The M61 Vulcan is a Gatling Gun on Steroids 

If you hear the bullets, the shot wasn’t intended for you.

I've eaten a few times at Taco Bell and produced a similar rate of fire.

Gatling: "Too many people are dying of disease in the battlefield." Also Gatling: "People can't die of disease if there's nothing left of them."

Enemy in that direction! Yes sir! Removing that direction!

That's a whole lotta freedom.

Damn, Gatling really saw the death rate from disease and thought "I can beat that."

I trained on the Vulcan in 1965 on the F4, one hell of a gun.

I built my beautiful home way out in the woods of Grayling Michigan. So quiet and tranquil....until the A-10 Warthogs from Grayling National Gaurd base fly directly over at 3am. 10 seconds later they let thier Vulcans rip. And the sound is actually a "ripping" sound. Sometimes it sounds like a long burp.

Me after accidentally pressing reload and having to wait 3-4 business days

The fact that it sounds more like a chainsaw than a machine guns speaks a lot to the rate of fire by itself.

0:23 what a terrific sound.

when I was in the Army, I watched a Vulcan turn a APC into pebbles in a matter of seconds, most impressive thing I ever got to witness up close. There was a fan of dirt, and gravel in front of the barrels, just like Ma Deuce makes, just larger by yards. They emptied a deuce & a half box of ammo, and ears rang every where even with plugs in place.

What a great man Gattling was - preventing all those deaths from disease by making sure the deaths occurred by bullets instead.

Gatling's logic: "Hm, our men are dying to diseases and that's no good" Gatling's logic again: Gun go Brt brt brt brt brt brt

My friend and previous boss was a tank commander. He has worked through so much trauma it is inspiring. He told me one story. Encircled and surrounded, his convoy was attacked and nearly decimated. He recalled that when the enemy heard the report in the air; it was already too late. Entire football fields were reduced to dust, shreds of metal, and pink mist... When a hardened Marine is speaking in pure reverence, you know that $H!T just got real...

gatling gun: fired into the ocean. fish: 👁👄👁

Me after hearing the reason why gatling guns was made : thats kinda twisted thnking you got there pal

The F-16 strafe video in the begging is such a cool sound. It’s like first you hear a hard crash and then you hear a futuristic sound that sounds SOO cool.

i love the sounds it makes. So crispy yet super deadly.

But, can it pierce a Nokia 3100? 🤔

“M61 is a Gatling gun on steroids” GAU-8: am I a joke to you?

That logic though: I saw carnage in war so I made a weapon that kills more, with less people operating it. Genius.

81-84 Air defense artillery. 16 Romeo senior gunner. Older I get the more proud I get of my time at Ft. Bliss and Wackernheim Germany. Thank you for listening to an old man.

During my time in VF102 I got the pleasure of hearing the CIWS just below deck while on a carrier quals detachment. You could feel the vibrations when the gun was shooting.

"Precision shot? narr mate, hit everything. Can't miss if you hit everything." Murica.

0:21 THAT SOUNDS SO DEADLY. THE SPEED OF SOUND AFTER IT FIRED

Then Oppenheimer said, "Hold my beer."

My sister is currently in the navy and tends to the CIWS system. Pretty amazing stuff. I have one of the 50 cal shells on my mantel.

This is Arnold Schwarzeneggers wet dream all you need now is to put this into a mobile unit and he can carry it on the next terminator movie 🤣

I've seen the US Army's ADA version of the Vulcan in operation. Every 10th round was a tracer. it looked like a laser firing.

Hmm.. I worked for a while with the SUU-23 gun pod, which housed the M61 Vulcan cannon in 20mm on phantom F.4 (for my experience). I also worked with the Aden gun 30mm revolver style gun developed around the same time, (on harrier and hawk aircraft but was also fitted to many aircraft of that period). Also the 27mm Mauser MK-27 equipped in the Tornado and now equipping the Typhoon aircraft. The SUU-23 had problems in my experience, mainly due to complexity of the gun, particularly with the conveyor system and the helix mag, to a lesser degree the electronic clutch or the electrics in general, the Aden gun had problems with mal ejections, ammunition misalignment and link discharge. The Mauser MK-27 overcame some of the problems of the Aden gun with the re cocking system, but was still open to the same type of faults as it was basically an Aden Gun in 27mm with an added re cock system. Things may have moved on since my time with these pieces 80's-early 90's, but probably not that much. They both are impressive pieces of equipment and have pro's and con's, and I must admit that I enjoyed working on both systems. From a personal perspective, I believe that the Aden/ Mauser, revolver style gun was more reliable, per rounds fired, basically relying on disposable high wear parts to save the whole guns life. The M61/ SUU-23 was based more on a disposable system, whether that was just the barrels or other parts or the system as a whole i.e. the phantom could-would just ditch the gun pod as a whole, unlike more modern aircraft where it is built in. Europeans seem to favour the revolver style systems, Americans more the Gatling style, so that may have some influence on my experience and views (UK based ex-RAF) but as the rate of fire is similar in both systems it boils down to two things, calibre and ammunition capacity. The aircraft design and role generally dictate the ammo capacity by design, so that leaves calibre, I would rather have a couple hits with 30mm than two or three with 20mm, but I was never a pilot only a knuckle dragging plumber.

