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Aviation Ordnanceman Airman James Sather performs maintenance on an M61A2 20 mm Gatling gun in the bomb shop aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). 28 January 2013. U.S. Navy.

See This Picture? This Gun Has Some Serious Civil War 'DNA'

by Peter Suciu

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6 Barrels And 12,000 Rounds Per Minute Couldn't Save The Microgun From Obscurity

A CH-46E Sea Knight crew chief with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 mans an XM-214 .50 caliber machine gun while airborne during a helicopter-borne training exercise, aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 6, 2007.

The Microgun Was Supposed To Spit Out 12,000 Rounds Per Minute. Why Was It Cancelled?

The U.S. Military Nearly Had A Machine Gun That Could Fire 12,000 Rounds Per Minute

12,000 Rounds a Minute (And Yet, This Gun Was a Flop)

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The Machine Gun That Could Fire 12,000 Bullets a Minute (But Was a Failure)

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Aviation Ordnanceman Airman James Sather performs maintenance on an M61A2 20 mm Gatling gun in the bomb shop aboard aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75). 28 January 2013. U.S. Navy.

See This Picture? This Gun Has Some Serious Civil War 'DNA'

by Peter Suciu July 7, 2020

6 Barrels And 12,000 Rounds Per Minute Couldn't Save The Microgun From Obscurity

by Joseph Trevithick June 26, 2020
A CH-46E Sea Knight crew chief with Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 261 mans an XM-214 .50 caliber machine gun while airborne during a helicopter-borne training exercise, aboard Camp Lejeune, N.C., March 6, 2007.

The Microgun Was Supposed To Spit Out 12,000 Rounds Per Minute. Why Was It Cancelled?

by Joseph Trevithick February 7, 2020

The U.S. Military Nearly Had A Machine Gun That Could Fire 12,000 Rounds Per Minute

by Joseph Trevithick December 28, 2019

12,000 Rounds a Minute (And Yet, This Gun Was a Flop)

by War Is Boring June 20, 2019
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