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The next stage of gun technology
The next stage of gun technology
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Okay, every knows that ant modern military personal or crew-served weapon consists of the following things:
1. Barrel
2. Firing mechanism
3. Recoil mechanism.
Note that 2 and 3 can jam..probably at the least possible time.
Now..supposed you have:
1. Stack able ammo which you can place inside the barrel. Magazine is an option if you want it, though you don't really need it.
2. The ammo is case less and ignited electronically. That eliminates the need for both firing and recoil mechanism.
What do you get?  Metal Storm Tech
They showed a segment of the system on cable last night and I was blown away (sorry for the pun). The weapon system can be sized from a handgun to a 40mm greande current, though as far as I can see there is no limit on size. And why stop at one barrel when you can group them, In one way it would be a throw back to the old gatling in design, but you'd have prodigous rates of fire. The hand gun version has a rate of fire of 3 rounds/sec. A that's just one barrel. Start grouping them and sizing it up and the rates of fire start climbing. And no jamming either because of no moving parts! And in munitions ranging from ball, AP,  explosive rounds in either contact or air burst mode and I see mutiple uses.
Whoever came up with the concept must be a Whispered! This technology give the phrase "Bullet Hell" new meaning!
 
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The next stage of gun technology - by ordnance11 - 05-13-2011, 01:24 AM
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