3D Animation: How a Gatling Gun works
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- The Gatling gun is considered to be the first successfull machine gun in history.
It was invented by American inventor Richard Jordan Gatling (1818-1903) in 1861.
It featured multiple rotating barrels which were rotated by hand.
As a handwheel was cranked, the barrels rotated and each barrel sequentially loaded a single cartridge from a top-mounted magazine, fired off the shot and then ejected the spent casing.
After inventing the Gatling gun in 1861, Richard Jordan Gatling founded the "Gatling Gun Company" in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1862 to market the gun.
Although the gun was developed during the Civil War (1861-1865), it saw very little action.
In 1866 the US Government officially started purchasing Gatling guns.
In 1870, Richard Jordan Gatling sold his patents for the Gatling gun to Colt.
In 1893, Gatling patented a Gatling gun that replaced the hand cranked mechanism with an electric motor.
Gatling remained president of the Gatling Gun Company until it was fully absorbed by Colt in 1897.
The hand-cranked Gatling gun was declared obsolete by the United States Army in 1911.
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Actually the Gatling Gun is not a machine gun. A machine gun uses the energy from a fired cartridge to cycle the weapons operating mechanism and load another cartridge and repeating the cycle. A Gatling gun is rotated by a hand driven crank that rotates 6 to 8 barrels that have their own bolts. The rotary function brings one bolt and barrel into position at a time then fires it.
Per most definitions you are absolutely right. I called it a machine gun, because it is often referenced as an important developmental step towards modern machine guns.
I don't see why this was declared obsolete. The Army could've replaced the crank with an electric motor or some other power source.
An advantage of an externally powered gun is that if a cartridge misfires, it doesn't stop the gun from firing.
Other types of machine guns use the energy of the cartridge propellant. If a cartridge misfires, the gun is out of action until the crew clears it.
Oh they still use these every day lmao, that’s all a minigun is
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Not a machine gun. You can still buy these today with little restriction
They're harder to operate from what I know.
ma·chine gun
/məˈSHēn ˌɡən/
noun
an automatic gun that fires bullets in rapid succession for as long as the trigger is pressed.
technically the crank is the trigger and as long as you keep working the trigger it keeps firing
@@jamesclare8800 you, sir, are not correct. There is a legal definition of a machine gun and this does not meet it. Which is why anyone who can own a firearm can go out and purchase these without restriction. Turning the crank to fire a single round is one function, and turning the crank more to fire another round is another function.
@@jamesclare8800 By definition you are absolutely incorrect on the classification of the gatling gun being a machinegun and it is not classified as such under the NFA thus preventing the federal government from doing anything with their illegal operations with the ATF. However, the legality of owning one depends on the state as some states have individually outlawed and/or restricted their ownership. In Texas or Florida I can own one no problem, but in Commifornia it requires a permit and New York it's illegal entirely (which is a violation of the 2nd Amendment, but I digress).
What is max and average ROF ?
The Gatling gun is a machine gun like a Winchester '73 is an automatic rifle! It is MANUALLY CRANKED!
Laughs in electric motor
4:32 : you see the piece that rotate on the left ? The crooked left part is to spread out horizontaly, cause before all army walked in line so with this you can shot all the line without mooving
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Well, I guess 6-10 guys with bolt actions also constitute a machine gun then.
Unless you let them fire at once. Then they'd be a shotgun!😂😂😂
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very helpful imaging
but fails to mention rate of fire
and that the electric powered one
is still very much in use on aircraft
as well as ground and sea
So you have the 3d models available for this? Would really like to 3d print this!
I don't think Gatlings chambered bottleneck cartridges until well into the 20th century.
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Cool engineering. How did the pin fire though? Was it just a compressed spring? If so, it must have been really hard to turn
I guess that's why the crank had gears. Not only did they change the axis of rotation but they also increased the torque.
@@twistedyogert I saw the updated one and they basically had a car starter driving it. They said they had to make adjustments to the mechanics but seems not too much because it’s still the same basic design. I’m sure they had to change the spring for a gas piston, considering the high speeds.
As the ramp pushes the round into the chamber the sprung firing pin is caught by a lip that keeps it on the same path instead of following the round into the chamber. Once the round is seated the ledge holding the firing pin ends abruptly, letting the built-up spring tension return it home with force. This combined with the length of the crank lever gives the user plenty of mechanical advantage to overcome spring tension
I suppose needing to constantly rotate the crank manually is the same as needing to pull the trigger repeatedly, equating this to semi-automatic if anything. Why do we have gun laws again? They never seem to work when they should, but they keep me from having nice things.
First successful and first machine gun are totally differant statements. The importance of the unsuccessful machine gun designs starting with the puckle gun of 1718 means the concept of the machine gun predates the constitution of the united States .it shows an understanding of automatic fire itself and an ability to understand technology well enough to fabricate their ideas. The biggest shortcomings came from a lack of metallic cartridge which once commercially viable , simplified designs and feeding systems. Secondly the black powder iteslf gums up actions any place exposed to the burning gases and eventually clogs the bore from black powder residue . The Gatling is an intermediary concept between the previously mentioned first MG design,the puckle gun ,stationary barrel volley fire designs , and true machine guns . Machine guns did not truely became successful until after the invention of smokeless propellant . Even still it was 1884 that saw what would be the first effective true machine gun. The maxim design . That is 9 years prior to the French Invention of smokeless nitro cellulose based powder, and 10 prior to the USA having its first "high velocity" smokeless cartridge and rifle combo. The .30-30 Winchester , chambered in the winchester 1894 lever action rifle. That was in 1894, of course. After that point is when MG technology truely became successful... 1845 was when metallic cased ammunition became viable with .22 bb cap A.K.A 6mm flobert, a .22 caliber round ball for into a percusion cap . Meanwhile in France 1846 saw the first pinfire cartidge designs. 1854 the .22 short came about , then.22 long, .22 extra long and .22 long rifle after that.
.22 long and long rifle are not the same thing. .22 stinger is also technically a different cartidge from .22 LR. The case of the stinger about 0.01 inches longer than the LR case. the overall length (oal) of the long mean they aren't universally usable do to magazine designs and differant chamber lengths. A stinger doesn't fit in a LR match chamber . That's your does of gun knowledge for those who desire it.