A Multiple Barrel Firearm is a firearm of any type with more than one barrel, usually to increase the rate of fire/hitting probability and to reduce barrel erosion/overheating. Originally a primitive attempt of rapid fire before the introduction of belt-feed/magazines and automatic weapons. It must be noted that Project SALVO revealed that any Multi Barrel Assault rifle/Machine Gun with a rifle caliber larger than 5.56 NATO and the possible exception of Pistol/Intermediate rounds (IE: 9x19mm, .30 Carbine, 7.62x39mm) is unsuitable for infantry use.
Combo weapons (IE M16 with underslung M203, OICW etc.) or Twin/Multiple Mounted weapons are NOT to be classed as Multiple Barrel Firearms. Weapons such as Derringer Pistols, Double Barrel shotguns etc. could be classed as an example but not necessarily worth listing here.
Examples[]
Pistols[]
Underwater Pistols[]
Shotgun[]
- Side-by-side/over-under 2 barrel shotguns
- Colt Defender
- FAMARS Rombo
- Leopard 12
- M30 Luftwaffe drilling
- TP-82
- Winchester Liberator
Rifle[]
- Double Rifle
- Nock Volley Gun
- Volley Firing Infantry Weapon
Assault rifle[]
Battle Rifle[]
SMG[]
- CSMG
- Flieger-Doppelpistole 1919
- Gordon Close-Support Weapon System
- IM Model 4
- Neal submachine gun
- Onorati SMG
- Saturn machine pistol
- SerLea
- Villar-Perosa
Machine Gun[]
- Bira Gun
- Caldwell machine gun
- Colleoni machine gun
- Fyodorov–Shpagin Model 1922
- Gardner Gun
- Gast gun
- Gatling gun
- Knötgen maschinengewehr
- KRR minigun
- MG14z
- Minigun
- Mitrailleuse
- Nikonov machine gun
- Nordenfelt gun
- Prado machine gun
- Silin gun
- Slostin machine gun
- Twin Barrel Bren
- Type 89 machine gun
- Type 100 machine gun
- Vickers Higson machine gun
- Wimmersperg machine gun
- Yakushev-Borzov YakB-12.7mm