Automatic gun

Japanese: 機関砲 - きかんほう(英語表記)automatic gun
Automatic gun
An automatic continuous-firing weapon that uses the same principle as a machine gun. In the U.S. military, any caliber between 16mm and 37mm was called a machine gun. It was mainly mounted on aircraft and tanks, and used as an anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapon. After World War II, machines with continuous-firing mechanisms powered by external electric motors or gas turbines, such as the Gatling gun, appeared. Since the early 1970s, aircraft machine guns have been used in conjunction with rockets and missiles. In the former Imperial Japanese Navy, all calibers under 40mm were called machine guns.

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Japanese:
機関銃と同じ原理をもつ自動連続発射火器。アメリカ軍では口径 16mm以上 37mm以下を機関砲と称した。おもに航空機,戦車に搭載し,また対空,対戦車兵器として用いられる。第2次世界大戦後,ガトリング機関砲のように連続発射機構を外の電動機,またはガスタービンで作動するものも登場した。 70年初めから航空機用機関砲は,ロケットやミサイルと併用されている。なお,旧日本海軍では口径 40mm以下はすべて機銃と称した。

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