What if we upscaled this...

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To take this?

>>34860215
>BOOOM overlapped with RRRRRRRRRRRRT overlapped with BANG BANG BANG overlapped with CRACK CRACK CRACK overlapped with WRRRRRRRRR
do you want to give an entire village hearing damage?

You'd have a really really shitty autocannon you couldn't mount on anything smaller than a destroyer.

>>34860274
Have to be alive to have hearing damage.

>>34860208
Why

you have to put it on a boat and at which point youre better off with missiles

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>>34860208
We have.

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>>34862151

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yall mind if i....downscale it?

>>34860208
There is a 5.56mm version called the microgun which is just usable standing. 5.56mm is also one of the least expensive cartridges out there, meaning you can both afford to buy the gun and the ammo for it.

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>>34860215

brrraaaAAAAAAAPPPPPPP

>>34860208
then it would be a gun

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>>34862331
bonerific

>>34862340
>.22 Magnum minigun
>pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew

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>>34862340

>>34862340
>poooooot! <3
DAS CUTE MANE

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>>34864240
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP

>>34860215
Why stop there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boDDY_wLtSE

>>34860318
I think we have a legit use for battleships again. Or at least a cool one.

>>34862331

But the Gau-8 isn't 120mm.

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>>34865715
You would have to use a C130 to haul it around with a Titanium frame to hold it in the plane.
Or... A railcar with an eco friendly gas turbine to propel it.

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>>34862340
That is so DOOM-tier shit, If you build it, they will come.

>>34860208
>>34860215
The long sword from the halo series has a gau type system chambered in 120mm

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>>34864943
Electric fired, caseless ammo, .22 WMR, rocking the casbah at 600-2000 rounds/min.
Cost per round 0.03 each, but your wallet will implode after a few minutes.

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>>34864240
>Cannot keep up sustained fire due the sheer pressure from the cannon slowing down the plane to a stall.

Fucking OP

Not to mention people on the ground only here a distant "Brrrrrrt" after the shells have landed.

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>>34864240
Shitty ass 30mm.

37mm is where its at

>>34867948
Still pretty small.

We need to go B I G G E R.

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>>34860208
Reminds me of a green about this a year or so back

>>34867940
The Russian version is better

> Litterally shakes plane apart when fires
> May or may not damage landing gear
> don't shoot at shit too close, shrapnel is a bitch

>>34860208
>Mounts one on tank.
>Fires about 60 rounds before the barrels are warped
Yeah great idea

>>34868082
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinmetall_120_mm_gun
>Originally the gun had an EFC barrel life of ~1,500 rounds,[26] but with recent advances in propellant technology the average life has increased even further.

120mm gun barrels are designed to withstand heat. With 12 barrels (a necessary amount for a 120mm gatling gun) firing at a speed of 150 RPM (nearly 3 per second) would mean 1 round every 5 seconds per barrel, a completely manageable rate even for long bursts. This could be accelerated to 300 or even 600 RPM for short and very short bursts.

>>34868105
In comparison the GAU-8 has a barrel life of around 2500 rounds per barrel and fires at a variable rate of fire up to 3900 RPM for 1 second bursts, despite the 30mms' impressive size.

>>34867549
Sharif don't like it.

>>34860208
>>34860215

so, we take some Abrams gun barrels and through unholy cybermancy create a feed mechanism to turn them it to a rotary gun needing a small power plant to power the electrical mechanism, have the reliability of the
T-72 auto loader and is prone to overheating.....

1.) what's the worse that could happen ?

2.) where this thing could be mounted ?

>>34868125
1:) The barrels catastrophically overheat due to a technical miscalculation/glitch, warp, explode and ignite the ammunition supply causing damage to it's mounting.

2;) The M61 Vulcan fires a cartridge weighing ~260 g and itself weighs 112 kg.
The GAU-8 fires a cartridge weighing ~700g and itself weighs 281 kg.

A 120mm APFSDS round weighs 19 kg. Using the scaling factors from the smaller gatling-type guns, this gun would weigh anywhere from 10,000 to 20,000 kg.

