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21 unusual facts about Gatling gun


Army of Two: The 40th Day

The Heavy enemies carry weapons such as a flamethrower and a Gatling gun that cannot be unlocked by the player, though they can be picked up and temporarily used after the Heavy is defeated.

Bailey machine gun

It was a multiple barrel weapon similar to the much more commonly known Gatling gun, and was the first weapon of this type to be belt-fed.

Superficially, the Bailey Machine Gun resembled the Gatling gun, as it also had multiple barrels and was hand cranked.

Charles Burnett Wilson

In his battle plan he would have made used of the several artillery pieces and two Gatling machine guns of the royal guard, to compensate for their shortage in numbers.

For a Few Paintballs More

Jeff plans to lead the group to charge en masse to the troopers' stronghold, an ice cream truck armed with a paintball Gatling gun.

Frederick Gustavus Burnaby

Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada" is often quoted as referring to Burnaby's death at Abu Klea; "The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel's dead...", (although it was a Gardner machine gun which jammed).

Gatling gun

Captain Germán Astete of the Peruvian Navy took with him dozens of Gatling guns from the United States to Peru in December 1879 during the Peru-Chile War of the Pacific.

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies mounting massed attacks, including the Matabele, the Zulu, the Bedouins, and the Mahdists.

George Hilsdon

Hilsdon was nicknamed "Gatling Gun" because his shots "were simply unstoppable and which travel like shots from a gun."

Goofs and Saddles

The whizzing bullets accidentally topple a box of ammunition into the grinder, and the grinder becomes a makeshift Gatling gun.

Hawgsmoke

Hawgsmoke 2002 emphasized target acquisition and focused on accurately dropping practice bombs, firing the AGM-65 Maverick missile, and strafing proficiency with the 30 mm GAU-8 Gatling gun.

Home Sweet Homicide

Gat, a slang term for a handgun or a machine pistol, is derived from the "Gatling gun"; but can also refer to firearms more generally.

Infiniti Q45

This Q45 focused on performance again with a new 340 hp (253 kW) 4.5 L VK45DE V8 engine, Gatling gun inspired HID headlights, and sharper styling.

Jonah Hex: No Way Back

Papagayo mows down some men with a Gatling gun and promises to spare the town if they turn Hex over.

Karagiozis

Solomon (Σολομών), a usually rich Jew from Thessaloniki, one of the less known characters, he speaks in his own fashion, sometimes uttering a very fast repeating sound often compared to a Gatling gun, earning him, by Karagiozis, the nickname "heavy arms", despite his frail build.

Leo A. Berg

Among his patents were the switchtrack for the trolley, and a piece integral to the conversion of the Gatling gun to the machine gun.

Limbic Software

The player can choose to use a 25mm Gatling gun, 40mm Bofors auto-cannon, and a 105mm Howitzer cannon, all of which all can be upgraded to enhance damage radius, faster cooling time, faster reload, faster firing rate, and bullet speed.

Northrop YA-9

Eventually, this would result in the GAU-8 Avenger, but for trials, the YA-9 and YA-10 were both equipped with the smaller M61 Vulcan Gatling gun.

Rocket Red Brigade

When this had little effect, Rocket Red opened fire with his shoulder-mounted Gatling gun and tried to retreat.

The War Wagon

The gold shipment is being transported in a "war wagon," a heavily armored stagecoach armed with a deadly Gatling gun in a top-mounted steerable turret.

Wild Guns

Beyond the standard gun several other weapons are obtainable, such as a Gatling gun, shotgun, or a grenade launcher though these hold only limited ammunition.


Bell UH-1Y Venom

BMG GAU-16/A machine guns, or 7.62 mm GAU-17/A Gatling guns

Crypt Killer

As well as being armed with a shotgun, the player can temporally upgrade their weapon by finding concealed more powerful guns such as a Gatling gun, grenade launcher, a more powerful shotgun, and even an Automatic hidden behind breakable objects.

Fokker

During World War I, Fokker engineers were working on the Fokker-Leimberger, an externally-powered 12 barrel Gatling gun in the 7.92x57mm round capable of firing over 7200RPM.

Gardner gun

At this point, the British Royal Navy, which had successfully deployed the Gatling gun, became interested in the weapon, and Gardner was invited to England to exhibit his invention.

Iwakura Mission

They visited the Elswick Engine and Ordnance Works with Captain Andrew Noble and George Rendell, inspected the hydraulic engines and the boring and turning departments and examined the construction of Armstrong and Gatling guns.

Japanese ironclad Kōtetsu

On March 25, 1869, in the Naval Battle of Miyako Bay, Kōtetsu successfully repulsed a surprise night attempt at boarding by the rebel Kaiten (spearheaded by survivors from the Shinsengumi), essentially thanks to the presence of a Gatling gun on board.

LAV-25

:LAV fitted with an electric turret mounting a General Dynamics GAU-12 Equalizer 25 mm (0.984 in) 5-barreled Gatling cannon, and two missile pods each with 4× FIM-92 Stinger missiles for Short Range Air Defense (SHORAD) duties.

Thunder Machine

Since an engine wasn't required, the front of the truck was replaced with the nose of a 1970's era Pontiac Trans Am on top of which was mounted a roll cage and two huge armor-piercing Gatling guns.

Zombie Gunship

Zombie Gunship offers three types of weapons: a 25mm Gatling gun, a 40mm Bofors auto-cannon, and a 105mm Howitzer cannon, all of which are upgradeable to enhance damage radius, faster cooling time, faster reload, faster firing rate, and bullet speed.