Machine 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.
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Wikipedia: Gatling Gun
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The 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.
Wikipedia: Nordenfelt gun
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The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels.
Mitrailleuse (Wikipedia)
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A 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.
Wikipedia: GShG-7.62 machine gun
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The 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.
Wikipedia: XM214 Microgun
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The XM214 Microgun is an American prototype 5.56 mm rotary-barreled machine gun.
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