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The genesis of Red Queen is rather convoluted. It started with the Mauser MG 213C revolver cannon, which had reached prototype stage at the end of World War 2. In order to achieve a higher rate of fire, this broke down the loading cycle (the main constraint on RoF) into stages by providing a revolving cylinder with several chambers, into which the ammunition was chambered and from which the fired case was subsequently extracted.
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