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Libertytree | 02-05-2010 10:12 PM
Metal Storm The baddest assed weapon you'll see. http://www.metalstorm.com/release/fu...pons-400k.html

Bill843 | 02-06-2010 11:26 AM
Re: Metal Storm Quote:
Originally Posted by Libertytree (Post 2165079) The baddest assed weapon you'll see. http://www.metalstorm.com/release/fu...pons-400k.html
I'm not sure where they think the big advantage is really. They have been trying to sell it to ANYONE for quite a few years now, and nobody has bought it. Seems to be a solution looking for a problem. They also think it's a great way to make civilian/light arms--but would you buy one? Do you think it would possibly be cheaper and more-accurate than what is in use now? ......Its main advantage is its ease of fully-automatic fire, and the US is the biggest first-world gun market there is,,,,, and new full-auto guns in the US aren't allowed at all. Sounds like a pretty unsaleable product to me, at least on that end. But no police or military seem to want it either, for light arms, or anything else. The very-high burst rate is of no practical value, and the reloading time would be drastically slower than conventional magazine- and belt-fed arms already in place. This is what the USN is using right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phalanx_CIWS 20mm saboted tungsten penetrator shells, 4500 rounds per minute (that's 75 shots per second), 1000 shot burst capacity, 1550 round capacity. And a Phalanx still probably can be reloaded faster than those two guys could re-load the equivalent of 1500 shots in their "Metal Storm" gun. -end-

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