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Posted on 10/01/2018 12:25:29 PM PDT by george76
The Army adopted its battle rifle in 1963 and has spent 55 years looking for a replacement for the M-16 and its variants.
They might have found it in Martin Grier’s Colorado Springs garage. Grier, a self-described inventor who has worked at a local bed and breakfast, built the new “ribbon gun” with a hobbyist’s tools. It looks like a space-age toy drawn by a fifth-grader.
But goofy origins and cartoon-looks aside, this could be the gun of the future. The Army is studying Grier’s gun and has ordered a military-grade prototype.
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The specifications are incredible, four 6 mm barrels cut side by side within one steel block. New ammunition blocks fired by electromagnetic actuators that could theoretically give the weapon a firing rate of 250 rounds per second.
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And then there’s the feature no soldier would turn down. “It’s called a power shot,” Grier said.
That’s the shotgun feature of this sniper-shot, machine-assault gun that can send four bullets simultaneously whizzing toward an enemy at more than 2,500 mph.
It isn’t science fiction. He’s built the gun and patented the technology behind it. Now his garage-based company, FD munitions, is hoping the Army will buy it.
“A multibore firearm, with several bores within a single barrel, could potentially exhibit many of the advantages of a multibarrel design, while reducing the size, weight and complexity disadvantages,” Grier wrote in his 2016 patent application.
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The last rifle that was seen as a possible replacement for the M-16 family of guns was tested for six years before the program was canceled in 2008.
The Army found that the XM-8, despite its high-tech looks, offered few advantages over the weapons troops have carried since Vietnam.
Grier is convinced that his weapon is so revolutionary that it will overcome Army foot-dragging.
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You're forgetting that all the street hoods hold the weapon sideways. /s
I have no idea what they currently use but the British ordered their FAL’s in semi auto only.
Each block holds four projectiles. That means you would need to change blocks at a rate 7.5 times faster than a conventional 30 round mag. Not very advantageous in a firefight.
You wanna rock and roll 100 years after the fact; you can’t go wrong with Browning.
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Nice cigarette lighter!
Exactly what I thought.
True enough. However, ammo weighs a heck of a lot less if you don't have to also cart along propellant, primer and brass.
“Chop-Chop! You quit looking at Japanese girl’s boobies Bond-Sun, and please pay attention to this special ‘cigarette’ launcher thingy.”
Interesting. I never saw a rifle design like that. As you say, pretty sophisticated for its era.
Probably meant 2,500 FPS.
The British currently use the L85 series, a Stoner AR18-based system, with full auto capability.
There have been many controversies about it, almost all related to detail engineering and build quality. H&K was brought in to resolve those problems. However, details aside its in the same design and capability ballpark as all modern 5.56 automatic rifles.
The whole world uses very similar rifles these days.
That’s assuming one wants to use the “top speed” cited, and not the more normal operating modes.
Think of it (I am assuming) as a sort of burst-fire feature. One press of the trigger shoots four, then the magazine feeds another block of four. Press the trigger again, etc.
Thanks for the info.
Well, you will have to lug along propellant and primer and cases with this thing too.
The question here is whether the weight is greater or less than the equivalent number of rounds of conventional ammunition.
Whats been shown seems to be bulkier, at least, than conventional brass-cased ammo. I don’t know if the system as a whole is bulkier than the current systems, counting magazines.
This way you can get four misses just a fast as you can get one . . .
“If you can pour sand in the breach and have a sustainable rate of fire, I’ll buy one.”
Or just buy an AK47.
True.
On the other hand volume often has a quality of its own.
OH JOY! More weight to hump - that will be a big hit with the troops
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