10 Unique Multiple Barrel Guns in The World

 Some of these guns are among the most powerful in the world and considered as ultimate killing machines.

1.) TKB-059

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Does it look like a toy gun? Of course it is not a toy gun it is the TKB-059, a 3 barrel bullpup assault rifle from Russia. This unique gun is capable of fully automatic fire that used 7.62 x 39 mm magazine with a capacity of 90 rounds. TKB-059, which was created to counter the American Salvo, can be fired ambidextrously as the cartridge ejection is downwards behind the magazine area.

2.) Nordenfelt Gun

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Nordenfelt Gun could be the gun with the most number of barrels. This multiple barrel machine gun had a row of up to 12 barrels. The above picture of a Nordenfelt Gun has 10 barrels. This unique weapon can be fired by pulling a lever back and forth. Nordenfelt Gun was produced in various calibers from rifle up to 25 mm.

3.) GAU-8 Gatling Gun

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The GAU-8/A Avenger is one of the world’s most powerful guns. This 30 mm gun is manufactured by General Electric. This hydraulically-driven seven-barrel Gatling-type rotary cannon, which is among the heaviest, largest and most powerful aircraft cannons, is mounted on the US Air Force’s Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II. This anti-tank delivers very powerful rounds at a high rate of fire.

4.) Colt Defender Mark I

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One of the coolest shotguns ever manufactured is the Colt Defender Mark I. This very robust American-made weapon is an 8-barrel shotgun designed for law enforcement and military use. This shotgun which is very simple to operate had a semi-automatic like fire and each barrel is chambered for the 20 gauge 3 inch magnum shell.

5.) 1 Inch Nordenfelt

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Another unique multiple barrels weapon is the 1 inch Nordenfelt. This early rapid-firing light gun is designed to defend larger warships against small fast-moving torpedo boats during the later part of 19^th century. A solid steel bullet with hardened tip and brass jacket is fired from the 1 Inch Nordenfelt.

6.) Daewoo K11

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This modern and handsome-looking multiple barrels gun is an assault rifle chambered to fire 5.56 mm rounds and 20mm air-burst shells. A unit of the Daewoo K11 is worth US$14,000.

7.) Flash Ball

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One of the most peculiar-looking multiple barrels gun is the Flash-Ball gun which is mainly used by law enforcement officers in riot situations. This double barrel gun is not lethal and used as an alternative to lethal firearms, plastic bullets and baton rounds. This weapon can be used to fire a variety of ammunition but a soft 44 mm rubber ball is the most common.

8.) GShG-7.62

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This cool-looking multiple barrel gun is Shipunov GShG-7.62, a four-barreled rotary machine gun and has been used only in gun pods and flexible mounts on Kamov Ka-29 prototypes. This unique gun is gas operated and one of the few self powered machine guns of the Gatling type.

9.) Minigun

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One of the most popular multiple barrel guns is the General Electric Minigun. This gun is a 7.62 mm with a high rate of fire of 2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute. It employs Gatling-style rotating barrels with an external power source.

10.) Slostin

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This uniquely designed gun is called Slostin. It is Russian made self-powered Gatling Gun and was chambered in 7.62mmR and mounted on PM M1910 wheeled tripods. This gun used a gas-operation, with stationary breech and movable barrels. Each barrel has its own gas cylinders, with piston connected to the next barrel. Upon firing one barrel, next one was forced forward, and thus caused the whole barrel block to rotate through the roller, attached to the mentioned barrel running through cam track in outer shell.

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