General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, Charlotte, North Carolina, has been awarded two contracts with a combined value of $12.9 million to produce 22 Gatling gun systems for the U.S. Navy.

Gatling guns, named for inventor Richard Gatling, are hand-driven machine guns that trace their history back to the Civil War. Fulcrum Concepts was founded in 2008.

Rather than a powerful Gatling gun of the kind the A-10 has, the Su-25 arms a 30mm AO-17A twin barrel gun that fires a meager 250 rounds. Keep the A-10 Flying The Air Force built a real gem in the ...

The Gatling gun rotates up to 600 revolutions per minute (rpm), totaling up to 4,200 shots per minute. Each 30 mm projectile leaves the end of its firing barrel at a speed of 3,400 feet per second ...