All right, we get asked all the time. You know, "What about the minigun? What about the minigun?"
Overseas, you're running your soft humvees or whether you're going around through Baghdad out in the desert wherever
Normally your humvees would we'd be running either a M2 50 cal on top or Mark-19 you start getting into areas
Deep in Baghdad
We're in a lot of urban area we've gotten away from using the 40-millimeter grenade launchers either the Mark-19 or the Mark 47
Simply because you're literally sometimes so close to those buildings that those 40 millimeter rounds don't have time to actually arm
Before they hit the buildings now
what does that mean what that means is now off the front of that concrete building bouncing off and coming back to me [are] a
Little 40 millimeter bombs landing all over the place not real good when you got a bunch of humvees with assault is
Loaded on top of them 50 cals great great weapon because that Ma deuce it will literally
Fly right through those concrete walls deeper inside the buildings
Swing arms on the vehicles. We would have the 240 machine guns of the saws
They bring a lot to the fight however
If you want to break the enemy's morale
bigger than anything else there is nothing on the battlefield better than the breath of Allah, the
minigun got that name running around in Sader City
ictf and the green berets that were being advisors for them. We'd mount these on our humvees
different deployments
[it'd] be on the lead recon vehicle other units would run them one vehicle back so that they could protect that lead vehicle
But no matter what it was when you got in that gunfight?
Yeah, trace is going here. [coming] both ways when you open up with this garden hose right here
3,000 rounds a minute running downrange it is literally a garden hose. You're just painting the windows that you want now
They won't go through the concrete Walls
but and I saw it happen in Sader City
You start a map at that third-floor window even if he goes the guy in the pajamas cuts back inside the room
You work a couple hundred rounds inside that window they start going off all the walls inside the room bouncing around
Making a nice little food processor form it was a great great gun runs off of the two actual motors
One motor will be on top of the ammo can mounted and behind you in the humvee
It's got a hopper [three] [thousand] rounds in it per can
The motor on top of the can is pushing the ammo and pulling it up out of the can
the other motor up here is pulling the ammo up through the food chute and
rotating the barrels
Runs off of electricity because it's fed the Mount into the vehicle
There's no recoil in your hands at all that the vehicle is absorbing all of it
And it's not a impulse like the ma deuce that would actually get the vehicle rocking. It's a constant push
It's a very very smooth weapon to shoot and that's why the door gunners like to use them on the helicopters
my particular deployments
We had the fixed rate guns that would only shoot 3,000 rounds a minute
There are other versions of the mini guns where it's variable from a lower rate to a much higher rate very very easy
Flip up the Safety switch it
basically covers your trigger and
After that you grab onto these spades you push that button down
And you just hold on you just start writing your name on the side of the buildings beautiful beautiful thing
some point .62 great great round
The actual minigun ammo is a hard link in other words. It's not your regular 240 Mm
Or the links are actually a little bit harder
So the belt doesn't stretch
The other difference is it will come linked with a tracer one every ten rounds instead of one every four.
so one every five
one in four mix
Great great weapon system, the only downside is you've got to maintain it. You've got to keep it clean
Yeah, you definitely want to be careful of anybody turning these barrows, what setting in Mortville?
We would actually take a big orange [harold] screwdriver and set it down through here
So people would know [that] the gun was hot, Dave you got anything you want to add
Everything you said I didn't hear the word accuracy you talked about the impulse of that gun in that vehicle rocking, but this thing. That's smooth
Extremely accurate Karl: very, very accurate Dave: and we can mount any optic on this thing with the [real] accessory nighttime daytime
lasers Karl: run the big Surefire
Hellfire
spotlight on it with the IRL
our machine guns we're always taught 6 to9 round burst net were designed to get a tracer or two out there for spot
They sing a high rate of fire it is [it] is deadly accurate. Breath of Allah. We're not the ones who named it.
Karl: We didn't name it. They did