So the concept started with the Gatling gun, the first rotating multi-barrel machine gun, and then was scaled up into the modern minigun. That was then scaled up to the 20mm Vulcan and 30mm Avenger autocannons.
Why can’t we scale it up even further with a multi-barrel rotating artillery cannon? One that shoots 3000 artillery rounds per minute and sends massive barrages of artillery?
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One of the reasons is precision. Military might has been moving towards more accurate weapons rather than higher power. You can see it in how nukes have only ever been used as a scare tactic, alot of collateral damage and little penetration. We can hit a specific military target without killing an entire city, and we can penetrate down into bunkers. Nukes were great at a shock and awe kind of thing but they are extremely outdated and not the weapon an advanced military would ever use anymore.
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