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Originally Posted by Legbreaker
It's been done IRL.
Australians in Vietnam played around with various weapons fittouts for their M113s and found the M134 to be total overkill on ground mounts. It was akin to firing 10 M60 machineguns all at the same point - effective yes, but a complete waste of firepower and ammunition.
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Didn't Dragoon500ly or SOMEONE (I cant' remember who exactly) mention one time they had the opportunity to look over an ACAV styled M113 in Iraq that had one or two miniguns mounted? He said the firepower it could bring to bear was crazy, but paid a price with the insane amount of 7.62 ammo it had to cart around, apparently they couldn't carry very much in the way of passengers other than the gunners, just a big aluminum pillbox on tracks essentially.
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