No. most shoot 25- 300 rps. the Russian grazyev- shipunov GSh-6-23 cannon, with 10,000 rpm, maybe can shoot 500 rps.
.25 caliber
It depends on the gun. Some hold 4 or 5, some hold 15 or more. Asking how many rounds does a 380 hold is a lot like asking how many gallons of gas does a car hold.
All of them.
hold L/R for a few second
The fire rate of miniguns starts from around 2000 rounds per minute and minigun that has the fastest rate today shoots close to one million rounds per minute.
Yes. There is a gun called the M-134 minigun that shoots approx. 300 rounds per second.
The M-134D and M-134DT fires 50 rounds every second, or about 3,000 rounds per minute. Meaning the six barrels rotate up to 1112 RPM in half a second.
6000 rounds per minute for the M61A1 6600 rounds per minute for the M61A2
The M134 Minigun can fire anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 rounds per minute. It is a six-barreled machine gun which uses the Gatling-gun style of shooting.
If you mean the 20mm M61 Vulcan Gatling Gun, some versions can fire at a rate of 6,000 rounds per minute- but for fairly short periods of time.
The original M134, made by General Electric, had two rates of fire - 3,000 rounds per minute, or 6,000 rounds per minute. Some variants fire at a fixed rate, which may be 3,000 or 4,000 rounds per minute, depending on that exact variant.For movies such as Predator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, the miniguns used in those films had to be modified to fire at around 1/3 of their normal rate of fire, because - even with blanks - the recoil force if fired at the normal rate of fire would've knocked the actors down as they used them.
Your machine guns in use in 2010 were still developed between the 1950s and 1980s, generally. A gas operated machine gun might fire anywhere from 500 - 1200 rounds per minute, depending on type. Weapons such as the M-134 Minigun can fire between 3000 - 6000 rounds per minute.
Theoretically - yes, you could suppress a minigun. Realistically however, it would be impractical at best. Not only would you need a suppressor for each barrel, the rate of fire and heat generated would most likely wear out the suppressors faster than you could replace them. The rounds would also need to be subsonic (under 1080 feet/second) for a suppressor to have any real effect, if not you will still have the 'crack' the bullets make as they move towards the target. And this is completely ignoring the noise generated by the motor powering the minigun and the sound of the action as it feeds/ejects rounds.
16 thousand rounds.
You're probably thinking of the M134 'Minigun', which is capable of firing at a rate of 6000 rounds per minute.
The minigun is heavy because it has a large and heavy internal rotating assembly that allows it to fire at an extremely high rate. Additionally, it is built to withstand the stress and heat generated by firing hundreds of rounds per minute. The weight helps with recoil management and stability when firing.