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June 25th, 2009 at 1:29 am
Metal storm is way over hyped.
For a smart mine, it should rock. Single instance of fire, disposable, who cares about reloading.
For a vehicle based defense system, it should rock if they can figure out how to feed it, which is never, ever mentioned by anyone. It would have to add complexity, which greatly reduces the claimed benefit of reliability.
For a small arms platform, I just don’t see it.
The biggest problem is reloads. How in the world does one go about reloading this wonder weapon while in combat?
Instead of a light weight magazine, do you carry a heavy barrel for every reload? Or is there a means to just reload a sleeve of ammo? Wouldn’t that add moving parts and bring back the dreaded mechanical parts that jam?
Using any reload I can think of to reload would suck. No more mag drops, now we have barrel swaps.
How would any reload be as accurate?
The velocity almost certainly changes per shot in the barrel. You could use higher charges for the first round leading to reduced charges for the last round. But wouldn’t the different charges preform differently under different weather conditions?
They always hype the rate of fire by saying it can shoot 16,000 rounds a second and never, ever talking about how many rounds any of the weapon systems actually has on board. Big numbers are impressive and all, but this is just silly.
June 25th, 2009 at 8:37 am
Saw the Remy at the Tampa SOFIC show. NICE piece of work. Breaks down to be packed. COmes out of something called Military Products Division.