1,000,000 round per minute gun

All I can envision is a wall of lead.

ahhh metal storm....that thing uses electro fired self contained bullets that rattle off on a timer.

While really cool, it's also incredibly impractical. But they had a similar weapon on future weapons a few years back, it shot 40MM Grenades, at a Million rounds/minute as well, I believe. Pretty cool. Especially watching the grenades all hit the ground.

To much government spending money? I think we have a winner!

It functions as a sort of super claymore mine that can be remotely located and can change its point of aim, even while firing. An interesting area denial technology.

It would be good to implement this concept into a chaff/flare dispersion system.

At a 1,000,000 rounds a minute even with an UpLULA™ that's going to be a PITA to reload.

Idea...

A catapault, or even a water balloon slingshot, with ordinary grenades in glass jars (or wrapped with a high-tech pre-scored ceramic band). Relatively silent, at least on one end, and easily light enough to for a grunt to carry.

A reloadable claymore, sized to take 12 gauge shotgun shells... In open country, use 00, and in more confined areas, use turkey shot...

Mini gun on a Cobra helicopter flying over a football field at nearly 200 mph can put lead into the dirt every six inches.

May as well be running a rototiller over the ground.

It seemed to me that something like this would have been imagined to counter the "Wave" attacks that were popular with some countries such as China.


Hmmm....


-- John

But you only get one shot!

And the recoil has gotta be a killer!

rcmodel

A great thing to do would be to mount them on ships to replace the Phalanx rotary cannon systems. While I do thing that the rotary cannon is one of the coolest things in the world they do take time to spool up, whereas this thing is ready to fire at full rate immediatly. In a large enough caliber a few of these things on a ship would shred incoming missiles.

Actually, given some time (and development of portable power sources), Metal Storm technology could very well replace conventional firearms.
The benefits of the system (absolute scalability of velocity and ROF) are too attractive to ignore.
However, I don't see it doing anything within the next 15 years, and I don't see any sort of handheld MS weapons becoming available within the next 40.

I don't see the Army having enough trucks on the modern battlefield to resupply ammo for them.

A prolonged firefight/battle would quickly render them useless.

rcmodel

I wouldnt mind collecting all the lead from their test fires for my casting =)

I don't see the Army having enough trucks on the modern battlefield to resupply ammo for them.

A prolonged firefight/battle would quickly render them useless.

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You wouldn't have your weapon system set for a million rounds per minute. But high ROFs can open some very interesting doors.
Besides, think of the benefits of a million RPM 3-round burst...

a double barreled shotgun with both triggers pulled at exactly the same time has an ubelievable ROF as well.

These things and double barreled shotguns have somethign else incommon, unability to sustain that ROF.

I can see the utility of this kind of technology for firing a very large amount of ammo in a split second to intercept a missle or something like that. Beyond that....it is less effective than more conventional guns,

I can see the utility of this kind of technology for firing a very large amount of ammo in a split second to intercept a missle or something like that. Beyond that....it is less effective than more conventional guns,

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Not if you have the ability to change velocities at will, as well.

Oh, no, not another Metal Storm thread...

Well, IIRC, the intended use is anti-missile... And it's fine for that.

For that matter, I wonder how tough it would be to work up a belt fed or even box fed multi-firearm semi-auto 12 gauge setup... Imagine 10x10 round shotguns, arrayed to pattern side by side at 100 yards with buckshot... You've got 90 projectiles with each push of the button... and assuming that you can push that button 10x in 10 seconds, that's 900 projectiles going into the kill zone. Be one heckuva ambush weapon. And reloadable.

For that matter, someone was making a grenade launcher insert that held .22 LR shells - Something like six or nine of them... Think a little bigger, figure out a striker ignition and you've got something that is a definite area denial weapon...

It's all about putting a whole lot of lead in the air in very little time.

This tech is very usefull. They have already adapted the caseless electronic ignition to a pistol. It holds (I think) 8 rounds in the barrel and is reloaded by removing and replacing the barrel. It fires so fast that 2 bullets leave the barrel before the recoil can affect point of aim.

I love how this comes up every month or so and we always say the same things every time.

Don't confuse rate with capacity.
A million rounds a minute doesn't mean it can fire a million rounds for a minute.