The A-10 Warthog is one of the most iconic aircraft in the United States military, but more iconic than the plane itself is ...

Gatling Gun 2.0: The General Dynamics M61A2 Relied on Civil War Technology. September 11, ... the original M61 was developed after World War II by General Electric and first introduced in 1956, ...

As a young boy, Keith Takacs knew he wanted a Gatling gun. The rapid-fire weapon, a precursor to modern machine guns patented in 1862, looked cool in old cowboy movies. Fast-forward a few decades ...

It is based on the Gatling principle, which permits a high rate of fire while also reducing heat and barrel erosion.The M61A2 20mm is just the latest generation of the Civil War-era “Gatling Gun ...

Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time.Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn’t fully mechanical.Someone still had to ...

A rare Civil War 1875 Gatling gun sold at auction for $93,000 to a private East Coast collector at Wednesday's Nye & Company's Americana auction.

The Gatling gun is one of the best-known early rapid-fire, spring-loaded, hand-cranked weapons. A clip of bullets feeds a rotating wheel of barrels and at one time fired 200 to 400 rounds per minute.