What is a chain gun?
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wickedwillie
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Essentially the same as a Machine Gun, a Chain Gun is also a breech-loading gun. Unlike Machine Guns, Chain Guns are always belt-fed. Chain Guns use slightly more powerful rounds and are used primarily to target armored vehicles. Chain Guns are self-loading and do not require an external loader. Chain-Guns are capable of Spreadfire.
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The salient feature of a chain gun is that it has an external power source. Most guns operate on their own using "blow-back" or pistons. The chain gun gets its name from the chain that drives the mechanism of the gun which cycles ammo in and casings out. The chain is driven by an external motor. (Aug 3) To jwmbiz: Nit picking? No, not really. Chain guns and machineguns are two different types of weapons. For example, if a cartridge doesn't fire in a machinegun, the firing stops until the misfired round can be manually cleared. With a chaingun, the dead round is just ejected by the external drive like any other casing, and firing continues. That in itself puts the two weapon classes apart in a very signifcant way. (April 6, 06) Took out the part about multi-barrels....in order to keep up to date. Thanks guys!
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"Chain Gun" is a registered trademark of Alliant Techsystems Inc. We do NOT make multi-barrel (gatling design) guns, so there's your answer. Just because Doom and Wolfenstein call a MINI-GUN and chain gun don't make it so, you nerds. ATK's Bushmaster series and M230 series SINGLE-BARREL cannons are the only true "chain guns", and unlike a machine gun, they are capable of first-round-select, are immune to mis-fires, and rate-of-fire is adjustable.
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a chain gun is a fully automatic gun that is not dependent on the gases to expell or reload the gun the cycling of the bullits are rotated by a chain that is pulled by an electric motor the fed and the amount of bullits cycled through the gun that was direcctly dependent on the speed of the chain, the primairy atvatages of the chain gun was that it was more controlable and gave rise to less jamming and that the amount of builits cycled by this chain method was faster cleaner and more user friendly , the primary maker gun are Alliant Techsystems the most popular model is the Bushmaster 25mm firing up to 1000bullits a minute
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