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 ...
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 ...