The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System played a critical role in bridging the gap between World War II-era anti-aircraft guns and modern missile-based air defense systems.

Gatling Gun 2.0: The General Dynamics M61A2 Relied on Civil War Technology. September 11, ... the original M61 was developed after World War II by General Electric and first introduced in 1956, ...

The Gatling gun rotates up to 600 revolutions per minute (rpm), totaling up to 4,200 shots per minute. Each 30 mm projectile leaves the end of its firing barrel at a speed of 3,400 feet per second ...

Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time.Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn’t fully mechanical.Someone still had to ...