No dakka, just brrrrrrt.

Tbf even the gau-8 used by the A-10 warthog only has 18 seconds of brrrrrrt. So if anything carryable could last 5 seconds, you'd basically be out of ammo anyways. It's a way of making it "realistic" without limiting you to the point of making it worthless. Which in reality, in any extended engagement, a ground mini-gun is absolutely worthless. No one person by themselves could use that gun effectively against more than ~10-15 people and only in VERY specific situations. Only in a kamikaze rush would it be of any value. I'd take 3 marksmen with bolt action rifles and iron sights over one dude on foot with a mini-gun all day, every day.

Mini-guns are very, very good in specific applications, but absolutely worthless in others. But it's fun in a video game to weird. It'd be unrealistic and OP to carry with enough ammo to make it useful outside of fallout power armor, or a full mech.

M240 weighs like 12 or 13kg and fires 7.62.

Plus, it would've totally been common in service at the time of the movie's release...

It's just not as cool though.

Have you tried walking out of your back door and immediately appearing through your front door?

That can confuse them

This is a real thing. Even LMGs generally have multiple barrels that you have to change out during sustained fire.

In bulk maybe. But my .308 rounds are generally ~$30 for 20 depending on certain factors.

That's crazy cheap since the last time I bought bullets. Maybe I need to jump on this.

Exactly. Just because it conceivably could be done doesnt make it a good idea.I mean... they do look fucking cool when they crank off at 6000rpm though. The rule of cool makes everything a good idea in movies.

Its not the greatest movie but I do love the boat rescue scene from Act of Valor https://youtu.be/O0vZY0m6INU

Not only that but the barrel is rotating quite fast which encourages cooling.

I mean technically they spin to cool but also because they use the time it takes to rotate to unload and reload a round. Basically "1 fire, 1 move out of the way, 2 fire, 1 unload, 2 move, 3 fire, 1 load, 2 unload, 3 move, etc." multiple reasons

As someone else put it. No dakka, just brrt. When you have 8 dakkas in sync, you get all the -kka happening while the next barrel is already Da-, so dakka dakka turns into dadadadadadddddddrrrrrrtt

Just have to grind that min wage job simulator for 9-12 months for another go.

Unless it’s got rent, transportation, healthcare, and food simulators in it too.

Sure, but realistically air isn't a good enough heat conductor for this to help much. Fixed machine guns used to use water-cooling but that's been phased out and modern weapons simple replace the barrel when it gets too hot.

Yeah, rule of cool is important for entertainment. The problem is that you stretch reality too far you end up ruining the suspension of disbelief. For me, people flying backwards through the air after they've been shot ruins movies, because that's just not what happens.

IMO, the best part of the scene from Predator is that they showed just how freaked out the guy was by having him hold down the trigger after he'd fired every bullet he had leaving the audience with just the sound of the barrels spinning. That's just really good storytelling, and not something you can do with another type of machine gun.

Actually, we could power the rotary gun with the solar panel!

maybe i miss understood the context of the meme

Reminds me of the weapons in Breath of the Wild. You can easily break several in a single fight.

Their math was wrong. 45 seconds of sustained fire would require a belt far larger than any one man could carry. It wouldn't even be logical in a vehicle turret.

Wrong. I easily shot 500m on a 249 single shot on iron sights.

It's a matter of skill. Carlos hathcock used a .50 machine gun to snipe people in Vietnam. I hit individual targets at 500m with a 249 on a single shot with iron sights.

I could snipe people from 500m with a 249 with no problem. 2-3 shots no problem.

20 rounds per second, 45 seconds is 900 rounds. Each round is 25g, so 900 rounds is about 25 kg. I don't see the issue.

Yeah? Of course, a 249 is a different beast. I’m talking about the average infantryman, M4, red dot. Sure, it’s not the hardest shots in the world, the average infantryman, just isn’t very combat effective there.

Edit: stationed at Gordon tells me you’re not infantry.

Range data isn’t a flex, pog.

What'd you get on your asvab? Drool? In asymmetric warfare being a window licker doesn't mean you saw much more than anyone else unless they never left the fob.

1. At the end of the day, I’m not in here telling you how to do intel, don’t tell me how to do what I did.

Uh huh. Sure.

To your point about ASVABs, that’s the exact reason an average infantryman isn’t effective. I wasn’t sure some people could tie their own shoes, let alone handle a rifle.