I try not to swear, but WTF? ? ? ?
My favorite mount is the quad 50's mounted on an M-3 halftrack. I may have to re-evaluate the list in light of this revelation!!!
This was near 1985...give or take 5 years....
He had them in a square set up two on the bottom and two right above them. each of them would be capable of 100 rds per second, so that is 400 holes per second in that cab...amazing.
Only two more impressive firepower displays I saw was a Special Weapons Platoon deployed for a human wave attack. A 50 at each end of the shallow arc of firing positions, 1 M60 as maybe the 1/4 and 3/4 position and M14s in between. I don't recall, but there was possibly some BAR's in the mix. They knew the drill and would start at a long range with the guns angles so their lines of fire intersected out at that range. Then they would move in to a closer range...maybe 25 yds closer. The guns would change angles, some would actually fire the to the other side to make the maximum intersections at this new range...and continue till they were up close. They had scrap wood set up on the range and it did get shreded and splintered.
The other was a demonstration of COFRAM* rounds delivered by an artillery barrage. Think a claymore fired from a cannon that would explode over the target and send all it's steel balls down. It also shredded the scrap wood.
While more impressive, neither were as handy as that quad mini-gun mounted in the bed of your pickup.
I never saw Puff The Magic Dragon in action.
*''The Contrlled Fragmentation of Munitions''
COFRAM was a testing program to test all sorts of munitions.
There was a 155mm COFRAM round that had a great fragmentation effect and was used during the 1960' and 70's.
It exploded above target and showered the aera below with thousands of bomblets,either explosive or ball bearing type.
It was considered for use in Vietnam by the U.S.