+M M. I don’t know who the “bad guys” are in the scene at 2:40 , but the guy remaining standing while being repeatedly hit with 40mm bullets defies all believability.
@@stingingcashew2321 you mean those rebels who fought against the lawful civic government attempts to progress the country from a backwater state to modern in record time to ensure freedom from western control
The words are genuinely his but how genuine they are I can't say. I feel like every arms dealer makes a similar pitch. Though he did go on to invent non war related stuff.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Seems similar to the invention of dynamite. I mean, I can honestly see his point of view. "Man if I make something so deadly, surely they wouldn't be dumb enough to continue fighting!" *A few decades later* Alright boys, we're going to be running out of this trench and all run straight toward the machine guns! Surely some of us will make it...
@@jrt7357 And the "Goyo The Boy General" also used the gating guns scene were the U.S Gunboats Started to Rain the bullets on the Filipino troops on San fabian
Gatling did not intend for his weapon to be used as a way to reduce the size of armies, more the timespan in which armies fight. If you can cut down the enemies' army of 70.000 men in a day rather than in 2 weeks of hard fighting your army will be less prone to die of disease, malnourishment and drought.
He also believed that the weapon he developed would be so terrifying, no army would ever want to go to war... little did he know that he was actually onto something... about 80yrs later... a weapon that matched that intent was tested in the US Desert, and then deployed against Japan... and for the next 45yrs... two armies with stockpiles of the things refused to be the one to shoot first... knowing what terror they had at their disposal...
I love the Gatling gun sequence in Hell On Wheels. Two sides shooting it out with Winchesters evenly matched, one side gets a gatling gun up and running, game over, complete massacre.
Not a western reference, but 2 Gatling guns were used in the battle of Ulundi on July 4, 1879, by the Brits, sort of a payback for their defeat at Isandlwana. It ended the Zulu wars. Had they been used there and Rorke's Drift, might have made a good movie scene. And may I say, another fine Commentary, Johnny!
I once saw a gatling gun - and was even allowed to inspect it close up - in Germany, at the Munich Museum's "aviation outpost" at the old Luftwaffe base at Oberschleißheim. The F-4 Phantom on display there was just undergoing cleaning and restoration and the M-61 had been removed from its ventral gun pod.
Mass attrition failed miserably against automatic weapons. What overcame machine guns was armored vehicles (tanks) and indirect artillery fire. Gatling guns are still in service - they just went from hand cranked to electric or hydraulic drive (because they can fire much faster than a recoil operated gun).
Right. The author should have said that mass attrition TRIED to defeat the gatling gun. In reality it had disastrous results. You are right. Ultimately it was armored vehicles that defeated the gatling gun.
Note: Soviet navy (now russians) had gattling guns that rotate with gas from fired catrage (it had really high rate of fire but it was prone to jaming and made really high vibration and tend to be really dangerus in prolonge fire to mount or aircraft (it was mounted on MiG -27).
Gatling guns in air use have the added bonus of ejecting dud rounds. Instead of this stopping the action. This is the same reason for the use of chainguns
they tried to use artillery not attrition. i don't know how you guys can seriously think generals were just bloodthirsty beasts animated by the devil or something trying to kill as much of their own soldiers as possible.
Back around 1900 or 1901 an experiment was done at Springfield Armory when they installed an electric motor on a Gatling gun. They got essentially the same rate as the Vulcan Minigun of Vietnam War fame. (And were shocked by the result too!) The problem was, they didn't know what to do with it. It was useless for field work without a reliable electric power source. They thought maybe it would be useful for fixed fortifications but the matter was eventually dropped, the Maxim gun was already making it's influence known. By the way, you don't get an idea from movies just how big military Gatling's from the 1870's and 1880's really are, you have to see them up close. Almost the size of a Civil War Napoleon cannon.
They were better served on huge steam ships that had extra boilers and turbines or engines for electrical power generation to make practical as early anti-fac weapons and 1st generation AAs😎
I'm surprised that neither the video nor any comments has mentioned that the gatling gun was the direct ancestor of the M-61 Vulcan cannon (20mm) and all the other modern rotary cannons such as the M-134 minigun (7.62mm) or the GAU-8 (30mm) on the A-10. As I understand it, when a rotary cannon was proposed in the late 1940s a proof of concept experiment was done by attaching an electric motor to a surviving gatling gun (possibly one of the late models chambered in .30 Krag) to see how fast the mechanism would work. It got up to several thousand rounds per minute which proved the idea would work. This is not that surprising since Dr. Gatling patented an electrically driven version in the 1890s.
Correct, I'm an ex Vulcan gunner '83-'86 in the Army. Seeing the need for a higher rate of fire on the forthcoming jets and not wanting to add even more guns on aircraft to achieve the effect plus they wanted a larger caliber than the .50 and explosive rounds they developed the M61 in conjunction with General Electric. Testing started shortly after the end of WW2 when Army ordnance took a Gatling gun that was in storage and bolted an electric motor on it and went from there, the first aircraft to utilize the M61 cannon was the F104 Starfighter in 1959. However they weren't the first one's to bolt an electric motor on a Gatling gun, that honor goes to Richard Gatling himself when in the 1880's he experimented with it.
@@negativeiqpoints396 I appreciate the sentiment but no thanks are necessary, it was an honor and a privilege to wear the uniform of my country and those who came before me. Just enjoy your freedoms and don't trample others freedoms and that's thanks enough for me.
