Huey xm215 weapon system

[maxmwill]

War is Boring had an article about a weapon system that was installed on the UH-1 Huey, the XM215, which was, essentially a 1200 shot shotgun. Which there were a few photos on this, I'm wondering if there might be more somewhere, as well as if anyone built this for a Huey kit

 

[iverson]

Have you googled it?

The system of protection of helicopters XM215 Multiple Barrel Gun (USA)

Multi-purpose helicopters UH-1 was a true workhorse of American troops in Vietnam, solving a wide range of combat and support tasks. However, these ma

weaponews.com

XM215 Multiple Barrel Gun helicopter protection system (USA)

UH-1 multipurpose helicopters were a real workhorse of American troops in Vietnam, solving a wide range of combat and support tasks. Nevertheless, these machines had a serious drawback in the form of the lack of decent protection, because of which even the enemy’s small arms were serious

en.topwar.ru

etc.

 

[riggerrob]

That reminds us of some of the truck-mounted, anti-ambush guns developed in Rhodesia during the 1970s.
Nowadays, helicopters are equipped with multi-barrel mini-guns or single-barrel infantry machine guns to "suppress" enemy too close to landing fields.