[stockpirate]

The concept actually goes back to the 1500's, but this is a whole new ballgame here, were talking firepower on steroids.

[rellimpank]

---I think we're talking about a stock scam based on a silly technology that has no practical military use, given the alternatives--

[muawiyah]

Actually, it was the 1400s, when a Jewish guy named Schmidlapp (Schmiddlap, and other spellings equally valid) in a German speaking principality came up with the MULTI-STAGE ROCKET!

You really have to have that staging effect, or none of this works. Otherwise, everything goes off all at one time!

[Cloud William]

The concept actually goes back to the 1500's, but this is a whole new ballgame here, were talking firepower on steroids.

Seems like it's mostly the ignition system that's new and improved. It's still a stacked-charge system. I'd like to know what sort of enhancements have been designed into the design to prevent combustion gases from bleeding past projectiles "behind" them, resulting in Very Unfortunate Events.