Minigun

A minigun is a multi-barrel machine gun with a high rate of fire, employing Gatling-style rotating barrels. It was a standard military weapon before the Great War, with Rockwell's CZ series being the most popular choice in the United States.

It is widely used by powerful factions such as the super mutants, the Brotherhood of Steel and the Enclave, for their extraordinary firepower at close range.

CZ53 personal minigun


 A Rockwell CZ53 personal minigun. A multi-barreled chaingun firing 5mm ammunition at over 60,000 RPM. The favorite weapon of the Mariposa super mutants. When the Great War struck, it was already an aging design and was slowly being replaced by the more advanced Avenger miniguns. 

CZ57 Avenger minigun


 Rockwell designed the CZ57 Avenger as the replacement for their aging CZ53 personal minigun. The Avenger's design improvements include improved gel-fin cooling and chromium plated barrel-bores. This gives it a greater range and lethality. 

Vindicator minigun


The German Rheinmetall AG company created the ultimate minigun. The Vindicator throws over 90,000 caseless shells per minute down its six carbon-polymer barrels. As the pinnacle of Teutonic engineering skill, it is the ultimate hand-held weapon.

Unnamed 5mm model


This 5mm minigun has six barrels combined into three pairs of two barrels and is used in combination with a "Cassette" ammo box.

For the unique minigun found in Fallout 3, see: Eugene

MEC Gauss Minigun


The MEC Gauss minigun was designed by the Chinese. It uses Gauss technology, multiple electromagnetic fields to propel over 90,000 rounds per minute to relativistic velocities.

Unnamed five-barrel model


This minigun has five barrels and used by the Brotherhood of Steel and super mutants army of Attis in Texas.

Behind the scenes

 * The Avenger might be named after the GAU-8 Avenger 30mm Gatling-type rotary cannon mounted on the A-10 Thunderbolt II.
 * The CZ designation could possibly be a reference to the real-world weapon manufacturer, Česká zbrojovka (famous for CZ-75 pistol or Skorpion submachine gun).