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Widely used by militaries around the world, the M2 heavy machine gun is a belt fed, .50 caliber machine gun based off the M1919 design. In fact, it is basically a scaled-up 1919, down to the .50 rounds it fires. It is an excellent weapon for its intended purpose: tearing humans and light vehicles into disabled messes. On soft targets, living or not, the hefty .50 rounds have a fair chance of literally ripping them in half. Your average soft skinned vehicle is likely unable to stop a short burst from the M2. Any raider vehicles will be instantly crippled with a well aimed burst to the engine block. The M2 platform was even used in the second longest combat kill with a small arm: Carlos Hathcock successfully made a kill with a special telescopically-sighted M2 at 2,286 meters in 1967-that is roughly a mile and a half! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
M-134D Rotatry Cannon:
This gun is used on tanks and helicopters, and is very effective against other vehicles, and hordes of zombies. IT burns through ammunition, and needs external power to spin the mechanism. But, if you manage to get lots of it, this gun can absolutely ruin other vehicles (eg. Hostile survivors, bandits), and it can eliminate hordes of zombies in 'one fell swoop', literally.
One of these, secured to a Ford F150, pick-up truck, or Aussie ute, would be the ultimate attack vehicle. Other smaller vehicles would need to be stripped before it could take one of these on it, but Holden Utes (the 2005+ models) could take this weight very easily.
It'd also be an awesome base defense gun, and if for some reason you have hostile planes above, a short burst from the Minigun would put their feet firmly on the ground. Very firmly.

Luckily this gun fires standard 7.62 NATO rounds which should be easy to find. It can fire any standard round including ball, tracer, slap, AP (armor piercing), incendiary (fire/explosive), and any other standard rounds.

It is also man portable but takes two to carrier it. Not suggested for those thinking "YES! I GET TO CARRY A MINIGUN!"

It is extremely hard to carry around nonetheless fire. Best to keeps the M-134D mounted somewhere.
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MK-19 Grenade Launcher:
Commonly used on riverine assault boats and gun trucks in the US military. Somewhere in between a mortar and a machine gun the Mk. 19 has a max range of 2200 meters, each individual HEDP (High Explosive Dual Purpose) round has a fragmentation kill zone of 5 meters (15 meter injury radius) and can penetrate two inches of steel armor plating. This would destroy zombies on impact and put many down on the ground in the immediate area. While not all are killed, it would definitely turn them into manageable pieces. Obvious downsides are low availability of ammo, discretion has to be used when firing (fratricide or suicide are no-nos), very heavy (121lbs w/tripod) and lastly it can only be fired from a tripod, or mounted on a vehicle. On the same token, a MK 19 Grenade Launcher mounted on a vehicle like a ute or Ford F150 would be highly effective, allowing you to not only stop, mortar, and move again, but to fire while moving, which would be invaluable when dealing with other vehicles, if you can aim well enough. They can also be used as two-man, crew served weaps.
Trivia: The Mk-19 was developed by a USCG Warrant Officer.

To load, ensure the bolt is locked forward and the charger handles are in the up position. Open the top cover of the gun and take the first round of the belt and load it into the pawls (studs in the chamber where the grenade is seated). Slide the grenade across the pawls and push the secondary drive lever (located on the bottom of the top cover) up. Close the top cover firmly. Grasp the two charging levers on the sides of the gun and rotate them down, then pull them back until the bolt sears. Push them back forward and rotate them up to lock them. Upon pulling the trigger, the first round will load. **** the gun again as you did before.

The charger handles MUST be up and forward when firing.
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The Flak 88 from WWII, and similar stationary artillery, has limited use against zombies. Humans, vulnerable to shrapnel and explosions, would be pulverized by an artillery barrage. High explosive shells could destroy fortifications and pound armor. However, against zombies, artillery would likely be of limited use unless carefully planned, and specifically targeting high-concentration with very-high explosives. When zombies are in mobs, one of the few situations where artillery would be an option, the few actually hit by artillery will likely only result in varying degrees of injuries, and few dead bodies. Large artillery almost always needs a crew of several people, in addition to actual combat troops protecting them. Artillery needs vehicles to transport the gun and ammunition, and typically a large number of guns to be effective. Though far from perfect, it can be a useful complement to a larger concern.

