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M61 Vulcan: The Gun That Can Fire 6,000 Round Per Minute
The Vulcan first saw use in April 1965 in Vietnam when it was employed on an F-105 Thunderchief, and has been used with the Air Force s F-15, F-16, and F-22, and the Navy s F-14 and F/A-18. It has also been fitted in side-firing installations on the Fairchild AC-11 as well as the Lockheed AC-130 gunships.
Just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, inventor Richard Jordan Gatling designed the world s first successful rapid-fire weapon. Technically not a machine gun in the modern sense, it was spring-loaded and hand-cranked. The forerunner to the weapons that were to come, the Gatling gun s operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design that allowed for its rapid-fire, but also facilitated cooling of the barrels.
The war to end all wars drove a lot of innovation.
When the First World War began in August 1914 some thirty days after the assassination of Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand of Austria no one expected a prolonged war that eventually would see the deaths of tens of millions of men in the front lines, or that it would bring down three of the ruling dynasties of Europe.
The Great War as it was known to contemporaries is also often overlooked for being the first truly modern war that saw numerous technological advancements. While it was the Second World War that ushered in the atomic and jet age, the First World War arguably made those advances possible, as military planners looked to new and more lethal ways to break the deadlock. This included the use of aircraft, submarines, poison gas and armored vehicles like the tank.