How come, in all those westerns utilizing the Gatling gun, you never see any horses getting hit by bullets? Those gunners must be highly proficient at their job, huh? ;-)
+Robin. Well, they have to put the “No animal was hurt during the making of this picture” disclaimer at the end credits. Or else they have the Humane Society to deal with.
Interesting fact that Gatling expected that after equping his rotary weapon with electric engine ( first electric engines were made in this tome) his weapon could reach rate of fire 4000 RPM ..what is Today prefered rate of fire in .m134 D and M134G
The most factual use of Gatling Guns was in the TV Movie the " Rough Riders". Lt. Parker's guns being used to attack San Jaun Hill. It was the first time the US Army used them for close support against enemy positions.
(Merely adding information) and those Gatling's were quite effective not just at San Juan, but also capturing Havana. Much to the dismay of the Spanish, who had Maxim guns that are allegedly/supposedly "superior" to the Gatling, in every way, according to every weapons specialist, ever. Parker's Gatling's were so effective in fact that Parker, who was also the one who advocated bringing the guns and over-all creating the detachment in the first place, was basically made in charge of anything and everything that had to do with machinegun procurement/tactics/strategy/logistics/everything of the U.S army. Further, not one to shy from staying up to date he went with the American expeditionary forces to France in WW1, and not only visited French & British machinegun units, but got into action again. Over-all he became quite the worldwide authority on anything that had to do with machine guns. Pretty badass.
@@aaronleverton4221 Except in that war, a.k.a likely the user. Of course, anywhere else (on the Western Front WW1 for instance) I'd agree wholeheartedly.
The adding of an electric motor to the gatling gun was suggested much earlier than many think. But by that time the machinegun was taking over so it never went anywhere. Makes you wonder what would have happened if it was followed through with.
To be fair, the tech and infrastructure to make the electric gatling gun a feasible weapon in the 1910's wasn't there yet: electricity wasn't yet portable at the time which meant it would've been stuck in ships or stationary defensive positions, and by that time recoil-operated weapons did the same thing for cheaper, smaller, and lighter, It was only in the jet age where they needed a gun that could fire as fast as possible did they resurrect the electric gatling into the form we know today.
The American civil war particularly Siege of st pertersburg is arguably the first modern battle and war as underground mines where used submerged vessales machine guns and ww1 style human wave charges were used Almost a exact depiction of what ww1 would become
@@charlesuplifted5216 the very first prototype of trench warfare and explosives under your enemy was the siege of Vienna the Ottomans dug trenches under the city and blew up powdered charges to destroy parts of the wall
@@giovannicervantes2053 What about the Siege of Chandia? Really, you could list a hundred sieges with trenches and mines. WW1 was just one big siege (on the western front), with both sides being the besieging one.
@@giovannicervantes2053 There was a second one in 1683. The more famous one with the Winged Hussars and what not. Its not important for this matter, both were sieges which used mines. My point still stands, this wasnt a new phenomenon. Mines to blow up castle walls were used a long time, as were trenches to protect against gun fire (although I dont know, where the first reported use of them was)
Fun fact the minigun premise of a electronically driven multi barreled machine gun isn’t actually a 60s era design there were electrical Gatling guns invented way back when it was created but all of them were almost exclusively mounted on ships of the time where there was a reliable and suitable amount of power from the steam engines so while we think of the minigun as something that was never done before there actually were plenty of attempts at making one out of a Gatling gun but power constraints meant the gun would only be practical on ships where power needs were met properly
Remember to never mistake a Gattling weapon for a Hotchkiss revolver cannon, yes they look alike despite the caliber but the internals are completely different... And there's the whole idea 37mm was the smallest caliber allowed to carry an explosive payload at the time. Also the Hotchkiss barrels are stationary when fireing while Gattlings spin continiously
You have to feel sorry for Dr. Gatling. He had no idea what kind of sheer cruelty and evil he would unveil with the development of his weapon. Gatling seriously underestimated a military leadership’s willingness and excitement to sacrifice as many lives as possible.
I dunno, I don't really think the invention of weapons is negative or positive. It simply changed how war worked. If he hadn't, someone else would've. Just because the British, French, and Germans thought mass-wave tactics would solve the problem, doesn't mean Gatling is to blame at all.
yeah sure because that's what the military leadership thinks. good thing you're not in that field because you'd fail miserably with those kind of nonsensical thoughts about how thing work.
The gatling gun in book of eli was one of my favorites as it shows Gary Oldman’s character was not only able to afford to expend ammunition in a full auto gun when every resource is scarce but he can do it with an antique weapon as well
I think there is something to be said that that in Gatling's time more soldiers died of disease than wounds. Military camps were a breeding ground for all types of illness and by Gatling's logic smaller armies would mean less total deaths, even if the battlefield casualty rate was higher. I think another factor to consider is that most conflicts going on at that time were colonial, and if he invented it in 1861 he probably had spent several years working on the design before the Civil War started. I suspect that he had the west in mind when he started working on it, and he certainly wasn't planning on selling them to the Sioux. His logic actually starts making sense in this context, where only one side would have access to these weapons.
A big misconception is that the Gatling was the only mechanically operated machine gun when there was in fact a rich and varied technology before the maxim. Like the agar, Gardner, Hotchkiss, nordenfelt, speaking of which there's a great scene with a nordenfelt if you found examples of non-gatling mechanical machine guns that would be an awesome video.