Artillery guns often have different methods of loading, but generally, they will be loade from the rear. Some may require a gate or door be opened to extract the empty shell case and load a new round, which is then closed and locked. The multitude of wheels are turned to change the orientation of the gun, and a simple trigger fires it. Modern guns often have computerized firing, loading, and aiming. Knowledge of the program itself is necessary to use these guns.











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MB 120mm M95 (Mortar):
A mortar is basically a hollow tube with a firing pin at the bottom. Its designed to allowed infantry to provide their own artillery support while retaining their mobility. Essentially, it launches hand grenade sized explosives over a moderately long distance. While reasonably accurate, and far more mobile then its larger counterparts, the mortar is still not very effective against zombies. Mortars can be made very easily, being very simple. No matter what you do, never try that cute trick in Saving Private Ryan where you ram the mortar round; it'll set off the round in your hand, blowing it out of your grip to land who knows where.
The above rule does have an exception: some mortar rounds have an airburst timer that allows the above trick to be utilized, but unless you're actually trained on that specific mortar and sure of the condition of the ammo, it is probably not worth the risk.

Generally, mortar shells are percussion-fired, and will go off with a forceful hit to the rear. After aiming the tube, place the shell at the end of the barrel, drop it, and quickly duck your head and cover your ears; the round will be fired out of the barrel upon reaching the bottom.














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M-240 Hammer:
Hammer is intended for rapid deployment on lightweight EOD and tactical robots such as iRobot's PackBot tactical mobile robot. The Hammer system may also be deployed on unmanned aerial vehicles, larger tactical robots, manned vehicles, and fixed installations. It consists of two AA-12 Shotguns mounted to a remotely controlled turret, which can be mounted on a vehicle or even as a fixed position weapons system ( seen here is from behind.)






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Samsung Robotic Sentry Gun:
This is the next generation of defense systems and just made for Z-Day, in 2006 Samsung announced a $200,000, all weather, 5.56mm robotic machine gun for border guarding purposes at the DMZ to North Korea. Equipped with IR and visible light cameras, it is capable of tracking multiple moving targets and is able to be under the control of a human operator.The Intelligent Surveillance and Guard Robot is able to identify and shoot a target from over 2 miles away. Twin optical and infrared sensors to identify targets from 2.5 miles in daylight and around half that distance at night. It is also equipped with communication equipment (a microphone and speakers),so that passwords can be exchanged with human troops. If the person gives the wrong password, the robot cansound an alarm or fire at the target using rubber bullets or a swivel-mounted K-3 machine gun. South Korea's 3,500 soldiers in Iraq arecurrently using robot sentries to guard home bases. I don't know who good this thing is with head-shots, but I've just seen the promovideo for this baby and it has hitten the bulls-eye with such an accuracy, that I don't think it would miss a zack's head.
Samsung makes very good hardware, and the video demonstrates its ability and it appears to be accurate as most marksmen against a non moving target, there are no demonstrations of it going up against moving targets.
What does amaze me though is the ridiculously low price of this system. Can you imagine an American Product of this category? The Phlanax CIWS is an automated anti-missle gun. But its job is a tad easier, because of missle's dead-giveaway rocket drive system, and cruise missles tend to be quite a bit larger than your average person. Larger than your average jet-liner (well, some cruise missles). But the Phlanax CIWS happens to cost 3.8 MILLION USD, per unit. Although gattling guns tend to cost 12 times more than standard weaponry used in the Samsung sentry gun, most of the Phlanax system costs are the radar and electronics Although it doesnt quite have 2 MOA, it comes close from the video. If you happen to be stinkin rich, and slightly low on large amounts of trained professionals to man your fortress, you can have a few of these systems, or even better, some of these systems but upgunned with RPG-29s (will penetrate even Modern Main Battle Tank hulls, due to tandem warheads) to knock out bandits who happened to acquire. Bradley IFVs or other armored fighting vehicles. In any other case, buy samsung electronics anyways. Its pretty good and comes at a decent price.
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of the barrels. The barrels themselves are driven by the aircraft's dual hydraulic system.
The GAU-8/A ammunition is linkless, reducing weight and avoiding a great deal of potential for jamming. The feed system is double-ended: the spent casings are not ejected from the aircraft (which takes a great deal of force if the possibility of severe airframe damage is to be eliminated) but are cycled back into the ammunition drum. The feed system is based on that developed for later M61 installations, but uses more advanced design techniques and materials throughout, to save weight.

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