If you’re a firearms enthusiast (as it’s likely that most people reading TFB are), you probably have a list of guns you want. Unless you’re one of the fortunate few to have an arsenal rivaling Heckler and Koch‘s Gray Room, the Rock Island Arsenal [Read More…]
Norwegian Special Operation Commandos (NORSOC) don’t always ride in helicopters, but when they do they ride the Bell 412 SP with a Minigun on the side. That’s the topic for our Photo Of The Day. Their standard firearms are Colt Canada C8SFW, C8CQB or the [Read More…]
We’re back in the river, the Cape Fear River, in the seventh edition of the Photo Of The Day: Minigun Monday. The location is Elizabethtown, NC (USA) and we’re looking (above) at Nestor Gonzalez, attending the Riverine Crewman Course (RCC), as he mans the [Read More…]
Each day TFB publishes one or more photographs from our fascinating world of firearms. Along with this comes a brief explanation. Today it’s time for the WLKM 12.7 mm / .50 BMG Multi-Barrel Machine Gun made by the Polish Company Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów. The [Read More…]
The US Army is in the market for more 7.62x51mm M134 ‘Miniguns’. A Request for Information (or RFI) was posted on the US Government’s new SAM procurement website on 30th January, 2020. The sources sought notice covers not just the M134 weapon system [Read More…]
Weaponized T-Rex is coming out with a wooden rubber band gun on performance enhancing drugs. Sure your run of the mill rubber band guns are quaint but many of them are not full auto. The few that are full auto are not handheld miniguns. Yes, they are making a wooden [Read More…]
German Machine Guns – that is the subject of this Photo Of the Day here at The Firearm Blog. The Machine Gun MG3, made by Rheinmetall, is probably one of the most iconic firearms of the Bundeswehr. In service since the 1960s and proven over the decades. The time [Read More…]
For the fifth time in a row, we’re looking at Photo Of The Day: Minigun Monday. Today we’re looking at a GAU-17/A Minigun manned by Sgt. Tanner Olson, a crew chief with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 265 as he engages simulated targets during training over [Read More…]
Three is a magic number – and this is the third edition of the Photo Of The Day: Minigun Monday, where we admire pictures of Miniguns in various places. We are now in California, at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms. Or [Read More…]
This is the second article in a series of “Photo Of The Day”, where we admire pictures of Miniguns of various kinds and situations. The series is called Minigun Monday. Miniguns on a Monday – it’s as simple as that! Today we take a look at the GAU-17 [Read More…]
This is the first in a series of “Photo Of The Day”, where we will admire pictures of Miniguns of various kinds. The series is called Minigun Monday, a name which should require no further explanation. Today we take a look at the Mark 44 Minigun, being fired [Read More…]
Today’s Photo Of The Day shows HMS St Albans during an intercept and escort of Russian Missile Cruiser Marshall Ustinov in the British Channel. Above you see a crew member of the HMS St Albans manning a Minigun (M134). The Mk44 Minigun is a ship-mounted [Read More…]
Profense has been shaking the Minigun game up since introducing their competitor to Dillon Aero’s domination of the international market in 7.62x51mm NATO M134 Minigun platforms manufactured in the United States. Taking things up (or down) a notch, Profense [Read More…]
Today we’re taking a closer look at the General Dynamics GAU-19. Originally called the GECAL 50, this electrically driven gatling gun chambered in 50 bmg entered the design phase in 1982 at General Electric. Originally the design called for six barrels, instead [Read More…]
Profense LLC is a defense company that has its origins in the aerospace industry. Their primary interest is trying to introduce a next-generation 7.62x51mm NATO M134 Minigun. The company is doing this through two different strategies. First, they are actually manufacturing their own version of the [Read More…]
A relative newcomer to the field of small arms, Turkish company Satek Arge has recently shown a working prototype of a rotating six-barrel machine gun design with variants in 4 different calibers (7.62x51mm, .50 BMG, 20x102mm, 25x137mm). The company was most [Read More…]
Poland’s elite counter terrorism unit, Jednostka Wojskowa GROM (JW GROM) are set to procure more M134 Miniguns. In a contract award notice published 12 December, it was confirmed that Poland would purchase a small, but unspecified, number of M134s. The Polish [Read More…]
Turkish owned, Kazakh manufactured, and soon to be Malaysian based subsidiary of Aselsan recently demonstrated a Remote Weapons Station based around the 7.62x51mm NATO Dillon M134 Minigun at Defense & Security 2017 held in Bangkok Thailand. The design [Read More…]
This was shared on Gunsdaily Instagram. @team.guy.jon | Not something you see everyday. Taken down Dillon Aero M134 Minigun. 3000 rounds per minute of FREEDOM! 🇺🇸 Seeing most of the parts laid out like that, it does not look like much does it? The Dillion Aero [Read More…]
When one mentions an air force, what almost immediately probably comes to mind are images of sleek, fast-flying jet fighters, huge transport aircraft, and helicopters of all variations. However, it should be remembered that a whole lot of equipment is involved in the [Read More…]
Color me just slightly jealous of Ian and crew over at Forgotten Weapons. In their latest hands-on, they go fully neck-deep into one of the most revered modern full-power shooters, the M134 Minigun. While yes, I have gotten the chance to see and shoot one, Ian is able [Read More…]
Dillon Precision Products Inc. announced these sad news. For me Dillon is mostly associated with the loading and reloading of ammunition, and that special blue color, but Mike was a man with many talents. “It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of [Read More…]
What is better than the proverbial Sharks with laser beams attached to their foreheads? A mini gun on a motorcycle. Why? Why not?
You may have seen on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter a minigun floating around. It is not something photoshopped out of a dream, we can assure you that it is real! Empty Shell, LLC, based out of Texas, manufactures this firearm. It is called the XM556 Microgun chambered [Read More…]
Just last week was SOFIC (Special Operations Force Industry Conference). It is like Shot Show but for LE/MIL. They always put on a grand show demonstrating techniques and equipment. Gratuitous amounts of blanks fired. The minigun on the helicopter is particularly fun. I [Read More…]
@Empty_Shell_LLC and @Aeroknox have been posting progress pics of their 5.56 minigun project and their D12 bullpup shotgun project. Here is a video of a successful test fire. It is a burst of 5.56. Looks like 10-15 rounds. The first clip of the video is real [Read More…]
Photo by @manzokazi_designs/@geckokazi of Scott Johnson. You can follow him on instagram under @arbunker1 Bro, do you even Minigun? Toting around the @spikes_tactical #minigun @big3eastmediagroup event this past weekend…good times with great people [Read More…]
Last week, Lancaster Police Department received a 911 phone call from a concerned citizen. The caller claimed that a gun man was armed with a minigun. The police showed up to the Griest Building looking for the suspect. They never found a gunman. What they did find was [Read More…]
TA Vision Studios and LEGOVulcan made a working replica of a M134D Vulcan. It has a ROF of 2500 RPM. It does not really fire but it spits out yellow technic pieces like spent brass.
Now we’re talking. The M134 fires 7.62x51mm NATO rounds at a variable rate of 2,000-6,000 rounds per minute. It’s gatling-style six barrels are spun using an electric motor designed by General Electric and other brands. It makes a very distinctive [Read More…]