Home›Machine Guns And Automatic Weapons›Multi-Barrel and Rotary Machine GunsGroupMulti-Barrel and Rotary Machine GunsMachine guns that fire several barrels or a rotating cluster of barrels, from the hand-cranked Gatling gun and the Nordenfelt organ gun to modern electrically driven rotary guns. A weapon belongs here when its cited article describes it as a multiple-barrel, volley or rotary gun. It excludes single-barrel light, medium and heavy machine guns. Multiple barrels let a gun fire fast without overheating one barrel, and this idea ran from the hand-cranked guns of the American Civil War to the electrically driven rotary guns of aircraft and helicopters.Browse BySourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Browse ByAll Multi-Barrel and Rotary Machine GunsMulti-Barrel and Rotary Machine Guns5 entriesMulti-Barrel and Rotary Machine GunsFilter Results5 entriesWeapon FamilyAllMulti-Barrel and Rotary Machine Guns (5)Weapon Type or ClassAllMulti-barrel volley gun (1)rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm (1)Rotary machine gun (1)rotary-barreled machine gun (1)Volley gun (1)CaliberAll.30-06 Springfield (1).30-40 Krag (1).45-70 Government (1)11x60mm Mauser (1)13mm (1)25mm (1)5.56x45mm NATO (1)7.62x54mmR (1)Introduced EraAll1861 (1)1862 (1)1866 (1)1875 (1)1966 (1)1968 (1)Service StatusAllIn Service (1)Prototype or Experimental (1)Retired (3)OperatorAllFrench Armed Forces (1)Mexican Armed Forces (1)Royal Navy (1)Soviet Armed Forces (1)Union Army (1)Wars Used InAllAmerican Civil War (1)Anglo-Egyptian War (1)Anglo-Zulu War (1)Balkan Wars (1)Boxer Rebellion (2)First Matabele War (1)First Sino-Japanese War (1)Franco-Prussian War (2)Mahdist War (2)Mexican Revolution (1)Philippine-American War (2)Portuguese Conquest of the Gaza Empire (1)Second Anglo-Afghan War (1)Spanish-American War (1)War of the Pacific (2)ManufacturerAllColt's Manufacturing Company (1)General Dynamics Corporation (1)General Electric (1)Kovrov Machine-Gun Factory (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 5Gatling GunMachine Guns And Automatic Weapons13 linksGShG-7.62 machine gunMachine Guns And Automatic Weapons1 linkMitrailleuseMachine Guns And Automatic Weapons3 linksNordenfelt gunMachine Guns And Automatic Weapons9 linksXM214 MicrogunMachine Guns And Automatic WeaponsSourcesWikipedia: Gatling Guntier 4WikipediaHas Member: Gatling Gun, Lead sentenceQuote, Has Member: Gatling Gun, Lead sentenceThe Gatling gun, also known in Russia as the Gorloff, is a rapid-firing multiple-barrel firearm invented in 1861 by Richard Jordan Gatling of North Carolina.View the SourceWikipedia: Nordenfelt gunHas Member: Nordenfelt gun, Lead sentenceQuote, Has Member: Nordenfelt gun, Lead sentenceThe Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels.View the SourceMitrailleuse (Wikipedia)Has Member: Mitrailleuse, Lead sentenceQuote, Has Member: Mitrailleuse, Lead sentenceA mitrailleuse (French pronunciation: [mitʁajøz] ; from French mitraille, "grapeshot") is a type of volley gun with barrels of rifle calibre that can fire either all rounds at once or in rapid succession.View the SourceWikipedia: GShG-7.62 machine gunHas Member: GShG-7.62 machine gun, Lead sentenceQuote, Has Member: GShG-7.62 machine gun, Lead sentenceThe Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev GShG-7.62 (Russian: Глаголев-Шипунов-Грязев ГШГ-7,62) is a four-barreled rotary machine gun designed in the Soviet Union, similar to firearms such as the M134 Minigun.View the SourceWikipedia: XM214 MicrogunHas Member: XM214 Microgun, Lead sentenceQuote, Has Member: XM214 Microgun, Lead sentenceThe XM214 Microgun is an American prototype 5.56 mm rotary-barreled machine gun.View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.