Some 150,000 ShKAS weapons were produced for arming Soviet military aircraft through 1945. In 1932, the Soviet ShKAS machine gun, 7.62 mm calibre aircraft ordnance used a twelve-round capacity, revolver-style feed mechanism with a single barrel and single chamber, to achieve firing rates of well over 1800 rounds per minute, and as high as 3,000 rounds per minute in special test versions in 1939, all operating from internal gas-operated reloading. Clarke's patent came as reciprocating-action automatic weapons like the Maxim gun and the Browning gun were peaking in popularity.
Clarke patented the first fully automatic, gas-operated rotary chamber gun, but his design was ignored at the time. The Hotchkiss revolving cannon of the late 19th century was not a revolver cannon in the modern sense but was rather a Rotary cannon, with multiple barrel allowing for feeding and extraction operations in parallel in different barrels. The gun was captured in Danville, Virginia by Union forces on April 27, 1865. The Confederate States of America used a single 2-inch, 5-shot revolver cannon with manually rotated chambers during the Siege of Petersburg.
The design idea was impractical, far ahead of what 18th century technology could achieve.ĭuring the 19th century, Elisha Collier and later Samuel Colt used the revolver action to revolutionize handguns. MLG 27 remote controlled revolver cannon on board an Elbe class tender of the German NavyĪn early precursor was the Puckle gun of 1718, a large flintlock revolver gun, manually operated.
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