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In 1898, Dr. Gatling attached an electric motor to his well known Gatling Gun, and managed to fire 3000 rounds per minute. In OTL, it was not developed. What's the earliest that an electrical rotary cannon could reasonably be in service? The gun needs a reason to exist as well as the technology to make it. Technology shouldn't be a problem--if the demand is there, it can be made, IMVHO, once smokeless powder is available in quantity.

I think that, if they were around, a 40 mm Gatling AA gun would have been VERY useful in World War II, on bigger ships...

So--what might get the rotary cannon going, in parallel with the Maxim gun and its like? Care to give it a spin?
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