China tried to poach supergun inventor

The Daily Telegraph ^ | October 4, 2006 | Nick Squires

[from occupied ga]

Isn't this weapon some kind of hoax or scam?

Not a hoax, just not practical. have to change out entire weapon to reload. The ahead 35mm is a much more practical solution

[Jeff Head]

Dangerous stuff...both for him and for us. This technology is a true, futuristic, force multiplier.

I show what it is capable of in my Dragon's Fury - World War against America and the West novel.

There are actually now prototype weapons here in the US alread being tested.

[kerryusama04]

$100 million? Y'know something, I'm not proud to admit it, but I'd find that hard to resist.

Good for this guy. I'm impressed.

They could have offered him a trillion - it is all worthless if he goes to Beijing. The second they had a working gun, they would test it on him.

[groovejedi]

I too am glad that this inventor is a true patriot, I'm sure he was paid well enough to resist efforts like this too though.

1 million rounds a minute....WOW!!!

[spunkets]

"Chinese government agents offered him more than $100 million to move to China and work on the gun."

BS.

""You could have a pod of 60 barrels, each with 20 bullets, and send out a cloud of gunfire in one or two seconds.""

Then it's done.

[ExSoldier]

A book that came out in the 90's by Frederick Forsythe titled The Fist of God spoke to the supergun and Iraqs ambitions to gain nuclear weapons. My buddy who was involved with SpecOps in Gulf War #1 said the book is about 90% correct in what it presents...including the use of agents to discover what was going on via a mole deep inside Saddam's apparatus. I highly recommend this book! In fact I'm going to add it to the list on my home page.

[Jeff Head]

This is the technology I presented in my Dragon's Fury Series, novels as a real lynch pin in our ultimate efforts to defeat the Communist Chinese and their allies in a fictional third World War. In that series I called it "Hail Storm", but it was this technology which I found out about, studied, and read up on back in 2001-2002 and then included in the books.

It is now being tested in a number of prototype arrangements and I have no doubt that it will ultimately achieve the types of operational status that I invisioned in DFS...with very smart, wide-bodied cruise missiles, firing pods on aircraft, etc, employing the technology to devastating effect against enemies...even small versions on advanced Predator type UAVs.

Anyhow, its kind of neat to see the fiction becoming reality in this regard.

Thank goodness this designer was not wooed...or should I say wu'ed by the PRC. But it is disconcerting that the Chinese see this technology and are clearly out to get it. They recognize full well its implications.

[ExSoldier]

We're going to need it to counter their human-wave tactics...

That's why God created Cluster Bomb technology, BeeHive artillery rounds and if push comes to shove the Neutron Bomb...

[Republican Party Reptile]

Metal storm is really amazing technology

so amazing that nobody is buying it ....

[ExSoldier]

Note to self: Be sure to completely read article before deeply inserting foot. The SUPERGUN to which I referred and to which I thought the article was speaking was that monster gun Saddam was creating to launch a nuclear shell at Israel. The one with the 400 meter barrel that was laid up against the side of a steep hill? That's what the book The Fist of God was all about. Not the million round a minute weapon referred to in the article above. Well....Duh. I'm sorry. My bad.

[LS]

"wu'ed." LOL.

[blackie]

Yep ~ keep all video clips.

What was its name?

[Jeff Head]

Yea...it was kind of witty. My wife chuckled too...but that is really what they were attempting.

[blackie]

Three poached easy on corned beef hash.

[Still Thinking]

I suspect once he and his family are in Beijing, the $100MM will get renegotiated.

[Still Thinking]

When the Russkies were trying to develop their first A-Bomb (detonated in 1948 I think) the politician most closely associated with the effort, Beria IIRC, asked the top tech guy for the names of the dozen or so people most pivotal in the effort, to appropriately reward them based on the outcome of the test. So the tech guy gave them the names of a dozen janitors, etc., people he could afford to lose.

Well, they had the plans for a Nagasaki style device and due to the high stakes for the first trial, decided to duplicate it verbatim. Well, the test went off OK, the overlords were sufficiently appeased, and those dozen guys were the best fed, best treated janitors in the land. ;-)

[Scotsman will be Free]

I wouldn't put it past the Chicoms to snatch him up and drag him off to China.

[wideminded]

Despite all the years that have gone by since Metal Storm was first announced publicly, it sounds as if they still have not solved the reloading problem.

[LonePalm]

For our purposes, we don't care.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[shaggy eel]

,,, Metal Storm.wmv