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While watching the news tonight I spotted a HMMWV armament-carrier variant I've never before seen or heard of: one armed with a minigun! (they usually carry either a .30cal/7.62mm M240 machinegun, or a .50cal/12.7mm M2HB heavy machinegun, or a 40mm Mk. 19 automatic grenade launcher, or a TOW missile launcher) As I understand, gun-Humvees are being used in confined alleyways where Abrams tanks and Bradley IFVs cannot maneuver, and a minigun would work wonders in that environment...Found some pics...Jonathan Nikiforovs. Milepost 180, CP Belleville Sub.Repainter for Yonder Locomotive Works.
"A crictic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased - he hates all creative people equally." - Lazarus Long
Interesting.I have a photo in a book somewhere that shows an air defense version witha turret mounting four Stingers and a .50 cal minigun.
"Hold tight,feel the drivers bite,hear the whistle moan.Engine rockin' to the left and right,vibratin' in my bones.Once the locomotive steals your soul,you got a Casey Jones!"---Ian"Lemmy"Kilmister
>AFAIK a minigun has quite a high rate of fire. Where do they >keep all the necessary ammunition?Well, the M134 minigun has a rate of fire of about 4,000 rounds per minute: this compares to the 1,200 RPM of the MG3(modernized version of the WWI-era MG42), which has the highest ROF among conventional machineguns...As for the ammo, obviously they'd store it inside the Humvee...BTW, I just learned why minigun-armed Humvees are starting to appear: apparently, Army aviation feels that the 7.62mm NATO (.30cal) cartridge fired by the M134 has insufficient range and power for use on helicopters (especially since it has lower effective range than an RPG), so they're going back to conventional .50cal machineguns: another reason for the return to a conventional MG is because they want a weapon that is still usable after the aircraft crashes and loses power (unlike conventianal automatic weapons, gatling guns are driven by an electric motor)...Here are two more images I found, apparently taken on a firing range back in the States... Jonathan Nikiforovs. Milepost 180, CP Belleville Sub.Repainter for Yonder Locomotive Works.
"A crictic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased - he hates all creative people equally." - Lazarus Long
I found the book with the shots of the AA HMMWV.It mounted a 7.62 gat,not .50cal.It was called the Avenger,developed by Boeing.I could swear I saw a pic of a prototype AFV mounting a minigun of .50 cal.
"Hold tight,feel the drivers bite,hear the whistle moan.Engine rockin' to the left and right,vibratin' in my bones.Once the locomotive steals your soul,you got a Casey Jones!"---Ian"Lemmy"Kilmister
Jonathan Nikiforovs.
