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Love the idea from an absurdity aspect.

Accuracy is very low, portability requires a vehicle, wear is quite high on the "outside" side of the channel.

Feels as effective as a repeating shotgun mounted on a car.



I wonder just how low the accuracy was (well, to be a pedant, I presume the main problem was precision rather than accuracy). The 99% use case for machine gun fire (and indeed rifle fire in modern warfare) is suppression.


"Feels as effective as a repeating shotgun mounted on a car. "

Dunno, an AA-12 loaded with HE-12 explosive rounds mounted on a car or truck could be a very effective mid-range area of denial tool.


See the PAW-20 for an example of this taken to its logical conclusion.



Wow. That was a wild hour-long trip down into weird and wonderful weapons!

Thank you!


"Thank the Lord / That we have got / The Gatling Gun / And they have not"


I know this as "Whatever happens we have got the Maxim gun and they have not."




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