Few weapons changed air combat as suddenly as this one. This story traces how the M61 Vulcan evolved from an old mechanical ...

Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Rodolfo Ojeda performs maintenance on a 20mm M61 Vulcan gun from an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet on the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman. (MCSN Pasquale ...

Israel is considering mounting rotary cannons on armored vehicles to shoot down drones. Israel may put the Vulcan cannon used on F-16s on an armored personnel carrier. Ukraine uses autocannons and ...

The M61 Vulcan stunned observers when it debuted with a firing rate far beyond anything previously imagined, revealing how a modern jet fighter weapon evolved from a ...

Just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, inventor Richard Jordan Gatling designed the world’s first successful rapid-fire weapon. Technically not a “machine gun” in the modern sense, it ...

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JERUSALEM — Israel is examining the M61 Vulcan cannon to counter drones, according to the Israel Defense Forces, with local media reporting the weapon would go atop armored personnel carriers deployed ...