MG.....I have that video saved to my puter.....when I watch it I get warm all over and feel like a cigarette afterward.....!!!!!!

 

The 7.62 Miniguns are a mean bit of kit.....they have only just been withdrawn from service here when the Bushranger (Huey) Gunships retired late last year.

 

Andy

There is usually one at Knob Creek, awsome to say the least... and on Saturday night they have their big tracer shoot free for all at some partially filled drums of diesel fuel (I believe that is what is in them) excellent show, she produces a sound you will never forget

 

Mike Dillon has quite the collection... that boy has big time fun

 

Ohhh Santa

Butch

The GAU-17 is a really neat piece.  I wish I had one with a 2-1/2 ton truck loaded with pallets of linked 7.62mm ammo boxes.  Each box contains three 750 round continuous linked belts.  I figure that it would take at least 20 minutes to reload the ammo can for each two minute's of fun.  My ideal rig would be a UH-1Y with a GAU-16 on one side and a GAU-17 on the other.

 The GAU-16 is a AN/M2 aircraft gun on a recoil absorbing mount.  The GAU-17 is the Mini-gun setup with battery, motor controller, ammo boxes, and gun.

 

 

ABOVE:  A GAU-17 on USMC UH-1Y.        BELOW:  The GAU-17 setup on the Huey.

 BELOW:  A GAU-16 front and rear showing tray, empty case disposal, and recoil absorbing cradle.

  

 

BELOW:  The GAU-16 field stripped.

 

 

 

Here's one from Knob Creek that should catch anyone's eye: a triple Mini-gun on a modified .50 M3 tripod.

 

You'd better have one heavy duty battery pack and a lot of linked ammo for this setup; the maximum combined cyclic rate is 18,000 rounds per minute!

 

What an adreneline rush that's gotta be.

 

 

 

General Electric also played around with a variation of the Mini in 5.56mm NATO called the "Micro-gun."  I believe they made one with 12 barrels and two feed systems that could fire at 12,000 rounds per minute.  Essentially, it was two guns in one with two barrels firing.  That must have been a light and sound experience.

Wal e-mail me your mailing address and I will copy it onto a CD for you.

 

Andy