Re: Chainguns vs. Gatlings

In a message dated 4/24/00 8:33:47 PM Central Daylight Time, 
adrian.johnson@sympatico.ca writes:

<< 
 Actually, the only application of these that I know of is in aircraft -
the
 F5 was armed with two 20mm cannon of this type (as opposed to the much
more
 typical 20mm gatling used in nearly all other recent US fighter
aircraft).
 
  >>

The revolving breech is a feature of Soviet air-air cannon mounts, most 
commonly in 23mm