M61 20mm Cannon

The M61 Vulcan is a 20 mm hydraulically or pneumatically driven, six-barreled, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling-style cannon with an extremely high rate of fire. The M61 and its derivatives have been the principal cannon armament of United States military fixed-wing aircraft for five decades. The M61 was originally produced by General Electric, and after several mergers and acquisitions is currently produced by General Dynamics.

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Science & Technology

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• M61
• 20mm
• Vulcan
• cannon
• Gatling
• gun
• General
• Electric
• F-104
• Starfighter

[mchief190]

Dear Santa...

[kenberger]

100 rounds per second..... 20 mm....RUN!!!!!!

[glockker]

the german FOKKER-LEIMBERGER had 12 barrels shooting 7200 rds min in 1916

[thelol1759]

@kenberger wait till you see the explosive rounds

[gunnery18]

This would solve 184 of my problems.

[AAV47]

@kenberger I can't outrun that :(

[gyro231995]

Solving 100 problems a second.

[shadowcrawler001]

sounds like a chainsaw

[repairdroid77]

Read somewhere that the early M-61 caused gas induced compressor stalls on the F-105. Also shell casings would get ingested too even with the out the bottom ejection system. Amazing to think it all goes back to the time of the American civil war.

[garytang182]

@kenberger you can't it will get you