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#30
March 02, 2011, 07:51:26 AM
The only Vickers K's I've seen pics of were all drum fed (as per the Lewis). Was there a belt fed version ?
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#31
March 02, 2011, 09:48:19 AM
I don't know, but it could be modified I suppose. My thinking was that it wouldn't matter too much, as the idea was to put as much lead on-target as quickly as possible. Changing the drums wouldn't take too long, and they held 100 rounds anyway, so not much different to a belt-fed weapon.
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#32
March 02, 2011, 04:34:45 PM
Quote from: pyro-manic on March 02, 2011, 04:38:08 AM

An alternative could be Vickers K guns - they were .303, but had a very high rate of fire (~1200rpm I think). They were very effective for raiding in North Africa, being mounted in pairs on jeeps and trucks.

The reason they were available for vehicle mount was that they had been made redundant in the RAF by the Browning .303.
The belt-fed Browning would make more sense for a side-firing gunship.

The Vickers K was developed from the box-magazine fed Vickers- Berthier, which was based on a pre-WWI French design.

jcf

#33
March 02, 2011, 04:46:07 PM
Quote from: tigercat on March 02, 2011, 12:07:30 AM

Some form of minigun is probably feasible in the 1940's as long as it hadn't fallen into disuse like in the OTL.

The ancestor to the modern minigun was made in the 1860s. Richard Jordan Gatling replaced the hand cranked mechanism of a rifle-caliber Gatling gun with an electric motor, a relatively new invention at the time. Even after Gatling slowed down the mechanism, the new electric-powered Gatling gun had a theoretical rate of fire of 3,000 rounds per minute, roughly three times the rate of a typical modern, single-barreled machine gun. Gatling's electric-powered design received US Patent #502,185 on July 25, 1893.[1] Despite Gatling's improvements, the Gatling gun fell into disuse after cheaper, lighter-weight, recoil and gas operated machine guns were invented.

Gatling thread:
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,25696.0.html

While the Crocker-Wheeler modification of 1890 directly replaced the hand-crank with an electric motor,
Gatling's own design was more complicated in that the electric motor was an integral part of the
weapon. It was also water-cooled.

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