Surprised you didn't have a scene from Rough Riders. That movie does a great job showing the Gatling gun, Colt Potato digger and Maxim guns in action. One of the few wars all three weapon systems were used.
While it's mechanically outclassed by later firearms development the gatling gun is all in all just a beauty. From overall design to just the mechanical relation between crank and firing it is just another example of why the 19th century was the era of beautiful guns.
One thing that people need to remember is even though the casualty numbers in the American Civil War don’t sound like they’re that big. At least when you consider the literal millions of people that were killed in the first World War™ alone. You have to take him into consideration how much smaller the American population was at the time of the Civil War. Various historians and academics, and all that stuff have theorized that if America had the population density of today that it did in the 1860s and they still went through those extreme levels of casualties it is theorized that roughly anywhere between 6 1/2 to 7,000,000 Americans would’ve lost their lives. So even though the 600,000 or whatever the number was doesn’t seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things it was massive back in the 1860s. No, obviously I’m not trying to devalue the lives lost. Every single American life that was lost is tragic. It’s way too many.
@1:11 tyvm, Johnny. Thank you for correctly identifying and applying the term "ironically" here. It's ridiculously overwhelming just how many people/RUclipsrs incorrectly call things ironic. Like at this point, the definition has affectively changed to "coincidence with an inverted outcome", when it is much more nuanced than that. Stay in school, chilren!
If I remember rightly Clint comes across a gattling not only in Jose Wales but also in Two Mules for Sister Sarah, that time in Mexico against the French.
At the San Juan Heights in July of 1898, the 1st Volunteer Cavalry under Lt Col Theodore Roosevelt, were outfitted with both Gatlings and two privately purchased Colt 1895 machine guns. Well they were lighter and easier therefore to manhandle, Roosevelt noted in his book *The Rough Riders* they weren't without fault when compared to the Gatlings. *"These Colt automatic guns were not, on the whole, very successful...they proved more delicate than the Gatlings, and very readily got out of order."*
Fun Fact, Mini Guns are called as such due to being down chambered to reduce weight for carry capability and increase ammo availability on demand. The Gatling Guns you see mounted on vehicles or emplacements are of higher caliber and heavier with more difficult ammo, but naturally still cuts the enemy into confetti a fair bit better than Angry German Man's Buzzsaw, though that too is a damn good weapon.
Bit surprised no one got smart and attached the crank handle to a cam shaft and foot pedal so the gun's firing mechanism was operated by foot, simultaneously freeing both hands for aiming and eliminating the jerky movement with firing. The mechanism was standard for rudimentary lathes and other spinning wheels, and given the number of crafts people around at that time, I find it surprising no one innovated upon the design
This is the first type of rotary weapon in which can fire a dozen bullets from magazines and can be operated using a crank shaft, this gun was used in the Civil War, the Boshin War, Boer Wars and the Philippine-American War, among other wars in the late-19th century. In the years have passed, it was succeeded by gas and later, electric-powered rotary cannons that can fire dozens of bullets or sabots, they were commonly used in fighter jets and warships, and later on, the miniguns.
I don’t remember the movie but it was a 70ies spaghetti western with every reb being gunned down in a Confederate fort by the lead character seizing a Gatling in one of the towers. In the end the reb flag came down as well…
@@Helperbot-2000 I am not really familiar with either weapon, but a lot of the military grunts have been shown as grateful for the 30mm gatling gun equipped A10 saving them from a tight spot, or making their job a lot less risky. It appears very effective to me.
@@wmden1 partly, theres a stark contrast between veterans whove watched it perform a ground attack, and those whove had the misfortune of experiencing performing close air support and firing hell down right around them, its a very inaccurate gun for one, and the plane has killed more friendly troops than ALL other us planes COMBINED, but my more important thought is that it is incapable of destroying tanks like it was designed to, it had severe difficulties disabling, let alone destroying tanks under optimal conditions firing at stationary tanks one after another without threat of retaliation under its live fire test. (firing at m47 pattons simulating t55s) anything stronger than that is effectively immune against it. while for firing at infantry it is needlessly oversized, and its near half the firerate of the m61 while beeing twice as heavy, making the m61 far better suited to firing at infantry (aswell as lightly armored vehicles like IFVs and APCs)
one thing confuses me.... everyone says the gatling gun wasn't a true automatic weapon because it was "hand cranked." But maxim did fit an electric motor to the M1893 giving it a rate of fire of 1500 RPM. this was deemed "impractical" due to its dependence on either a battery or generator... (though i COULD see it being very effective if used on a riverboat or train, drawing off the steam driven dynamos.
The trailer for TW Fall of the Samurai always got me - showing a samurai training with his sword for life, only to be moved down almost as an afterthought by a gatling gun
Custer had the use of two Gatling Guns but left them behind because he felt that going over rough terrain - they would slow him down. Had he brought them, I'm thinking that the way things worked out - they probably wouldn't have made that much difference. Custer wanted to hit the Indian village from both ends. He had Reno attack from the South and he was to attack from the North. Benteen had been sent to scout an area to the west and the pack train with their supplies was coming up. So - Reno was repulsed, fell back into some trees and then across the river and up onto some bluffs. He'd had Bloody Knife's brains splattered all over his face and was personally undone. Benteen came up with the pack train - which is where the Gatling Guns would probably have been if they'd been brought along. He took charge of the position and worked to defend it against the Indians. Most of the Indians left though - which was to go get Custer. These three parts of Custer's command - Reno's, Benteen's and the Pack Train - having seen how many guys the Indian's had made one attempt to link up with Custer and were driven back on their positions atop the bluff. Here - the Gatling Guns that would have been with the Pack Train - certainly would have helped Reno and Benteen hold their position and guard the Pack Train but wouldn't have made any difference to Custer's portion of the Command. .
