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the m134 minigun which is capable of mowing down waves of kids in the matter of seconds with its 7.62 mm bullets having the velocity speed for 3000 feet per second breaking the super sonic sound barrier which comes from its 6 powerful rotating barrels powered by a external eletric motor source which can spit it up to 6000 revolutions per minute faster than a car going 65 mph. Weighing 165 pounds, the backpack alone weighs 60 pounds which carries the motor and does not include the ammo while the M134 minigun weighs around 105 pounds and the reason why it is so heavy is to counter the recoil produced by it which is around 90 pounds of forces which is strong enough to knock out a adult human being. in a test if a UH-1Y or any helicopter that has a mounted M134 minigun the test showed that if it were to fly by near a football field and fire for a full 30 seconds every 5 inch square block on the field has a 100% chance of getting hit. Although rather than the M134 being used there are sub verisons of that are mounted on to aircraft, just to list a few. GAUSE-17/A, GAU-17/A, and MXU-470/A are used in aircraft. The GAUSE-17/A and GAU-17/A are used in helicopters while the MXU-470/A is used in the AC-130. The GAUSE-17/A   minigun is a sub verison of the M134 minigun which is capable of having different modes on such as the low firing rate which can shoot 7.62 mm bullets from its 6 rotating barrels at 2000 rounds per minute or the user can choose the high firing rate which can shoot 7.62 bullets from its 6 rotating barrels at 4000 rounds per minute. However its velocity speed is reducded to 2800 feet per second but can be fed a 4400 round linked belts of the 7.62 bullets. Although it is good for suppression the M134 minigun wins in the ammo belt due to its ability to do 6000 rounds per minute and a ammo reserve that can contain up to 500-5000 rounds the m134 miingun can use it all up while the GAUSE-17/A cannot. The GAU-17 is very similar to the GAUSE-17/A however the only difference is that the GAU-17 has higher fire rate which can send out 5000 rounds per minute but has the same velocity speed although they both are made for passengers to fire from the cockpit of the helicopter while the M134 minigun is more of a minigun that is armed on a aircraft it self however can be used for passenger use as well. MXU-470/a is another minigun that is yet mounted onto aircraft rather than passenger use, thus being because the weights are lighter but have more recoil affects unless mounted. There are many more such as the XM18 minigun, which were pods used in AH-1 cobras in Vietnam, M18E1 minigun which were a sub verison of pods, SUU-11B/A, SUU-11A/A, GAU-2B and many more differnet miniguns. All though all miniguns being generally the same, some miniguns have the same specs but however the gears/the way it works inside is largely different, each model was made to their own speicfications for the user/gunner for their preferences.The ancestor to the modern minigun was made in the 1860s. Richard Jordan Gatling replaced the hand-cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. Even after Gatling slowed down the mechanism, the new electric-powered Gatling gun had a theoretical rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute, roughly three times the rate of a typical modern, single-barreled machine gun. Gatling's electric-powered design received U.S. Patent #502,185 on July 25, 1893.[2] Despite Gatling's improvements, the Gatling gun fell into disuse after cheaper, lighter-weight, recoil and gas operated machine guns were invented; Gatling himself went bankrupt for a period.[3] During World War I, several German companies were working on externally powered guns for use in aircraft. Of those, the best-known today is perhaps the Fokker-Leimberger, an externally powered 12-barrel rotary gun using the 7.92×57mm Mauser round; it was claimed to be capable of firing over 7,000 rpm, but suffered from frequent cartridge-case ruptures[4] due to its "nutcracker", rotary split-breech design, which is fairly different from that of a Gatling.[5] None of these German guns went into production during the war, although a competing Siemens prototype (possibly using a different action) which was tried on the Western Front scored a victory in aerial combat.[4] The British also experimented with this type of split-breech during the 1950s, but they were also unsuccessful.[6]The U.S. government had procured some 10,000 miniguns during the Vietnam War. By 1975, production of spare parts had ceased with the Army in possession of a large inventory. By 1985, there were few spares left in the inventory. Units that received miniguns could not maintain them, so by the 1990s only Task Force 160 (later named the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) or 160th SOAR) and some Navy Special Boat Units kept them in regular use. Around 1995, the 160th SOAR began acquiring spare miniguns. Industry had a difficult time reproducing parts according to the original blueprints, so models that were being procured were mechanically unreliable and mixed with the inventory of working spares. This resulted in using a mixed batch of working and unreliable weapons. This fact was unknown to the 160th SOAR, and the use of miniguns that would not work shook the unit's confidence in the system. The 160th was on the verge of dropping the Minigun from its inventory entirely, which would essentially have ended its service life in the U.S. military.[7] Around 1990, Dillon Aero acquired a large number of miniguns and spares from "a foreign user". The guns kept failing to shoot continuously, revealing that they were actually worn-out weapons. The company decided to fix the problems encountered, rather than simply putting the guns into storage. Fixing failure problems ended up improving the minigun's overall design.[7] Dillon's efforts to improve the minigun reached the 160th SOAR, and Dillon was invited to Fort Campbell, Kentucky to demonstrate its products. A delinker–used to separate cartridges from ammunition belts and feed them into the gun housing–; and other parts were tested on Campbell's ranges. The 160th SOAR liked the delinker's performance and began ordering them by 1997.