"Big John" wrote in message
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Next month a new high-explosive munition
will be fired in Singapore and then tested again by the U.S. Army,
heralding what may be a sea change in weaponry: a gun that can fire
240,000 rounds per minute.


That's 4000 rounds every second, kinda hard to believe. Also hard to
imagine the need for such a rate and the magazine for such a weapon.



That's compared to 60 rounds per minute in a standard military machine
gun.


One round per second in a standard military machine gun? That's a pretty
low standard. Machine guns typically have much higher rates of fire than
that, about ten times higher.