by Porter Smith <my_port_2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Dec 11, 2007 at 07:01 PM
Richard Evans <infodex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Artis <lajolie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>So, is this total sci-fi? It looked like it. The va****ized bodies?
>>I could not believe the bodies actually would look that way. And the
>>Va****izer gun? Perhaps some anti-tank gun might be that strong, but
>>it looked odd.
>
> I'm assuming it was total fiction, but even within its own fictional
> boundaries it didn't make sense.
>
> It fires a hundred thousand rounds a minute with no moving parts? So
> it's got a couple of hundred barrels. To fire a hundred thou rounds
> per minute it still has to cycle new rounds into the chambers.
>
> And bullets with no casings? What was the propellant?
>
> And what would be its intended use? It was way overkill as an
> anti-personnel weapon and too clunky for that purpose. How agile is a
> gun that has to be maneuvered on a cart to aim it?
>
I saw a prototype of something like this on the Military Channel. If I
remember, each barrel had multiple bullets stacked up and fired them one
at time. If one failed to fire, it was puched out of the way by the one
behind it.
The intended use was a point defense system on a ****p. If a missle made
it through the outer defenses this thing would put up a wall of lead that
would shred anything it hit. Clearly you only get one shot as it took
forever to reload.
