what is the name of the gun in predator1 that was chopping down the forest with a revolving barrel?

Answer 1

I don't know if the one in Predator was real or not, BUT! They do make one chambered for the 5.56 round as well as 7.62, 50 cal. and 20-30mm. Dillon makes them and they have one that is battery powered and portable. I take that back, it was GE and it was called the X214 mini and chambered in 5.56 it was experimented with by special forces but they couldn't get it under 60 pounds, for gun gear and 1000 rounds.

Answer 2

Sorry but Grizzly is wrong on a couple of things. The recoil force is in the hundreds of pounds, there is no free lunch in physics, this is the law of conservation of linear momentum. m1v1 = m2v2. The same momentum that is transferred to each bullet is transferred to the gun, but in the opposite direction.

The empties and links actually just pour out of the bottom of the action. They aren't going that fast. 4,000 rounds per minute is about 66 rounds a second, in 7.62 you get what... 15 rounds a foot on the belt? So let's be generous and call that six feet of belt per second. That's how fast the empties leave, 6 feet per second, because they are being wound round the action and that's how fast they are coming in. To get 6 feet per second drop something 2'3".

This isn't a gas/electric gun, it's electric. No gas.

Now a Hughes EX-34 chain gun, on the other hand, kicks the empties down a tube to the lower right of the barrel as it slams the action shut. If the vehicle is running or the batteries are fully charged those empties can cause some damage. At one time we were test firing an L95A1 with a blank fire adapter and the empties were punching through the drywall ten yards away. This particular type of chain gun is unreliable, bits of metal break off the innards and jam the darned thing.

If you want to see a M134 ejecting just watch The Matrix, that was a real minigun mounted on a real UH1 fuselage and that's really what the empties look like as they pour out.

If you want information 'from the horse's mouth' then go to the Dillon Aero web site http://dillonaero.com/ because they make them now. They have a couple of nice videos.

Sorry if the truth is less fun than the rhetoric.

Answer 3

The only true name for that one is “MOVIE PROP”.
But the movie prop is fashioned after a 7.62 x 51 Electric Minigun.
It would be totally useless out side of a vehicle that could carry ammo that toy can burn per engagement, let alone to supply the power for the electric driven motor.
That not to mention trying to hold and control it either firing or not firing, for she is by no means light even when empty.

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A minigun is a multibarreled machine gun with a high rate of fire (several thousand RPM), employing Gatling-style rotating barrels. More technically, a minigun is an externally powered Gatling gun of rifle caliber, though the term is sometimes used more generally to refer to guns of similar rates of fire and configuration regardless of power source. Although the term was originally specific to a particular weapon produced by General Electric, it has since been applied to a number of other weapons, many of which were derived from that design. The "mini" of the name is in comparison to designs that use a similar firing mechanism but 20 mm or larger shells, such as General Electric's earlier M61 Vulcan


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigun


That my opinion.

D58

Answer 4

It's a eletric operatered gattling gun. As mentioned in other answers they are mounted weapon systems. Nicnames include the mini tat which fired a 7.62 nato round ( 308 Winchester ) found on helicopers such as the cobra. Larger versons like the vulcan cannon were found in the DC-3 Weapons platform nicnamed puff the magic dragon. The hand held model is pure hollywood. The amount of ammo needed and power pack required to fire the weapon. Couldn't be packed on a mans back. let alone two guys i maybe wrong but i believe the mini tat fired 1,800 rounds a min. thats a lot of brass and weight to be slingin on a man back.

Answer 5

That is the M134 "Minigun" A 7.62 x 51 mm electrically powered Gatling gun. The act of holding it while firing is impossible. The gun creates hundreds of pounds of recoil, fires hundreds of pounds of ammunition every minute, (rate of fire can reach 6,000 rounds per minute - 100 rounds every second) & requires a (rather large) battery to function. One minute worth of ammunition in the more common 4,000 rpm setting weighs approx. 285 lbs. Also the spent shells eject so quickly and violently that you would need to wear ballistic protection to escape injury. Jesse Ventura even said that the force of the quickly rotating barrels alone made it difficult to hold on to and he's a big dude and was firing blanks. Not easy to lug through the jungle, or even down the street.

I believe Grizzly is right about the ejection in normal use, but for the movie the proper mount was absent and it was reported that the shells created quite a danger to the operator, could be faulty info though. As far as no recoil I must disagree. Several sources document the peak recoil force at about 270 lb ft. including http://world.guns.ru/machine/minigun-e.htm
The minigun uses electricity almost entirely to operate although recoil does play a small part in operation. No matter how much they were to use recoil for operation and what recoil reduction they were to implement dozens and dozens of rounds of .308 rifle being fired every second would still create a monster amount of recoil.

Answer 6

The generic term is a minigun. It is essentially a powered Gattling Machine Gun.

I am not intimately familiar with the minigun, but I am not aware of any handheld models like the one in Predator. All the models I am familiar with are mounted on a machine of some sort (planes, helicopters, etc..). I'm not sure if a handheld minigun is a fabrication of Hollywood or not.

I threw in the Wiki link for you below.

Answer 7

"Jack" got it mostly right, so far.
The M-134 Gatling "Mini-Gun" is a 7,62 NATO, multiple-barreled electrically operated machine gun capable of variable rate of fire, maximum 6,000 rpm, and is manufactured by General Electric Corp.
If not mounted in a vehicle on a solid mount, the M-134 is usually fired from a tripod mount. Because of its' gas/electric operating mechanism, it creates almost NO recoil and, due to its' design, in proper operation, the spent casings are ejected downward from the front of the receiver, in no way endangering the operator.
I know this as an eye witness, having seen one of these weapons fired at a full-auto "shoot-out" weekend here in Arizona.

Answer 8

Gatling gun.

Answer 9

That was a gattling gun. I don't remeber if it had a name or not. But that was "Doc's" gun.

Answer 10

20 mm chain gun
or mini cannon brought to you by general elect they bring good things to life