Repeater gun
A Gatling Gun is a gun , in which a manually operable mechanism ammunition from a magazine into the cartridge chamber (recharged repeats is). Although the caliber corresponded to the rifles of that time or was only slightly larger, the weapons were so heavy that they required a carriage . In the army they were usually assigned to the artillery , the navy used them on small ships .
development
The repeater crossbow was known much earlier . However, this principle could not simply be applied to firearms . Multi- barreled volley guns were developed, but the loading process was completely manual. It was not until the invention of the metal cartridge in the middle of the 19th century that repeating guns became technically feasible.
The repeater guns were used from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century, but not with great success. The short era ended with the introduction of the self-loading machine gun on the one hand and the rapid-fire gun on the other. The Mk-18 grenade launcher of the US Navy was in the 1960s a late representative of this concept.
Models
- Union Repeating Gun
- Gatling Gun
- Canon revolver de 37
- Feldl gun
- Nordenfelt Gun
- Gardner Gun
- Gun by the Eberhardt brothers
literature
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 1887
- Military history communications, 1992, ISBN 3486558811
- Military and Technology, 1992, ISBN 3813203689
- Götzinger, E .: Reallexicon of German antiquities. Leipzig 1885., pp. 33-36.