’re lying

[@aterseraph]

Part of my job in the USAF was to load and maintain the M61 on the F16 in the middle to late 80's. It was actually a pretty easy install on the aircraft and bore-sighted pretty well also.

[@glennhubbard5008]

Thank you for your service.

[@southernweather25]

"Project Vulcan" sounds badass.

[@MrKarolpotter]

The F-4 in the 60s had this gun in a gun pod called the SUU23. 1200 rounds in a helix drum. Then in 67 they installed a nose gun internally. That gun held half the ammo. Just 600 rounds. 6 seconds of fire on high rate. Low rate was 4500 per second. Loaded this gun a hundred times on a 4 man crew for the USAF. What a weapon!