Clank gun

A clank gun is, simply, a projectile weapon used by a clank soldier-unit; it's set aside from normal artillery by its size and power, theoretically only able to be lifted, positioned and fired by a clank built to handle the weight and recoil of such a weapon.

As you can see from the demonstration below, a single clank gun is awkward for even three Jägerkin to handle.



...and the recoil is rather more than for which human-sized leverage can compensate.



However, there has been some discussion in various corners about whether Baron Wulfenbach (for all that he's around 7" tall, he's still "human-sized") is actually using a clank gun without any apparent difficulty against Lucrezia Mongfish (not realizing Lucrezia had already been banished to the back of Agatha Heterodyne's mind) and the Battle Circus here, or is it merely a Huge Muckin' Gun.

This is a discussion better left to the KDL. The end result was still the efficient destruction of the Silverodeon before Baba Yaga fell on the Baron and ceased his immediate outrage.

(Yes, mucking is a word, I'm not being cute.)

The clank gun's operation appears to be related to that of the Gatling gun which is "a gun with multiple firing pins and breeches connected to multiple rotating barrels." However, the Gatling used a hand-crank to rotate the barrels and was a blackpowder weapon. The clank gun seems to use the more progressed weapons technology using the gas expelled by the chamber to rotate the barrels automatically for better firing speed.

It is not possible to determine at this time how the ammunition is fed into the clank gun's chamber; when the clank soldiers use them, there is a possibility it might be fed from a storage chamber in the clank's casing rather than a cartridge installed on the gun.