New gun

"Richard Riley" wrote

Whether or not MetalStorm is a good concept (and I have doubts)
they've had remarkable success at getting press. I've been seeing
them in the general media for about 2 years, with nothing more than a
few prototypes and a contract for a design study. They all talk about
how it can fire a million rounds a second. They don't follow up with
"for 1/100,00th of a second."

Yeah, then heaven forbid the bad guys know we have that, then fire a 2nd,
3rd or 4th round at us. Until the system is reloaded, everyone is standing
around with their pants down around their ankles.

I'll make a bold prediction and say that it never leaves the prototype
stage, except for a few odd applications.
--
Jim in NC

Morgans wrote:


"Richard Riley" wrote

Whether or not MetalStorm is a good concept (and I have doubts)
they've had remarkable success at getting press. I've been seeing
them in the general media for about 2 years, with nothing more than a
few prototypes and a contract for a design study. They all talk about
how it can fire a million rounds a second. They don't follow up with
"for 1/100,00th of a second."


Yeah, then heaven forbid the bad guys know we have that, then fire a
2nd, 3rd or 4th round at us. Until the system is reloaded, everyone is
standing around with their pants down around their ankles.

I'll make a bold prediction and say that it never leaves the prototype
stage, except for a few odd applications.


You are probably right, Jim, but think of the Navy's AGIS.
Close-in high-rate radar-guided anti-air fire.
(A lot of dashes, but you get the drift)

Scale it down for use against ground threats - at a reasonable price -
and you've got youself a market.

It's one of the things they mentioned.


Richard

"Richard Lamb" wrote

You are probably right, Jim, but think of the Navy's AGIS.
Close-in high-rate radar-guided anti-air fire.
(A lot of dashes, but you get the drift)
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Yes, but AGIS can shoot off a couple of bursts (maybe more) then put some
more ammo to it and keep going. With this, you change out the whole system,
guns and all. Sounds like a lot more time between being ready for new
threats, and being exposed while reloading, or lots of systems mounted all
at once,
--
Jim in NC

I could see this new system mounted on a hummer or Bradley for RPG
protection, but you shoot one RPG, unload the system, then fire another RPG
and get right through.

Good idea, but I just can't see it being practical.

The best way to use it might be for IED's disposal, mounted on a RC vehicle.
Now if we could just detect them all.....