Red laser-like bolts streak to the ground and bring death to everything they touch. It sounds like a line from an Orson Wells fantasy, but that was the scene played out most recently during Operation Just Cause and Operation Desert Storm. During the Panama conflict, the “lasers” came from AC-130 gun ships providing support to ground forces. During the Persian Gulf war, A-10 “Warthogs” and Attack Helicopters destroyed tanks and other tracked vehicles without remorse. The actual instrument that brought death and destruction to the enemy was the direct descendant of one of the most influential weapons of the modern era: the Gatling gun.
The Gatling gun brought previously unimaginable firepower to the 19th Century battlefield. It emerged in a decade in which the U.S. Ordnance Office published a memorandum that specified that guns must be capable of firing twenty-five shots that could reach a distance of 100 yards. The old rifles and revolvers were "to be fired at a......

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Title: Gatling Gun
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