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M230 Chaingun

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M230 30mm Chain Gun Automatic Cannon from ATK Armament Systems. It is standard armament for the Apache helicopter. The M230LF is a link fed variant for ground use.

Each shot puts out 9,000 pounds of recoil force.

I am a big fan of chainguns. Most externally powered weapons rely on the ammunition quality for safety. That makes for catastrophic failures in the event of a hangfire. The ATK chainguns have a mechanism to hold the bolt closed in such an event.

All chainguns have a single fixed barrel. There is no such thing as a gatling style multi barrel chaingun. Doom is wrong.
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Could you please define based on your knowledge, the difference between chaingun and gatling gun? I get so much info and can't really tell what is correct and what not...