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"Brett" wrote:

Your original claim was the advantage enjoyed by the gatling from the
much larger the number of projectiles sent in the direction of the
target when required, if it is actually sending less the advantage
should belong to the Mauser.

Only for very short bursts. Longer ones, it's even, and you can hold
sustained fire for longer overall.

So instead of trying to hit another plane with a half-second burst five
different times before the bullets run out (like the Mauser), or a full
one-second burst the same number of times (with the Gatling).

Or you could just empty the gun, and put four times as many bullets on
target in the same burst.

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