RE: the army wants to play also

[Bill Hamilton <seeker-at-phoenyx.net>]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Grauwolf wrote:

> Greetings Ray and All,
>
> Like they say, "You just ain't seen nothing yet!" You have got to check
> out these videos! Metal Storm is right!
>
> Metal Storm.com
> http://www.metalstorm.com/04_video_latest.html


Metal Storm is an interesting trick, but it's not especially useful as a 
practical weapon.  Sure, it has a mind-bogglingly high rate of fire, but 
it doesn't have a high _volume_ of fire, due to the limited ammo capacity 
of a barrel.  Carrying multiple barrels is not practical due to weight and 
the fact that the weapon won't be sighted in properly.

For an emplaced weapon such as an anti-aircraft or anti-missile defense, 
the solution I've seen for the ammo problem was multiple barrels mounted 
in a single firing carriage.  Unfortunately, once you've stacked enough 
barrels together to have a reasonable amount of fire duration, you can get 
similar ROF and still greater fire duration from traditional rotary 
cannon.


-Bill Hamilton (no, the other Bill, the one who's still scheming.)