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Message no. 1
From: Jan-bart van Beek <flake@***.NL>
Subject: And another thing.
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 1995 20:37:57 +0100
And that's just for a hand gun, imagine what a minigun can do at short range.

A minigun fires about 200 rounds in that three second round.
So at close range ( which is up to 40 meters away) the same guy has
12+195 dices to throw against a single target (target number 11)

His target is cheese, very definetly.
It's very hard to miss using a minigun at close range :)


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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: And another thing.
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 1995 11:51:50 +0100
>It's very hard to miss using a minigun at close range :)

Not if your target steps to the side. A 5.56mm minigun is a tripod-mounted
weapon weighing +-12kg for the weapon alone. Add to that the revolving
barrel group (gyroscopic forces or whatever they're called), a huge number
of rounds of ammo, and the generally limited movement of a tripod-mounted
gun and you're likely to miss at short ranges (all IMHO of course... I can't
recall ever firing a minigun myself :)


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