Gatling: Develops gun to reduce casualties in wars. Also Gatling: makes wars many thousands of times more deadly.

"Patterson, give them a Warning Shot." "Sir, we are firing a M61 Vulcan." "Eh, Potato Potato. Fire."

"She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar custom tool cartridges and ten thousand rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds"

Just what I need next time I visit London.

Great narration. Full of info....no bs. Thanks for uploading

Gatling: so many men died from disease during the war, it was horrible. Also Gatling: *invents the precursor to what could be considered to be the deadliest gun in existence*

The best description I've heard of a gatling gun is that it isn't a gun that shoots projectiles, it's a device that conveys a solid line of hot lead.

Amazing, I'm sold! I want one...

Absolutely beautiful. Imagine a convoy rolling in with those mounted on top….

Tommy gun: Swarm of angry bees M61: Swarm of angry supersonic flying buses

“I am heavy weapons guy. And THIS is my weapon.” -Heavy TF2

"Project Vulcan" sounds badass.

This video just took me back to my time working on F18s in the Marine Corps. 😎

It's so funny how multi-barrel firearms were mostly designed for volleys instead of sustained fire, but now whenever most people think of a multi-barrelled firearms, all people can think of is something like the Vulcan.

It's really cool how it works! As a weapons mechanic in the US Air Force on AC-130 H gunships I was responsible with maintenance of the m61 gatling gun, 40 mm bofors cannon, 105 mm howitzer! We maintained then in the aircraft, removed and replaced/rebuilt these systems!! The m61 internal workings is really a simple yet ingenious system with the breech bolts rollers running thru a track moving bolt in and out of battery!!! The rate of fire still amazes me!!!!

Just the sound of the thing is terrifying.

So, when you see a jet fly by and it farts, you know somebody is in trouble.

I remember seeing the movie "The Green Beret" as a kid and there's a scene where John Wayne calls in "Puff The Magic Dragon" to strafe the fort that has been overrun by VC's. That sequence terrified me. I asked my uncle, who took me, what that was and he was clueless. He was a Korean War vet and never saw anything like that before. The footage inside the plane of those miniguns firing left me spellbound.

They put the big brother in the A-10 and fed it depleted uranium...

Puff The Magic Dragon have our outfit cover at night on a few occasions. Beautiful high pitch wail that was music. Tracers were beautiful to see and have us peace on those tense nights.

these things are insanely loud irl especially if you're anywhere near it, you'll feel it in your chest it's wild

Gatling: “my boy died during battle! He’s a martyr!” Army: “uh yeah he got gangrene and died” Gatling: “for fucks sake”

Beautiful piece of tech, terrifying as it may be.

I love how for aircrafts it lights up a target on the ground but, you don't hear the sound of it being fired out of the barrels until a few seconds after that. Remember: "Thunder always comes after Lightning"~😏😏

My dad was track commander of of M113 APC's converted with the Vulcan on them for the 2/5 Ironsides Anti-Aircraft out of Ft Hood Texas in Vietnam.

YES! And going to bed at night, knowing that the Phalanxes were there to protect you night and day in Iraq; was the best sound after the alarm had sounded👍🤠 Thank you for being there, from a Danish brother in Arms🇩🇰👍🇺🇲

"You just shoved 49 pounds of hot lead into that Mig" I heard in an interview. Even if it is not explosive and didn't damage anything, it would alter the center of gravity of the plane. HAHAHA.

The end of the video where it shows the ship mounted gun, that thing is eerie bro. Something you dont wanna piss off.

Imagine having a couple of these M61 Vulcan's on base during the Vietnam war, when 10's of thousands of troops attacked the US base at “Khe Sanh” ...? The absolute carnage...! No air power, need be required…!

