Yup


Edit:Found the script

"Gentlemen.
Say hello to the Chinese...

M -L triple-pulse
assault rifle.

Rotating barrel,
thousand-round capacity.

- Auto cooling, watertight."


One movie weapon thats really high on the "Stupid" list.

A page on the base gun.

It's a thousand rounds if you put one in the chamber.

No, it's 101 rounds with one in the chamber. There's no 999 round mag for the Calico. It would be rediculously huge and heavy. 1,000 rounds of 9x19mm ball weighs about 25 pounds. 1,000 rounds of .22 LR weighs about 7.6 pounds.

Based on the stats, or on a picture I have thus far failed to discover?

~J

Ah, that's not exactly true. During my army time I had a 1000rnd magazin for my MG-3. It was self-deploying and resonably smart. Commonly known as a Gunner-2 :=)


Now the one weapon from that film I WOULD like to own was the boat used by the "Hero". Ever since seeing "McHales Navy" and the old John Wayne Flick I consider PT-Boats the second best thing in the class.

Nah, they're both pretty obviously supposed to be modeled after the G11 magazine, with the rounds stored vertically and a rotating chamber that feeds from below the mag and rotates the rounds inline with the barrel. The HVAR does feed at the rear end of the rifle (mag inserted from the front, just like the G11), whereas the HVLMG is reversed (mag inserted from the rear). On both guns, below the point where the rounds would feed into the rotating chamber, there's what appears to be a folding handle, quite obviously in reference to the G11, where the user would manually rotate the chamber to load a round. However, seeing that the HV weapons are supposed to have multiple barrels, this system wouldn't work and a helical mag would be a much better choice. Wish I had a scanner.

I put the "pretty much" there to cover any oddities I might not have been aware of, this being a prime example. Obviously, what you're talking about isn't the kind of magazine you attach to the gun and run around with. It's a storage device for belted ammunition, and weighing as much as it would, one that I seriously doubt you'd be taking with you on a long hike, or dragging with you into some kind of urban operation, except maybe in the rear. You have 120-round boxes for that kind of thing. I'm sure it's intended to be used in vehicles or static emplacements.

I'd love to see more about it, if you can find some info. I'm not having any luck.

Actually, that is what we used I thought the "Gunner-2" (Schütze-2) comment was clear The guy was 170cm heigh and about as wide, all muscles. So during an exercise he wanted to make really sure we won't run out of ammo. So he bundled up four boxes and lugged them around.

I should use more Smileys! Ja, more Smileys.

Next time use the wink smile, that might help even more.

I did love the self-deploying and reasonably smart comment and understood that part. But ja, you have to use more smilies to get the effect across. Plus, don't use the smiley with the '=' as the nose since it won't register with the forums and you don't get the actually smiley face picture.

That explains much.

How peculiar, I got the reference immediately and thought you were being humorously obtuse, or else I’d have dropped in with the explanaion.

Was it hard to get the feed to work?

The belted ammo I have handled was only flexible in one axis, meaning the ammo had to be next to the feed tray for the thing to work.

Unfortunately, I was being obtuse for real. Sometimes the humor switch just does not flip when I'm in a more analytical frame of mind... ("Gunner-2" would equate to "Spotter" in the vernacular to which I am accustomed.)

In training, I always heard it called Assistant gunner (or A-Gunner)

I haven't heard the term Gunner-2 used for anything, either in RL or on TV.

The US NAVY uses a (super confusing) system of Ranks/Rates to say what they actually are.

Where an E-5 in the USAF is just SSgt.

An E-5 iin the navy will most likely be called by his Rank and Rate.

Gunner 2 Could be a reference to a Sailor in the rate of Gunners Mate with the Rank of Petty Office 2nd Class (PO2/E-5), or called GM2.

...and knowing is half the battle.

It gets a little stiff, but in RL I htink they have "frames' that help the feed.

Hope he doesn't get hit in the back with any willie pete rounds...there wont' be anything left to ID

Ammo explosionsrob him of the ability to fight back, though.

I wonder if that thing comes with an auto-eject feature...

Actually the belt is not that stiff, atleast not the non disintegrating belt we have here in sweden.
The feed situation varied from construction to construction, since all were made by soldiers and not issued they were of varying design, quality and function.
Some were just a half coke can attached to the shoulder harness/vest to ensure that the rounds didn´t snag on the cloth and slid smothly over the shoulder. Others were complex designs using several dismantled belt pouches.