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The Heavy, Meet the Heavy "She weighs one hundred fifty kilograms and fires two hundred dollar custom-tooled cartridges at 10,000 rounds per minute. It costs four hundred thousand dollars to fire this weapon... for twelve seconds."

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Ever since Richard Gatling's 1861 invention, the rapid-firing rotary gun has had a special place among BFGs. Because it's basically the gun equivalent of a chainsaw, there is an undeniable attraction to a gun which can produce high enough rates of fire to cleanly trim hedges, cut down trees, or, in the case of the GAU-8 Avenger, saw tanks in half. The practical advantage of having multiple rotating barrels is that the heat generated during firing will be distributed over multiple barrels instead of one, preventing overheating and weapon damage from having such high rates of fire.

The Gatling gun is likely to function as a significantly more powerful version of a regular machine gun, requiring hulking mountains of muscle to move them, or some kind of vehicle mount. If one gets used, you can expect it to give a nice steady buzz as it spews a constant stream of death.

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Modern super-fast Gatling guns actually make a strange, deafening buzzing sound in the bass register (5,000 tiny explosions per minute equals 83.3Hz, similar to the sound of a very large truck engine). Some of them, like the Phalanx anti-missile cannon, sound even weirder, note best equivalents are an electric lawnmower/trimmer or a high-yield fan because they start at a lower rate of fire and then spin up to a higher one in distinct steps (in such designs they do not actually begin spinning the barrels until it fires the first shot and they require a moment to come up to speed), giving two or more separate "notes". Instead of a Dramatic Gun Cock, the sign that a Gatling is preparing to fire tends to be the sound of it spinning up unless we're talking about Russian designs that historically tend to be autonomously driven and pneumatically cocked, so only start to spin after the first shot was fired.

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A popular form of the BFG in fiction, and both a fictional and real-world way of achieving More Dakka via Spectacular Spinning. It may be present even if Energy Weapons are abundant in the setting, as Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better, you the creators may combine the best of both worlds and make an energy-based version of the Gatling. Usually invokes Hyperspace Arsenal, as few media depict both the guns and the vast bins of ammunition they require; the ones that do, though, often resort to depicting it via an Ammunition Backpack. See also Bang, Bang, BANG.

According to Cracked (and the ATF ), owning one of these things is perfectly legal in the United States due to a Grandfather Clause. It's merely prohibitively expensive.

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Novic from Priest carries around a Gatling gun. He doesn't seem to have any trouble firing it from the hip.

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The Protomen present Proto Man and Mega Man with Gatling guns for arms in artwork and live performances, as opposed to the plasma cannons they have in the games.

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In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, the T-850 is using a Gatling gun in the ball saver animation.

The Gatling Pea you buy from Crazy Dave in Plants vs. Zombies Pinball has this effect.

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In the Dino Attack RPG, the character Heavy specializes in this type of weapon. Elite Agent Minerva also used one after her Fire Hammer was downed by her brother Oswald.

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BIONICLE's summer wave sets of 2007 came with Cordak Revolving Blasters, possibly the most realistic looking guns of the entire line.

While not having multiple barrels, the Gatling Deathshell from Cross Fight B-Daman eS features a two-handled crank known as the Gatling Unit. It fires a stream of marble like a hand-cranked Gatling gun. attaching a motor by gluing it onto the crank would outright turn it into the world's first fully automatic B-Daman.

Not unsurprisingly, Gatling guns show up in the G.I. Joe lineup, including on such vehicles as the Rattler and the Thunder Machine. One of the original members of the 1982 Joe team, Rock 'n' Roll, traded his M-60 machine gun for a pair of handheld, backpack-fed dual Gatlings when he got a new figure in 1989.

Several Gunpla kits featured mounted or portable Gatling guns, some of them can be customized and can be wielded by Figma.

Kotobukiya M.S.G.: The M.S.G Weapon Unit MW20 Gatling Gun is a gigantic Gatling gun with a wind-up motor. It is compatible with the Frame Arms and Frame Arms Girls series, and can also be motorized with the MG01 External Generator, which is sold separately. The M.S.G Weapon Unit MW29 Hand Gatling Gun is a small portable Gatling gun that can be wielded by smaller units such as the Frame Arms Girls without the need of a stand to support them. The ammo container is sold separately as M.S.G Weapon Unit 20 Belt Link. The M.S.G. Heavy Weapon Unit MH08 Sentry Gun is a Gatling gun turret with two additional small Gatling guns at the top of the main turret. The main turret itself can also be motorized with the MG01 External Generator, which is sold separately.

Super Robot Chogokin features the UCR-10 (otherwise known as Vengeance if the Grind Blade is attached) from Armored Core V, one of the four weapons is a Gatling gun with rotating barrels. Oddly enough, it can also be wielded by Figma.

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