Richard Riley wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 07:03:47 GMT, "kd5sak"
wrote:

:
:"Big John" wrote in message
.. .
: Interesting development in guns.
:
: Big John
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: New super-gun to be tested in Feb
:
: By PAMELA HESS
: UPI Pentagon Correspondent
:
: WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Next month a new high-explosive munition
: will be fired in Singapore and then tested again by the U.S. Army,
: heralding what may be a sea change in weaponry: a gun that can fire
: 240,000 rounds per minute.
:
: That's compared to 60 rounds per minute in a standard military machine
: gun.
:
:
:That oughta' be 600 rounds per minute. It's still a lot fewer than the metal
:storm, though.

Whether or not MetalStorm is a good concept (and I have doubts)
they've had remarkable success at getting press. I've been seeing
them in the general media for about 2 years, with nothing more than a
few prototypes and a contract for a design study. They all talk about
how it can fire a million rounds a second. They don't follow up with
"for 1/100,00th of a second."


I'm with you. Looks like more smoke than fire at present.

Matt