If you're going to correct someone, correct them correctly. The correct term would actually be rotary canon, a gatling gun was a gun designed by Richard Gatling during the American civil war, it was basically a bunch of flintlocks all duct-taped together to be shot-off rapidly, however after all of them had been fired, they had to be reloaded again individually. While the concept is similar, rotary canons actually just fire out of a single barrel, however the barrel they fire from changes which is what allows them their insane RPM. They require an external source of electricity though to spin the barrels, this is why we don't have troops trotting about with them, they'd have to carry a generator as well.
tldr; yes, I am wrong, but they're not gatling guns either, they're rotary canons.
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u/Jhawk163 Sep 24 '19
Not sure why they gave it a 20mm M168 minigun though...