Captain Germán Astete of the Peruvian Navy took with him dozens of Gatling guns from the US to Peru in December 1879 during the Peru-Chile War of the Pacific.

Howard of the Connecticut National Guard had an interest in the company manufacturing Gatling guns, and took a personally-owned Gatling gun to Saskatchewan in Canada in 1885 for use with the Canadian military against the Métis during Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion.

Gatling guns were even mounted aboard ships.

When fighting troops of industrialized nations, Gatling guns could be engaged by artillery they could not reach and their crews could be targeted by snipers they could not see.

Imperial Russia purchased 400 Gatling guns and used them against Turkmen cavalry and other nomads of central Asia.

The Royal Navy used Gatling guns against the Egyptians at Alexandria in 1882.

Because of infighting within Army Ordnance, Gatling guns were again used by the U. S. Army during the Spanish-American War.

All models of Gatling guns were declared obsolete by the U. S. Army in 1911, after 45 years of service.

After the Gatling gun was replaced in service by newer recoil-or gas-operated non-rotating machine guns and automatic cannons, the approach of using multiple rotating barrels fell into disuse for many decades, reappearing after World War II with the development of the M61 Vulcan.

For example, four miles past the Ineyzane River, after the British had comfortably crossed, and after they had spent a day consolidating their advance, the Zulu finally launched a typical " buffalo horn " encirclement attack that was seen off with withering fire from not only breach-loading Martini-Henry rifles, but 7-pounder artillery and Gatling guns.

Most modern weapons of this type are called Gatling guns in reference to their driving mechanism.

Gatling guns have several barrels on a rotating carousel and a system of cams that load, cock, and fire each mechanism progressively as it rotates through the sequence.

The key characteristic of modern machine guns, their relatively high rate of fire and more importantly machine ( automatic ) loading, came with the Model 1862 Gatling gun, which was adopted by the United States Navy.

Gatling guns were targeted by artillery they could not reach and their crews were targeted by snipers they could not see.

The design required fewer crew, was lighter, and more usable than earlier Nordenfelt guns and Gatling guns.

When General Sumner refused to allow the Army's Gatling Gun Detachment-which had priority-to disembark from the transport Cherokee on the grounds that the lieutenant commanding the Detachment did not have the rank to enforce his priority, Shafter had to personally intervene, returning to the ship in a steam launch to enforce his demand that the guns come off immediately.

The success of the Vulcan Project and its subsequent progeny, the very-high-speed Gatling gun, has led to guns of the same configuration being referred to as Vulcan Cannon, which can sometimes confuse nomenclature on the subject.

Longstreet commanded a force of 3, 600 Metropolitan Police, city policemen, and African-American militia troops, armed with two Gatling guns and a battery of artillery.

" Custer had been offered the use of Gatling guns but declined, believing they would slow his command.

Wales intervenes and guns down several Redlegs with a Gatling gun.

At the same time, he left behind at the steamer Far West on the Yellowstone a battery of Gatling guns, knowing he was facing superior numbers.

The refusal of an extra battalion reduced the size of his force by at least a sixth, and rejecting the firepower offered by the Gatling guns played into the events of June 25 to the disadvantage of his regiment.

The first " rapid firing " firearms were usually similar to the 19th century Gatling gun, which would fire cartridges from a magazine as fast as and as long as the operator turned a crank.

Prior to the Gatling gun, the only weapons available to militaries capable of firing many projectiles in a short space of time were mass-firing volley weapons like the French Reffye mitrailleuse in 1870 – 71, or field cannons firing canister, much like a very large shotgun.

The innovative features of the Gatling gun were its independent firing mechanism for each barrel and the simultaneous action of the locks, barrels, carrier and breech.

During World War I, Fokker engineers were working on the Fokker-Leimberger, an externally-powered 12 barrel Gatling gun in the 7. 92x57mm round capable of firing over 7200RPM.

Despite their use of a Gatling gun, a flying column of Canadian militia and army regulars, government forces were defeated.

Gatling invented the Gatling gun after he noticed that a majority of the soldiers fighting in the Civil War were lost to disease rather than gunshots.

" We were exposed to the Spanish fire, but there was very little because just before we started, why, the Gatling guns opened up at the bottom of the hill, and everybody yelled, “ The Gatlings!

Ordinarily, four to six men were required to operate each Gatling gun.

After the Spanish positions atop San Juan had been taken, two of Lt. Parker's Gatling guns were dragged by mules up the slope to the captured position on San Juan ridge, where both were hurriedly emplaced among a line of skirmishers.

The wheels of the Gatling carriages were removed, and the Gatlings, along with two 7 mm Colt-Browning machine guns ( a gift from Col. Roosevelt ) were placed in breastworks where they could command various sectors of fire.

