Posted by Gordon Maney on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 1:36PM :
In Reply to: Re: OT Minni Gun posted by MoparNorm on Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 9:47AM :
I recall a conversation with a guy who had been in Viet Nam; this was about the time that Apocalypse Now was released. He had been on one of those river patrol boats while he was there, so he offered his thoughts as to where the movie was accurate and where it was not.
Part of his comments described how they had acquired one of these guns and mounted it on the boat. They took it off soon after, as they discovered that firing it would move the boat, as if the gun was a small jet engine. It made the boat uncontrollable, so they removed it. Apparently they had great fun experimenting, however.