meanwhile, a mega gun is one of those tiny water shooter guns you used to play with in the backyard during summer
JonathanStones1989 on
the, minigun is so humble 😊
Sialov on
superblondebby on
Can’t wait for someone to explain that a minigun is actually called that because of the multiple barrels not the size and ruin the whole joke
rimodalv on
It’s mini compared to the other gun we have.
OtherWorstGamer on
Seeing this on the day of the Helldivers 2 Warbond that gives us a long-requested Minigun is a bit surreal 😅
HeavyTanker1945 on
Its called the Minigun because its a Minature version of the M61 Vulcan 20mm Gatling gun.
navagon on
If you’d seen a Gatling gun then you’d understand.
SalamanderValuable55 on
Small but mighty
kidanokun on
Coz the not-mini “gun” is an aircraft machine gun
Thanatofobia on
Its called the “minigun”, because its the little brother of the one they build a plane *around*
The big one fires rounds the size of beer bottles.
When it fires, it *slows the plane down* due to recoil
GigabyteAorusRTX4090 on
Apparently you didn’t hear of the GE XM214 Microgun yet…
(Well it IS smaller than the minigun, being chambered in 5.56x45nato, but still it’s fucking huge)
K1NG_R0G on
Well I mean to be fair theres
Machine Gun
Small Machine Gun
Mini Small Machine Gun
Maqya on
“Mini-gun, for maximum pleasure.”
Fair-Bunch4827 on
Its called mini gun because its invented by Robert Mini /s
Sea_Art3391 on
Well, yes, that is a mini gun. The original fires 20mm bullets, there is a smaller one firing .50 cal bullets, and the minigun fires 7.62mm bullets. So in contrast, the minigun is very small in comparison to the original. Fun fact, there was also a 5.56mm version called the microgun.
Yes, i play War Thunder. What gave that away?
Fun-Window-723 on
We have to look more into this mini gun
parking_pataweyo on
I’m disappointed that this name comes from the original being even bigger.
I’d always assumed that the designers just had a good sense of humour.
pxldsilz on
Wait til you hear about a minicomputer.
Anybody ever work with a bare metal AS/400? That’s a minicomputer.
enerthoughts on
Today I learned about its bigger contrapart, I thu it was called mini gun because it fired mini bullets.
akotoshi on
The ammo are smaller
ARandomEncouter on
Size is vibe based
Kodo_yeahreally on
it’s because it’s a mini version of those guns so big the plane had to be built around the thing rather than the opposite
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meanwhile, a mega gun is one of those tiny water shooter guns you used to play with in the backyard during summer
the, minigun is so humble 😊
Can’t wait for someone to explain that a minigun is actually called that because of the multiple barrels not the size and ruin the whole joke
It’s mini compared to the other gun we have.
Seeing this on the day of the Helldivers 2 Warbond that gives us a long-requested Minigun is a bit surreal 😅
Its called the Minigun because its a Minature version of the M61 Vulcan 20mm Gatling gun.
If you’d seen a Gatling gun then you’d understand.
Small but mighty
Coz the not-mini “gun” is an aircraft machine gun
Its called the “minigun”, because its the little brother of the one they build a plane *around*
The big one fires rounds the size of beer bottles.
When it fires, it *slows the plane down* due to recoil
Apparently you didn’t hear of the GE XM214 Microgun yet…
(Well it IS smaller than the minigun, being chambered in 5.56x45nato, but still it’s fucking huge)
Well I mean to be fair theres
Machine Gun
Small Machine Gun
Mini Small Machine Gun
“Mini-gun, for maximum pleasure.”
Its called mini gun because its invented by Robert Mini /s
Well, yes, that is a mini gun. The original fires 20mm bullets, there is a smaller one firing .50 cal bullets, and the minigun fires 7.62mm bullets. So in contrast, the minigun is very small in comparison to the original. Fun fact, there was also a 5.56mm version called the microgun.
Yes, i play War Thunder. What gave that away?
We have to look more into this mini gun
I’m disappointed that this name comes from the original being even bigger.
I’d always assumed that the designers just had a good sense of humour.
Wait til you hear about a minicomputer.
Anybody ever work with a bare metal AS/400? That’s a minicomputer.
Today I learned about its bigger contrapart, I thu it was called mini gun because it fired mini bullets.
The ammo are smaller
Size is vibe based
it’s because it’s a mini version of those guns so big the plane had to be built around the thing rather than the opposite