The Gatling Gun is interested for many reasons, and one of them is the variety of feeding mechanisms that were developed and used with it. Most firearms are designed around a single specific feeding mechanism, sometimes with variants made for two types (like mag-fed and strip-fed Hotchkiss LMGs). The Gatling was one of the very first high rate of fire guns, though, and it inspired an impressive number of inventors to develop feed systems. Let’s take a look at them all, shall we?
We don’t know much about this particular adaptation of the Gatling, but it is clearly designed to feed from 5-round infantry rifle chargers. We found it at the Paris Musee de Armee – perhaps someone can tell us more about it?
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