"I am heavy weapons guy, and this is my weapon, she weights 150 kilograms and fires $200 custom tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute... it costs 400.000 dollars to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds." ~Heavy
Spent the majority of my first deployment back in '05 behind this beautiful feat of engineering. We were doing OILPLAT defense up in the XNAG off of Iraq. Bonus points that one of my HF RX antennas was mounted nearby so I could keep an eye on the desiccant and make sure that salty sea air stayed the eff out lol.
Some things are wrong here. First, the firing pins are mechanical, not electrical solenoids. They are actuated by the track in the housing once the round is seated and the barrel is in the correct position. Second, the feeder delinker doesn’t push rounds out of the links. It removes them by pulling them back by the rim of the casing. I had 2 of these on my first ship on my first deployment, and they were pretty much my responsibility.
4:42 "So the next time you see an M134 in action-" Yeah um, I don't think I want to see a minigun in action particularly much. It probably has something to do with how I'd be turned into swiss cheese.
Gattling actually designed or built a prototype powered by an electric motor, the military didn't want "new complicated" technology, so he stayed with manual operation. We could have had these in WW1 or WW2.
It doesn’t matter how it’s affected as long as they are all affected exactly the same way, which they are. But it’s actually pretty negligible, since each M80 NATO round exits the barrels at almost 2,000 miles an hour, whereas the barrels move laterally at only around 21 miles an hour at its very fastest rate of fire (if I’m doing the rough math right and guessing correctly at barrel spacing).
General Electric really goes like:" Would you like this 6 barreled behemoth that can turn humans into meat paste, this bigger 6 barreled behemoth that can turn buildings into gravel piles, or this microwave?"
6 barrels, 6 chambers, 6 bolts, 6 firing pins, all talking turns as they rotate around each other. Not like a revolver, which has 6 chambers, 1 barrel, 1 “firing pin” (hammer), and no bolt.
Neat. I always assumed it was a single chamber and the extra barrels where to reduce overheating significantly. But now that I think about it, there's effectively no diffrance unless it's a Salvo gun, is there? Makes sense it would be a revolver.
Next video needs to be on the AN-94. Most other weapons work somewhat the same but the an-94 has a an interesting booster system to fire 2 rounds very close together. Check it out!
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The M134 is not truly a machine gun, as it does not derive it operstion from the energy of the firing of the cartridge. Depending upon the opinion of various agencies. But by strict definition, a machine is powered by the firing of the cartridge. Otherwise its a rapid fire weapon.
The GAU-8 doesn't delink the belt or eject casings. The belt passes through the gun and cycles back to the drum magazine with the casings still in place because their weight is still needed to keep the aircraft balanced. Vulcans are similar but are usually hydraulic or pneumatic powered
This thing fires 7.62mm, Vulcan fires 20mm, that's almost 3 times the size. Not impressed yet? The gau fires 30mm. As for the mechanical principle, they're almost the same. The gau kept the spent casing to maintain the overall weight of the plane.
The only problem I have with this gun is that the spinning causes the bullets to leave the gun with some sideways velocity, but with that many bullets at least one will hit
What is the point in there being more than one barrel, given that only one fires at a time anyway? Why isn't it more like a revolver cylinder with one barrel?
Short amswer. Heat. The weapon fires hundreds of rounds at a time, and each round generates heat. If they come from a single barrel, then that barrel can overheat quite fast. As it does from standard machine guns. From those there are systems that allows the user to change barrels and continue firing. In a rotatory cannons machine gun like the Vulcan phalanx or the minigun, the heat is spread between all the cannons, and not only that, given the rotatory nature, it allows the air to flow and take away heat. Why heat is a big deal? Because at high temperatures can cause damage, hindering performance, even exploding and damaging the user.
In a single barrel gun the bolt needs to go back, fully eject the shell, and spring back to fire the next shot. If you have your six barrels all reloading while the other is firing by the second they do a full revolution they can fire again. So yeah on top of heat you can reload shots while still being able to fire.
@@backforblood3421 you only have to reload one barrel at a time if they rotate instead of having a mechanism of all six and relying on more mechanical complexity to time all barrels to die at the right time.
