From:	Peter Coxon <coxoff@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: 6 gas vents on a minigun (was Re: Assault cannons)
Date:	Sat, 30 Nov 1996 15:20:01 UT

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From: Shadowrun Discussion on behalf of Guido Hölker
Sent: Friday, November 29, 1996 4:15 PM
To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
Subject: Re: 6 gas vents on a minigun (was Re: Assault cannons)

>>
>>The direction the gas is defelected to (up/down or to the sides) doesn't
>>really matter -- for a RL example, look at the AK-74, which has its gas
>>vent mounted horizontally, and the ASN, which has it vertically. (One of
>>the complaints about the AK-74 is that it might cause hearing damage to
>>soldiers on firing ranges, because its muzzle blast goes to the people on
>>either side of the firer.)

>Wrong, I fear: Within a rotating system especially when rotating on high
>speed the direction of the outblasting gas is changing while it's on it's
>way out which changes the momentum which eventually makes the hole >thing
>quite unstable..
>(not to mention the fact that ther are a lot of different momentums in
>different directions from different muzzles at the same time)

Possible wrong I fear :-) From what I can remeber from various books multi
barrel guns (like mini guns but not shot guns) fire from the same barrel
position ie the top and just rotate the barrels around, this prevents heat
build and warping in any one barrel. (just think of a guns firing mini gun
speeds from six barrels!!!! munchkins deleight) Therefore theoretically you
could mount a single gasvent on a mini gun and just make sure the guns timing
is good. or you could mount a gasvent on each barrel and have the vent shoot
outwards (so when the barrel is at the top it shoot up stopping the guns
climb).
Tim (ntoo)

PS. I have found the geek code sight and I am constructing it as I type :)
isn't multitasking great :)

PPS. I have very little experiance of guns so all the stuff above is
theorectical, from books and stuff I made up that seemed to fit.