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, ...

It is based on the Gatling principle, which permits a high rate of fire while also reducing heat and barrel erosion.The M61A2 20mm is just the latest generation of the Civil War-era “Gatling Gun ...

As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few decades ...

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 ...

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 ...