Re: FT / DS2 /SG2 - Super Rapid Fire Guns

In article <97826.6110.13158@thingy.apana.org.au>,
Tim Jones <Tim.Jones@Smallworld.co.uk> wrote:
>There was an interesting article on the UK TV science programme
Tomorrows 
>World
>last night about a new rapid fire weapon called Metal Storm. This is a 
>multi-barrelled
>weapon that uses electronic ignition to gang fire rounds packed into
its 
>barrels. It
>has no moving parts.
>
>The rate of fire is a theoretical 1,000,000 rounds a minute, but it
exhausts 
>its
>amunition in about a micro second. The fire rate is electronically
controlled 
>so can
>be 1200 (normal machine gun) or 33,000 (burp gun) rounds a minute.

Harry Harrison (blessed be thy name) postulated a similar sort of
rail-gunny device in his novel Starworld. It has one of the best
non space-opera battles described in it as well.

Bob