Water cooled miniguns

>>33548288
>cool miniguns with a vehicle's cooling system for sustained fire
Dead in the water. They're not going to destroy engines just to keep a gun cool when the gun doesn't need cooling beyond air cooling to do its job.

>>33548288
>Some guy in the military told him

Sounds legit. I've fired rifles until the barrel has glowed red hot. Like a sith Lords lightsaber. It takes a fucking lot to warp a barrel. Not saying it's not possible, but I've never seen it happen.

>>33548288

Probably wouldn't even need that man. A closed system unattached from the vehicles cooling system would be sufficient. The only problem I see is how do you get a water jacket around a set of rotating barrels without leaks or just another seal to maintain.

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The military needs to baby machine guns because people are depending on them to preform. Suppose you try to flop your cock out and go Rambo and blow apart something or decommission your weapon. Now you and your fellow soldiers in your machine gun crew have thumbs in your asses while you aren't providing cover fire for everyone else. Gets people killed.

>>33548288
Protip the second reason they have all dem spinning barrels instead of one fixed barrel is for the air cooling and reduced speed of heating(each barrel used 1 shot per rotation instead of for every shot).

>>33548288
Pretty sure miniguns can manage if the aircraft is moving. If you shoot from a jeep or a slow moving vehicle you'd have to burst.

ammo isn't going to last long enough to make a water cooled sleeve for the barrels practical and the bolts are already much cooler. You could build any kind of set up you want: radiator, cooling tower, piped refridgerent with a purge vent, but you're going to with you had the equivalent weight in ammo or spent it on a stabilizing system.

>>33548288
The whole point of multiple barrels allow extremely rapid fire without overheating.

Watercooling a mini-gun is attempting to solve a problem thats already been solved.

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>>33548708
This.
Now we can use the brain power we saved to design a bullpup minigun.

>>33548708
>>33548752

Wrong again, idiots.

>he thinks miniguns need to be water cooled
Ringalingaling, retard alert class!
By the time you have a minigun running for so long that heat damage becomes a possibility, whatever you've bolted that minigun too has been in one place for FAR too long. At that point you should have just fired ordinance at the target.