Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Rodolfo Ojeda performs maintenance on a 20mm M61 Vulcan gun from an F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jet on the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman. (MCSN Pasquale ...

Israel is considering mounting rotary cannons on armored vehicles to shoot down drones. Israel may put the Vulcan cannon used on F-16s on an armored personnel carrier. Ukraine uses autocannons and ...

Just before the outbreak of the American Civil War, inventor Richard Jordan Gatling designed the world’s first successful rapid-fire weapon. Technically not a “machine gun” in the modern sense, it ...

The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System is the final shield between a warship and an incoming missile. Built around the legendary M61 Vulcan rotary cannon, it fires tungsten or depleted uranium ...

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JERUSALEM — Israel is examining the M61 Vulcan cannon to counter drones, according to the Israel Defense Forces, with local media reporting the weapon would go atop armored personnel carriers deployed ...