To: Recon Dad
far superior alternative from the Phalanx guns
I don't. When a Phalanx runs out of ammo, you slap in (relatively speaking) another magazine. If Metalstorm runs out of ammo, you have to replace an entire barrel.
32 posted on
11/18/2007 10:38:05 AM PST by
yhwhsman
("Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small..." -Sir Winston Churchill)
To: yhwhsman
If Metalstorm runs out of ammo, you have to replace an entire barrel. How far from the front of the barrel is the foremost projectile before the weapon is fired for the first time? Might it be possible to design the weapon to breach-load cases each of which had a bunch of projectiles within it?
34 posted on
11/18/2007 1:07:15 PM PST by
supercat
(Sony delenda est.)
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