Chain Guns Poll

[Korrd]

You two got a cookie!

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[Koolmo]

Sweet...

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[Kermunos]

The actual chain guns looks like very heavy, big and ugly, like they have supposed to be. who cares about "aerodinamics". For me, these models are good.

[DBoy1612]

WOHO! COOKIES!:P

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[Igiss]

This poll is ancient. The model was long ago changed to original FL, why all this gravedigging...

[Koolmo]

*Points at DBoy*

SOMEONE voted, not saying who, and it got bumped.

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[AlexPaladinStorm]

I dunno who bumped this up here, but this seems the best place for this, and I might as well put this here while it's technically 'fresh' ...

From the 'fairly random' thread I made in this forum here... It is my stance on the term 'chaingun' ...

People call something a 'Chain Gun' without knowing what a real chain gun is. I'm fairly sure it started with those jailbirds Carmack and Romero. Their damned games claimed the multi-barreled personal or vehicle-mounted weapon was a chaingun.

To clarify, a chaingun is a chain-fed single-barreled cannon, usually in the range of 12.7mm to 30mm, mounted on vehicles from Attack Helicopters (Apache) to Infantry Fighting Vehicles (Bradley). For those who actually know these vehicles, they should recall that they have single-barreled projectile weapons.

However, the multi-barreled weapons are uniformly referred to as Gatling Guns, due to the inventor of the original rotary-barrel weapon, Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling. This includes the A-10 'Warthog's massive 30mm, 7-barreled GAU-8 Avenger.

The 'Personal' mutli-barreled gun is technically not very practical. In fact, it's downright unwieldy. The generic term for any Gatling gun that uses the smaller calibers (for instance, 12.7mm/.50BMG) is 'Minigun' (often the kind of multi-barreled weapon used on aircraft). However, the only 'Minigun' type that has ever been wieldable by a single man is a type that uses 5.56mm only known as the XM214.

Presumably, guns of 30mm and larger that are also multibarrel may also be called Autocannons. I'm fairly sure the Avenger has often been called such- because, quite frankly, it's a tank-busting cannon that fires ridiculously fast. That sounds like an Autocannon to me. However, an Autocannon does not necessarily require rotary barrels, and could just be a very large variant of a chaingun or similar single-barreled weapon with a rapid reloading mechanism.

(EDIT: For those who remember StarLancer, they had three forms of 'multi-barrel' (or something like it) weapons. There were the Collapser Guns, there were the Gatling Lasers, and there were the Gatling Plasma Cannons. Not chainguns, but gatlings)

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[Fellow Hoodlum]

Storm, totally agree with you. Did try to explain this months ago, not with that wonderful technical elegance
though.
Rotary cannon uses recoil to reload, chain gun is driven and can extract an dud shell ... But its Freelancer.

Hoodlum

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[Asymptotic]

I guess since the four barrels on the model that exists now don't rotate, only one is being used! So it is a Chain Gun! The other three probably don't add too much to the cost since they don't contain energy cells. My guess on why it's a chain gun is: if you really had to design a weapon like that which exists in Discovery, you would probably have a rotating belt of energy cells, each lining up with the barrel and then firing, allowing them to recharge and provide a significant damage output without overheating.

[AlexPaladinStorm]

Hmm... I like that explanation. I think that kind of design has been used before, or something like it. Maybe the Frag Cannons from Farscape are comparable.

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Currently: Remastering Kiith Somtaaw's Acolyte Fighter. These Homeworld ships need some Sirius work done on them. ^.-

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For peace throughout the colonies! We will never forget..

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