Poobs, your buddy merely demonstrated the point that rotor heads were prone to multitasking. 😁
Minigun recoil on LOH wasn’t difficult to control, and after a few introductory brrrrrts it was not an issue. What most fail to recognize is that a door gunner with a M60 was far more deadly as well as protective. Scouts that had been around awhile mostly preferred gunners over miniguns.
Makes sense.
I've seen mini guns being fired on a couple of occasions at the Knob Creek machine gun shoot. They don't sound like a firearm. They sound like a big block V10 with open headers running at about 5000 rpms.
They have a big night shoot at Knob Creek which is pretty much the grand finale' of the machine gun shoot. They start it off with about a 20 second burst from a mini gun with tracers every 6 rounds or so. It looks like a big hose spewing fire.
It's something to experience.
Some other guys had a twin MG42 anti aircraft set up. A pair of MG42s can put some lead downrange too.
