Sturgeon Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 The Hughes Heligun is the most awesome aircraft cannon development of our time. What's that, you've never heard of it? Well... The Hughes Heligun looking characteristically fly. Here's the Forgotten Weapons article, accompanied by a PDF telling you just about all you'd ever want to know about the Heligun.Check this out: LoooSeR 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeeps_Guns_Tanks Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Cooooooooooool. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Was it adopted by anyone? It looks badasss. Edit: No one bought it? With that firepower density you figure someone would have tried it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted April 12, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 I believe it was briefly mounted to OH-6 Cayuse helicopters for testing prior to the type's introduction in Vietnam.According to some secondary sources, the weapon was the least reliable of the high rate-of-fire types demonstrated to the US Army. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E. Watters Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 It was roughly a scaled down version of Frank Marquardt's 20mm Mk 11 cannon design that was also produced by Hughes Tool Company.http://www.google.com/patents/US2972286 http://www.germanmanuals.com/images/TheMGV3b.pdfhttp://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/278412.pdfhttp://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/601655.pdf Collimatrix, Belesarius and Sturgeon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xthetenth Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Is this the Marquardt of "so we stuck ramjets on the wingtips of a Mustang for testing" fame? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.E. Watters Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Is this the Marquardt of "so we stuck ramjets on the wingtips of a Mustang for testing" fame? No, that was probably Roy Marquardt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xlucine Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 Ultimately, it was note adopted because the reliability (mean time between stoppages) couldn’t quite be brought up to par, That graph, together with that quote from forgotten weapons, amuses me greatly. "don't worry guys, it's fine if it doesn't work!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted April 12, 2015 Report Share Posted April 12, 2015 D.E. Watters beat me to the info sources. It's a very interesting design; one of the few post-war revolver cannons that was not based on the German designs. It's the only multi-barrel revolver design family I know of, and definitely one of the weirder revolver cannons out there (The Soviet R-23 being the other contestant). That bit about the chemical ramming in Chinn is hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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