Chain Gun: For the Record

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A chain gun is a single-barrelled cannon where the bolt is driven back and
forth by a motor-driven chain (or multiple parallel chains) traveling in a
closed path; the bolt being link to a point on the chain. Frequently, chain
guns permit the selection of different types of ammunition from among
multiple magazines.

A Gatling gun is a multi-barrelled cannon (at least three, often as many as
seven) where the bolt is driven back and forth along an eliptical cam path
as the barrels are rotated through a common axis.

What is billed as a "Chain Gun" in Doom 3 clearly is not a chain gun and
has every appearance of being a Gatling gun.

 

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:22:38 GMT, Flavius Vespasianus <nl@nl.com> wrote:
> A chain gun is a single-barrelled cannon where the bolt is driven back and
> forth by a motor-driven chain (or multiple parallel chains) traveling in a
> closed path; the bolt being link to a point on the chain. Frequently, chain
> guns permit the selection of different types of ammunition from among
> multiple magazines.
>
> A Gatling gun is a multi-barrelled cannon (at least three, often as many as
> seven) where the bolt is driven back and forth along an eliptical cam path
> as the barrels are rotated through a common axis.
>
> What is billed as a "Chain Gun" in Doom 3 clearly is not a chain gun and
> has every appearance of being a Gatling gun.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_gun says "It is a common misnomer to
refer to Gatling guns (rotary cannons) as chain guns. Certain Gatling guns
do use a chain gun mechanism, however all Gatling guns are not inherently
chain-powered weapons. Weapons such as the M61 Vulcan, the M197, the M134,
and the XM214 are chain-powered Gatling guns."

So a Gatling gun is not necessarily a chain gun, but could be.

 

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"David Efflandt" <efflandt@xnet.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:22:38 GMT, Flavius Vespasianus <nl@nl.com> wrote:
>> A chain gun is a single-barrelled cannon where the bolt is driven back
>> and
>> forth by a motor-driven chain (or multiple parallel chains) traveling in
>> a
>> closed path; the bolt being link to a point on the chain. Frequently,
>> chain
>> guns permit the selection of different types of ammunition from among
>> multiple magazines.
>>
>> A Gatling gun is a multi-barrelled cannon (at least three, often as many
>> as
>> seven) where the bolt is driven back and forth along an eliptical cam
>> path
>> as the barrels are rotated through a common axis.
>>
>> What is billed as a "Chain Gun" in Doom 3 clearly is not a chain gun and
>> has every appearance of being a Gatling gun.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_gun says "It is a common misnomer to
> refer to Gatling guns (rotary cannons) as chain guns. Certain Gatling guns
> do use a chain gun mechanism, however all Gatling guns are not inherently
> chain-powered weapons. Weapons such as the M61 Vulcan, the M197, the M134,
> and the XM214 are chain-powered Gatling guns."
>
> So a Gatling gun is not necessarily a chain gun, but could be.

For the record: you both have a lot of time on your hands. Go clean up your
rooms.

 

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:22:38 +0000, Flavius Vespasianus wrote:

> A chain gun is a single-barrelled cannon where the bolt is driven back and
> forth by a motor-driven chain (or multiple parallel chains) traveling in a
> closed path; the bolt being link to a point on the chain. Frequently, chain
> guns permit the selection of different types of ammunition from among
> multiple magazines.
>
> A Gatling gun is a multi-barrelled cannon (at least three, often as many as
> seven) where the bolt is driven back and forth along an eliptical cam path
> as the barrels are rotated through a common axis.
>
> What is billed as a "Chain Gun" in Doom 3 clearly is not a chain gun and
> has every appearance of being a Gatling gun.

Worse, the "chaingun" in the first two Doom games shoots the same ammo as
the pistol, and has a cyclic rate much lower than that of modern gatling
guns, so it should have been a submachine gun.

I suspect that the misnomer originated with people who thought that the
"chain" in "chain gun" referred to the linked ammunition.

 

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"Steve Rush" <steverush1@SPAM_ME_NOT.cox.net> wrote in message
>
> Worse, the "chaingun" in the first two Doom games shoots the same ammo as
> the pistol, and has a cyclic rate much lower than that of modern gatling
> guns, so it should have been a submachine gun.
>

The one in Quake II expends your entire ammo stock in seconds, though. <g>

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On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 04:52:02 +0000, David Efflandt wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 00:22:38 GMT, Flavius Vespasianus <nl@nl.com> wrote:
>> A chain gun is a single-barrelled cannon where the bolt is driven back
>> and forth by a motor-driven chain (or multiple parallel chains)
>> traveling in a closed path; the bolt being link to a point on the chain.
>> Frequently, chain guns permit the selection of different types of
>> ammunition from among multiple magazines.
>>
>> A Gatling gun is a multi-barrelled cannon (at least three, often as many
>> as seven) where the bolt is driven back and forth along an eliptical cam
>> path as the barrels are rotated through a common axis.
>>
>> What is billed as a "Chain Gun" in Doom 3 clearly is not a chain gun and
>> has every appearance of being a Gatling gun.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_gun says "It is a common misnomer to
> refer to Gatling guns (rotary cannons) as chain guns. Certain Gatling guns
> do use a chain gun mechanism, however all Gatling guns are not inherently
> chain-powered weapons. Weapons such as the M61 Vulcan, the M197, the M134,
> and the XM214 are chain-powered Gatling guns."
>
> So a Gatling gun is not necessarily a chain gun, but could be.

I figured the point he was making was that a chain gun is only supposed to
have one barrell, and that the weapons often used in most id games have
multiple barrels. I'm assuming that the venom from Wolfenstein was also a
gatlin gun?