Metal Storm Gun: over million rounds per minute

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[pakomar]

Metal Storm Weapons

An all-electronic firing control mechanism is easily adapted to include a fingerprint-based user-ID system, and an on-the-fly selection of different rounds for different situations.

To the human ear, the sound of 180 bullets being fired in less than one-hundredth of a second is perceived as one enormous noise. And the fact that some people have heard that noise is testimony to the perseverance of one inventor with a unique vision of the future of weapons technology. "They say that half the engineers in the first company that I worked with wanted me to finish my coffee and leave as soon as possible," says Mike O'Dwyer, recalling the way some of his far-reaching ideas were received.

O'Dwyer's revolutionary weapons concept is based on an electronically fired gun-and-launcher design with multiple rounds stacked in a single barrel. The only moving parts are the bullets themselves. Beyond creating an astounding fast-firing weapon, the concept makes way for the creation of entirely new types of firearms. Among other things, it will allow the shooter to select from different types of rounds and even between firing lethal and nonlethal ammunition. O'Dwyer's ideas were initially met with skepticism, but now they are being taken seriously by the military and police.

"Nothing succeeds like actually building something and pulling the trigger or, in our case, pressing the button to show what happens," he tells POPULAR MECHANICS.

"One of the first things I did was to build a prototype with one short piece of barrel loaded with two projectiles and propellant behind each," O'Dwyer says. "I then fired the leading projectile just to determine whether the system would operate. If it did, the second projectile should stay in the barrel, without being pushed back with the propellant behind it."

Based on the results of that testing, O'Dwyer quickly moved to an expanded firing prototype--a single-barrel design loaded with 15 9mm rounds. "There was nothing particularly optimum about having 15 rounds," he says. "It was just a good number. There was also nothing particularly optimum about 9mm. It was just a convenient size.

"The wedging-system design O'Dwyer used to lock and seal multiple projectiles stacked in a single barrel required each of the 9mm projectiles to be slightly modified from their sporting configurations.

"The 15 shots was a big step for us from two, and electronically firing those 15 shots from a single barrel allowed us to experiment immediately with rates of fire," O'Dwyer says. The smoothbore prototype allowed electronically variable rates of fire ranging from semiauto to the equivalent of 45,000 rounds per minute.
for more Metal Storm Weapons - Popular Mechanics

 

[abbasniazi]

PakOmar Sir,
A very nice post indeed, i had read about it but the video clip clarified all the questions in my mind, i wish we could station a couple hundred of these HMGs on LOC and then we can pull off 100,000 soldiers from their...

 

[BATMAN]

Now that's what POF need to produce.
It would be a perfect gun for tanks, drones and fighter a/c

 

[black tiger]

It would be perfect for point defence against aerial threat's on board ships and vital instalations ie. Areas where u can store plenty of ammunition and where u don't expect any logistical difficulties coz this gun is going to chew up plenty of ammo it may not be practical for smaller platforms for the same reason.
Regards....

 

[pakomar]

Metal storm - Future weapons

 

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Metal storm weapon system

 

[XYON]

Now that's what POF need to produce.
It would be a perfect gun for tanks, drones and fighter a/c

Kindly do not confuse the METAL STORM with Gatling or Phalanx. This gun shoots 40mm grenades up to a short distance with maximum lethality. This gun, its ammunition and its heavy weight bar it to be installed on drones. Tanks and fighters do not need this type of firepower as they carry bigger guns.

The prime purpose of this type of a weapon system can be on ships to protect against asymmetrical threats such as suicidal dinghies, boats etc that can crawl near to the ship without detection by conventional technologies.

The system is however still under development (it has not reached the million-round-per-minute mark yet, problems with barrel over-heating and weapon jamming during operations) by the Australian company that manufactures it and is yet to be adopted for service by any armed forces.

 

[black tiger]

Hi, it is still under development but at least one prototype has crossed one million rounds/min, kindly read the above link for more info.
Regards....

 

[Super Falcon]

it is already been sold to israelis

 

[dbc]

The concept isn't new an electrical charge has been used to perforate casing in oil wells for years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perforation_(oil_well)