@@Rhino-hq1tf What I'm talking about would work exactly the same way because the only difference would be that it would be six chambers identical to the breach end of the barrels and only one barrel.
seems over complicated for simply allowing air to flow between the barrels. i mean, wouldnt some sort of radiator/coolant system work better and not require the entire gun to rotate?
M134 irl: Haha! I will never overheat!
M134 in games: Woops, you fired for more than 5 seconds time to overheat.
uhhh....theres a mistake
you.
@@So.I.make.videos__your parents made a bigger mistake (you). And that's why condoms got invented
@@So.I.make.videos__wtf is bro on about get real kid.
@@Notfortommorow2141yeah kinda confused what this person talking
Tf you on about?@@So.I.make.videos__
Why does he sound so condescending?
Idk?
Hes making everything sound obvious, which it kind of is, but its making me feel dumb anyway
it's his exaggerated tone of voice, as if everything he says ends with a !
It’s because he’s reading it to a preschool class. Normal in America….
I can’t watch the full video without pausing for a mental breather after hearing this man.
One of the rare examples where an AI voiceover voice would actually be the right thing to do...
Why does he sound like he’s gonna call me a “little shit”
he sounds like the guy from TDI
@@YayzayMc Chris McClean
This is the worst sounding annotation since the #15 foot lettuce video.
You mean intonation? Also Chills goes hard grfo
by the four minute mark it's really bad
"I am heavy weapons guy, and this is my weapon, she weights 150 kilograms and fires $200 custom tooled cartridges at ten thousand rounds per minute... it costs 400.000 dollars to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds."
~Heavy
Wow! Do you like it so much?
@@workx_3d That was just a reference to a game called Team Fortress 2, but yeah your video was really good!
@@thiagoaurelio5761 Thank you so much, brother! What do you think next topics could be interesting? How UZI works or something else
@@workx_3d Sure, a video about the UZI would be perfect!
"Some people think they can outsmart me. Maybe... maybe."
"I have yet to meet one that can outsmart BULLET."
Fascinating animation but... I just can't listen to this for more than thirty seconds.
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@@OffGriDDD no he's right
@@OffGriDDD bro was waiting for this and fumbled
@@OffGriDDDbro fumbled so hard
@@OffGriDDDyour*
thank you for this video mechanism, now i can make my own now!
huh ?
These 5 minute craft channels are getting out of hand
@@THEPIECRAB lol
I want Huggbees to do his thing and make a “How the M134 Minugun Actually Works”
"It cost 400,000 dollar to fire this weapon, for 12 seconds"
Heavy weapons guy ❤
Source: trust me bro
@@dhairyasharma6243r/woosh
@@dhairyasharma6243it's a joke, the quote was used on C-RAM (25mm Anti air system) which is kinda like m134 but bigger
@@Pavzzz2503 isnt it TF2 reference?
I am Heavy weapons guy… and _this,_ is my weapon
huh?
tf2
Never let this child near a microphone again.
Spent the majority of my first deployment back in '05 behind this beautiful feat of engineering. We were doing OILPLAT defense up in the XNAG off of Iraq. Bonus points that one of my HF RX antennas was mounted nearby so I could keep an eye on the desiccant and make sure that salty sea air stayed the eff out lol.
Some things are wrong here. First, the firing pins are mechanical, not electrical solenoids. They are actuated by the track in the housing once the round is seated and the barrel is in the correct position. Second, the feeder delinker doesn’t push rounds out of the links. It removes them by pulling them back by the rim of the casing. I had 2 of these on my first ship on my first deployment, and they were pretty much my responsibility.
Yeah there are WAY more accurate videos on this gun.
The rounds are pushed forward out of the links.
4:42 "So the next time you see an M134 in action-"
Yeah um, I don't think I want to see a minigun in action particularly much. It probably has something to do with how I'd be turned into swiss cheese.
With all the 400k jokes aside. How crazy expensive it must be to fire a minigun, even if a bullet costs something like 1$ thats 100$/sec. Wow.
