![]() Gast himself had applied for a US Patent in 1920, which was issued in 1923.Ī Gast gun was evaluated by the US Army, and found to be reliable and mechanically practical. However, the gun was not widely used, and their existence was kept secret until three years after the Armistice it was not until 1921 that the Allied Control Commission became aware of the Gast gun when a cache of 25 of the guns, ammunition and designs was found near Königsberg. Production of the weapon exceeded these initial projections, and the weapons were received favourably with promises of an order for a further 6,000 guns being promised in September 1918. Delivery of the first 100 guns was promised for 1 June 1918, with production ramping up to 500 guns per month by September 1918. Gast demonstrated the weapon to ordnance experts in August 1917, who were so impressed that a production order for 3,000 guns was awarded to Vorwerk und Companie, along with ten ammunition drums and spare parts for each gun at a unit price of 6,800 marks each. 50/12.7mm in each wing would make a good amount of sense. Also considering many cannons that were not spinner-mounted were paired, a set of Gast 20mm or even. Good rate of fire (Model 1917 from WWI was capable of 1600+ RPM from two barrels), mechanically reliable and had built in redundancy (if one side of the siamesed pair had a malfunction the other side would keep going). ![]()
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