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« on: February 17, 2004, 04:26:39 PM »
I'll just put it this way:
I was told that the gun used in Predator was an M214 6-Pac, chambered in 5.56mm (that is from my source who is a loader on helicopters). They had been previously used as experimental field weapons and were man portable. I have picked them up myself and they are not that heavy. For the rest of the weight, 15kg of gun and 25kg of ammo is not that bad; it's only 88 lbs. Also, a 33lbs gun would dampen a lot of recoil.
I was in error about the cable in the pants leg; the barrels were not "cable driven", the cable was attached to a battery source, to power the gun, and hidden up his leg. As for recoil, that one webpage shows 'peak recoil force' only, the lower the rate of fire, the lower the overall recoil.
Besides, the webpage is inaccurate on other details, the M134 is called the GAU-2 (that's what I have loaded) and their ROF is 2000-6000 RPM, not 4000-6000. The M61 has an ROF of 4000-7000+, not up to 6000.