Re: Super killing machine to be tested in Singapore
Nope.......... the gun does exist albeit may not be 1/4 rounds per
minute fire rate.
It is a electro-mechanica devicel. Can never be achieved if purely
mechanical.
On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:12:28 +0800, AleXX <nodeal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>April Fools day come two months early this year?
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>>On 31 Jan 2006 07:55:35 -0800, peace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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>>Super killing machine to be tested in Singapore
>>26 Jan 2006
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>>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.
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>>That's compared to 60 rounds per minute in a standard military machine
>>gun.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Because there are no moving parts, the weapon is less likely to jam,
>>and will presumably need less maintenance.
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>>Lashing many barrels together increases the number of rounds per
>>second. Once fired, however, each spent barrel has to be reloaded.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>Closer than that and there is just not time to react.
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>>"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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>"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.
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>>"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."
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>>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.
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>>"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."
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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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