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Pikehead
Dec 3, 2006

Looking for WMDs, PM if you have A+ grade stuff
Fun Shoe
Why do helicopters nowadys have miniguns as door guns rather than the machineguns they had back in the vietnam era?

I'm talking the difference between today:



and back in the vietnam era:


I would have thought that a machine gun has less moving parts (and more reliable) and that the rate of fire wouldn't matter as much (or be good enough).

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