Re: New gun

A standard machine gun fires 450-1200 rounds per minute, 600
rpm being a "normal" average. A minigun is a modern Gatling
multibarreled weapon and can fire 4000-6000 rpm (100 per
second) and reloads each barrel as soon as it is fired.

The rate of fire for a period of a fraction of a second is
not all that important, what is the rate of fire for a
period of 5 seconds, 10 minutes?

A shotgun firing one shell with 300 pellets in the load is
firing about 1,800,000 pellets per minute.


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| New super-gun to be tested in Feb
|
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|
| By PAMELA HESS
| UPI Pentagon Correspondent
|
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Next month a new
high-explosive munition
| will be fired in Singapore and then tested again by the
U.S. Army,
| heralding what may be a sea change in weaponry: a gun that
can fire
| 240,000 rounds per minute.
|
| That's compared to 60 rounds per minute in a standard
military machine
| gun.
|
| Metal Storm Inc., a munitions company headquartered in
Virginia but
| with its roots in Australia, has been developing a gun
that can shoot
| at blistering speeds, albeit in short bursts as each
barrel is
| reloaded.
|
| A Metal Storm gun of any size -- from a 9 mm hand-gun up
to a machine
| gun size or a grenade launcher -- has no moving parts
other than the
| bullets or munition inside the barrel. Rather than
chambering a single
| slug for each shot - very quickly in the case of machine
guns -- the
| bullets come pre-stacked inside the barrel and can be shot
all at
| once, or one at a time, as the shooter decides through the
electronic
| controls.
|
| Because there are no moving parts, the weapon is less
likely to jam,
| and will presumably need less maintenance.
|
| Lashing many barrels together increases the number of
rounds per
| second. Once fired, however, each spent barrel has to be
reloaded.
|
| Starting in 2006 the company will demonstrate its
prototypes with
| applicability that is especially likely to interest the
U.S. military.
| The weapon system can be mounted on an unmanned ground
combat vehicle,
| an unmanned aerial vehicle, and might be used as a defense
against
| rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.
|
| Metal Storm's speed allows it to lay down a blinding wall
of slugs
| that can intercept and pulverize incoming enemy fire,
according to
| company CEO David Smith. As long as the grenade or mortar
is fired
| from outside a range of about 50 meters or 162.5 feet and
a Doppler
| radar is in use, a Metal Storm system could be an
effective defense,
| he told UPI.
|
| Closer than that and there is just not time to react.
|
| "But if you are from 50 meters and beyond, if everything
can work fast
| enough -- the radar -- there is enough time
mathematically" to shoot
| down incoming fire, Smith said.
|
| At least 153 U.S. troops have been killed in Iraq by enemy
rockets and
| mortars since the start of the war. Nearly 2,000 have been
wounded.
|
| The grenade launcher barrel can also carry
less-than-lethal munitions,
| like small bean bags, sponge grenades or smoke. On Jan.
16, the Army
| awarded Metal Storm a $975,000 contract to further develop
its
| non-lethal rounds.
|
| "Our so-called competition is (the) Mk19 - grenade machine
gun," Smith
| said. "It's enormously heavy. It takes six people to carry
it into a
| battlefield scene. It's not mobile.
|
| "But the military has had this transition out of big
system
| warfighting into much lighter, higher firepower that can
be carried
| into battle by individuals or light vehicles. Our guns
have no moving
| parts -- so they have the same amount of fire power at
significantly
| reduced weight ratio."
|
| Metal Storm technology has been under development for
about a decade,
| but a series of small-business innovative research
contracts awarded
| recently by the Department of Energy and the Army mean
prototypes are
| now being produced and demonstrated.
|
| "We are to the point we can start providing prototypes.
The Army is
| very, very parochial in how they buy weapon systems,"
Smith said. "But
| now we can put it into an actual environment."
|
| The company is also studying whether it can mount a Metal
Storm weapon
| on a small helicopter, particularly looking at the recoil
effect from
| the gun.
|
| Smith said such a system - deployable down to the squad
level -- could
| be useful in a place like Iraq, where it's a common tactic
for
| insurgents to launch a mortar and then run. By the time
soldiers on
| foot or in a vehicle get to the launch site, the shooters
are long
| gone. But a UAV quickly launched can see where the
shooters run to,
| and if a gun is on board, can shoot at them.
|
| The Australian military is testing a Metal Storm gun of
its own, the
| Advanced Individual Combat Weapon (AICW). The AICW
combines both an
| assault rifle and a 40 mm grenade launcher in a single
unit with a
| common trigger, allowing the shooter to choose which
munition he wants
| to fire without having to refit his weapon. It also allows
three
| grenades to be fired at once, whereas one is the only
option in the
| current generation of weapons.
|
| Metal Storm Inc. will demonstrate a high-explosive
munition with a
| 10-meter (32.5 feet) or burst radius in Singapore on Feb.
6, Smith
| said, and for the Army's Picatinny Arsenal and Armament
Research,
| Development and Engineering Center later that month.
|
|
|
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