Today my brain decided it didn’t want to write up a blog post, so instead let’s start easing into the 4th of July weekend with things that go boom. Today, one of the most awesome things that go boom: the legendary M134 Minigun.
On the firing range:
Here’s Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons describing in detail how it works:
And here he is firing it in slow motion:
Ok, looks like I’m serial posting here this week… But…
The first vid (imho) was a nice lead in to the second two vids which were extremely interesting and informative to watch to entirety. I used to watch links to the ‘ForgottenWeapons’ guy at ‘gun blogs’ I was following but not so in a long time now since I’ve given up reading the drivel deposited by most ‘gun blog’s’ these days.
So thanks for this!
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Fun videos, and the narrator, Ian was great.
The first I ever heard of the mini guns was on detachable wing pods for fighter jets to increase their ground attack, and on the Huey Cobra.