its not a tank killer in the slightest, it is nearly incapable of disabling (let alone destroying) older t55s, even just more modern t55s and anything newer is effectively completely immune against it
Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite and felt so guilty about the loss of life (and the tarnishment of his name after a false obituary) that he created the Nobel Peace prize........Doctor Gatling had to be a massive yutz to think his invention would decrease fatalities in war
The only thing I dislike about Gatling guns in movies is how unrealistically reliable they are. The real ones were notorious for jamming. Rattle...rattle..blamma...blamma...blamma...CLUNK!
Gatling guns (like all machine guns) are very particular about their ammunition. WW1 pilots used to gauge every cartridge in the belts feeding their Vickers guns for that very reason.
Isn't it amazing that horses are immune to Gatling gun fire in western movies.
Equine privilege.
They were borned and raised different
They’re protected by lawyers!
I hate the way the used to trip horses in the old movies. Glad they no longer do that
Known to few, horses have the best agents and top notch contracts so they no longer will even read scripts where their horsey character gets smoked.
Did you know that when the bad guys get their hands on one it becomes the most inaccurate weapon in history
+M M. I don’t know who the “bad guys” are in the scene at 2:40 , but the guy remaining standing while being repeatedly hit with 40mm bullets defies all believability.
Imperial Stormtrooper blaster: Hold my coffee...
@@Clipgatherer bro a Gatling gun does not use 40 mm shells, more like 45 colt
Clearly you haven't seen The last Samurai
@@stingingcashew2321 you mean those rebels who fought against the lawful civic government attempts to progress the country from a backwater state to modern in record time to ensure freedom from western control
"Hey guys, I got an idea. If we make the guns shoot faster, it'll surely lead to less casualties, right?.......right?"
The words are genuinely his but how genuine they are I can't say. I feel like every arms dealer makes a similar pitch. Though he did go on to invent non war related stuff.
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Seems similar to the invention of dynamite. I mean, I can honestly see his point of view. "Man if I make something so deadly, surely they wouldn't be dumb enough to continue fighting!"
*A few decades later*
Alright boys, we're going to be running out of this trench and all run straight toward the machine guns! Surely some of us will make it...
Yes I'm always more inclined to damn the generals and politicians over the inventors
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Without a doubt.
Either it'll require less soldiers, because it counts as more guns with its rapid-firing, or it'll kill more people, and faster!
Imagine being the guy playing the bagpipe while your friends die from artillery and machine gun fire
The bagpipe has got to be the world's ugliest sounding instrument! Eeeeeek!!
What movie is that clip from?
@@ThisNewHandleSystemSucks from the movie “War Horse” I believe
Sometimes the bagpipe is enough to keep people going..
It was considered dishonorable to shoot the one holding the drum 🥁, trumpet 🎺 and flag 🚩
Gatling gun was also used during the Philippine-American war but was hindered because of the uneven terrain especially the mountainous regions.
It was featured in "Heneral Luna" for a short bit
@@jrt7357 And the "Goyo The Boy General" also used the gating guns scene were the U.S Gunboats Started to Rain the bullets on the Filipino troops on San fabian
"UNLEASH HELL!"
-General Arthur MacArthur
@@Coco3Pirata rararararaararararrara
Gatling did not intend for his weapon to be used as a way to reduce the size of armies, more the timespan in which armies fight. If you can cut down the enemies' army of 70.000 men in a day rather than in 2 weeks of hard fighting your army will be less prone to die of disease, malnourishment and drought.
Truly a humanist lol
He also believed that the weapon he developed would be so terrifying, no army would ever want to go to war... little did he know that he was actually onto something... about 80yrs later... a weapon that matched that intent was tested in the US Desert, and then deployed against Japan... and for the next 45yrs... two armies with stockpiles of the things refused to be the one to shoot first... knowing what terror they had at their disposal...
He truly underestimated how many men commanders would throw away in front of machine guns.
@@alexandergonzalez1167 yup. But the moment the leaders of those countries realized they could be wiped from existence, his vision became reality.
@@Tank50us And those things you mentioned have prevented more wars then the UN has.
I love the Gatling gun sequence in Hell On Wheels. Two sides shooting it out with Winchesters evenly matched, one side gets a gatling gun up and running, game over, complete massacre.
Delaney was a fucking badass if you ask me
The mass gatling gun scene in Last Samurai was pretty poignant, signifying the ending of Samurai order.
SHYROYAMA
Apart from the fact that the Americans were never involved, it was the British and French
No shit. Big brain analysis.
The fact Tom Cruise went through the Civil War and thought that charge was a good idea...
@RR Extra Who the fuck is talking about the Maxim,
Not a western reference, but 2 Gatling guns were used in the battle of Ulundi on July 4, 1879, by the Brits, sort of a payback for their defeat at Isandlwana. It ended the Zulu wars. Had they been used there and Rorke's Drift, might have made a good movie scene. And may I say, another fine Commentary, Johnny!
Thank you. And thank you for adding some additional information 🙏
@@JohnnyJohnsonEsq 1:24 what movie is this?
