Miniguns for BD Armoury

[Biscuitfish]

The M134 included in this mod is deferent from the regular Vulcan cannon in multiple ways, it uses its own ammo, is resized, has custom sounds and different damage. There are three variants of the M134 Minigun, a fixed one, good for helicopters, a rotatable one, good for a tail turret or anti-air and lastly a aerodynamic one, great for use on high speed aircraft. The M134 is a smaller Vulcan cannon - All credit for the Vulcan model goes BahamutoD

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The plugin from BDArmoury BahaTurret.dll is required the mod to work

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If you have suggestions or questions please tell me below!

-Biscuitfish Aerospace

Edited August 6, 2015 by Biscuitfish
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[BahamutoD]

Cool. I should let you know that the fixed minigun isn't necessary because you can just use the tweakables to limit the turret's rotation.

[Hellbrand]

How do these parts differ from His Parts? and how does the aerodynamic mini-gun Differ than the hidden Vulcan? as the Vulcan is also a mini-gun.

[Biscuitfish]

They use different ammo and fire a bit faster. I am still working on balancing them so let me know what you think

[Biscuitfish]

Thanks for letting me know! They are kind of outdated in that sense, but I made them use custom ammo and fire faster ect.

[SyberSmoke]

Ummm...If those are to scale, then they are not MiniGuns. A mini gun is man portable like the M134 that uses Nato 5.56x51 ammo. What you have is a Gatling Cannon or Rotary Cannon like the GE GAU-8 on the A-10 Thunderbolt 2 (AKA Warthog). Scale is everything...I mean if the Kerbal can hold it, walk with it, and fire it while holding it...Minigun. Bigger...not a minigun man. :-)

[Biscuitfish]

It is hard to tell in the picture but I did rescale them, I will add a better photo showing the scale

[ExplorerKlatt]

Ummm...If those are to scale, then they are not MiniGuns. A mini gun is man portable like the M134 that uses Nato 5.56x51 ammo. What you have is a Gatling Cannon or Rotary Cannon like the GE GAU-8 on the A-10 Thunderbolt 2 (AKA Warthog). Scale is everything...I mean if the Kerbal can hold it, walk with it, and fire it while holding it...Minigun. Bigger...not a minigun man. :-)

This isn't technically true. Mini-guns are not man portable. It is an electrically powered gun, not exactly logistically sound to carry it around in the field. They are called mini because they are smaller than other weapons with similar firing mechanisms (ie the Vulcan). The gun comes from the fact that it uses a gun caliber (smaller than 20mm). The M134 uses 7.62x51 Nato and weighs between 41 and 85 pounds, and is usually mounted on helicopters, Humvees or boarding craft. I have never heard of the 134 being carried and fired in combat.

[Vahal]

NO gatling gun was a man portable weapon, even the XM214 who is the 5.56x45 variant, M134 being 7.62x51. Reason one, battery supply, the XM214 drained power wuite rapidly from its 6-pak. Reason two, the weight, the lighter of minguns weight 11kg ALONE and empty. with battery, ammunitions and pack, it's barely bearable... Enjoy your 39kg for several seconds of fire. Reason three, recoil, the XM214 who is the tiniest produce ONE HUNDRED kilos of recoil M134 Minigun is one third bigger... Of course you can lower the rate of fire to reduce the recoil, but in this case what's the point to have this heavy and cumbersome stuff when you can have a nice and effective SAW.

M134 was never used as man portable weapon, 25kg empty, 60 with it's standard load, it will throw its shooter after one second due to is 135kg of recoil at 6000rd/min.

[sashan]

There was a proper model of Minigun but with improper ammo and setup in one of BDarmory addons. Maybe you should use it?