M61 Vulcan
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M61 Vulcan

Autocannon
Weapon 🔪 Autocannon ⚡ Foreign Design 📦

The M61 Vulcan is a Gatling-style rotary cannon that fires 20mm rounds at a very high rate of fire. It is the standard cannon on most US military fixed-wing aircraft since the 1960s. This weapon can be driven by hydraulic, electric, or pneumatic power depending on its configuration. It can fire up to 6,000 rounds per minute in bursts or continuous mode. Such an enormous rate of fire is useful for shooting down low-flying aircraft and missiles, as well as providing ground support. The M61 is also mounted on some ground and naval platforms, such as the M163 VADS and the experimental Phalanx CIWS. 

Because of its unmatched firepower when it comes to aerial dogfighting, this is the most coveted autocannon for Oceanykan pilots, who will pay enormous sums of money to have it smuggled from Vietnam, Korea, Okinawa or other such zones with great American presence.

Abilities

Common Attributes - Mechanical

Auto

This weapon is fully automatic, either inherently so or by the presence of a selective-fire mechanism.

EFFECT:
This weapon can fire more than one shot each time it is used. Each subsequent shot has a progressive penalty.
Automatic weapons are considered STABLE when they're mounted on a vehicle, tripod or turret. This is different from the Stabilised SA.

  • Point Blank Range - No penalty.
  • Close Range (≤10m / 2sq) -> -1
  • Short Range (≤50m / 5sq) -> -2 (STABLE: -1)
  • Average Range (≤200m / 10sq) -> -3 (STABLE: -1)
  • Medium Range (≤500m / 20sq) -> -5 (STABLE: -1)
  • Long Range (≤1000m / 50sq) -> -5 (STABLE: -3)

         ~ Beyond this point, automatic fire is unfeasible without a STABLE firing platform. ~

  • Very Long Range (≤2000m) -> (STABLE: -3)
  • Extreme Range (>2000m) -> (STABLE: -5)

Belt-Fed

EFFECT:
This weapon is not fed from fixed capacity magazines, but from belts which can be made as long or short as needed.
Most machinegun belts contain 50, 100, 200 or 250 rounds. Some vehicle belts, however, can be way longer.

Unless specified otherwise, assume all small arms belts to be of 100 rounds.

Unique Attributes

BRRRT - Vulcan/Minigun UA

Few firearms of the 20th century have achieved as much popular appeal as the "Minigun" family of externally powered automatic weapons. Even those who know little of military hardware can recognise the sound of their spooling, the image of rotating barrels and the dreadful rain of tracer fire which emanates from them. Both in fiction and in reality, their appearance upon the battlefield ends battles. 

EFFECT:
This weapon ignores the Auto progressive hit penalty, but its flat penalty is doubled.

~ BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT ~

Inventory

Object QTY
Ammunition
Equipped M56 HEI
HEFI - 6d20 EXP-DMG | 2 PEN | S. EXP. 		1
Equipped M53 API
API-T - 6d20 DMG | 5 PEN 		1

Attributes

Unorganized
TYPE
Autocannon
TECH
Modern
WGHT
Light
CAL
20x102mm
RNG
Very Long
SPC
Auto, Belt-Fed, BRRRT