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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The soviets created a mortar that fired rapidly in an automatic fashion from feedable magazines.
It’s not that nobody has thought of it, it’s just not really feasible on a large scale. In order to land a shot repeatedly 12 miles away, things like barrel heat, the movement of the artillery piece/vehicle after each shot, and the flex/oscillation of the barrel need to taken into account. Slower and well placed beats out sending a round accidentally flying into your own troops any day.
If you want rapid fire and long range, MLRS other rocket artillery are the ideal, but they have their drawbacks. Sending multiple rounds through eachothers aerodynamic slipstream can aggravate issues with accuracy that come with the slow initial speed of a rocket.
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