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Feuer Frei!
08-01-11, 09:25 AM
Check out this latest installment of Military.com’s Tip of the Spear video series featuring sailors from Detachment 2 of the U.S. Navy’s Riverine Squadron 3 showing off the six-barreled, electronically-controlled GAU-17 minigun found on their armored Riverine Patrol Boats.

http://www.military.com/video/ammunition-and-explosives/small-arms-ammunition/minigun-lights-up-the-night-tip-of-the-spear-us-navy-riverines/1086377191001/

SOURCE (http://defensetech.org/2011/08/01/tip-of-the-spear-riverines-gau-17-minigun/)

Platapus
08-01-11, 07:27 PM
Love that "raspberry" sound guns like that make.

The laser designator was a nice touch too.

That thing must eat the ammo! :o

Feuer Frei!
08-01-11, 08:16 PM
Love that "raspberry" sound guns like that make.

The laser designator was a nice touch too.

That thing must eat the ammo! :o
What i noticed at first is the sound when on full fire, sounds like a BrushCutter :haha: