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It also lets you increase the rate of fire while reducing the risk of a "runaway" caused by excessive battering and damage to internal parts and gets around the simple time-to-operate factor which limits the rate of fire for single-chamber/barrel weapons. Some guns, mostly manufactured in Russia and Germany, use revolving chambers on a single barrel; an arrangement which works in precisely the same way as the Gatling-style guns, but uses a single barrel to save weight. It doesn't have the cooling-related advantages of a multi-barrel, but since most revolving cannon are aircraft guns only intended to fire a few rounds at a time, this is mostly a moot point.
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