December 28, 2019
The U.S. Military Nearly Had A Machine Gun That Could Fire 12,000 Rounds Per Minute
Meet the Microgun.
by Joseph Trevithick
Key point: In 2011, General Dynamics finally stopped pitching the gun on its Website. After four decades, no one had purchased any significant number of Microguns.
General Electric’s armament division struck it big when it brought Gatling guns back in the late 1950s. The company hoped it could sell different models for almost every conceivable mission.
So less than a decade after introducing the iconic Minigun, the Vermont-based defense contractor developed yet another multiple-barrel light machine gun. The designers expected the new “Microgun†to be a popular alternative to traditional infantry weapons.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-military-nearly-had-machine-gun-could-fire-12000-rounds-minute-108866
