Thu 4 May 2006
Metal Storm, a gun that can fire a thousand rounds a second
Posted by Jon Haynes under Technology, weapons
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Metal Storm guns
Wow Metal Storm guns are crazy is crazy. It can fire thousands of rounds a second, hence the name metal storm. They even have a pistol type gun that can fire 3 rounds before it even recoils, making it extremly acurate atlhough I do not think it can fire many more rounds that a conventional gun it can fire rounds much faster and no jam.
40mm Redback picture from metal storm dot com
The secret to these metal storm weapons is that they do not use conventional firing mechanism, and therefore have very few moving parts. Metal storm guns use an electronic ignition system so bullets in the guns are just lined up right behind one another, so even if a gun does jam the next bullet behind it will push the jammed bullet out. The metal storm gun can also fire 250,000 grenades a minute.
