Talk:Gianduja/@comment-24573226-20161208173109/@comment-25396609-20161208233824

Alright, so; as far as my knowledge extends, the minigun (and other forms of multi-barrel machine gun) are all in the gatling gun family. They are descendants from and improvements upon the original concept.

The modern variants lack a crank because it  was made obsolete by compact motor-driven systems that achieve the exact same effect while being less taxing on the human operator; as well as improving both the fire rate and overheating time.