The ''Glagolev-Shipunov-Gryazev'' GShG-7.62 (russian: Глаголев-Шипунов-Грязев ГШГ-7,62) is a four-barreled rotary machine gun designed in the
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
, similar to firearms such as the
M134 Minigun
The M134 Minigun is an American 7.62×51mm NATO six-barrel rotary machine gun with a high rate of fire (2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute). It features a Gatling-style rotating barrel assembly with an external power source, normally an electric ...
. It is a hybrid weapon using both propellant gas and an electric drive to rotate the barrels, which is in contrast with most other
rotary guns (that are often exclusively powered via an electric drive). It was developed in 1968–1970 for the
Mi-24 helicopter together with
YakB 12.7mm machine gun, and is currently used in
GUV-8700 gun pod
A gun pod is a detachable pod or pack containing machine guns, autocannons, revolver cannons, or rotary cannons and ancillaries, mounted externally on a vehicle such as a military aircraft which may or may not also have its own guns.
Descriptio ...
s, and flexible mounts on Kamov
Ka-29.
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Fokker-Leimberger
The Fokker-Leimberger was an externally powered, 12-barrel rifle-caliber rotary gun developed in Germany during the First World War. The action of the Fokker-Leimberger differed from that of a Gatling in that it employed a rotary split-breech de ...
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Hua Qing Minigun
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XM214 Microgun
The XM214 Microgun is an American prototype 5.56 mm rotary cannon, rotary-barreled machine gun. It was designed and built by General Electric. The XM214 was a scaled-down smaller and lighter version of the M134 Minigun, firing M193 5.56×45m ...
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M197 Gatling gun
The M197 electric cannon is a 20 mm three-barreled electric Gatling-type rotary cannon used by the United States military.
Development
The M197 electric cannon was developed primarily for use by United States Army helicopter gunships. Deve ...
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Komodo Armament Eli gun
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Nordenfelt Gun
The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels. It was fired by pulling a lever back and forth and ammunition was gravity fed through chutes for each barrel. It was produced in a number of different ...
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Gast Gun
The Gast gun was a German twin barrelled machine gun that was developed by Karl Gast of Vorwerk und Companie of Barmen and used during the First World War. Its unique operating system produced a very high rate of fire of 1,600 rounds per minute ...
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Chain gun
A chain gun is a type of autocannon or machine gun that uses an external source of power to cycle the weapon's action, rather than diverting excess energy from the cartridges' propellant as in a typical automatic firearm, and does so via a cont ...
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Gatling gun, the 1860s firearm that originated the rotating-barrel concept
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List of Russian weaponry
The following is a list of modern Russian small arms and light weapons which were in service in 2016:
Handguns
Revolvers
Pistols
Special purpose
Submachine guns
Special purpose
Shotguns
Rifles
Bolt-action
Semi-a ...
References
External links
Archived page of GShG at the manufacturer's website - no longer listed in production
Rotary cannon
7.62×54mmR machine guns
Aircraft guns of the Soviet Union
Multi-barrel machine guns
Machine guns of the Soviet Union
Cold War firearms of the Soviet Union
Machine guns of Russia
KBP Instrument Design Bureau products
Military equipment introduced in the 1970s
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