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Here's a question. Can you achieve anywhere near the max rounds per minute without melting the barrel down from the sheer heat of friction? I've fired a fifty cal fast enough that the barrel glowed red hot and had to be changed manually. Seems to me that after a few thousand rounds this thing would melt the barrels to slag.

The barrel is single use. Once all the rounds in the barrel have been fired, barrel replacement is required. Think of the barrel as being combined barrel/magazine.

On other interesting idea on their web site was to use this in a fire suppression role. In theory, 40mm grenades that produce chemical fire suppressant could be unloaded into an area rather rapidly. Had a helicopter been armed with such a system in NYC, it might have been possible to extinguish the fire in the WTC by simply flying up to the breach and firing into the hole created by the airplane.

All in all, interesting technology but it does have some rather 'big brother' posibilities. For example, everytime it is discharged, using a GPS chip (1" x 1") a cellphone chip (also 1" x 1") embedded in the grip and powered by the recoil, dials the police and reports the discharge, the number of rounds fired, location and 64 digit security code. All within a second of the weapon's discharge.

Heck, if you serial number the barrel and the barrel has to be returned to the factory, you could even determine the type of ammo and who bought the ammo. Of course, this would help police find a killer, but it would also create a level of privacy invasion against gun owners.

Real nice way for the cops to know who did what when where. I'll bet the liberals will be DEMANDING that gun owners have this type of firearm. (see we don't want to take away your guns).

It will fire 180 rounds in the blink of the eye, but to fire 181 rounds, the thing has to be shipped back to the factory.

There could be some truly interesting, one-time, special uses such as close in anti-aircraft or anti-missle protection, but in the field I would take an M-2 Browning any day.

Did I fire 999,999 rounds or was it 1,000,000?

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Trajan88; TAMU Class of '88; Texas aTm Aggies... beat the hell outta the TT Redwing Raiderettes