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raghar
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I wish somewhere else.
Oct 2002
time: 05:29
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Australia develops supergun
So it's F*I*N*A*L*Y reached production. I think its inventor nearly went crazy as it took so long.
Basicaly it looks somehow like this o.o.o.o.o.o.
each o is bulet each . is electrical circuit to fire that bulet. That article talks about electronical locking, but it could be EASILY ridged. If you'd have possibility to ask author for demonstration ask him to fire all at once. There is aprox 5 - 15 cm distance between bulet when they are leaving barrels.
Last edited by raghar on 28-06-2003 at 04:17
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yavoon
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ridiculously impressive. stacking a million bullets end to end is a very very long string. it must fire them off at staggering speeds just to have the time to keep shooting
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Zylka
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When the first bullet in the stack is fired, the next bullet expands and locks into the barrel. This prevents high pressure and high temperatures that could prematurely ignite the gunpowder. When the “locked” bullet fires, decreased pressure allows it to fire as a conventional bullet. Metal Storm weapons have shot at rates up to 1 million rounds per minute from a 36-barrel weapon. A weapon’s actual capacity is about 540 rounds, depending on much ammunition can be loaded into it and the duration of firing.
OH HEAVENS! If a terrorist group gets hold of one of these, they'll be able to rip someone's torso off with .000006 seconds of rapid fire - then spend half an hour reloading and DO IT AGAIN!
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Zylka
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quote:
Originally posted by Azazel
Zylka is indeed the master. even Sava, that supposedly hates him, uses his methods, albeit in a very crude and unskilled manner. |
Isn't it cute? I must say I'm flattered, at the least
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quote:
Originally posted by Zylka
OH HEAVENS! If a terrorist group gets hold of one of these, they'll be able to rip someone's torso off with .000006 seconds of rapid fire - then spend half an hour reloading and DO IT AGAIN! |
Reload takes about 1 sec. Snap off the used barrell(s) and snap in a new set.
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Kramerman
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UT, Austin - The live music capital of the world
Jun 2002
time: 23:29
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blah, the Sea Shadow is nothin...
The Leviathan class, which is still decades from productions, is of a trimaran design (similar to the sea shadow, but having a central hull as well) and HUNDREDS of meters long. Its main armament is, what elsebut two fantastic rail guns, ontop of an assortment of missiles and an army of unmanned underwater, surface, and aerial vehicles that are carried internally. Sooner, a stealth destroyer, similar looking to the sea shadow but much larger and more... err... utilitarian... should be around in about 2012ish. Hopefully they'll have some of these Aussi metal storm thingies on 'em to protect against missile attack.
the sea shadow was mostly just a prototype to see if stealth ship tech could work. other than that it is currently a pretty pointless vessel
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Originally posted by Solver
I can't friggin' believe it. A grenade laucnher with a million rpm... give Al-Quaeda one such thing, and they'd need a column of Tanks to dispatch of the threat. |
You have to realize that such a gun could not hold a million rounds, the article said it could hold about 560 rounds. The million rpm is that the gun itself could handle such a high rate of fire, but other factors would limit the actuall rpm.
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Originally posted by Urban Ranger
More crap.
I am amused that it is claimed that the next bullet gets into the barrel. Yowzas! |
Now don't take this wrong, I'm gunna enlighten yous.
The way this thing works is that ALL the projectiles (read bullets) are PRELOADED along with the propellant. And the way it fires is that the projectile at the end of the barrel is eletronically fired by setting off it's propellant. This causes the preceeding projectile in the barrel to momentarily flex causing it to trap the propellant gases in front of it. This forces the fired projectile to exit the barrel. Milliseconds later the preceeding projectile, now the front most projectile relaxes and it's propellant can be electronically ignited.
Think of a barrel with 64 projectiles preloaded (along with 64 bits of propellant). What gives you the great firing rate is that you only have to wait for the projectile to relax from firing of the frontmost propellant and you can fire the next projectile. Also, because all barrels are preloaded with munitions, you don't need munitions changing equipment, so you simply gang many barrels together - as many as you want.
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Proteus_MST
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Sounds like you have to develop a fast Barrel Changing Equipment though, to exchange spent Barrels against loaded ones.
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28-06-2003 03:28
I bet the Navy is already working on that for our next generation subs. you should see some of the next gerneration destroyers and cruisers they got on the drawing board
... fearsome...
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