(robert arndt) wrote:

Chad Irby wrote:
(robert arndt) wrote:

The M61 is a poor substitute for this bad baby:

http://www.airforce-technology.com/c...r2/mauser21.ht
ml

...if you don't mind only firing 1,700 rounds per minute as opposed to
about 6,000...

...when the M61 doesn't jam, that is.

....which is pretty much all of the time. If the Gatling guns were prone
to jamming, someone would have mentioned it sometime in the last forty
or so years.

I prefer Mauser's BK-27
jam-proof linkless and up-coming dual feed version.

Here's a tip: No such thing as a "jam-proof" weapon that relies on ammo
feed of any sort. You're been reading the Mauser PR releases too much.

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