Take a look at this, another way to hunt those pesky junk cars

http://africa.mit.edu/gun.wmv

Sounds like the guy lost a competition with that particular car or something huh?

Saw that episode on TV. They did some creative editing cause it took a few tries with the mini-gun to waste the car. On the full length video it appeared like they set something inside the car to make it catch on fire.

Wicked gun though. Sure wish I could afford one.

If I remember correctly, there is one tracer round for every nine rounds of ball. Did any of you happen to see where the ricochets were going? I would not want to be in that chopper overhead with that gun doing its thing-- some of those rounds went high into the air. Any guesses as to how much money he shot up in all those bursts? If Bruce Gordon was Bruce Wayne, Gotham City's millionaire philanthropist, maybe he could afford to purchase and shoot a mini-gun. I think I read where they are $120,000; makes the $200 tax stamp look paltry.

There is a Minigun for sale on Gunsamerica.com for a mere 300Grand

Not too many transferable ones............

I guess my main thought was how ineffective the gun was! How many rounds were fired? 1K? One RPG round would do a much better job, as we are finding out!
peter.

Tracers every FIFTH round, at least that was the mix an eon ago when I worked on the mini's. We had them on Huey Mike models, one on each side, on a flex mount. VERY effective but only at closer ranges, way too close in modern warfare.

Always loved the way they sounded when they fired too. Real music to the ears.

Also worked on the six barrel 20mm models when I was in the USAF. Now THAT one could do some damage. 100 rds per SECOND when set on high rate! Thats one heck of a lot of death and destruction.

FN in MT

That footage had to be edited together. A burst that long from a gun with that high of a cyclic rate would melt the barrels. Bill T.

Peter,
They used the mini-gun for effect. People wouldn't really get a bang out of just one RPG fired into a car; they can relate to a machine gun because we've all seen them in movies. It was still pretty slick, huh? And it looked like alot of fun, too!

Thanks rootbeer, now, why was there no recoil?
Peter.

"One bullet in every square inch of a football field in less than a minute" was what they claimed for the AC47 "Puff the Magic Dragon" gunships. One hell of an area denial weapon.

The top cyclic rate is 6000 rounds per minute, not 3000, (although it is switchable) - that is 100 rounds per second. Awesome.

Why did he say it was a Dillon? These babies were made by General Electric, AFAIK.

Lovely stuff to watch, always wondered what the terminal effect of that kind of firepower would be like - now I know!!

As for the recoil, with a strong mount and the gun being quite heavy, it should not be a major problem. Although the pickup musta had the handbrake on quite tight!!!! LOL.