Comments on: Who Needs Phasers When You Can Fire A Million Rounds A Minute – The Metal Storm Electronic Guns

By: ZeOverMind

ZeOverMind — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:40:41 +0000

You know guys, I will call people on their positions on various articles posted online, but why does everyone have to take what is basically an interesting post and let degenerate into flaming partisanship? Don’t all of you get enough of that trolling on TV?

By: Stu Mulne

Stu Mulne — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:56:05 +0000

I’m an NRA member…. An “assault weapon” as defined by the Clinton ban is simply an ugly rifle… The whole thing was nonsense….

But, back on topic, the French made a State Secret out of a similar device (albeit wit a lot less capacity) about 100 years ago. Extremely slow to reload, and too big to hide. You have to be able to reload these things and to hide them. Otherwise the other guy will either just wait until you empty it (doesn’t take long) and/or blow it up with whatever conventional ordnance he’s got handy.

Unfortunately the ADWS is also an easy target…. I’m not excited at all by land mines, but they will stop an advancing enemy if he doesn’t have the technology to neutralize them first. We have the obligation to build mines that’ll shut themselves off after a known interval. The technology is there….

And, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go out and clean my assault rifle in case the minefields don’t work….

Regards

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:33:44 +0000

You want a reputable link on “their crap about the right to own assault weapons is inherent” Mr Fusion? Here is one,

http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm

I call it the Bill of Right, bigots like you may call it “Out Dated White Slave Owner Crap”, but most of us don’t. How about a link proving the NRA is a bunch or hicks? No moonbat junk please, and one again keep your prejudices to yourself. Like most on the far left, when reality conflicts with your ideology, it is reality that must change.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 03:00:19 +0000

#21, Ron, Angel, please keep your prejudices to yourself. NRA members aren’t ignorant hicks who talk like that….

OK, I’m calling you on that. If you have a reputable link that could prove they aren’t, I’ll buy it. Until then, I’ll let the NRA continue to believe their crap about the right to own assault weapons is inherent.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:28:55 +0000

Angel, please keep your prejudices to yourself. NRA members aren’t ignorant hicks who talk like that. Also, if you ever listened to any gun owner, would know guns aren’t toys. Plus Americans don’t need an excuse to own firearms, they have a Constitutional right, you should look it up sometime. Not to mention that no one thinks civilians should own 40mm grenade launches as this system can be. Try thinking for a change.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:11:43 +0000

I bet the NRA is lobbying to make it a civilian toy, and their excuse? “Them ducks fer sure are gettin’ doggone smarter each year.”

By: Ballenger

Ballenger — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:25:04 +0000

Wait until one of these falls into the hands of a criminal. This technology could be almost as dangerous as electronic voting.

By: Blues

Blues — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:11:41 +0000

Actually I remember seeing an article on this weapon back in the mid 90′s.

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:05:44 +0000

Another use of this I have seen is that you can replace a minefield with it, and when the conflict is over, you just pick it up and go home, and you don’t leave a real minefield for years and years after. It may also replace the CIWS (Close In Weapon System) that the US and other navies use to protect ships from missles.

By: GGC

GGC — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:58:51 +0000

#8: actually, assuming you are using the right round in the right rifle, .223 is accurate out to 300+ yards for the average rifleman, and 600+ yards for a good rifleman.

They don’t tumble until they hit something. If you couldn’t hit anything with them, they wouldn’t be lethal.

By: RBG

RBG — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:13:09 +0000

3: And speaking of phalanx: Phalanx CWIS is the name of a multi-barreled gattling gun used as a last line of defense for Navy ships against incoming missiles. It fires up to 4,500 rounds / min. of depleted uranium or tungsten. I video taped one in operation in the middle of the Pacific once. Had to run the camera remotely for the toxic smoke.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/mk-15.htm

RBG

By: Zuke

Zuke — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:03:56 +0000

KICK-ASS!!

By: Christopher Coulter

Christopher Coulter — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:10:34 +0000

One of the most impressive fairly new weapon systems is the CBU-97 and CBU-105 (BLU-108/B submunition), Textron Systems’ Sensor Fuzed Weapon (SFW). Takes out an entire armored column in one nice shot, plus leaves a clean battlefield.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ua3nLmE7Kow
http://www.systems.textron.com/movies/sfw_2003.wmv

By: Uncle Dave

Uncle Dave — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:10:28 +0000

#10: It has to do with the speed it can shoot and reload and shoot again, not that anyone would actually shoot it for a minute. There are 36 barrels which fire sequentaily, so 1 million/36 is how many each barrel can fire per minute. Here is a pretty good description of how the gun works.

By: xrayspex

xrayspex — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:09:16 +0000

but I am just trying to figure out how someone has calculated 1,000,000 rounds per minute exactly

Here’s how I do it:

count the number of cases of bullets I have before I start target practice.

Recount the number of cases of bullets I have after I finish target practice.

Subtract and find the difference. Divide by the number of minutes I spent practicing. Multiply by the number of bullets per case (usually 1,000).

I usually average around 1 round per minute, which even at surplus ammo prices gets pricy.