New gun

"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Richard Riley wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:03:47 GMT, "kd5sak"
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:"Big John" wrote in message
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: Interesting development in guns.
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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."


I'm with you. Looks like more smoke than fire at present.

Matt

Would seem to me to have possibilities if clustered and used as a variation
on the principle of the Claymore mine. Would think a Claymore would be more
economical though.

HWB

kd5sak wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Richard Riley wrote:

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:03:47 GMT, "kd5sak"
wrote:

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:"Big John" wrote in message
m...
: Interesting development in guns.
:
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."


I'm with you. Looks like more smoke than fire at present.

Matt


Would seem to me to have possibilities if clustered and used as a variation
on the principle of the Claymore mine. Would think a Claymore would be more
economical though.

HWB



a multi-shot claymore?

"Richard Lamb" wrote in message
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kd5sak wrote:
"Matt Whiting" wrote in message
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Would seem to me to have possibilities if clustered and used as a
variation
on the principle of the Claymore mine. Would think a Claymore would be
more
economical though.

HWB

a multi-shot claymore?

Think of it as a stacked and sequentially fired series of claymore mines.
Guess if you had
a multibarreled unit set for single shots from each barrel it could be set
up as a trail ambush
and fire multishot bursts across a trail each time it was triggered. Nasty
sounding thing, I think.

HWB