other posts have mentioned it already, but the minigun is a miniature vulcan gun
the minigun is is in 7.62mm and weights about 20kg on the lightweight version
the vulcan gun is a 20mm rotary cannon that weights 100kg
this is a gun so large that the huey, capable of carrying and firing a pair of miniguns, can cause itself to crash from the vibrations of firing a single vulcan gun
>why not a single minigun was seen in ukraine?
Because the terrain isn't suited for it
In areas like Bakhmut where they forced the Ruskies out, the streets were completely fucked, you'd maybe have installations where they could be useful, but in general most of the warfare is done building to building.
In the plains, they fight in trenches, or bomb each other from afar, having a mini gun is pointless because you're gonna get blown up by ordinance or droned.
It's just not a good combat option given the context.
https://i.imgur.com/AFhddB2.png
why not a single minigun was seen in ukraine?
Best Korea hasn't put one in 14.5mm on a 8X8 yet and Russia could not afford it anyway.
>why not a single minigun was seen in ukraine?
Because the terrain isn't suited for it
In areas like Bakhmut where they forced the Ruskies out, the streets were completely fucked, you'd maybe have installations where they could be useful, but in general most of the warfare is done building to building.
In the plains, they fight in trenches, or bomb each other from afar, having a mini gun is pointless because you're gonna get blown up by ordinance or droned.
It's just not a good combat option given the context.
its a waste using them in trucks when there's so many .50 machineguns, both NATO and Warsaw variants, you can bolt on to them and the prevalence of AA makes using helicopters suicide
prety sure we saw one early in the war but i could be wrong
>why not a single minigun was seen in ukraine?
Because the terrain isn't suited for it
In areas like Bakhmut where they forced the Ruskies out, the streets were completely fucked, you'd maybe have installations where they could be useful, but in general most of the warfare is done building to building.
In the plains, they fight in trenches, or bomb each other from afar, having a mini gun is pointless because you're gonna get blown up by ordinance or droned.
It's just not a good combat option given the context.
There have been several videos of units rapidly assaulting things in humvees, or other softer-skinned vehicles that have some sort of machine gun on top.
The video of the guy getting handed an AT4 instead of machine gun ammo by a confused ukrainian is a prime example.
wouldn't a minigun in this scenario be better than an LMG or even HMG on top of a humvee? 2-5 humvees all opening up at once with a minigun at a small village would be kino. Or is this an instance that it would just be overkill and the aforementioned LMG/HMG's are good enough, so why bother?
Ukraine neesds to start using AGLs more, they are using tank guns at hand gernade range (using the guns blast to kill the enemy not the projectile) and that is what AGLs are for.
I seriously believe that the Type 216 would be the MVP of this war if they were there on either side with a competent (UK or NK) crew, it is set up to blast a mother fucker off the face of the earth.
minigun, more like, redditgun
>minigun
>very large
makes no sense
You should see what a rotary auto canon looks like
>makes no sense
stfu try shooting a belt fed machine gun on the back of a moving truck, then try a minigun tell me what gun you hit more targets with
or from a heli, or at a heli/aircraft
>he hasn't seen the non-mini version
heh
other posts have mentioned it already, but the minigun is a miniature vulcan gun
the minigun is is in 7.62mm and weights about 20kg on the lightweight version
the vulcan gun is a 20mm rotary cannon that weights 100kg
this is a gun so large that the huey, capable of carrying and firing a pair of miniguns, can cause itself to crash from the vibrations of firing a single vulcan gun
I don't know you, anon who's been spamming minigun lately, but my inner 13 year old thanks you.
for what purpose, retard? what would they get wasting even more ammo?
simply epic. updooted my good sir. You have won the internet today! i tip my hat to thee.
>memegun
yeah
implying you wouldn't arm a transport with this if you had the money
Best Korea hasn't put one in 14.5mm on a 8X8 yet and Russia could not afford it anyway.
>suppressed minigun
I wanna hear one firing.
>why not a single minigun was seen in ukraine?
Because the terrain isn't suited for it
In areas like Bakhmut where they forced the Ruskies out, the streets were completely fucked, you'd maybe have installations where they could be useful, but in general most of the warfare is done building to building.
In the plains, they fight in trenches, or bomb each other from afar, having a mini gun is pointless because you're gonna get blown up by ordinance or droned.
It's just not a good combat option given the context.
ESL
its a waste using them in trucks when there's so many .50 machineguns, both NATO and Warsaw variants, you can bolt on to them and the prevalence of AA makes using helicopters suicide
prety sure we saw one early in the war but i could be wrong
There have been several videos of units rapidly assaulting things in humvees, or other softer-skinned vehicles that have some sort of machine gun on top.
The video of the guy getting handed an AT4 instead of machine gun ammo by a confused ukrainian is a prime example.
wouldn't a minigun in this scenario be better than an LMG or even HMG on top of a humvee? 2-5 humvees all opening up at once with a minigun at a small village would be kino. Or is this an instance that it would just be overkill and the aforementioned LMG/HMG's are good enough, so why bother?
Ukraine neesds to start using AGLs more, they are using tank guns at hand gernade range (using the guns blast to kill the enemy not the projectile) and that is what AGLs are for.
I seriously believe that the Type 216 would be the MVP of this war if they were there on either side with a competent (UK or NK) crew, it is set up to blast a mother fucker off the face of the earth.
7/10, Loader needs a laser blinding weapon and it doesn't have a flamethrower or MLRS.