Talk:Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23

Spin up.

Why would being gas operated have any effect on the rate of "spin up"? This delay is caused by the inertia of the rotating assembly; given a sufficient power source of equal force to the gas pressure in the system of this gun, there should be no difference. The only way to significantly speed up the acceleration is to lighten the rotating assembly (which may well be the case with this gun). But that has nothing to do with it being gas operated. If by some chance, the US gun used an electric or hydraulic motor which produced significantly less torque than the force of the gas pressure in the system, all that would need to be done is increase the hydraulic pressure or install a larger electric motor. But I still think that any (alleged) increase in spin-up is due to a lighter barrel assembly, not because the US is using motors that are too weak..45Colt 00:32, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

It's complete nonsense, gas operated gatlings generally suffer from exactly opposite problem - their spin-up time would be too long, with just internal operation and that is why they have starter (kinda like starter in your car) for initial spin-up. Thing is, Russian avionics was always quite power hungry (especially large radars) and their electric systems less than stellar, so gatling fully driven via electric motor would drain a lot of electricity in short period of time and thus they focused on internal operation with pyrotechnic charge or electric starter, as it's less stressful for on-board power source. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.239.68.21 (talk) 15:29, 28 August 2014 (UTC)

The gun uses a pyrotechnic starter. See the Russian-language article.

Hence - "...they focused on internal operation with pyrotechnic charge or electric starter..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.195.174.101 (talk) 21:20, 31 March 2015 (UTC)