Re: 7.62 chaingun? was Re: UK Sabre CVR(T) type vehicle

This brings up a subject which I'd like to address because of my own 
semi-ignorance:

Can someone explain to me the difference between a chaingun and a
minigun?  
I thought that both were types of gatling weapons, with revolving
barrels.  
I do know from the reading I've done that there do exist modern gatlings
in 
both 5.56 and 7.62 mm.	The 5.56mm, I'm assuming, would be a minigun,
but if 
I'm wrong, please correct me.  If I'm correct, please tell me what the 
7.62mm would be, and again, how to differentiate between chain gun and 
minigun.

Thanks,

Brian Bilderback

>From: rspainho <rspainho@mines.edu>
>Reply-To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>To: gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
>Subject: 7.62 chaingun?  was Re: UK Sabre CVR(T) type vehicle
>Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 13:40:12 -0600
>

>7.62 mm CHAINGUN?  Are you quite sure it's not simply a recoil-operated
>machinegun?
>
>I suppose it'd be POSSIBLE to build a sub-20 mm chaingun, but the ROF
would 
>be
>very slow, and I can't for the life of me figure out why you'd want to,

>when
>cheap, accurate, reliable conventional-action 7.62mm machineguns are 
>readily
>available.
>
>--Rich Spainhour
>

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