Watching the M134 Minigun six-cylinder machine gun firing lightning fast

M134 has a strong firepower and long fire retention times (if fully charged) at excellent shot speeds (over 3000 shots per minute).

The gun used in the clip is the GAU-2B / A DeGroat Tactical variant of the mobile version with a backpack for rotating the motor.

In this clip the Fullmag boys decided to let the M134 Minigun machine gun to try with ballistic gel. Everything happened so fast that it was impossible to imagine, and without slow shots we could not imagine what had happened.

The minigun shoots at speed.

The advantage of the M134 is its powerful firepower and long fire retention times (if fully charged) at excellent shot speeds (over 3,000 shots per minute). bullet. Although a mobile weapon, the M134 has a tremendous amount of damage, in addition to the ability to shoot down infantry, the gun can also destroy light armored vehicles, small warships, helicopters, destroying fortifications. and machinery.

M134 fired from the helicopter.

However, the M134 was heavy, so it was very difficult to use in melee combat, so the speed of fire was very fast, so the infantry carrying their legs could not function effectively as they were mounted on the vehicle or aircraft to fire. attached.

Because of the use of engines, before combat, soldiers need to be more sophisticated than other types of firearms, so they must always be secure in order to fire at any time. One point worth noting for the M314 in particular and the Gatling revolvers in particular is that it takes up to 0.5 seconds to start the engine, and then the low fire readiness.