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Sunday, February 7. 2010

Metal Storm: Weapons of the Future

16,000 rounds/second, 250,000 explosive grenade rounds per minute.




Posted by Gwynnie at 13:24 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Sorry, Old Boy! Your item is ah, well.... bit aged! We "gun-nuts have been aware of this for some time.

Rather a nice device for wreaking havoc though.
#1 earl t on 2010-02-07 14:56 (Reply)
This has been touted for a while ...
Vapor ware?
#2 g2loq on 2010-02-07 14:59 (Reply)
first we've seen of it... vaporware? don't know
#3 Bird Dog on 2010-02-07 15:24 (Reply)
Metal storm prominently used in Ringo's "When the Devil Dances" and "Hell's Faire" earth-gets-invaded
legacy of the Aldenatta" sci-fi series.
#4 Darius on 2010-02-07 17:09 (Reply)
So what is it's weakness?
#5 grant1863 on 2010-02-07 17:12 (Reply)
It's heavy, appears difficult to position and aim - the enemy has to cooperate by blundering into the kill zone. It would take forever to reload - if it is even reloadable. One air or artillery strike would blow the thing sky high, probably killing everyone near it.
#5.1 NJSoldier on 2010-02-07 20:48 (Reply)
You'd be picking lead out of the duck for hours.
#6 rhhardin (Link) on 2010-02-07 17:13 (Reply)
The Great One (multi)Shot Wonder. Nothing in the video indicated how or if the thing was reloaded. Another great invention ahead of it's time.
#7 JimK on 2010-02-08 09:04 (Reply)
As I understand it, Ringo's depiction of the reload process is about right; swap out the barrel assembly.

So ammo is now shipped and stored in a barrel, rather than an ammo can; this seems to amplify the usual high rate of fire logistics problem.
#8 Mark on 2010-02-20 18:13 (Reply)

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