"Developed by inventor John Gatling" Screen: "Richard Gatling, American Inventor"

now thats is satisfying sound..

used to love to see these fire on my old cruiser. They pulled a dummy missile behind one of the jets from the carrier and it put 156 20MM holes in the missile in under 3 seconds. 20MM brass all over the deck. Just plain badass,like a deep sound of a sheet ripping. You just had to be there. Would not want to be an attacking jet,lol!

Bruh that's the mini-gun I use for my AC in Armored core 6! I love this!

We used these on an AH-1G in RVN, left side with a wrap under fuselage ammunition feed with ammo storage on the right side. They were mainly used as bunker penetrators. During testing in combat it was found the shrapnel from rounds exiting the barrel damaged the left side fuselage and plexiglas side window so an armored 'shield' was devised….was one kickass piece of ordnance

"What if we gave jets a chainsaw that shot bullets?" -said the designer, shortly after taking a hit from his bong

disease : "I almost wipe out the whole army" Gatling: "NUH UH"

Now imagine a giant power suit with a handheld M61 A2 Vulcan.

One of the guys - ex army special forces - who worked with me at a GE machine shop had a tee shirt with a picture of GE’s version of the modern Gatling gun and underneath it GE’s slogan “We bring good things to life.”

I saw these placed as anti-motar / rocket defence in a base in Iraq. Apart from a bit of a rough start they got up to a fairly good "hit" rate and I was very thankful we had them. I also remember they had self-detonating rounds to prevent fall out into any inhabited areas. A spectacular bit of kit, especially at night.

This is perfect for EDC and home defense. Cheers!

I swear I’ve heard that sound in music before like the echo or whatever that it causing the second sound

I worked with a guy that was in the Navy on one of the first ships to test and deploy the Phalanx gun. He said they had problems at first and had to dial back the sensitivity because the weapon would destroy the incoming missile, then shoot the parts as they fell, then expended all its ammo chasing the splashes in the sea from the debris and bullets it was still firing.

0:22 and 2:54 were the most adorable BRRRTTTTs i have ever heard.

I trained and and used the Vulcan in 1976thru79 its a mean toy, loved it.

I remember I use to love and hate seeing these things going off at night. Love because it looks like a light show going off at night and hate because it’s most likely a bomb coming down on base.

I used to work on those when I was a weapons troop in the Air Force. I worked on F-15's and F-16's. I remember doing the functional checks when I'd have to hold the 'last round by-pass' switch. That gun would scare the crap out of me every time.

The F4E also had a select switch between 4000 and 6000 rounds a minute. The F4E carried 640 rounds.

GAU-8/A Avenger: "hello there"

I just don't know how all the energy is expelled from each cartridge before it's discarded. Just amazing.

Fun fact, when Fairchild Republic was developing the A10, the much larger 30mm GAU8 from GE was still in development so the first prototype planes were fitted with this gun for testing. As powerful as the Vulcan is, the Avenger takes it to another level.

M61 Vulcan: exists... A-10 Warthog: isnt that cute, do you even BRRRRTTTTTT

Also was on a F104 starfighter, that I worked on at GAFB

Man that thing is NAAASTY! Would love to see it in real life

The last few seconds of the video reminds me of when I had that gas station burrito last week... And just as deadly

"A higher rate of fire is necessary" - America

Always remember that the people who made such terrifying weapons of mass destruction, such as the M61 and GAU-8, are the same people who made the most dinky washing machines and toasters

My whole pay check fired off in about a ten of a second.

0:24 that sound, I've heard it 20 times already, can't get enough of it

Worked on them in the RAF over 45 years ago bloody awesome piece of kit. Even now I could take one apart and reassemble they were truly brilliant.

Reminds me of when the cool guy in the auto shop got that new impact gun.

Yep ... love it ... I want one mounted on my vehicle...

Gau-8 Avenger gatling: "Heh. That's cute."

Fun fact: Gatling thought his cannon would lead to the end war itself as mankind would see how futile it is. Little did he know nuclear weapons would be developed and used less than 100 years later.

I can't believe they built a plane around this gun.

I just realised how strong Heavy is

I could see confusion on the battlefield when one of these flies by and fires. One guy asks the other guy on the ground “ did you just fart?🤣😆☠️

GE engineer: “How many rounds do you want it to fire per minute” Defense Dept: “All of them”

You can literally vaporize a human in seconds with that thing. The body would actually be turned into a human smoothie.

I was in 3/4 ADA in the 82d from 77 to 81 and was a mechanic, I thought they might mention the towed Vulcan in this video. The weapon was towed with a Gamma Goat, I think we had about 12 of them. We also did heavy drops with them in training, every once in a while one would streamer in, we used those for parts.