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Machine-guns.

Pic: a British 40mm 40 kal wz. 28 Vickers-Armstrong 2 pounder Mk II anti-aircraft 'pom-pom' gun of the Polish Destroyer ORP Wicher, 1933.
Such quick-firing guns were made to keep small craft, boarders, and torpedo boats away from the battleships, later tasked to down enemy aircraft.
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German WW1 MG-08 machine-gun, or Maschinengewehr 1908, their version of the Maxim Gun.
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Austro-Hungarian WW1 Schwarzlose 6mm MG 1907/12, at Festung (fortress) Hohensalzburg.
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More of the Schwarzlose machine-gun.
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An Austro-Hungarian WW1 Schwarzlose Maschinengewehr 07/12, mounted on a wheel, and used for anti-aircraft fire.
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French WW1 Hotchkiss M1900 machine-gun.
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Normally, the French Hotchkiss loads from a clip of 8mm Lebel rounds, hand loaded into one side of the weapon to be fed out the opposite side as the bullets are fired, but this is using flexible clips attached to each other to provide better sustained fire.

Technology advances!
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A Gatling-style Hotchkiss 37mm Revolving Cannon of 1872, an early hand-cranked machine-gun that fired explosive shells, similar to the shell of the above 'pom-pom' guns.
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More modern stuff:

US M249 5.56x45mm squad automatic weapon (SAW) and an M79 40mm grenade launcher.
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Tan Son Nhut, Vietnam. This twelve year old ARVN Airborne trooper with M-79 grenade launcher accompanied the Airborne Task Force Unit on a sweep through the devastated area surrounding the French National Cemetery on Plantation Road after a day long battle there. The young soldier has been "adopted" by the Airborne Division.

They better tell that kid to keep his booger hook off the bang switch.
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The US M249 SAW is based on the Belgian FN Minimi, here a Paratrooper version with a short barrel and collapsible buttstock.
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And the Minimi was evolved design from the Belgian FN MAG (Mitrailleuse d`Appui Général), a 7.62x51mm general-purpose machine-gun (GPMG), here used in Israel.
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Machine-guns you say?
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Goddammit, i don't have my highres picture of this eightyearold kid firing an MG42 on this computer. FUUUUCK
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>autocannon
Had a /tg/ moment there. "What, 40K in my /hr/?!"
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>>462949
Wha--?
Machine-guns that fire shells 20mm wide or greater are usually called autocannons, or at least they used to.

Pic: a Swiss Army 7.5mm Maxim Ord. 1894 machine-gun.
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saved as minigun.jpg
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>>462888

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAU-8_Avenger
>> Animal Sister
>>463299
If the boolets explode, they're called shells and come from a cannon. Autocannons are just cannons that fire automatically.
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What do they call cannon that load themselves automatically, but only fire one projectile per pull of the trigger?
Self-loading cannon? Or just call them autocannon, too?

They don't call cannon that are fully automatic, like machine-guns, machine-cannon.

Pic: Swiss Oerlikon 35mm twin-barreled anti-aircraft gun Z-FlAK 85 of the Austrian Air Force.
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Mitrailleuse muzzle.
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>>462888
<---Most badass gun ever.
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>>463299
Autocannons are also range 48", strength 7, AP4, heavy-2 weapons in Warhammer 40K. =/
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UK WW2 3.7 inch QF AAG; 8 man crew, fired a 28lb shell to 32000ft in 50 secs.
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And here's one in Israel.
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Russian 57mm S-60 air defense gun (1950) in Israel.
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Russian 57mm S-60 air defense gun (1950).
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Russian ZPU-4 14.5mm quadruple anti-aircraft gun.
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Russian ZU-23-2 23mm double anti-aircraft gun.
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Danish 20mm Madsen AA gun in Finland.
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Japanese 35mm L90, their version of the Oerlikon/Contraves GDF-002 35mm cannon.
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Chinese Type 65 37mm M1939 (61-K) AA gun.
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bump for awesomeness.
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Damn. If BG keeps posting this stuff, maybe I have a hope of eventually making military illustrations with as much insanity as Raita.
>> Animal Sister
>>463483
They're either called Self-Loading cannon or just Autocannons. A lot of times they tend to be chainguns, which are some of the most reliable weapons in the world.

Thanks for all these, by the way, I love your threads