![]() The Rheinmetall RMK30 modifies the GIAT system further, by venting the gas to the rear to eliminate recoil. In the 1980s, the French developed the GIAT 30, a newer generation power-driven revolver cannon. Īround that time, a new generation of weapons developed, based on the proposed NATO 25 mm caliber standard and the Mauser 27 mm round. Several generations of the basic ADEN/DEFA weapons followed, remaining largely unchanged into the 1970s. The American M39 cannon used the 20 mm version, re-chambered for a slightly longer 102 mm cartridge, intermediate between the 213's 82 mm and Hispano-Suiza HS.404's 110 mm. Both the British and French made outright copies of the 30 mm versions of the MK 213, as the ADEN and DEFA, respectively. In the immediate post-war era, Mauser engineers spread out from Germany and developed similar weapons around the world. The archetypal revolver cannon is the Mauser MK 213, from which almost all current weapons are derived. It was not until the mid-1940s that the first practical revolver cannon emerged. Īround 1935, Silin, Berezin and Morozenko worked on a 6000 rpm 7.62 mm aircraft machine gun using revolver design, called SIBEMAS (СИБЕМАС), but this was abandoned. Some 150,000 ShKAS weapons were produced for arming Soviet military aircraft through 1945. ![]() In 1932, the Soviet ShKAS machine gun, 7.62 mm calibre aircraft ordnance used a twelve-round capacity, revolver-style feed mechanism with a single barrel and single chamber, to achieve firing rates of well over 1800 rounds per minute, and as high as 3,000 rounds per minute in special test versions in 1939, all operating from internal gas-operated reloading. Clarke's patent came as reciprocating-action automatic weapons like the Maxim gun and the Browning gun were peaking in popularity. Clarke patented the first fully automatic, gas-operated rotary chamber gun, but his design was ignored at the time. The Hotchkiss revolving cannon of the late 19th century was not a revolver cannon in the modern sense, more similar to a Gatling gun. The gun was captured in Danville, VA by Union forces on April 27, 1865. The Confederate States of America used a single 2-inch, 5-shot revolver cannon with manually rotated chambers during the Siege of Petersburg. ![]() The design idea was impractical, far ahead of what 18th century technology could achieve.ĭuring the 19th century, Elisha Collier and later Samuel Colt used the revolver action to revolutionize handguns. MLG 27 remote controlled revolver cannon on board an Elbe class tender of the German NavyĪn early precursor was the Puckle gun of 1718, a large flintlock revolver gun, manually operated. ![]()
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