Australia develops supergun

[Ecthy]

zylka = Sava = ?

[raghar]

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.

[raghar]

Originally posted by Cruddy
Kman, sorry to be a pedant - but a lot of folks get chain/rotary mixed up. They're both electrically driven so I guess they have that much in common.

Thanks for the link - I had guessed the Russki's were up to a high speed torp and wondered how far they had got.

Russia developed it US stole it. Short history behind it.
Cavitating torpedoes were developed so countermeasures would be unimportant they are not awsomely precise you know.

[yavoon]

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

[Zylka]

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!

[Zylka]

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

[CICSMaster]

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.

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Kramerman
To expand on my point about 'conventional' torpedos, i quote that because the US and russian navies have both researched new speical torpedos that can go over mach 5 or something insane like that. Those would be effective still against a modern fleet. They work by emitting gas out of a speacial nozzel in the tip... these gas bubbles envelope the torpedo effectively incaseing it in an air-bubble under water. It then travels thru the water virtually frictionless, allowing it to achieve those insane speeds under water.

I wonder if the tech for these supercavitating torpedoes could be applied to submarines? A sub is basically just a big torpedo in a sense. It should be possible to apply the tech to subs. It would make noise like crazy, and thus would lose its stealth, but it would have the advantage of insane speeds. Nothing could touch it.

[Kramerman]

hmm... thats a very interesting point/idea 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...

[Whaleboy]

I want one of these things on my ROOF!!!

*ahem* switches back to pacifist mode.

Thats the kind of thing that could really bring out the sociopath in all of us!

[The diplomat]

Originally posted by Kramerman
you should see some of the next gerneration destroyers and cruisers they got on the drawing board... fearsome...

Have you seen the Sea Shadow? It's a stealth warship.

See pic:

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/sea-shadow-bay.jpg

and,

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/sea-shadow-140417.jpg

[FrostyBoy]

all 3 of those are wierd

and do we really need to keep doing this? aren't we about to enter a world of peace now that countries are joining and terrorists are dying?

[Lonestar]

Originally posted by Sn00py
all 3 of those are wierd

and do we really need to keep doing this? aren't we about to enter a world of peace now that countries are joining and terrorists are dying?

No, we need to teach those Canadians a lesson.



My, how impolitic of me.

[Cruddy]

Originally posted by elijah
I want one of these things on my ROOF!!!

You really hate pigeons, don't you.

[Kuciwalker]

If you wiggled it around fast enough, that could be a HELL of an antipersonell weapon.