Timeline for Would this giant rotating shotgun weapon be effective?
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| Dec 3, 2020 at 20:34 | comment | added | ColonelPanic | Check out "Breechloader" on Wikipedia. There is a good animation there showing pretty much what you want (it has the projectile and powder charge separately though). | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 22:12 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | To anyone who thinks this design is probably not effective: imagine you are living the zombie apocalypse and all you got is a wooden table, a couple shotguns, some tools and a car. I also find that this would make for a nice steampunk weapon design. | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 21:28 | answer | added | Firestryke | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 21:16 | comment | added | Duncan Drake | Are you aware shotguns can have drum magazines or be belt fed? Much simpler solutions. Cheaper, more reliable, less bulky..... so why would you want to? Mind you, an answer like 'because we can' is perfectly legitimate ^.^ | |
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| Dec 2, 2020 at 1:10 | comment | added | AlexP | For many many reasons, rotatary guns have their barrels rotate around an axis parallel to the axis of the barrels. Of course you can make them rotate around an axis perpendicular to the axis of the barrels, but, to quote the immortal words of Skip Tyler, "why would you want to"? What does using this bizarre arrangement for the rotating barrels buy you to compensate for the huge increase in the volume needed for the operation of the gun? | |
| Dec 2, 2020 at 1:10 | comment | added | JBH | OK! That's not effective. Keep in mind that most automatic weapons (even Gatling weapons, the video notwithstanding) have a single chamber and rotating barrels. That's because the barrels get hot, not the chamber, and the ease of loading a single chamber is orders of magnitude simpler than loading multiple chambers (the video has multiple magazines, but on a battlefield, that's not ideal). The rotating barrels cool, but also make replacement simpler when the time comes (and it does come). That spinning construct will be a nightmare to reload at the least. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 22:33 | history | edited | Ceramicmrno0b | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2020 at 22:26 | comment | added | Ceramicmrno0b | @JamesFaix, got really lucky and did the sketch, edited it in. Should help you understand it a bit. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 22:25 | history | edited | Ceramicmrno0b | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2020 at 22:10 | comment | added | Ceramicmrno0b | @JamesFaix, I can but I probably won't convince myself to do it and post it until tomorrow...and that's if I get lucky. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 22:05 | comment | added | Atog | Can you sketch this thing? | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 21:58 | comment | added | Ceramicmrno0b | @Alexander, never seen one in person but from the images i think yes. | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 21:56 | comment | added | Alexander | It's a bit hard to imagine from the description. Does it behave similarly to a Catherine wheel? | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 21:52 | comment | added | JBH | It reads like you've re-invented a Gatling shotgun. It would be useful for mowing down large groups of rioters and advancing zombies, but that's about it. Keep in mind that shotguns are close-in weapons, which means making them fully automatic, while interesting, doesn't really make a lot of sense. (But, then again, it's been invented, so somebody thought it would be useful.) (For the record, I like the mounted version better. Shotguns have a LOT of kick.) | |
| Dec 1, 2020 at 21:39 | history | asked | Ceramicmrno0b | CC BY-SA 4.0 |