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They look like pieces of pipe. The only three barrel Gatling I know of is the U.S. .50 that we built up at GD. GAU19 IIRC. And those on the Hind are big honking cannon diameter tubes. That look like black iron plumbing pipe or PVC pipe to me.

The Hind Gatling was a 12.7mm which was the Soviet.50 BMG equivalent. It was definitely four barrels.

Edit… forgot about this guy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M197_electric_cannon

Hang on. I was wrong. Forgot about this one Another GD product. 20mm three barrel. Probably enough of that hardware floating around that they might have stuck one in!

Sirhr
Big Green slings some 3 barrel 50s.
We saw quite a few Humvees running around Fort Polk with the GAU-19s mounted.

*File pic from the web.
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Took these just a few minutes ago. Going to get on her tmrw. Son is super excited. We have been to several of them. 1st time visiting the USS Alabama!
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That is a bad ass setup. Their air and sea sections are excellent.

Pro Tip: Make sure you reserve a pretty sizeable block of your time just to tour the Alabama. She's big AF and if they have all the sections open, it will take a while.
 
One of my favorite Western's. Not so much a 'spoof' as a tribute to Sergio Leone.

There is a great documentary out called "The Italian who Made America" about Leone and how his films have shaped memory in America. He is one of the 3 or 4 best directors in history! If you can find the documentary, it is well worth watching!

Cheers,

Sirhr
 
This is the thing about cheating, you can be very smart and very careful, but it'll eventually come out. Lying is the same, not matter how slick you think you are, the truth will win. You might get away with it for a little while, but nobody is slick enough to cover all the tracks.
 
That is a bad ass setup. Their air and sea sections are excellent.

Pro Tip: Make sure you reserve a pretty sizeable block of your time just to tour the Alabama. She's big AF and if they have all the sections open, it will take a while.
We have been fortunate enough to visit the North Carolina twice. The New Jersey twice 1 of those was a dry dock tour. We have also been to Pearl. Never felt so many different emotions in one place at one time. Truly humbling experience.
 
This is the thing about cheating, you can be very smart and very careful, but it'll eventually come out. Lying is the same, not matter how slick you think you are, the truth will win. You might get away with it for a little while, but nobody is slick enough to cover all the tracks.


Coldplay Camera Guy....

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This is the thing about cheating, you can be very smart and very careful, but it'll eventually come out. Lying is the same, not matter how slick you think you are, the truth will win. You might get away with it for a little while, but nobody is slick enough to cover all the tracks.

Not even slick Willy!

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Time for some mover practice. Look at these morons, most of them look like they couldnt lift their dicks.


Not pointed at you @Maggot

This stuff is gaining some ground and it is important to understand where it comes from on a societal level. We like to think it is just wrongthink but it is deeper than that.

Buying power of the dollar is ridiculously low compared to 1950s and earlier. Fiscal policy and inflation have made it very hard to live any portion of the so called American Dream. A man used to be able to buy a home, have a car and raise a family on a regular job while his wife stayed home and took care of the domestic things.

Then by the 70s living with one salary was very hard, women were encouraged to work by the feminist movement and the family eroded while the dollar became weaker. Me as a GXer saw first hand how mom working impacted the family dynamic.

College was touted as the answer but there are millions with degrees (in admittedly stupid subjects) who aren’t working in their fields, who owe a lot of tuition loans and despite “progress” don’t have the hope 20somethings in the 50s had.

So, like 1930s Germany we have a population dissatisfied on a deep level with life due to economic and societal things much beyond control and a satanic government pushing the whole nasty mechanism.

I am certainly no communist or socialist. I see the dissatisfaction of the average younger person though as more than just laziness or thinking wrongly. It will take a reset to stamp it out and restore “rightthink” I believe.


No freeloading

Cheesy toast from the wife’s homemade bread

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Not pointed at you @Maggot

This stuff is gaining some ground and it is important to understand where it comes from on a societal level. We like to think it is just wrongthink but it is deeper than that.

Buying power of the dollar is ridiculously low compared to 1950s and earlier. Fiscal policy and inflation have made it very hard to live any portion of the so called American Dream. A man used to be able to buy a home, have a car and raise a family on a regular job while his wife stayed home and took care of the domestic things.

Then by the 70s living with one salary was very hard, women were encouraged to work by the feminist movement and the family eroded while the dollar became weaker. Me as a GXer saw first hand how mom working impacted the family dynamic.

College was touted as the answer but there are millions with degrees (in admittedly stupid subjects) who aren’t working in their fields, who owe a lot of tuition loans and despite “progress” don’t have the hope 20somethings in the 50s had.

So, like 1930s Germany we have a population dissatisfied on a deep level with life due to economic and societal things much beyond control and a satanic government pushing the whole nasty mechanism.

I am certainly no communist or socialist. I see the dissatisfaction of the average younger person though as more than just laziness or thinking wrongly. It will take a reset to stamp it out and restore “rightthink” I believe.


No freeloading

Cheesy toast from the wife’s homemade bread

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Remember the saying

Hard times make strong men
Strong men bake good times
Good times make weak men
Weak men make hard times

Or something like that. We have been blessec beyond imagination, lie became easy, etc.
 
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Honestly Im no expert on these at all Just knew the story behind it. The Fat Electrician has youtube video on the whole story which is pretty interesting.

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I'm interested enough that I'm calling them tomorrow :ROFLMAO:

Just called them.

The three - barrel cannon’s a prop.

There was apparently an interesting story behind it, but I didn’t want to take the guy’s time on the phone.

He said that if you looked closely, you’d see that it’s just metal tubing.

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My great - grandson comes in and reminds me of the “weirdos” we used to talk about. The “weirdos” are the .50 BMG GECAL 50 (three and six), the 20mm one on the Cobra, the Russian .50, the 25mm one once meant for a chin turret on the Osprey and now resides on a Gun Pod for the Harrier, and the 30mm one for the A-10. We used to call anything not having six barrels a “weirdo.” Guess he did read all my old books I handed down to him, and my memory has been slipping… Strangely, whenever I look at the Hind, I always remember “UV-32-57” being the model number of its rocket pods.
 
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