Great News!

[planeflyer21]

Looks like the Army wants to don the new Humvee replacement with the chaingun that's on the Apache helicopter, doing away with the Ma Deuce.

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/08/30/army-recon-targets-apache-helicopter-cannon-for-humvee-replacement.html

Know what that means?  Surplus .50 cal barrels for home projects again!  

[blue109]

30mm seems a little excessive for a standard setup. GAU 19 seems a better fit. 

Goes back to the light tank discussion....why bother when you have a fast and maneuverable truck with a gun that big on it. 

[survivalshop]

  I wouldn't think they would install the 30mm on a majority of them , too expensive to maintain & operate . I can see some set up that way ,but not most . Besides , with this commie admin. , they would not give them up , the extra barrel will be given or sold to his buddies in the middle east , any extra's would be de-milled .

    That would be like a Apache on wheels , pretty badass when you think about it. 

[Sisco]

The Bradley's 25mm chain gun might be a good compromise. Blue, fill us in on your opinion on the 25 mm. Hope it is better than your opinion of the Bradley.

[blue109]

25mike is a beast. It will sink just about anything shy of a MBT. Brad has a pretty slow ROF though and a truck like that should have better suppression capabilities. It's also a pretty big round that will really limit magazine capacity. 

I understand upgrading the ancient M2s, but I dint see a reason for a bigger round. It would be useful in certain situations, like Ukraine with APCs all over the place, but 50 is plenty big for most situations. Maybe better to design a platform that makes swapping guns easier for different missions. 

 

[survivalshop]

 Have they ever tried to make a chain gun in .50 cal. round ?  

[beantown]

44 minutes ago, survivalshop said:

 Have they ever tried to make a chain gun in .50 cal. round ?  

Isn't that what the GAU-19 is?