@coolvids2022 tremors
I once saw a gatling gun - and was even allowed to inspect it close up - in Germany, at the Munich Museum's "aviation outpost" at the old Luftwaffe base at Oberschleißheim.
The F-4 Phantom on display there was just undergoing cleaning and restoration and the M-61 had been removed from its ventral gun pod.
Mass attrition failed miserably against automatic weapons. What overcame machine guns was armored vehicles (tanks) and indirect artillery fire.
Gatling guns are still in service - they just went from hand cranked to electric or hydraulic drive (because they can fire much faster than a recoil operated gun).
Right. The author should have said that mass attrition TRIED to defeat the gatling gun. In reality it had disastrous results. You are right. Ultimately it was armored vehicles that defeated the gatling gun.
Note: Soviet navy (now russians) had gattling guns that rotate with gas from fired catrage (it had really high rate of fire but it was prone to jaming and made really high vibration and tend to be really dangerus in prolonge fire to mount or aircraft (it was mounted on MiG -27).
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Gatling guns in air use have the added bonus of ejecting dud rounds. Instead of this stopping the action. This is the same reason for the use of chainguns
they tried to use artillery not attrition. i don't know how you guys can seriously think generals were just bloodthirsty beasts animated by the devil or something trying to kill as much of their own soldiers as possible.
Back around 1900 or 1901 an experiment was done at Springfield Armory when they installed an electric motor on a Gatling gun. They got essentially the same rate as the Vulcan Minigun of Vietnam War fame. (And were shocked by the result too!)
The problem was, they didn't know what to do with it. It was useless for field work without a reliable electric power source. They thought maybe it would be useful for fixed fortifications but the matter was eventually dropped, the Maxim gun was already making it's influence known.
By the way, you don't get an idea from movies just how big military Gatling's from the 1870's and 1880's really are, you have to see them up close. Almost the size of a Civil War Napoleon cannon.
They were better served on huge steam ships that had extra boilers and turbines or engines for electrical power generation to make practical as early anti-fac weapons and 1st generation AAs😎
I'm surprised that neither the video nor any comments has mentioned that the gatling gun was the direct ancestor of the M-61 Vulcan cannon (20mm) and all the other modern rotary cannons such as the M-134 minigun (7.62mm) or the GAU-8 (30mm) on the A-10.
As I understand it, when a rotary cannon was proposed in the late 1940s a proof of concept experiment was done by attaching an electric motor to a surviving gatling gun (possibly one of the late models chambered in .30 Krag) to see how fast the mechanism would work. It got up to several thousand rounds per minute which proved the idea would work. This is not that surprising since Dr. Gatling patented an electrically driven version in the 1890s.
Correct, I'm an ex Vulcan gunner '83-'86 in the Army.
Seeing the need for a higher rate of fire on the forthcoming jets and not wanting to add even more guns on aircraft to achieve the effect plus they wanted a larger caliber than the .50 and explosive rounds they developed the M61 in conjunction with General Electric.
Testing started shortly after the end of WW2 when Army ordnance took a Gatling gun that was in storage and bolted an electric motor on it and went from there, the first aircraft to utilize the M61 cannon was the F104 Starfighter in 1959.
However they weren't the first one's to bolt an electric motor on a Gatling gun, that honor goes to Richard Gatling himself when in the 1880's he experimented with it.
@@dukecraig2402 thank you for your service
@@negativeiqpoints396
I appreciate the sentiment but no thanks are necessary, it was an honor and a privilege to wear the uniform of my country and those who came before me.
Just enjoy your freedoms and don't trample others freedoms and that's thanks enough for me.
How come, in all those westerns utilizing the Gatling gun, you never see any horses getting hit by bullets? Those gunners must be highly proficient at their job, huh? ;-)
+Robin. Well, they have to put the “No animal was hurt during the making of this picture” disclaimer at the end credits. Or else they have the Humane Society to deal with.
The riders are more dangerous than horses. The horses wouldn't avenge you for their masters
Interesting fact that Gatling expected that after equping his rotary weapon with electric engine ( first electric engines were made in this tome) his weapon could reach rate of fire 4000 RPM ..what is Today prefered rate of fire in .m134 D and M134G
as far as i know they only reached 1200 rpm, which is already a lot
The War Wagon is a really underrated western.
The most factual use of Gatling Guns was in the TV Movie the " Rough Riders". Lt. Parker's guns being used to attack San Jaun Hill. It was the first time the US Army used them for close support against enemy positions.
(Merely adding information) and those Gatling's were quite effective not just at San Juan, but also capturing Havana.
Much to the dismay of the Spanish, who had Maxim guns that are allegedly/supposedly "superior" to the Gatling, in every way, according to every weapons specialist, ever.
Parker's Gatling's were so effective in fact that Parker, who was also the one who advocated bringing the guns and over-all creating the detachment in the first place, was basically made in charge of anything and everything that had to do with machinegun procurement/tactics/strategy/logistics/everything of the U.S army.
Further, not one to shy from staying up to date he went with the American expeditionary forces to France in WW1, and not only visited French & British machinegun units, but got into action again.
Over-all he became quite the worldwide authority on anything that had to do with machine guns.
Pretty badass.
@@ToreDL87 A Vickers gun is superior to a hand-cranked Gatling in every way except for the user.
@@aaronleverton4221 Except in that war, a.k.a likely the user.
