General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, Charlotte, North Carolina, has been awarded two contracts with a combined value of $12.9 million to produce 22 Gatling gun systems for the U.S. Navy.

Military thinkers are not always the most forward of thinkers, and this was certainly the case with small arms in the nineteenth century. Initially, the U.S. Army was not sold... Here’s What You Need ...

Just over a 140 years ago, Richard Gatling's famous multiple barrel invention became the scourge of the battlefield with its fearsome firepower and was used by colonising European powers to decimate ...

Yesterday in 1866, the U.S. Army adopted machine guns for the first time. Or, well, almost machine guns: the Gatling gun, first patented in 1862, wasn’t fully mechanical. Someone still had to crank it ...

Earplugs are a must if physics professor Kent Gee is your research mentor. Back in the day, Gee was himself a physics major at BYU working alongside Professor Scott Sommerfeldt, whose research focuses ...

Gatling guns were an early attempt at creating a rapid-firing weapon, and were popular amongst armies in the 19th century. Today, the basic design remains in use as a heavy weapon for putting many ...