Posted on 10/01/2006 3:11:02 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
“The Metalstorm design is over 100 years old, and no one wanted it back then either.”
They didn’t have computers or electronics of this kind back then, or guns with no moving parts.
”There are no million-bullet barrels. There aren't even 30 bullet barrels.”
- green iguana
I count 65 in this mother alone.
“The 1,000,000 rounds per minute is a rate of fire, not an amount of fire.”
Regardless, I wouldn’t want to reload this beast by hand – my point stands.
We have robots for that job.
65 barrels, not 65 rounds per barrel. I count four rounds per blue barrel. Not sure how many per small barrel, but probably no more than 15. You don't reload the barrels, you replace the barrels with new, loaded ones. Think of the barrel as a cartridge with multiple rounds, not as a traditional barrel.
BTW, I think we come down on the same side here. I wouldn't want to reload the barrels either, but I'd love to have one so I could replace the barrels from my personal stock. I see lots of uses for pesky varmint control...
Your car has to go back to Detroit after driving for a day?
Let me know the next time you buy something, it has to spend about week at the manufacturing plant for every hour you have it.
You would need to take your car back to the manufacturers for a service when cars were first developed, but a little thing called time went by and service stations began sprouting up to meet demand. This point was covered. I understand you would refuse to take your Lockheed C-5 Galaxy military transport aircraft in to be fueled and serviced - you'd do it yourself with a hand pump and a toolbox. After all, what is the point in having something big if it means having to take it in for refueling and servicing every few hours? Fine - see you when you finish, in two months. We can transport some helicopters to Iraq and then you can start your two month stint again. After that you can reload your Metal Storm gun by hand and hopefully not blow your fingers off in the process. Make sure each bullet is in the proper position for firing – we wouldn’t want any mistakes during that million per minutes rate of fire. When you finish that job we’ll watch you refilling your gas cylinders, using a foot pump. Don’t worry about me – I’ll build a house while I’m waiting for you to finish.
“Your car has to go back to Detroit after driving for a day?
Let me know the next time you buy something, it has to spend about week at the manufacturing plant for every hour you have it.”
Incidentally Shooter, you can see this car and these people, to ask them about hours of use versus hours of maintenance.
http://www.answers.com/topic/thrustssc
I think, at a rough guess, that one hour’s use would equal six month’s maintenance and work. Then let’s turn our attention to NASA and their rockets…
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