Lektor, on Jun 5 2007, 01:10 PM, said:
The key to my statement was the word portable. The minigun simply weighs too much to be carried around with the rather heavy gun itself, the thousand round ammo belts, and the 60lbs worth of heavy duty truck batteries necessary to run the thing. Not to mention that the recoil would be incredible with the top mounted grip (that is if the high speed spinning of the barrels didn't snap it from your hands immediately).
Anyway, that's a M-134, not a M-61. The difference is that the M-134 fires 7.62mm ammo (third from left in the below picture), whereas the Vulcan fires 20mm rounds (middle, blue bullet).
Although having a minigun that could fire 20mm rounds would be really cool.
-Pufer
This post has been edited by Pufer: 05 June 2007 - 11:38 PM