Is there really a gun that can fire?

Question

1 MILLION ROUND A MINUTE OR IS THIS A JOKE

Answer 1

I've seen on History Channel (or Discovery) where they have a multi-barrel when with a high rate of fire something to that effect.
I'd see it as a majorly expense waste. But damn, thinking of a hoard of chicoms coming over the hill during the Korean "conflict" and I'd guess some of the old guys like my dad would have loved to have had something like that backing them up!!

Answer 2

Yeah, it's that metal storm. What it is is a gun barrel with no action at all. Then they stack it, powdercharge, bullet, powdercharge, bullet, with no casings, just powder and bullet. It's ignited with an electrical charge in the barrel so they fire in succession without the gun ever having to "feed." Often the unit will have like say 15 barrels of these mounted on a big plate, so each barrel fires (I'm making up these numbers) maybe six rounds and 15 barrels fire, all in microseconds. So it does shoot at a RATE of 1,000,000 rounds a minute, but it could never really shoot that many a minute, it's just a rate, unless you had hundreds of thousands of barrels. So it's kinda a cheap figure they come up with, it's only the fastest for like one .000001th of s second, then it's painstakingly slow to get the thing reloaded again. The Dylan minigun will fire like 6000 or 7000 or something like that rounds per minute, it's somewhere over 100 rounds a second, for as long as you have ammo for it, which is way cooler, way more destructive, and in all fairness the TRUE fastest gun.

Answer 3

the metal storm gun that fires 1 million ronds a minute is not just 1 gun it is a series of guns lined up with all of the rounds packed inside the barrels and are set off one after the other by an electric charge that is sent from the front of the barrel to the back setting off each round as it passes through them.

The electric charge ignites the gunpowder, there are no moving parts in metal storm guns.

metalstorm also makes handguns.

Answer 4

Somewhat true. Experimental guns which have THEORETICAL rates of fire of 1 million rounds a minute do exist. But in actuality they only fire for periods of seconds or fractions of a second, due to heat, ammo capacity, and recoil forces. The fastest firing weapon in service is the M134 General Electric 7.62x51mm Gatling Gun the "Mini-gun" which can fire at rates up to 6,000 rounds per minute (although it is usually set lower at 3,000-4,000) for a sustained period. At rates like these though a sustained period is like <20 seconds not the 1 minute plus periods you would expect from a medium machine gun.

Answer 5

The fastest firing Gun that I know of is in the A10 Thunderbolt or Warthog as it is affectionately known. It can fire 3,900 rounds per min from its 7 barrel Rotary Gatling Gun.

Answer 6

LOL
Not hardly.
That thing would have to fire 16,667 rounds per "SECOND." If you find this possible your only joking yourself. Most belt fed machine guns fire 550- 950 Round Per Minute(RPM). A few examples:
M240G = 650-950 RPM
M249 SAW = 725 RPM
50CAL = 550 RPM
Another example would be the MARK 19 40MM gernade launcher, it fires a 300-400 RPM.

The baddest of them all would be the GAU-4 20MM Vulcan. The M61A1 & M61A2 are six barreled hydraulically operated 20MM Gatling guns. You'll find them under F-14 and F/A-18 aircraft. So, this gun being the badest of the bad shoots around 100 rounds per second, thats a far cry from 16,667 rounds per second.

Answer 7

The fastest, to my knowledge, is the Minigun which employs Gatling type technology (rotating barrel). These fire ~ 7000 rounds per min.

Answer 8

Yes, it's called Metal Strom.
No moving parts, just the projectiles, fired electronically

Answer 9

It's not even a joke, it's a physical impossibility. There is a weapon which is essentially a block of several hundred bullets arranged in a flat grid, all fired at once electronically, which could be considered under your question, but it doesn't really count as a gun.

Answer 10

Look up Metal Storm.