Of course, anywhere else (on the Western Front WW1 for instance) I'd agree wholeheartedly.
It would be a tougher task to find a series of movies featuring the puckle gun!
Now that would be a challenge
The adding of an electric motor to the gatling gun was suggested much earlier than many think. But by that time the machinegun was taking over so it never went anywhere. Makes you wonder what would have happened if it was followed through with.
To be fair, the tech and infrastructure to make the electric gatling gun a feasible weapon in the 1910's wasn't there yet: electricity wasn't yet portable at the time which meant it would've been stuck in ships or stationary defensive positions, and by that time recoil-operated weapons did the same thing for cheaper, smaller, and lighter, It was only in the jet age where they needed a gun that could fire as fast as possible did they resurrect the electric gatling into the form we know today.
I guess you can say the Gatling gun basically set the foundation for the
machine guns used during both world wars
The American civil war particularly Siege of st pertersburg is arguably the first modern battle and war as underground mines where used submerged vessales machine guns and ww1 style human wave charges were used
Almost a exact depiction of what ww1 would become
@@charlesuplifted5216 the very first prototype of trench warfare and explosives under your enemy was the siege of Vienna the Ottomans dug trenches under the city and blew up powdered charges to destroy parts of the wall
@@giovannicervantes2053 What about the Siege of Chandia? Really, you could list a hundred sieges with trenches and mines. WW1 was just one big siege (on the western front), with both sides being the besieging one.
@@535phobos alright I looked it up the siege of Vienna took place in the early 1500s the siege that you're talkin about to place in the 1600s
@@giovannicervantes2053 There was a second one in 1683. The more famous one with the Winged Hussars and what not. Its not important for this matter, both were sieges which used mines.
My point still stands, this wasnt a new phenomenon. Mines to blow up castle walls were used a long time, as were trenches to protect against gun fire (although I dont know, where the first reported use of them was)
Fun fact the minigun premise of a electronically driven multi barreled machine gun isn’t actually a 60s era design there were electrical Gatling guns invented way back when it was created but all of them were almost exclusively mounted on ships of the time where there was a reliable and suitable amount of power from the steam engines so while we think of the minigun as something that was never done before there actually were plenty of attempts at making one out of a Gatling gun but power constraints meant the gun would only be practical on ships where power needs were met properly
Remember to never mistake a Gattling weapon for a Hotchkiss revolver cannon, yes they look alike despite the caliber but the internals are completely different...
And there's the whole idea 37mm was the smallest caliber allowed to carry an explosive payload at the time.
Also the Hotchkiss barrels are stationary when fireing while Gattlings spin continiously
You have to feel sorry for Dr. Gatling. He had no idea what kind of sheer cruelty and evil he would unveil with the development of his weapon. Gatling seriously underestimated a military leadership’s willingness and excitement to sacrifice as many lives as possible.
I dunno, I don't really think the invention of weapons is negative or positive. It simply changed how war worked. If he hadn't, someone else would've. Just because the British, French, and Germans thought mass-wave tactics would solve the problem, doesn't mean Gatling is to blame at all.
yeah sure because that's what the military leadership thinks. good thing you're not in that field because you'd fail miserably with those kind of nonsensical thoughts about how thing work.
The gatling gun in book of eli was one of my favorites as it shows Gary Oldman’s character was not only able to afford to expend ammunition in a full auto gun when every resource is scarce but he can do it with an antique weapon as well
You know, if we ever get a Western Assassin's Creed game, this is one of the weapons that should be used.
When the Americans went out of MGS: *Proceeds to use Catling Gun*
*Gatling*
gattling gun: "lmao fuck your lifelong time of training with a sword i got a gun"
Oof! Even the quick glimpse of The Wild, Wild West is enough to relive the trauma
Ah you are not wrong lol
RIP
Richard J. Gatling
(1818-1903)
I think there is something to be said that that in Gatling's time more soldiers died of disease than wounds. Military camps were a breeding ground for all types of illness and by Gatling's logic smaller armies would mean less total deaths, even if the battlefield casualty rate was higher. I think another factor to consider is that most conflicts going on at that time were colonial, and if he invented it in 1861 he probably had spent several years working on the design before the Civil War started. I suspect that he had the west in mind when he started working on it, and he certainly wasn't planning on selling them to the Sioux. His logic actually starts making sense in this context, where only one side would have access to these weapons.
What movie is that armoured car from at 3:34
A big misconception is that the Gatling was the only mechanically operated machine gun when there was in fact a rich and varied technology before the maxim. Like the agar, Gardner, Hotchkiss, nordenfelt, speaking of which there's a great scene with a nordenfelt if you found examples of non-gatling mechanical machine guns that would be an awesome video.
I wonder why "The Duke" John Wayne had an eye patch on his head. He played well in "The longest day" (1962)
He didn't have much of a role in The Longest Day. I liked him in El Dorado.
The character he was playing, U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn, wore the eye patch because he had lost an eye in the Civil War.
@@HO-bndk This clears it up! Thank you H.O !
Surprised you didn't have a scene from Rough Riders. That movie does a great job showing the Gatling gun, Colt Potato digger and Maxim guns in action. One of the few wars all three weapon systems were used.
While it's mechanically outclassed by later firearms development the gatling gun is all in all just a beauty.
