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Gatling gun
Description
A multi-barrelled weapon turned by a hand crank and mounted on an artillery carriage. A forerunner of the modern machine gun.
Historical use
- American Civil War
- Spanish–American War
Technical data
- Year
- 1862
- Service
- 1862–1911
- Country
- United States
- Maker
- Colt's Patent Firearms
- Designer
- Richard Jordan Gatling
- Type
- Machine gun
- Mechanism
- Hand-cranked
- Calibre
- .45-70 Government (entre otros)
- Weight
- 77 kg
- Length
- 1,070 mm
- Rate of fire
- 400 rds/min
- Units made
- ≈ 1,300
Source: Wikidata Q272975
