Gun fires 40mm grenades at 15,000 rpm, plus!!!

[redsmallblocks15]

Just saw this on Future Weapons, been out for a while. The gun uses stacked munitions in the barrel, and uses electronic signals to fire, no firing pin, no mechanical link at all to any triggering system. Since there is no bolt, magazine, extraction sequence, or any moving parts, there is no theroetical limit to how fast it can fire(other than how fast the previous round has left the barrel) Add multiple barrels to a single firing system, aka a fixed barrel gattling gun, and you can fire up to, and over 1 million rounds a minute, just think, 1,000,000 rpm of 40 mm frag rounds raining down on some terrorist training camp, brings a tear to my eye, and a smile to my face. Here is a link to their website...Metal Storm, aptly named
www.metalstorm.com
Plenty of videos, too many to post, so i figured id let everyone pick and choose

They also make a pistol, 9mm i think, using the same technology, if anyone is familiar with the AN-94, which fires the first 2 rounds at 1800 rpm, then cycles down to 600 rpm, the first two rounds leave the barrell BEFORE the recoil forces are transmitted to the shooter, or HK's foray into caseless ammo, which did approximately the same thing, this is pretty impressive, rewrites the rules, and opens up whole new possibilities, same idea, different methodology, much lighter weapon, and 99% fewer moving parts to jam, break, wear, get fubared...etc. Going to get my class 3 again for this one, going to have to win the lottery, twice

 

[AJ 87SC]

I you can find something with enough surface area, can handle the heat, and supply enough ammo. The posibilities are endless.

Im like the idea of that on a terrorits camp though...If you make the barrels close enough, it would be like a wall of bullets, nothing would get out.

 

[redsmallblocks15]

That was one of the theories mentioned, using a tightly packed barrage of projectiles to shred incoming missles, w/o detonating them, or a tightly packed barrage of projectiles to penetrate armored vehicles, taking down buildings with 40mm grenades, or whole armored columns with 3 or 4 launchers, all at once. With them being automated, nobody needs to be there. You can put them on ships, planes, vehicles, instead of the 105's on the C-130 gunship, you could put 10 (or more) multiple barrel launchers in their place, and decimate whole tracts of land, the possibilities never end...

 

[nuttsgt]

I watched that episode, and in all honesty, using that many 40mm rounds wound be a waste. Normal field artillery would a better job on a targets , like bldgs, or large areas of troops. 8" arty rounds have a 80 meter killing radius.

The idea is awesome though, maybe in a C-130 or fixed position as a last chance defense weapon.

 

[redsmallblocks15]

I watched that episode, and in all honesty, using that many 40mm rounds wound be a waste. Normal field artillery would a better job on a targets , like bldgs, or large areas of troops. 8" arty rounds have a 80 meter killing radius.

The idea is awesome though, maybe in a C-130 or fixed position as a last chance defense weapon.

I cant argue with you, because right now, in todays battle scenarios, you are correct. But i wonder what the future will bring, plus this is a small, fast attack vehicle mountable system which, IN THEORY , would give a couple of hummers the ability to lay waste to targets as if multiple 155's were dropped on their heads, and with spin fused munitions,(distance fused) you could again, in theory, lay waste to a front line(bunkers, trenches, foxholes, etc) with out worrying about the line of houses 100 yards to the rear, from a 60 mph vehicle. I think the future isnt going to be a stand up, drawn out war, but a series of small skirmishes, and with the public/political arena trying to make war as humanitarian as possible, this may provide a solution, less civie casulaties, more fire on the target, plus you can adjust your rate of fire, a small unit, launch 5 rounds, the whole chinese regular army, hit the REALLY BIG RED BUTTON, lets try out the 1,000,000 rpm setting...its completely adaptable within broad parameters, unlike most weapons, but, i do agree, it does have some glaring deficiencys as well.