ROF: 1,000,000 per minute

[ChamberedRound]

A video of a prototype gun which has variable rates of fire up to a million rounds per minute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Y5-Zw5TW0

[LorDiego01]

quick! someone contact ammoman in NJ!!

Talk about a wall of lead coming down on ya....

[Lokhtar]

Can it really do that continuously for one minute to actually be able to unload 1,000,000 rounds? It almost lifted completly off its feet in the fraction of a second it took to fire 180 rounds.

[LorDiego01]

I imagine once mounted on a huge battleship, it wouldnt even buldge.

Anybody knows what caliber this is?

[TotalNewbie]

Can it really do that continuously for one minute to actually be able to unload 1,000,000 rounds?

I think that they are using the 1 Mrd/min as a rate, not that it actually fires 1 megaround over a period of a minute.

Similar to: "But officer, I could have not been going 70 miles per hour, because I've been on the road only for 15 minutes!"

[The Drew]

This tech has next to no practical application for us civillians, even if the NFA was lifted, what a pain it would be to replace all those barrels to reload for a miniburst of fire. Add to that the shotgun like effect of those bullets and I think you'd have a tough time convincing a jury that you didn't mean to hit all those bystanders.

Even in a handgun setup, You don't really need to fire any faster than a modern auto loader or revolver can fire. I see little advantage of this system in single barrel applications.

[danp]

This tech has next to no practical application for us civillians, even if the NFA was lifted, what a pain it would be to replace all those barrels to reload for a miniburst of fire. Add to that the shotgun like effect of those bullets and I think you'd have a tough time convincing a jury that you didn't mean to hit all those bystanders.

Even in a handgun setup, You don't really need to fire any faster than a modern auto loader or revolver can fire. I see little advantage of this system in single barrel applications.

So far it looks like the DOE is the main government agency interested in it, my guess is to protect perimeters around nuclear power plants.

[Frenchy]

A video of a prototype gun which has variable rates of fire up to a million rounds per minute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5Y5-Zw5TW0

Dew the mathematics... 36 tubes, 1,000,000 rounds one minute..
They actually show up to 180 rounds shot at a rate of 1,000,000 rounds per minute, but with 36 tubes, if you shot 1,000,000 rounds, this would mean each tube would have to shoot 7.716049 round per second...

Minutes to seconds, 60*60= 3600 (cant change that)
1,000,000 / 3600= 277.7778 shots per 36 tubes per second.
277.7778 / 36 = 7.716049 shots per tube per second.
The thing actually shot 180 shots.
So lets redo the math...
Minutes to seconds, 60*60= 3600 (cant change that)
180/ 36= .05 shot per 36 tubes.
.05 / 36 = .001389 shot per tube at 180 shots in .25 seconds.
You dont really think 180 rounds went in there and where shot in .25 seconds do you? take 30 people with a rifle, and you cant get them to shoot 6 rounds that fast. Mainly because the barel/ bullet do not cycle that fast. If they did, the new round would be in the chamber before the projectile of the last one actually left the barrel... at 7.716049 round per tube per second, you would have 3 or 4 rounds in the barrel at the same time.
im more inclinde to say there where 36 shots fired when they say 180, even if it where 72, 2 loadings, you would of heard 2 reprecussions at least, they ear can hear more then once per second.

[danp]

Dew the mathematics... 36 tubes, 1,000,000 rounds one minute..
They actually show up to 180 rounds shot at a rate of 1,000,000 rounds per minute, but with 36 tubes, if you shot 1,000,000 rounds, this would mean each tube would have to shoot 7.716049 round per second...

Minutes to seconds, 60*60= 3600 (cant change that)
1,000,000 / 3600= 277.7778 shots per 36 tubes per second.
277.7778 / 36 = 7.716049 shots per tube per second.
The thing actually shot 180 shots.
So lets redo the math...
Minutes to seconds, 60*60= 3600 (cant change that)
180/ 36= .05 shot per 36 tubes.
.05 / 36 = .001389 shot per tube at 180 shots in .25 seconds.
You dont really think 180 rounds went in there and where shot in .25 seconds do you? take 30 people with a rifle, and you cant get them to shoot 6 rounds that fast. Mainly because the barel/ bullet do not cycle that fast. If they did, the new round would be in the chamber before the projectile of the last one actually left the barrel... at 7.716049 round per tube per second, you would have 3 or 4 rounds in the barrel at the same time.
im more inclinde to say there where 36 shots fired when they say 180, even if it where 72, 2 loadings, you would of heard 2 reprecussions at least, they ear can hear more then once per second.

There is no chambering, the bullets are stacked into the barrels in a line and fired electronically.

More information can be found on the MetalStorm website here: http://www.metalstorm.com/

[aubie515]

I've seen this on the Discovery Channel...talk about a neat weapon.

Dan is correct in how the weapon is fired.