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1. is swager21 buff irl??

2.is swager21 lit???

3. is swager21's favorite quote this?? : m134 gun 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 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<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-flight_4-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[4]  due to its "nutcracker", rotary split-breech design, which is fairly different from that of a Gatling.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Williams2005_5-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-flight_4-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[4]  The British also experimented with this type of split-breech during the 1950s, but they were also unsuccessful.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WilliamsGustin2004_6-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[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. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dillon_7-0" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">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.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dillon_7-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[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. This prompted Dillon to improve other design aspects, including the bolt, housing and barrel. Between 1997 and 2001, Dillon Aero was producing 25–30 products a year. In 2001, it was working on a new bolt design that increased performance and service life. By 2002 virtually every component of the minigun had been improved, so Dillon began producing complete weapons with improved components. The guns were purchased quickly by the 160th SOAR as its standardized weapon system. The gun then went through the Army's formal procurement system approval process and in 2003 the Dillon Aero minigun was certified and designated M134D.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dillon_7-2" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">The core of the M134D was a steel housing and steel rotor. To focus on weight reduction, a titanium housing and rotor were introduced, creating the M134D-T. This reduced weight from 62 pounds (28 kg) to 41 pounds (19 kg). The gun housing had a 500,000 round lifespan before it wore out, which was higher than a conventional machine gun's 40,000 round lifespan but was a reduced time for a rotary gun. A hybrid of the two weapons resulted in the M134D-H, which had a steel housing and titanium rotor. It was cheaper with the steel component, was only one pound (450 grams) heavier than the M134D-T, and had an increased lifespan of 1 million rounds.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[8]  The M134D-H is currently in use on various 160th Regiment platforms.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dillon_7-3" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[7]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Dillon also created specialized mounts and ammunition-handling systems. Initially, mounts were only made for aviation systems. Then from 2003 to 2005, the Navy began mounting Dillon miniguns on specialized small boats. In 2005, the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division procured guns to mount on Humvees. In Iraq, US Army Special Forces units on the ground were frequently engaged by opposition forces, so they mounted M134D miniguns on their vehicles for additional firepower. After several engagements the attackers seemed to avoid vehicles with miniguns. Later the Special Forces units began concealing their weapons so opposition troops would not know which weapon they were facing.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Dillon_7-4" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[7] The   General Electric   minigun is in use in several branches of the U.S. military, under a number of designations. The basic fixed armament version was given the designation   M134   by the   United States Army, while the same weapon was designated   GAU-2/A   (on a fixed mount) and   GAU-17/A   (flexible mount) by the   United States Air Force   (USAF) and   United States Navy   (USN). The USAF minigun variant has three versions, while the US Army weapon appears to have incorporated several improvements without a change in designation. The M134D is an improved version of the M134 designed and manufactured by   Dillon Aero, <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-14" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[14]   while Garwood Industries manufactures the M134G variant. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Garwood_Industries_15-0" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[15]   Available sources show a relation between both M134 and GAU-2/A and M134 and GAU-2B/A. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Jane1_16-0" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[16] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[17]   A separate variant, designated   XM196, with an added ejection sprocket was developed specifically for the   XM53   Armament Subsystem on the   Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne   helicopter. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[18]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Another variant was developed by the USAF specifically for flexible installations, beginning primarily with the Bell UH-1N Twin Huey helicopter, as the GAU-17/A. Produced by General Dynamics, this version has a slotted flash hider. The primary end users of the GAU-17/A have been the USN and the United States Marine Corps (USMC), which mount the gun as defensive armament on a number of helicopters and surface ships. GAU-17/As from helicopters were rushed into service for ships on pintle mountings taken from Mk16 20 mm guns for anti-swarm protection in the Gulf ahead of the 2003 Iraq War - 59 systems were installed in 30 days.