From overall design to just the mechanical relation between crank and firing it is just another example of why the 19th century was the era of beautiful guns.
i remember seeing it appear in kenshin and i laughed so loud, i love those movies
One thing that people need to remember is even though the casualty numbers in the American Civil War don’t sound like they’re that big. At least when you consider the literal millions of people that were killed in the first World War™ alone. You have to take him into consideration how much smaller the American population was at the time of the Civil War.
Various historians and academics, and all that stuff have theorized that if America had the population density of today that it did in the 1860s and they still went through those extreme levels of casualties it is theorized that roughly anywhere between 6 1/2 to 7,000,000 Americans would’ve lost their lives. So even though the 600,000 or whatever the number was doesn’t seem like a lot in the grand scheme of things it was massive back in the 1860s.
No, obviously I’m not trying to devalue the lives lost. Every single American life that was lost is tragic. It’s way too many.
What movie is the one at 0:25
@1:11 tyvm, Johnny. Thank you for correctly identifying and applying the term "ironically" here. It's ridiculously overwhelming just how many people/RUclipsrs incorrectly call things ironic. Like at this point, the definition has affectively changed to "coincidence with an inverted outcome", when it is much more nuanced than that. Stay in school, chilren!
You are right! I'm so used to hearing it out of place even I make the mistake sometimes.
I don't think it's legal to fire a gatling gun without cackling like a mad man.
If I remember rightly Clint comes across a gattling not only in Jose Wales but also in Two Mules for Sister Sarah, that time in Mexico against the French.
In Rango, Rattlesnake Jake has a gatling gun mounted on his tail.
Gatling: This gun and it's rapid fire will deter armies from fighting
MG34 and 42: Yeah about that, ever heard of human wave tactics?
Gatling gun always will be a classic weapon matter what
2:38 Hi we sent you countless replies about your cars extended warranty but you didn't answer back to us. So we're forced to do this to you!
2:26 what movie is that ?
Hey Johnny, thanks for always getting magazines, clips, drums and barrels right. Mucho appreciated. See ya on another older one.
Thanks man! I do have my slip ups in videos on occasion however..
Fun fact, the Gatling was still in use in the 1940’s by the Dutch army
2:26 PLEASE WHAT MOVIE IS ??!?!?!
At the San Juan Heights in July of 1898, the 1st Volunteer Cavalry under Lt Col Theodore Roosevelt, were outfitted with both Gatlings and two privately purchased Colt 1895 machine guns. Well they were lighter and easier therefore to manhandle, Roosevelt noted in his book *The Rough Riders* they weren't without fault when compared to the Gatlings.
*"These Colt automatic guns were not, on the whole, very successful...they proved more delicate than the Gatlings, and very readily got out of order."*
Fun Fact, Mini Guns are called as such due to being down chambered to reduce weight for carry capability and increase ammo availability on demand. The Gatling Guns you see mounted on vehicles or emplacements are of higher caliber and heavier with more difficult ammo, but naturally still cuts the enemy into confetti a fair bit better than Angry German Man's Buzzsaw, though that too is a damn good weapon.
Another thing: "Minigun" is actually a name of a specific weapon, namely the M134. The name just got genericised to mean any hand-held gatling gun.
My favorite movie showing the use of the Gatling gun is The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Gatling guns was used in Philippine - American war.
There is a scene in Heneral Luna that they used Gatling in trench warfare
Wich Moevie is at 1:55
Wicky wild Wild West!
Both John Wayne and Clint Eastwood using the Gatling Gun in at least one movie.
Therefore, it's the coolest weapon ever!
Really good videos man can't believe you don't have more subs already
I'm working on it 🙂
Great video and series'
Name of the movie in 4:14?
Bit surprised no one got smart and attached the crank handle to a cam shaft and foot pedal so the gun's firing mechanism was operated by foot, simultaneously freeing both hands for aiming and eliminating the jerky movement with firing. The mechanism was standard for rudimentary lathes and other spinning wheels, and given the number of crafts people around at that time, I find it surprising no one innovated upon the design
This is the first type of rotary weapon in which can fire a dozen bullets from magazines and can be operated using a crank shaft, this gun was used in the Civil War, the Boshin War, Boer Wars and the Philippine-American War, among other wars in the late-19th century. In the years have passed, it was succeeded by gas and later, electric-powered rotary cannons that can fire dozens of bullets or sabots, they were commonly used in fighter jets and warships, and later on, the miniguns.
3:45 - what movie and timestamp is that John Wayne clip from?
What movie was shown at 1:46 ?
War horse
First saw this when i was 6 and was wowed by it
The film was a western ether where they escorted nitroglycerin or arms
Great Channel, Well done and thank you
Thank you kindly 🙏
I don’t remember the movie but it was a 70ies spaghetti western with every reb being gunned down in a Confederate fort by the lead character seizing a Gatling in one of the towers. In the end the reb flag came down as well…
The A10 Wart Hog has that 30mm Gatling Gun, which, most of us probably know, but for those who don't, is more than just bad assed.
its just too bad that its useless at its job and inferior to the 20mm m61 vulcan in nearly every way
@@Helperbot-2000 I am not really familiar with either weapon, but a lot of the military grunts have been shown as grateful for the 30mm gatling gun equipped A10 saving them from a tight spot, or making their job a lot less risky. It appears very effective to me.