The. 45-70 and M1892 ( Krag ) Springfield rifles were quickly retired from service in favor of new Mauser-pattern. 30-03 ( later. 30-06 ) M1903 Springfield rifles, while the remaining. 30 Army Gatling guns were replaced in 1909 by the M1909 Benet-Mercie machine gun.

According to the Internet Movie Database, three endings were supposedly shot involving either a Gatling win, a win by Benson, or a surprise win by a wildcard candidate in the form of a crooked senator, putting both of them out of a job.

Meanwhile, the forces of Chōshū and Satsuma were outnumbered 3: 1 but fully modernized with Armstrong howitzers, Minié rifles and a few Gatling guns.

Riley and Gatling were childhood friends growing up in Harlem, and previously collaborated together in the band Kids At Work.

Smaller numbers of other designs, including the Gatling gun, were also purchased by the French government during the latter part of that conflict.

The original Gatling gun was a field weapon which used multiple rotating barrels turned by a hand crank, and firing loose ( no links or belt ) metal cartridge ammunition using a gravity feed system from a hopper.

The Gatling gun's innovation lay neither in the rotating mechanism ( featured by many revolvers of the day ) nor in the use of multiple barrels to limit overheating ( used by the mitrailleuse gun ); rather, the innovation was the gravity feed reloading mechanism, which allowed unskilled operators to achieve a relatively high rate of fire of 200 rounds per minute.

The Gatling gun was first used in warfare during the American Civil War.

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies mounting massed attacks, including the Matabele, the Zulu, the Bedouins, and the Mahdists.

The initial Gatling gun design used self-contained, reloadable steel cylinders with a chamber holding a ball and black-powder charge, and a percussion cap on one end.

Dr. Gatling later used examples of the M1893 powered by electric motor and belt to drive the crank.

The Gatling gun was used most successfully to expand European colonial empires by killing warriors of non-industrialized societies.

The " Maxim gun " used the recoil power of the previously fired bullet to reload rather than being hand-powered, enabling a much higher rate of fire than was possible using earlier designs such as the Nordenfelt and Gatling weapons.

The GAU-8 / A Avenger 30 mm Gatling gun, as used by the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, was selected for the system.

This Gatling was used to eliminate Spanish sniper fire against the American defensive positions on Kettle Hill.

Their engineers are used to explain Skaven warmachines: the Ratling Gun ( a warpstone-based Gatling gun with an obvious pun on rat ), the Warpfire thrower ( a warpstone-based flamethrower ), the Jezzail ( an extremely long-ranged warpstone rifle which is so large that it has to be carried by two Skaven ), the Poisoned Wind Mortar ( a device that fires delicate spheres filled with poison gas upon the enemy ) and the fearsome Warp-Lightning Cannon.

* M61 Vulcan, a Gatling gun used by the United States Armed Forces

Under a contract with the U. S. Army, Colt Arms built the Model 1895 ten-barrel variant of the Gatling Gun, capable of firing 800-900. 30 Army rounds per minute, and used with great effect at the Battle of San Juan Hill.

* Gatling guns, multiple barrel designs, often used with external power supplies to generate rates of fire higher than automatic firearms.

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23 () ( GRAU designation: 9A-620 for GSh-6-23, 9A-768 for GSh-6-23M modernized variant ) is a powerful, fast-firing six-barreled 23 mm Gatling gun used by some modern Soviet / Russian military aircraft.

There his Gatling gun was used to good effect, providing covering fire for the withdrawal of cannon that had come under sniper fire and dispersing an attempt by Gabriel Dumont to capture the guns.

Various forms of the weapon have been designed, including aircraft-mounted guns firing downward, man-portable artillery packs and defensive applications, such as ship-based anti-missile defense systems ( for which Gatling guns are currently used ).

The Gatling gun was a field weapon, first used in warfare during the American Civil War and subsequently by European and Russian armies.

; Gatling Guns: ( Again, used in conjunction with attack mode ): two gatling-style guns that are retracted from the hood.

Standard Tachikoma equipment includes a 7. 62x51mm light machine gun mounted in the right arm, a secondary weapon hardpoint in the " snout " ( a 50 mm grenade launcher, capable of launching both explosive and gas grenades which can be replaced by a six-barrelled 12. 7x99mm Gatling gun ), a universal cybernetic connector on an extensible, prehensile cable in the left arm, liquid wires that can be used for grappling, rappelling or for restraining purposes and a built-in thermoptic camouflage system.

* The Gatling guns used in the game feature not an arrangement of multiple barrels around a central axis, but one singular barrel in a tubular jacket typical for water-cooled machine guns ( in fact, they look much like M1917 Browning machine guns ), and a side-mounted ammunition box for belt-feeding ( in mechanical Gatlings gravity-feeding systems like hopper were used ).