The Gatling Gun actually only saw limited use in the Civil War and wasn’t officially used by the U.S. government until 1866, when it was used by the U.S. Cavalry on the frontier until it was ...

Adding Miniguns to Abrams tanks offers the ability to rapidly bring higher volumes of small-caliber fire to bear, especially ...

The gun weighed 28 pounds with an integral electric motor—only three pounds more than the Minigun all by itself. General Electric’s armament division struck it big when it brought Gatling ...

The US Army is testing a modified version of the M1 Abrams tank, equipped with a high-rate-of-fire M134 Minigun instead of ...

As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few decades ...

It has much less weight and a smaller footprint compared to the larger M134 electrically driven Gatling gun system. The lightest titanium version of the M134 still weighs about 41 pounds. The XM556 ...

Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, inventor of the Gatling gun, which revolutionized modern warfare, died yesterday afternoon in the home of his son-in-law, Hugh. O. Pentecost, at 240 West One Hundred ...