Picture of the Day - Unusual Guns

[DeanMk]

Honey, what happened to the coffee table?

 

[CamoDeafie]

Flying gun...
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One of my favourite pics is that gun compared to a '65 VW Beetle...

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30mm on its own doesn't sound that impressive until.one sees its a multi barrel gatling But.. heres some big guns on aircraft... relatively unusual[/b]

One of the B-25 strafer models with a 75mm howitzer in its nose

Henschel HS 129 with a 75mm recoilless cannon, note narrow body with armored windscreen, a direct ancestor to the A-10

And...

AC-130J? 105mm cannon out its side plus a 40mm Bofors cannon

 

[blueswarrior]

Calico twin 30 carbine Gatling gun.

 

[TNThomas]

My 1000cc duel gun rack.

 

[tac]

Magnum Research .45-70...

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You DO realise that with a 'short' three and a half inch long extension sticking out of the butt that this would actually be legal here on mainland UK?

Whoopee!!

 

[Labradorian]

30mm on its own doesn't sound that impressive until.one sees its a multi barrel gatling

The armored cav squadron I was in back in the 70's had M163 VADS, basically a APC with a Vulcan attached. Not as impressive as direct firing 155 howitzers but dang, they sound like a bad fart after too many c-rations.

 

[tac]

4200 rounds a minute - that's 70 rounds per SECOND - of 20mm anything is going to leave a mark.

 

[Mark W.]

My sons electronics work bench on the USS Chancellorsville was directly under a Sea Wiz Gun mount the rate of fire is classified, But he says when the gun went off the stuff on his work bench vibrated at an amazing rate they would give a warning alarm and you had a couple seconds to get your hearing protection on Otherwise you could hear a thing for a while.

 

[CamoDeafie]

6000 rounds a minute - that's 100 rounds per SECOND - of 30mm anything is going to leave a mark.

Never knew the 30mm Gatling went that high. Know the GAU-8 originally could do 2100 to 4200 Rounds Per Minute rate of fire, then fixed at 3,900 RPM... I know the 20mm Vulcan does up to 6,000 RPM. Not sure if the 7.62mm Minigun is just as high.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Never knew the 30mm Gatling went that high. Know the GAU-8 originally could do 2100 to 4200 Rounds Per Minute rate of fire, then fixed at 3,900 RPM... I know the 20mm Vulcan does up to 6,000 RPM. Not sure if the 7.62mm Minigun is just as high.

The GAU-8 got slowed down some during the 90's as they were not worried so much about busting tanks and more concerned with strafing ground forces multiple times, so it was to conserve ammo! I have seen test firings where they spun it up to 4500 RPM, and that was simply crazy! The M-61 20 mm can do over 10,000 RPM if one wanted it to, but in most Jets, it's turned down to around 6000, except the F-15 which cranks them out at a crazy 7400 RPM!
The old M-39's could spit them out around 2400 RPM, and they were usually carried in Quad installations! We tested many different light weight airborne weapon systems to find what might be the best, and one of those systems was a 3 barreled Gatling type gun in .50 caliber that could spit them out at up to 10,000 rounds, but in practicality, we found that around 1500 on the low setting and 2400 on the high setting was ideal! The M-134 series could spin to well over 10,000 RPM, but it's a complete waste of ammo to run that high, we usually ran them around 4800 with a high and low switch to change the rate, mostly depending on how big a magazine we were willing to tote around per gun aboard our birds! Remember, 24 rounds of 7.62X51 weighs exactly 1 pound! My Favorite big gun system was the M-188 MK-IV , basically a 40 mm Bofors in a light weight towable mount with electro optical sighting system and could be set up and ran by a crew of two, that single gun could spit out 3 round's per second with it's water cooled barrel, or, in the ultra light weight airborne, air cooled system, 4 rounds per second! Lemme tell ya,, THAT gun will rock you, and put a YUGE smile on your face every time you mash the foot trigger!

 

[DeanMk]

30mm on its own doesn't sound that impressive until.one sees its a multi barrel gatling But.. heres some big guns on aircraft... relatively unusual[/b]
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One of the B-25 strafer models with a 75mm howitzer in its nose

Not a Howitzer.
It was actually the same 75mm gun that was used in the Sherman tank. They just went with a shorter barrel and I believe an automated firing system was added.
Guys who actually flew these planes said the cannon was virtually useless because one shot would shake the plane so bad, they couldn't line up for a second shot before having to pull out and go around again.

Dean

 

[CamoDeafie]

Not a Howitzer.
It was actually the same 75mm gun that was used in the Sherman tank. They just went with a shorter barrel and I believe an automated firing system was added.
Guys who actually flew these planes said the cannon was virtually useless because one shot would shake the plane so bad, they couldn't line up for a second shot before having to pull out and go around again.

Dean

Thank you for the correction. I seem to have mixed the two designations of 75mm guns up (field gun and howitzer).

 

[MTpockets]

 

[EPS]

These just in... love 'em or hate 'em.

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I'm obviously in the former category.

I just saw those on a YouTube video.
Interesting.
But I will keep my glock

 

[rdb241]

OK, it's time to get back to what this thread is about...lol. These are some home made guns found on the streets of Brazil.

 

[tac]

Never knew the 30mm Gatling went that high. Know the GAU-8 originally could do 2100 to 4200 Rounds Per Minute rate of fire, then fixed at 3,900 RPM... I know the 20mm Vulcan does up to 6,000 RPM. Not sure if the 7.62mm Minigun is just as high.

You are right, of course, I was getting my figures muxed ip.

Again.

 

[tac]

BTW, the Mini-gun DOES have a 6000 rpm 'top speed'...Mike Dillon used to have one he'd bring to Knob Creek KY and light up the night sky with it........but then Mr Dillon was a very rich man. Not everybody can afford 15 - 20 minutes-worth of 7.62x51 ammo at that rate, even if its only in a couple of dozen 20 second bursts.

 

[GLShooter]

32 S&W UNIQUE. The original owner was a shooter that helped argue the Heller case in front of the SCOTUS. I'm looking to replace the grips but the closest ones I can find are in Germany for about $200.00 Oh to own a batch of tools and a pantograph!! LOL



Greg

 

[CamoDeafie]

This is a rather... impressive "derringer" .50 cal break open pistol. I want to say its a photoshop though?

 

[CountryGent]

This is a rather... impressive "derringer" .50 cal break open pistol. I want to say its a photoshop though? View attachment 813397

Seen these before, but they were in 12-gauge. Example here.