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RE: Did You Know? 🌀 General Electric Made Nukes!
Good post! I did know about the Vulcan Minigun (We called it Puff the Magic Dragon in Nam...It was 3 of them in a C-130) I met Hank Ketchum who did the Dennis the Menace cartoons in Phoenix. He was waiting for his girlfriend and we talked for a while. He told me his son was one of the designers of the Vulcan and also that there were other weapons he couldn't go into detail about...wonder if it was this???
Thanks!
Yah, I'm sure this thing must have smoked, deserving the title you guys gave it or others like it in the war. 6000 rpm, craziness. They also make anti-aircraft versions, whatever that means, that he could have worked on...
They come in different calibers. The one shown in your pic is the M-134 it fires 7.62 Nato rounds. Puff would cover an area the size of a football field with a round every 4 sq.in. in 3 seconds. The anti-aircraft/anti-tank are either 30 or 40 mm. I watched a video of a 30mm on the front of an A-10 Thunderbolt make a tank glow red it got hit so much! The larger ones don't have the 3000/6000 rpm option, it's something a bit less...but still awesome!