Thanks for the explanation, but the narrator sounds like he's really annoyed that I don't already know all of this.
Gattling actually designed or built a prototype powered by an electric motor, the military didn't want "new complicated" technology, so he stayed with manual operation. We could have had these in WW1 or WW2.
How much is the trajectory of the bullet affected by the barrel spin?
Edit: dang I’m curious now leaving a comment so hopefully I get notified when somebody bothers to do the math!
It doesn’t matter how it’s affected as long as they are all affected exactly the same way, which they are.
But it’s actually pretty negligible, since each M80 NATO round exits the barrels at almost 2,000 miles an hour, whereas the barrels move laterally at only around 21 miles an hour at its very fastest rate of fire (if I’m doing the rough math right and guessing correctly at barrel spacing).
Always wondered how they worked, thank you!
0:47 BRO THE TRANSFORMERS TRANSFORMATION SOUND EFFECT OMG
General Electric really goes like:" Would you like this 6 barreled behemoth that can turn humans into meat paste, this bigger 6 barreled behemoth that can turn buildings into gravel piles, or this microwave?"
Content 10, Animation 10. Script and narrator -1. I agree came off as very condescending. Might work for a kids video.
How is it not shooting when it rotates only the barrel? How is the firing pin only activates if the trigger is pulled even if the barrel is rotating?
6 barrels, 6 chambers, 6 bolts, 6 firing pins, all talking turns as they rotate around each other. Not like a revolver, which has 6 chambers, 1 barrel, 1 “firing pin” (hammer), and no bolt.
the best part... no spin up delay
How about liquid cooling it? Or liquid nitrogen
Maxing gun moment
Most irritating voice I’ve come across on RUclips this year. Interesting content though!
Why movies doesn't show the battery...? or I missed to notice...!!
They’re hidden off-screen in the movies. A person can’t actually carry one of these into combat, not even Arnold or Jesse.
Neat. I always assumed it was a single chamber and the extra barrels where to reduce overheating significantly. But now that I think about it, there's effectively no diffrance unless it's a Salvo gun, is there? Makes sense it would be a revolver.
Next video needs to be on the AN-94. Most other weapons work somewhat the same but the an-94 has a an interesting booster system to fire 2 rounds very close together. Check it out!
Can I use a short clip of this video for a education and informational video
What makes no sense to me is, how does the centrifugal force from the barrels rotating not cause the bullets to veer to the side?
I really want to watch this but the narration is grating.
Mini gun sound: BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
very informative! thanks!
Amazing video
Very good
Holy shit! This is amazing. I wish you rapid growth lol
I’d like to see a video on the M79/M203.
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loved this one
Does the A-10 warthog have this gun or theirs is a different machine gun?
Different gun. A-10 has a 30mm cannon, much, much bigger, for shooting at armour
A-10 has famous GAU-8, and this gun is way bigger than M134. The GAU-8 is the size of a Volkswagen Beetle.
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Channel spent $250 on the video, and $2.50 on the voice over
The ultimate weapon for pest control.
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I can use a small clip of your video in my video and I will give you credit in the video 😢
Next do how a Plumbus works
This video should get at least a 1000 views.
it does now
On another vid it says 50 rounds per second , can it really shoot 100 per second ?
If you turn it up all the way. (Usually it’s at more like 60-70 I believe.)
The M134 is not truly a machine gun, as it does not derive it operstion from the energy of the firing of the cartridge. Depending upon the opinion of various agencies. But by strict definition, a machine is powered by the firing of the cartridge. Otherwise its a rapid fire weapon.
Calibre length size and full size ?
AI with attitude?
There are MANY inaccuracies in this video. Please do some research before posting stuff like this.
Gatling gun and M1911 45 ACP are the only worthy firearms that are made and invented in the USA.
How about the M-1 Rifle? And the Colt Single Action Revolver? And the Winchester lever actions were mighty well liked!
