/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8138726
How does it not? Multiple barrels in a rotating assembly.

>>5810574
>>5810564
>>5810621
Lurker here, I think it's impressive in it's own way.
Like it's a novel idea and he has tried to implement it but it's spaghettified and janky but there is *something* there so he's not completely crazy. If he had a guy who cleaned up his code shit would make more sense.

Gif unrelated.

>>3388175
>multiple barrels in a circular assembly which rotates as the barrels take turns firing
It fits the definition of a Gatling system to a T.

>>2543541
Though the original Gatling gun was hand-cranked, later weapons based on the same principle of multiple barrels and bolts in a rotating assembly taking turns firing, have been made with electric motors to drive the assembly (and thus trip the firing-pin for each chamber whenever it is rotated into place), you would only need to hold the trigger to drive the motor, making the gun fire.

The most common example is the famous M134 Minigun (called Mini because it's a scaled down 7.62mm variant of the 20mm Vulcan Cannon), however, the Fokker had an electric motor, as well, the concept of a motorized Gatling style weapon had existed since the days of the American Civil War, it just wasn't seen as having a practical purpose at the time (given how two people manned it, and the assistant loader would be able to load maybe about 20 cartridges in a block into the feed at a time, and the gun firing several times that in a second, keeping a good consistent rate of fire without interruption would be impossible even with the best gunner team in the world)

It's not unreasonable to assume that there's an electric motor on the gun, possibly powered by a battery pack he wears somewhere in his suit. Though they could be gas-powered, in that they use bled off gas from the fired cartridge to cycle to the next chamber. Would be hideously complex, but it can absolutely be done. That way it would actually even start out firing sort of slow and then speed up to top speed as it keeps firing.

I think it would have been neat if he was using his off-hand to hold the belt, which then linked/came out of a large pack on his back. Or a pair of feed-chutes going from both guns and into two packs on his back.