On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:58:36 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:
In article ,
Ed Rasimus wrote:
On 5 Dec 2003 07:42:43 -0800, (robert arndt) wrote:
...when the M61 doesn't jam, that is.
Never experienced a single M61 variant jamming. Never saw on jam in
any flight that I was on. Never heard anyone talk about one jamming
in any squadron I was in. Doesn't sound, based on a limited empirical
sampling like a problem.
Well, Ed, you have to remember you're talking to Arndt. As fas as he's
concerned, everything important ever invented for aviation was invented
in Germany, all German-made machinery is the best in the world at
everything, and all American equipment is simply terrible and unreliable.
Which is why he's touting a weapon with less than one-third the firing
rate, and claiming that it's immune to mechanical problems...
dont forget that the gatling is designed for longterm use unlike a
single barrel cannon. each barrel is only shooting 1/6, 1/7 etc of the
time. what is the lifecyle of the single barrel cannons compared to
the m61/Gau-8/Gau-25