Land-based and ship-based systems would have no trouble handling this, but if a plane is to carry it, a C-130 has a payload of 19,000 kg and a B-52 has a payload of 31,000 kg.

>>34868125
As for power supply, the GAU-8 uses two 77hp hydraulic motors to power it up to 3900 RPM. This 120mm monster would most likely require a 6000+ hp engine to power it up to similar speeds based on the weight of the barrels and projectiles. However this is not necessary due to the lower rate of fire, and a 3000 hp engine should definitely suffice to rotate the barrels and feed the gun. Such engines can weigh as little as 700 kg.

>>34868169
So we need an AC-5...

>>34868169
>Powered by 8 LS1s

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>>34868157
>B-52 gunship

>>34860208
>DAE le A-10 ><d

Aside from the obvious concerns like recoil, weight, cost, and nothing in existence worth shooting with it, sadly it's impossibru.
Tank guns need the barrels replacing after a few hundred shots. The immense forces warp, wear and scour the barrel. The little doodad on top of the front of the barrel on pic related helps measure this warping. The FCS can compensate up to a point, but eventually the barrel needs replacing. Really bent barrels can make rounds asplode.

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>>34868269
Sorry, pic. This is one of the drawbacks to 55 calibre guns, long barrels create more force and need replacing faster.

This reminds me of the Vulcan from Total Annihilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLL5yio1gXI

Indirect fire

>>34865715
Then use four of them?

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>>34867549
Up to $60 a minute to fire 22.

>pure fucking awesome

>>34868169
For a practical rate of fire that won't destroy the cannon barrels, you wouldn't need that much power. Mount it to a 1500 horsepower turbine engine via a 3 speed transmission.
>Dakka. Moar Dakka. Mostest Dakka.
Reduction gears are your friend here.

>>34867542
That was a mistake on the part of an expanded universe author. Its been retconned to 50mm. Still pretty intense.

>>34868198
>or one volvo red block

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>>34860208
>What if we upscaled this...
40k/10
http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Gatling_Blaster
>The weapon consists of several rotating gun barrels firing 150mm high-explosive shells at an extremely fast rate

>>34868218
AB-52

>>34868157
C5m has 130,000 kg of cargo capacity

That's 115,000 left over for ammo

>tfw 6052 155mm shells on demand

>Tfw everything in 60 square km is gone

Who needs tactical nukes?

>>34869436
This isn't serious anyway. Fuck the C5, i want to have Antonovs

>>34869107
Came here to post this...

>>34860274
silly, it wouldnt make that noise. What you would be hearing would be more like *EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*

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>>34869107
>the sound of firing the Gatling Blaster has been likened to the very fabric of reality being torn apart

>>34868069
You forgot it spools up to full RPM instantly due to being gas operated vs electrical.

>>34860208
>>34860215

probably the closest thing in the real world is a 5 inch deck gun

>>34862340
"A swarm of angry bees" -Ian McCollum

>>34860208
Why not upgrade one of these with multiple >>34860208? GAY in 31.5 inches would be cool

>>34871613
GAU not gay. Fucking autocorrect

>>34868069
>originally designed for ships
>but let's put it on a plane and see what happens

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>>34862340
I want the deep rising gun!

9mm with helical mags. Maybe a back pack or double drums.

>>34868275
So just use 44 caliber barrels.

>>34869436
>>34869635

Put two of them, forward fiering on an airliner and Ill buy it.

one day, one fucking day it will be real
If i could choose a death, it would be by this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01wWMFVTcm4
now i have to play it again

>>34868269
TFW there's nothing in existence worthy of being shot with such a weapon.

CURSE THE GODS FOR INFLICTING SUCH A WORTHLESS REALITY UPON US!

>>34869436
How do we keep the airframe from rattling apart like a poorly made bed in a whorehouse?

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>>34862151

>>34872888
Whens the fucking 187 coming out goddamn it nigger shit cock

>>34860215
BRUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPPUPP