From the unofficial stats committee:
What damage card would you give to a 5 barreled Nordenfelt 1" mg?
5-Barrel Rifle-Calibre Gun
Mk I 5-barrel Nordenfelt with late pattern distributor and hopper (Royal Armouries, Leeds)
Late and Early designs of Hopper [N3]
Late design hopper and distributor
Old design of hopper and distributor
Motion of action block through links to quarter-circle segment cams (rollover)
Mk II 5-barrel Nordenfelt (National Maritime Museum)
The 5-barrel rifle-calibre machine gun was capable of a maximum (quoted) rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute (or 120 volleys a minute). Aimed and sustained fire would be slower. As it fired the same cartridge as rifles, the efective range would be 300 - 400 yards. although as the barrels were mounted on a solid, non-recoil mounting, accuracy would have been better than individual rifles.
The hopper held 100 rounds, 20 per gun (old hopper) 10 per gun (new hopper). Crew of 2-3. Firer, loader and reloader.
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