Well, plus or minus. I'm assuming that this is .308.
#2 Son likes this FPS Russia guy. It looks like he's not the only one: FPS Russia has had something 20 million views on Youtube. Enough for him to get some fairly serious advertisements (it was a Jeep commercial when I watched; good demographic targeting).
And he's going to need that revenue. I have no idea where he gets a Minigun, but the ammo he shot off here is probably in the order of $6,000. Yowzer.
Me, I'm not usually interested in automatic fire unless someone else is paying for my ammo. And the GAU just dials that up to eleven.
I did wonder watching this how many rounds ricocheted off of the surface of the pond he was shooting them into. And I hope that we can all agree that Holywood's stupidest firearm scenes involve a hand held minigun. Forget about carrying the gun; the ammo for it needs a truck.
But it's interesting that some Internet dude seems to be able to make a living doing this sort of thing. Cool.
Well he can get that down to $3000 if he reloads...
ReplyDeleteDamn it... NJT just caused me to snort coffee all over my heybor3e :-)
ReplyDeleteMan, I wonder how long it would take to reload all that brass.
ReplyDeleteAt least a T-800 could carry the amount of ammo fired...
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure that even ammo fired would be the limiting factor. I don't know much about these guns, but hand-fired, it seems to me that at that fire rate, the recoil from the bastard would launch a man into orbit. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe they compensate for it somehow, but firing a .308 semi-auto rapid fire offhand is enough to knock some men off balance. Imagine 6,000 round per minute!!!
ReplyDeleteThe recoil goes away as the gun weight goes up. I cannot accurately fire an M-14 full-auto standing off-hand (I've tried) but the heavier M60 poses no problem at all. Don't know what that mini-gun weighs but I'm sure it's quite a bit more than more than 23lbs.
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