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Friedman2006_19-0" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[19]  The GAU-17/A is designated Mk 44 in the machine gun series<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Friedman2006_19-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[19]  and is generally known as the Mk 44 when installed on British warships.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-weight:normal;"> The weapon is part of both the  A/A49E-11  armament system on the UH-1N; and of the A/A49E-13 armament subsystem on the USAF  Sikorsky HH-60H Pave Hawk  helicopter. The weapons on these systems feature a selectable fire rate of either 2,000 or 4,000 rpm. There is mention of a possible GAUSE-17 designation (GAU-Shipboard Equipment-17), in reference to the system when mounted on surface ships, though this would not follow the official ASETDS designation system's format. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="font-size:11.2px;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-weight:normal;">[20] <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="font-size:11.2px;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-weight:normal;">[21] The basic minigun is a six-barrel, air-cooled, and electrically driven rotary machine gun. The electric drive rotates the weapon within its housing, with a rotating firing pin assembly and rotary chamber. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;">[11]   The minigun's multi-barrel design helps prevent overheating, but also serves other functions. Multiple barrels allow for a greater capacity for a high firing rate, since the serial process of firing/extraction/loading is taking place in all barrels simultaneously. Thus, as one barrel fires, two others are in different stages of shell extraction and another three are being loaded. The minigun is composed of multiple closed-bolt rifle barrels arranged in a circular housing. The barrels are rotated by an external power source, usually electric,   pneumatic, or   hydraulic. Other rotating-barrel cannons are powered by the gas pressure or recoil energy of fired cartridges. A gas-operated variant, designated   XM133, was also developed. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;">[12]   It is near identical but has barrels with ports that align with the piston drive in the center of the barrel cluster. It fired over 3000 rpm but was not put into production. While the weapon can feed from linked ammunition, it requires a delinking feeder to strip the links as the rounds are introduced to the chambers. The original feeder unit was designated MAU-56/A, but has since been replaced by an improved MAU-201/A unit. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;">[13]  One of the first applications of the weapon was in aircraft armament pods. These   gun pods   were used by a wide variety of fixed and rotary wing aircraft mainly during the Vietnam War, remaining in inventory for a period afterward. The standard pod, designated   SUU-11/A   by the Air Force and   M18   by the U.S. Army, was a relatively simple unit, completely self-contained, with a 1,500-round magazine directly feeding delinked ammunition into the weapon. This means the Minigun fitted to the pod does not require the standard MAU-56/A delinking feeder unit. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="font-weight:normal;line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;">[22]   A number of variations of this pod exist.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Initially on fixed-wing gunships such as the Douglas AC-47 Spooky and Fairchild AC-119, the side-firing armament was fitted by combining SUU-11/A aircraft pods, often with their aerodynamic front fairings removed, with a locally fabricated mount. These pods were essentially unmodified, required no external power, and were linked to the aircraft's fire controls. The need for those pods for other missions led to the development and fielding of a purpose built "Minigun module" for gunship use, designated the MXU-470/A. These units first arrived in January 1967 with features such as an improved 2,000-round drum and electric feeder allowing simplified reloading in flight. The initial units were unreliable and were withdrawn almost immediately.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[23]  By the end of the year, however, the difficulties had been worked out and the units were again being fitted to AC-47s, AC-119s, AC-130s, and even being proposed for lighter aircraft such as the Cessna O-2 Skymaster.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[24]  A fit of two MXU-470/As was also tested on the Fairchild AU-23A Peacemaker, though the Royal Thai Air Force later elected to use another configuration with the M197 20 mm cannon.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[25]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">In September 2013, Dillon Aero released the DGP2300 gun pod for the M134D-H. It contains 3,000 rounds, enough ammunition to fire the minigun for a full minute. The system is entirely self-contained, so it can be mounted on any aircraft that can handle the weight, rotational torque, and recoil force (190 lb (86 kg)) of the gun. The pod has its own battery which can be wired into the aircraft's electrical system to maintain a charge.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">[26]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;"><sup class="reference" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:isolate;white-space:nowrap;font-size:11.2px;font-weight:normal;">4. is swager21 16???

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