Machine Gun?

Question

3 or 4 years ago there was an article on Tv about a auto machine gun that had a rate of fire of about 1000 rps . It had no moving parts. Does anyone remember this ? there has been no mention of it for a long time !! I think it was electronicaly operated .

Answer 1

Yeah, those things are somewhat deceptive. Multiple rounds are loaded right into the barrel, there is no action, just stuff them in like a muzzle loader. There's no shell casing, the bullet is attached right to a powder charge. Then they're set off electronicly so you can fire them all at a ridiculous rate. But you only have as many rounds as you stuff in there, if it can fire the fastest it has no capacity. The rate of fire for the duration it's being fired is crazy, but it can't shoot very many a minute, cause after you burst a few out in a microsecond you gotta to load the thing up which takes who knows how long. That's probably why it hasn't been mentioned, while a super cool novelty, not very useful. Although they have made mortar rounds out of the same thing with is about the sweetest thing ever, you can hit something with a dozen gernades at once. No idea if any military is using it, but I doubt it.

Answer 2

A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm usually designed to fire a rifle cartridge from an ammunition belt or large-capacity magazine in quick succession, usually at rates of several hundred bullets per minute. In United States law, a Machine Gun is defined (in part) by The National Firearms Act of 1934, United States code Title 26, Subtitle E, Chapter 53, Subchapter B, Part 1, § 5845 as:

"... any weapon which shoots ... automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger."

The modern use is synonymous with automatic machine guns, which were preceded by a period of manual machine guns with some automatic features. Modern automatic machine guns are almost always belt-fed, and are capable of firing several hundred rounds per minute. There are two main modern uses of the term — a very general use, which includes nearly any fully-automatic firearm (common among mainstream media), and a more specific technical definition, common in militaries and firearms enthusiasts.

Answer 3

Most likely a Metal Storm-type gun like what some of the others are saying...though I cannot really tell until I see the gun or you provide a pic.

Though yes essentially there is little mention of such types of guns now because the military/civilian designer is trying to find a use for them and a practical way to deploy 'em (1000rps = frequent stoppages for reloading)... once thats solved then expect deployments within a few years.

Answer 4

Metal Storm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm

Answer 5

I remember that gun
i think there using it all ready
i hope i can buy one off Bosnia Military I saw a request for 360$ but I’m not sure if that’s the gun.
Their new sniper looks incredible it has an auto motion computer or a body heat censer that lets you see in the night
buying stuff off the Military its Illegal so you have to buy it from foreign area Bosnia has the best weapon market (blackmarket)

Answer 6

Yes, I remember seeing the specs on that.

It used rotating electromagnetic fields, similar to a gauss gun but without the induction coils. It works, but the energy requirements are too high to be easily portable, and it doesn't offer enough advantages over propellant-based firearms to be worth the conversion.

{EDIT to TomCollins} That's a similar technology to the one I saw, but the one I saw was structured differently.

Answer 7

Yep, I saw that piece of film. It was nearer 1 million rounds a minute.
I did a quick search on the net and the gun is made by a company called MetalStorm. Here's a link for you. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5112822092179864759&q=Metal+Storm

Answer 8

the gun that you saw was called metal storm

it shoots that fast with normal amunition because instead of being a blowback operated weapon the bullets are fired off with electricity

the shots are stacked in a long cylinder and thats why they can shoot so fast

Answer 9

I remember. The designer was hoping to use it to clear minefields.In essence a metal broom fitted aboard an aircraft to shoot the ammo into minefields and not place humans at risk.

Answer 10

No moving parts? Doesn't sound quite rite. Perhaps you were thinking about the design that used combustible plastic casings and thus there was no "brass" to expel?