Metal Storm is back in the news with a 15 barrel weapon that fires at rates of
1,000,000 rounds per minute. One blurb says that rates up to 13 million per
minute are possible.
Video footage can be found at the web site: http://www.metalstorm.com
under the Technology Demonstration page.
Other forms of the technology have been demonstrated to fire 40mm grenades at
a rate of 20,000 rpm PER BARREL.
Hand-held weapons are capable of rates of 45,000 - 50,000 rounds per
minute using 3 round bursts.
Other than bullet and propellent, there are no moving parts, removing the most
basic obstacle in higher firing rates.
The downside is that ammo comes in long tubes which might be unwieldy for
infantry. (in addition to the fact that you are going to be burning up a lot
of ammo...)
--Binhan
> At 12:52 PM -0700 1/16/02, B Lin wrote:
Yes, it fires a lot of ammo. But you throw away the barrels and load
a new magazine/barrel assembly every time you have to reload the
mother. I'd hate to have one of them mis-fire too.
I remember this coming by before, but I hadn't bothered to look at the video.
Definitely falls into the "Gee whiz cool" category. Even if it never does much
it's cool to look at.
Bill
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Metal Storm is back in the news with a 15 barrel weapon that fires at rates of
1,000,000 rounds per minute. One blurb says that rates up to 13 million per
minute are possible.
Video footage can be found at the web site: http://www.metalstorm.com
under the Technology Demonstration page.
Other forms of the technology have been demonstrated to fire 40mm grenades at
a rate of 20,000 rpm PER BARREL.
Hand-held weapons are capable of rates of 45,000 - 50,000 rounds per
minute using 3 round bursts.
Other than bullet and propellent, there are no moving parts, removing the most
basic obstacle in higher firing rates.
The downside is that ammo comes in long tubes which might be unwieldy for
infantry. (in addition to the fact that you are going to be burning up a lot
of ammo...)
--Binhan
> I remember this coming by before, but I hadn't bothered to look at the
Disclaimer: I have a few thousand shares in the company, so am biassed.
The firm took a slight hit when a retired General, one of the major