Million rounds a minute
 

Chek this thing out....

[url:2a249]http://www.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/06/26/australia.metalstorm/index.html[/url:2a249]

that would be awesome!!!! biggrin:

one way to run out of ammo quick

i hope this will be ready for bush's next war on terror evil:

That' sick yo, it would be the next revolutionary machine gun next to the MG-42

I would just love to shoot the grenade part of it. Well the machine gun would be great too.

hardly practical for anything but Air Defense of a major base/city.

an average mobile gatling-armed unit (fighter plane, mobile air-defense gun like LAV-AD, Phalanx turret on ships) can carry from 600 rounds (in case of plane) to a couple thousand (in the case of the ship) in a single magazine, then it needs to reload.

when we divide 600 rounds by 1 million rounds/minute we get

600/1000000= .0006 minutes or .036 seconds

the full burst is less than the reaction time of a normal human (around .2 seconds) and then you are left with no ammo and a sky full of angry badguys.

I wonder if that will replace the Phalanx and Goalkeeper gun systems used on ships.

every texas hunters dream! biggrin:

This will be excellent for defense. happy:

Dammit, I want to see a video. cry:

THat is one nasty mother. I would certainly say that if you wanted to waste say.....An aricraft carrier in under 3 minutes this would help do that. As long as the roudns are large enough. Insane......

^its like being pecked to death by ducks.

[quote="Sargent_Scrotum":c855c]^its like being pecked to death by ducks.[/quote:c855c] That has to be one of the oddest things I have ever seen on this forum. where the hell did you think of ducks?

Bloody Aussies.....! happy:

I can't believe you guys haven't heard of it before. This is like 3 years old.

according to the website its a 30 year old idea. that finally JUST came out

If by JUST you mean last year then...

Seriously though, this was the thing to talk about when Pop. Mechanics did an extensive article on it. Then all the other magazines started doing things on it...

Yea i seen this a while ago..and i seen a video i belive it was killer they took boards and shot thru them...there were like 30-40 boards in the ground in a group and shot @ them...and there was nothing but sawdust left..man it was killer....u could take down a whole army with that...but i was thinking...if it shoots in .036 secs.. if i was shot with it..wouldn't i take like 300 bullets with me...and the guy behind me would get less..and so on? if the rate is so high by the time i fall down.....little over .036 secs dunno guessing..i would have tons of ammo in my chest...so i would have absorbed a shit load of bullets.....but they could just go thru me.....dunno....what u guys think?

i think if you're trying to charge one of those you are dumber than my initial decision would suggest.

[quote="[22nd Elite] Cloud":257f0]Yea i seen this a while ago..and i seen a video i belive it was killer they took boards and shot thru them...there were like 30-40 boards in the ground in a group and shot @ them...and there was nothing but sawdust left..man it was killer....u could take down a whole army with that...but i was thinking...if it shoots in .036 secs.. if i was shot with it..wouldn't i take like 300 bullets with me...and the guy behind me would get less..and so on? if the rate is so high by the time i fall down.....little over .036 secs dunno guessing..i would have tons of ammo in my chest...so i would have absorbed a shit load of bullets.....but they could just go thru me.....dunno....what u guys think?[/quote:257f0]

This is an entirely different approach to firearms. If the bullet actually went through you, and created little to no splintering or force-effect damage, it would probably take several to knock somebody down. But the fact remains, that yes, if the bullets were shot so fast, then people behind you would actually suffer much less damage. A big misconception here is that people think the military is going to carry 1,000,000 rounds into these machine guns. That's POTENTIAL firing rate. They don't count how many rounds in a minute. They do it by seconds and divide it by incremements. So, the gun would in effect only be in operation for milliseconds to seconds. This doesn't seem like it could inflict the maximum possible damage ratios over the greatest possible areas. Its a very interesting concept, but I don't think its readily militarily applicable.

all i know is that u could take out a shitload of tortured artists w/ it.

sure maybe if they decide to charge you in line formation all at once. 2 seconds later you're out of ammo.