Info on these guns came out a year or more ago. I wonder what the state of the technology is that’s still secret today?
This is Metal Storm, a weapons system that forsakes old-style mechanics for the speed of electronics.
Its inventor is Mike O’Dwyer, a one-time grocer in the Australian city of Brisbane. He’s spent 30 years and much of his own money to develop the technology.
And then there’s this system for tracking and shooting at anything moving within a specified area.
Successful Firing of Area Denial Weapon System
Australia is signatory to the 1997 Ottawa Treaty that bans the use of Anti-Personnel Land Mines (APL). Through the banning of APLs, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) needed to identify a more appropriate weapon system to deny access by a dismounted enemy to large areas of ground. […] The ADWS aims to demonstrate area denial technology that can overcome the indiscriminate nature of land mines by addressing the requirement for a human-in-the-loop to initiate the weapon system. The ADWS concept provides an option that is Ottawa Treaty Compliant.
ADWS is based on integrating Metal Storm 40 mm stacked projectiles into a multi-barrel pod system and linking them with intrusion sensors and a fire control system.
The concept demonstration system comprised four weapon pods, each containing four barrels, networked and linked to a command and control station. Each demonstrator pod has the capability to fire up to 20 projectiles in varying user-selectable combinations including rates of fire, barrel selection and firing sequence.
And that’s better than a big-ass shotgun how?
The first one looked impressive, the second not so much.
“He’s spent 30 years and much of his own money to develop the technology.”
Glad the Internet wasn’t so popular 30 years ago. This guy might have wasted all his time and money blogging. Or downloading porn.
One step nearer to turning the Terminator movies into documentaries.
Different to a shotgun????
Imagine shooting 180 .22 rifle caliber bullets simultaneously, that have huge piercing qualities and distance, compared to BuckShot pellets, that spread.
I prefer the rotary electric Gauss rifle, zero recoil, no more need for gunpowder + shell casings. Huge output of lead.
I thought this video was the electric rifle the military are testing, especially for anti-missile and anti-grenade.
This video is more like a one-time use, turreted, landmine.
Imagine shooting 180 .22 rifle caliber bullets simultaneously, that have huge piercing qualities and distance, compared to BuckShot pellets, that spread
I did. That’s why I thought it didn’t sound much better than a shotgun. You should look at the ballistic properties of .22 bullets sometime. (Even .223, I mean. Turns out that a lot of their lethality is because they tumble, i.e. they don’t go all that straight.)
I didn’t mean duct-taping 36 12 ga shotguns together, anyway. I was thinking more of a shotgun-LIKE approach. Just seems less complex. 36 barrels also means that it’s 36 times more likely to fail, or hang, or misfire, etc.
rotary electric Gauss rifle, zero recoil
Sounds like that defies the laws of physics. The only recoil-less weapons I’m aware of have self-propelled munitions.
Should come in handy for mob control.
Impressive, but I am just trying to figure out how someone has calculated 1,000,000 rounds per minute exactly.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but 1,000,000 rounds per minute means it can and does shoot that many rounds over a 1 minute timeframe. No?
I am not seeing that in the video… I see a burst.
I can easily claim that my shot-gun can shoot 600 rounds per minute. I just have to figure out how to load in the 600 rounds within that minute… doesn’t matter if the barrel melts 61 seconds into it either.
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.
#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.
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
KICK-ASS!!
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
#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.
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.
Actually I remember seeing an article on this weapon back in the mid 90’s.
Wait until one of these falls into the hands of a criminal. This technology could be almost as dangerous as electronic voting.
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.”
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.
#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.
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.
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
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? 😛