Apparently the one in the movie is a mock-up of an experimental version
developed to fire 5.56mm ammunition. It was intended to be man portable.
The experiment did not work out.
I don't think they used a real XM214. The movie has a prop gun that
spins the barrels, but doesn't actually fire. The occasional muzzle
blast is photoshopped in afterwords.
The 7.62mm version of the gun is not that heavy, less than 50 pounds -
about 20Kg.
I started out in the military as an aircraft electrician assigned to a
unit flying UH-1D gunships. The guns had to be mounted before flying out
to the ranges. I could carry lift it one-handed. *
There's really no where you could hold on to it while it's firing.
From: eckinator
From what I heard he was the only one on the set who was able to
lift it. Even the XM214 is probably too heavy to comfortably
operate handheld. I wonder though if a minigun would be more
manageable with a proper battery grip and portrait controls ]=)
2010/10/30 John Sessoms <[email protected]>:
Yeah, that's the one "Ahnold" carries in T2. It's not hand
holdable despite what Hollyweird special effects gurus might
imply.
From: Steven Desjardins
or this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minigun
Favorite of the the Mythbusters.
* note: For safety it was a two-person procedure to mount the gun. One
person lifted it into position, using both hands, while another person
slipped in the bolt. Usually a team consisting of an armorer & aircraft
electrician.
Well, not so much a team, as the electricians were out there checking
radios and batteries, so we got to do the grunt lifting while the
armorers got to do the glamorous bits. Otherwise I was only involved if
they hooked up the power connector and the gun wouldn't spin up when
they tested. All I had to do then was verify there was 24VDC available
on the correct pins.
If not, that bird wasn't going to fly that day.
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