Re: OT: Technology alert - guns that fire 1,000,000 rounds per minute

At 12:52 PM -0700 1/16/02, B Lin wrote:
>Metal Storm is back in the news with a 15 barrel weapon that fires 
>at rates of 1,000,000 rounds per minute.  One blurb says that rates 
>up to 13 million per minute are possible.

Yes, it fires a lot of ammo. But you throw away the barrels and load 
a new magazine/barrel assembly every time you have to reload the 
mother. I'd hate to have one of them mis-fire too.
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