The Man-portable version of the XM214 is 85lbs with a full ammo load, which is what they used in the movie (IIRC it was functional but loaded with blanks). They used special effects because the firing rate was too high for film, and the sound was slowed down to match the effects.
-Adam On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