What’s the difference between this and a gau 8 avenger and a volcan
The GAU-8 doesn't delink the belt or eject casings. The belt passes through the gun and cycles back to the drum magazine with the casings still in place because their weight is still needed to keep the aircraft balanced. Vulcans are similar but are usually hydraulic or pneumatic powered
This thing fires 7.62mm, Vulcan fires 20mm, that's almost 3 times the size. Not impressed yet? The gau fires 30mm.
As for the mechanical principle, they're almost the same. The gau kept the spent casing to maintain the overall weight of the plane.
The only problem I have with this gun is that the spinning causes the bullets to leave the gun with some sideways velocity, but with that many bullets at least one will hit
"Now you know how an M134 works"
Not well enough. Go back to the delinking mechanism and proceed slowly.
-Mounted on Helicopter or Toyata-
Mounted on a T-800 guided by Arnis biceps 💪
It's crazy that a gun so well engineered was designed to shoot and kill other humans.
Whenever I think of this, I think of body armor- and how ineffective it really is against this
I thought it usually use 556 rounds
Number fifteen, burger king foot lettuce
Narrated by the guy in Blue's Clues.
Its so powerful realy I like this weapons
Os carros fortes deveriam ter uma dessas no teto que girace a 90 grau operado por controle remoto dentro do carro fortes
Interesting!
my favorite real life gun
You can build one
Make me remembering film Predator 1987
S right every cavalry vehicle should have one as armement...
free bird kick in
I hope I will never see one of these in action😅
Who else though it was gonna be another one of those videos where a cat is in side the gun
Oh it's not a vid with just music and a gun that slowly turns into bio monstrosity as it gets described by parts
I have been played this type of weapons payback2 game and gta series games
is this what Quake 2's chaingun is based on?
Thought the ammo was inside the gun but ok
"I ain't got time to bleed"
thanks dude
hehe gun go brrrrrr
What is the point in there being more than one barrel, given that only one fires at a time anyway? Why isn't it more like a revolver cylinder with one barrel?
Short amswer. Heat.
The weapon fires hundreds of rounds at a time, and each round generates heat. If they come from a single barrel, then that barrel can overheat quite fast.
As it does from standard machine guns. From those there are systems that allows the user to change barrels and continue firing.
In a rotatory cannons machine gun like the Vulcan phalanx or the minigun, the heat is spread between all the cannons, and not only that, given the rotatory nature, it allows the air to flow and take away heat.
Why heat is a big deal? Because at high temperatures can cause damage, hindering performance, even exploding and damaging the user.
In a single barrel gun the bolt needs to go back, fully eject the shell, and spring back to fire the next shot. If you have your six barrels all reloading while the other is firing by the second they do a full revolution they can fire again. So yeah on top of heat you can reload shots while still being able to fire.
@@Rhino-hq1tf ...and how would that differ from there being five chambers as opposed to full barrels reloading while one was firing?
@@backforblood3421 you only have to reload one barrel at a time if they rotate instead of having a mechanism of all six and relying on more mechanical complexity to time all barrels to die at the right time.
@@Rhino-hq1tf What I'm talking about would work exactly the same way because the only difference would be that it would be six chambers identical to the breach end of the barrels and only one barrel.
And you actually know how the Gun hits.
The forehead
Old Painless.
Shows a mechanical cam and bearing and says it's an electric firing pin solenoid.
FAIL!
How is any zombie apocalypse possible with shit like this existing?
very well video
That's! On gun.
Tf2 heavy ne watching these
It's beautifull crafted killing machine 🇺🇸🩷🤟🏻
seems over complicated for simply allowing air to flow between the barrels. i mean, wouldnt some sort of radiator/coolant system work better and not require the entire gun to rotate?
sir u could not bring that in the pride para- 3:12
me explaining to the cashier how my 100% off coupon works
Why is it called a minigun?
Because it only fires 7.62mm rounds and came after its MUCH-bigger siblings that fire 20mm rounds from fighter jets.
I call you: victoria
Unsatisfied.
The working mechanisms isn't well explained.
WHO TOUCHED MY GUN!?
"Mini"gun.
এখনো কি এইটা কোটা সংস্কার আন্দোলন ?
Could have been a halfway decent video if it wasn’t so incredibly annoying.
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