@@wmden1 partly, theres a stark contrast between veterans whove watched it perform a ground attack, and those whove had the misfortune of experiencing performing close air support and firing hell down right around them, its a very inaccurate gun for one, and the plane has killed more friendly troops than ALL other us planes COMBINED, but my more important thought is that it is incapable of destroying tanks like it was designed to, it had severe difficulties disabling, let alone destroying tanks under optimal conditions firing at stationary tanks one after another without threat of retaliation under its live fire test. (firing at m47 pattons simulating t55s) anything stronger than that is effectively immune against it. while for firing at infantry it is needlessly oversized, and its near half the firerate of the m61 while beeing twice as heavy, making the m61 far better suited to firing at infantry (aswell as lightly armored vehicles like IFVs and APCs)
The French mitrailleuse was a volley gun/machine gun that could be rapidly reloaded AFAIK.
Gatling: I'm gonna make a gun so good it'll make people stop fighting
Modern society: Gatling guns so cool!
Gatling: 🔥👄🔥
one thing confuses me.... everyone says the gatling gun wasn't a true automatic weapon because it was "hand cranked." But maxim did fit an electric motor to the M1893 giving it a rate of fire of 1500 RPM. this was deemed "impractical" due to its dependence on either a battery or generator... (though i COULD see it being very effective if used on a riverboat or train, drawing off the steam driven dynamos.
04:02 That guy must be a ventriloquist since he's speaking when his lips aren't even moving.
Italian dubbed in English! Spaghetti Western Genre.
I have a feeling that we will see some Gatling gun clips soon
Gatling gun very deadly and so powerful and need more amo.
Could anybody tell me what movie clip was playing at 1:47
War Horse
@@SzostakTomasz thanks!
2:50 and 3:18 what are the names of the movies?
1:46 ahhh i wanna be the guy playing the bag pipes vs the guys going over the top
Imagine if they had further developed the Gatling in WWII and installed it in the B-17 instead of the Browning
what further development are you suggesting?
@@Helperbot-2000 Should have written it before and not after World War II.
The trailer for TW Fall of the Samurai always got me - showing a samurai training with his sword for life, only to be moved down almost as an afterthought by a gatling gun
You want to check out Carry On Up The Khyber for the best use of a Gatling gun!
It's in the last third of the film.😂
Left out movie "Something Big" with Dean Martin. More silly than serious but the whole plot line was Martin getting and using a Gattling gun.
0:04 what movie or show is this!
Custer had the use of two Gatling Guns but left them behind because he felt that going over rough terrain - they would slow him down.
Had he brought them, I'm thinking that the way things worked out - they probably wouldn't have made that much difference.
Custer wanted to hit the Indian village from both ends. He had Reno attack from the South and he was to attack from the North.
Benteen had been sent to scout an area to the west and the pack train with their supplies was coming up.
So - Reno was repulsed, fell back into some trees and then across the river and up onto some bluffs. He'd had Bloody Knife's brains splattered all over his face and was personally undone.
Benteen came up with the pack train - which is where the Gatling Guns would probably have been if they'd been brought along.
He took charge of the position and worked to defend it against the Indians. Most of the Indians left though - which was to go get Custer.
These three parts of Custer's command - Reno's, Benteen's and the Pack Train - having seen how many guys the Indian's had made one attempt to link up with Custer and were driven back on their positions atop the bluff. Here - the Gatling Guns that would have been with the Pack Train - certainly would have helped Reno and Benteen hold their position and guard the Pack Train but wouldn't have made any difference to Custer's portion of the Command.
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Johnny what is the name of the movie in 1:44 ? ; Amazing work like always!
War Horse
...and then the Gatling gun became mechanized into the weapon we know today.
Ohhhh?
"Gunga Din" (1939) is an excellent example of Hollywood's early use of the Gatling Gun. Mowing down the Kali Worshippers en masse.
Some of the gun was purchased by the French and used it against the Nguyễn Dynasty during their invasion of Vietnam in 1858
The best way to decrease casualties is to kill more enemies.
Just like "Don't die for your country, make the enemies to die for theirs".
0:49 / 3:12 Doesn't it fire from the lower-most barrel?
Don’t forget about the 40mm Hotchkiss Gatling Cannons used during the Spanish American war.
Interesting video, thanks for sharing 👍
A miniature version of this gatling gun is still for use by private citizens in the U.S.
What goofy movie is that with Faye Dunaway (maybe?) shooting it at an ornithopter (Michael Caine maybe?)?
You should`ve mention the "Big Brother" of Gatling gun. Hotchkiss revolving cannon.
1:53 which movie is this?
a REVOLUTIONARY weapon indeed ;)
The Gatling has had the last word. Just stick a motor on & voila: Minigun.
One he doesn't mention is the one used on the front of the a-10 warthog more comenly know as the tank killer
its not used on the front, the plane was basically built around the canon, that goes almost all the way throught the fuselage.
its not a tank killer in the slightest, it is nearly incapable of disabling (let alone destroying) older t55s, even just more modern t55s and anything newer is effectively completely immune against it
Alfred Nobel invented Dynamite and felt so guilty about the loss of life (and the tarnishment of his name after a false obituary) that he created the Nobel Peace prize........Doctor Gatling had to be a massive yutz to think his invention would decrease fatalities in war
The only thing I dislike about Gatling guns in movies is how unrealistically reliable they are. The real ones were notorious for jamming. Rattle...rattle..blamma...blamma...blamma...CLUNK!
Gatling guns (like all machine guns) are very particular about their ammunition. WW1 pilots used to gauge every cartridge in the belts feeding their Vickers guns for that very reason.
Left out Sam Pekingpah's The Professionals!