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Was the Vickers machine gun good? So those don't have a "spin-up" time since there's nothing there to rotary the barrels without firing bulats.
Community Forum Software by IP. Search Advanced Search section: This topic Forums. How do Gatling guns work? Please log in to reply. Hello, This is something I've been looking for a lot of time and have not found any reliable information, on how Gatling guns work Hollywood and video games portray it needing some time to spin up before shooting; the barrels first spin and, after a certain RPM is achieved, it then starts firing.
The spin up is needed because the barrel spin speed needs to match the loading speed otherwise you run the risk of the bullets being fired into the gun assembly instead of out of the barrels. Leadfire, on 27 August - PM, said: The spin up is needed because the barrel spin speed needs to match the loading speed otherwise you run the risk of the bullets being fired into the gun assembly instead of out of the barrels.
I think you hit the nail on the head when you said Holywood. WindSplitter1, on 28 August - AM, said: Yes, this is why I think it doesn't make sense for a Gatling gun to spin up first and then shoot, outside shooting the first rounds in each barrel. It would shoot while spinning, ergo, do both at the same time. But is it one or the other? The trigger releases the hammer, which swings forward onto the explosive cap. The cap ignites, shooting a small flame down a tube to the gunpowder.
The gunpowder then explodes, launching the projectile out of the barrel. Take a look at How Flintlock Guns Work for more information on these weapons. The next major innovation in the history of firearms was the bullet cartridge. Simply put, cartridges are a combination of a projectile the bullet , a propellant gunpowder, for example and a primer the explosive cap , all contained in one metal package.
Cartridges form the basis for most modern firearms. The backward motion of the gun's bolt also activates its ejection system, which removes the spent shell from the extractor and drives it out of an ejection port. We'll discuss this in more detail later.
But first, let's take a look at how all of this works -- in a revolver. In the last section, we saw that a cartridge consists of a primer, a propellant and a projectile, all in one metal package. This simple device is the foundation of most modern firearms. To see how this works, let's look at a standard double-action revolver. This gun has a revolving cylinder, with six breeches for six cartridges. When you pull the trigger on a revolver, several things happen:.
When the propellant explodes, the cartridge case expands. The case temporarily seals the breech, so all the expanding gas pushes forward rather than backward. Obviously, this sort of gun is easier to use than a flintlock or a percussion cap weapon.
You can load six shots at a time and you only have to pull the trigger to fire. But you're still fairly limited: You have to pull the trigger for every shot, and you need to reload after six shots although some modern revolvers can hold 10 rounds of ammunition. You also have to eject the empty shells from the cylinders manually. In the s, gun manufacturers designed a number of mechanisms to address the problems associated with limited firing ability.
A lot of these early machine guns combined several barrels and firing hammers into a single unit. Among the most popular designs was the Gatling gun , named after its inventor Richard Jordan Gatling. This weapon -- the first machine gun to gain widespread popularity -- consists of six to 10 gun barrels positioned in a cylinder. Each barrel has its own breech and firing pin system. To operate the gun, you turn a crank, which revolves the barrels inside the cylinder.
Each barrel passes under an ammunition hopper , or carousel magazine , as it reaches the top of the cylinder. A new cartridge falls into the breech and the barrel is loaded. Each firing pin has a small cam head that catches hold of a slanted groove in the gun's body.
As each barrel revolves around the cylinder, the groove pulls the pin backward, pushing in on a tight spring. Just after a new cartridge is loaded into the breech, the firing-pin cam slides out of the groove and the spring propels it forward. The pin hits the cartridge, firing the bullet down the barrel. When each barrel revolves around to the bottom of the cylinder, the spent cartridge shell falls out of an ejection port. The Gatling gun played an important role in several 19th century battles, but it wasn't until the early 20th century that the machine gun really established itself as a weapon to be reckoned with.
The Gatling gun is often considered a machine gun because it shoots a large number of bullets in a short amount of time. But unlike modern machine guns, it isn't fully automatic: You have to keep cranking if you want to keep shooting. The first fully automatic machine gun is actually credited to an American named Hiram Maxim.
Maxim's remarkable gun could shoot more than rounds per minute, giving it the firepower of about rifles. The basic idea behind Maxim's gun, as well as the hundreds of machine gun designs that followed, was to use the power of the cartridge explosion to reload and re-cock the gun after each shot.
There are three basic mechanisms for harnessing this power:. Click and hold the trigger to see how a recoil-action gun fires. For simplicity's sake, this animation doesn't show the cartridge loading, extraction and ejection mechanisms. The first automatic machine guns had recoil-based systems. When you propel a bullet down the barrel, the forward force of the bullet has an opposite force that pushes the gun backward. In a gun built like a revolver , this recoil force just pushes the gun back at the shooter.
But in a recoil-based machine gun, moving mechanisms inside the gun absorb some of this recoil force. Here's the process: To prepare this gun to fire, you pull the breech bolt 1 back, so it pushes in the rear spring 2. The trigger sear 3 catches onto the bolt and holds it in place. The feed system runs an ammunition belt through the gun, loading a cartridge into the breech more on this later. The tests that were conducted compared the range and accuracy of the machine gun with the range and accuracy of grapeshot fired by artillery pieces.
Richard Gatling continued to modify and improve the weapon, and in patented a model that was capable of firing rounds per minute. The original Gatling gun was a field weapon which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose no links or belt metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper. Each barrel was loaded and fired during a half-rotation around the central shaft, and the spent cases were ejected during the second half-rotation.
Without equal in the era of hand-operated machine guns , the Gatling gun could fire 3, rounds per minute if externally powered. The weapons weighed about pounds each, while the carriage and limber together weighed about pounds. According to Ordnance Corps data, the larger weapon had a full range of two miles, while the smaller Gatling gun could fire at a one-mile range.
The effective combat range was certainly much less, of course. True gatling guns , being manually operated by a crank, are not considered machineguns and are regulated the same as any other firearm. However, electrically operated Gatling style guns , such as the Minigun, are considered machineguns are are strictly regulated.
Civilians can't own any machineguns made after Gatling guns came in a variety of calibers following the Civil War and these included the. Despite its impressive to rounds per minute rate-of-fire, such an instrument was none-the-less prone to jamming. Gatling used a multi - barrel design when he invented his gun in the s because no one had figured out how to use the exhaust gas from each cartridge firing to power the mechanism to load a new cartridge into the chamber.
Also, the rotation enables you to have but ONE feed of ammunition to x barrels.
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