Ed Lopez (2020-07-09). "Army engineers develop greater lethality, speed to support future combat vehicle". US Army. Picatiny Arsenal, New Jersey . Retrieved 2020-10-22. The weapon was originally intended as a replacement for the coaxial weapon in the American M60 tank. The weapon was evaluated by both the US Army and the US Naval weapon center, who reported that the performance of the weapon was outstanding during all phases of testing. [2] However, neither chose to adopt the weapon. Chinn, George M. (Lt.Col., USMC, Retd), ed. (1987). The Machine Gun: History, Evolution, and Development of Manual, Automatic, and Airborne Repeating Weapons (PDF). Vol.V. Ann Arbor, Michigan: Edward Brothers Publishing Co . Retrieved 19 March 2019. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list ( link) Problems with the electrical systems in the Warrior IFV have caused the weapon to fire without warning several times, resulting in the army issuing a safety notice. In at least one incident, this has resulted in injury to a British soldier and in others injuries to civilians. [3] The MoD denied the problem initially. [4]

As of 2019 [update], "chain gun" is a registered trademark of Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems (formerly Orbital ATK, following several mergers and acquisitions after Hughes Helicopters) for "externally-powered machine guns". [3] Design [ edit ] I remember reading how the small size of the ammunition would allow much more to be carried and thinking space due to cost would never ever be a problem. The mount is gyro-stabilised, electrically operated and self-contained with a choice of control modes and sights. It is designed to have a low magnetic, radar and infrared signature, be reliable and easy to maintain. Once the first production article is built, the company will transition into full-scale live firing in the late spring or early summer, Canole said, and will hand it over to the government to go into additional testing.Left) There is a control console for each weapon on either side of a Type 23 frigate’s bridge. (Right) There are also identical consoles in the operations room (HMS Somerset, 2010). The controls are very different to the gunner’s panel on the mount as this is integrated with the Electro-optical director (EOD) which provides TV images to the operator.

Despite its name, the Chain Gun is not actually a chain gun, but a rotary cannon due to the fact that it possesses multiple barrels in a presumably Gatling-style configuration. It still being referred to as a chain gun despite this fact could make it a reference to the Chaingun from the video game series Doom, which is also not an actual chain gun. This article's lead section may be too short to adequately summarize the key points. Please consider expanding the lead to provide an accessible overview of all important aspects of the article. ( June 2021) During testing conducted by Hughes, the weapon proved extremely reliable, firing two 10,000 round bursts lasting 20 minutes at 500 rounds per minute. [2] It has a reported rounds between failure rate of approximately 50,000 rounds. An interesting alternative configuration of the Seahawk DS A1 mount offered by MSI-DSL (Not in service with the RN). The Bushmaster is duel-fed with ammunition from left and right panniers. The gunner’s cabin is replaced by controls directly mounted on the gun, although the weapon is typically remotely controlled. Note the addition of angled panels to the mount intended to further reduce radar signature. The mount has a modular central yoke which and it can be configured for use with cannons between 25-40mm. It is a highly flexible design that can be customised with different ammunition arrangements, gunner’s cabin, sights, sensors or co-mounted weapons such as small missiles or other light guns. MSI-DSL markets the mount as the ‘Seahawk DS’ family but this designation is not officially used by the RN which instead refers to the whole system as the Automated Small Calibre Gun (ASCG) or more commonly, “the 30mm”.Following the M230LF fielding in theatre in different roles the US military, which call it XM914, issued a Request for Information for additional M-LIDS (Mobile-Low, slow, small unmanned aircraft Integrated Defeat System) in which the Northrop Grumman chain gun finding is the hard-kill Counter-UAS effector. With a weight less than 73 kg without ammunition and a recoil force of less than 7,400 N, it can be fitted to many RCWS designed for hosting 12.7 mm heavy machine guns. The M230LF chain gun can shoot single shot, controlled burst, and full automatic, in the latter mote the firing rate reaching 200 rounds per minute, and provides a lethality range of over 2,000 meters.

A commonly used chain gun is the M242 Bushmaster. Versions of its 25 mm action are found on ships (the Mk38) and Infantry fighting vehicles (the M2 Bradley and LAV-25) around the world. Others are the M230 30 mm Cannon, which is standard equipment on the Apache helicopter, as well as the Bushmaster II 30 mm, and the Bushmaster III 35/50 mm Chain gun.As it was already alluded to, you can change the rate of fire of a chain gun by changing the amount of power going to the drive motor, this is a useful option when switching between ground and air targets. This can also be done with a conventional gun but its a pain in the ass to add artificial friction to the gun mechanism. The L94A1 can only be equipped with one ammo belt consisting of two Armour Piercing (AP) bullets, followed by one Tracer (T) bullet. Neither bullet has much penetration (maximum of 13 mm), however, the AP bullet performs much better than the tracer bullet. The successor to the Mk7, the Oerlikon 20mm/85 KAA cannon GAM-BO1 mounting. In service since 1983, this simple, manually-aimed weapon has a rate of fire of up to 1,000 rounds per minute and remains in use, fitted to the LPDs, the survey vessels and Batch 1 OPVs. (HMS Chatham, 2010)