Mini-gun on a Humvee?

[Gabe The Gun]

Is the weopons mount on the Humvee able to accept the mini-gun out of the Small Arms Guide?

[TiggerCCW UK]

IIRC The minigun is listed in game as needing a NATO heavy tripod, which is what the pintle mount is equivalent to. I think

[copeab]

Originally Posted by Gabe The Gun

Is the weopons mount on the Humvee able to accept the mini-gun out of the Small Arms Guide?

There have been Myhbuster episodes were the minugun was fitted to a mount on a Suburban

[Matt W]

http://gizmodo.com/290181/presidenti...-air-with-lead

[pmulcahy11b]

It takes an hard-top or armored HMMWV to mount a weapon. The mount itself (assuming it doesn't have one of the newer turret-type mounts or a CROWS station) is sort of a universal mount -- what weapon you can put on it depends on that type of pintle is attached to the mount.

[Legbreaker]

The M134 was trialled in the Vietnam war mounted on an M113. Although extremely effective, it was quickly decided not to use it in this manner due to the extreme wastage of ammunition.
It was like firing 10 M60's all at the one target point - nothing left, but it only takes one bullet to do the job, not hundreds....

I'd say let your players mount it but don't tell them just how much ammo they're about to chew through with little real result. You might also want to pay attention to the feed system - if they don't have one, then they're likely to run into problems with snagged belts, stretched links (when the belts snag), the need to reload every second action, etc, etc, etc

Mounted on a tripod in a stationary role should eliminate most of the feed issues (provided they've had time to lay out a few thousand rounds and don't need to swing the weapon around too much), but they'll still be firing way more ammo than they need to to get the job done.

[sglancy12]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

but they'll still be firing way more ammo than they need to to get the job done.

That really depends on the job, doesn't it?

It occurs to me that during the battle of Mogadishu, the Rangers in those Humvees roaring through the streets probably could have used miniguns to suppress all the snipers and gunmen blazing away at them from every window, doorway, rooftop, and alley way. Maybe the ranges were too close for the MK-19 and maybe the M2HB fired too slow... of course, with the M2HB "cover" stopped being an issue. That thing pretty much shoots through schools.

But still, the objective may be more about suppressing the enemy's fire than necessarily killing them. And yes, I realize that killing them sure as shit suppresses their fire. I'm just saying that when fighting guys whose total experience with miniguns may only be watching Terminator 2 and Predator, perhaps the weapon will be effective as suppressing them just because they are intimidated by the volume of fire and the sound it makes.

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