Initial tests proved promising as a vintage Gatling gun, now powered by an electric ... excess of 4,000 rounds per minute. In 1946 the General Electric company received the contract for this ...

Summary and Key Points: The A-10 Warthog is beloved by U.S. ground forces largely due to its powerful 30 mm GAU-8/A Avenger Gatling gun, capable of firing 3,900 rounds per minute. -This cannon ...

American military weapons may have looked a lot different had it not been for the invention of one Civil War-era firearm—the Gatling gun.