Posted on 05/10/2010 9:15:31 PM PDT by Enterprise
"General Atomics is working on a cannon that can launch an airburst round at a rate of one per second. Each round dispenses sub-projectiles, so its equivalent to firing 14,000 rounds a minute, which is a higher rate of fire than the Phalanx close-in weapons system, says Tom Hurn, General Atomics director of advanced weapons systems."
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Do they have a carry version?
My 12 ga. over/under can shoot 100,000 bb`s per minute
Looks very promising. Obama will kill it if it’s IN the budget — and refuse to buy it if it never was in the budget. Which means it will end up being sold to one of our allies — or stolen by one of our enemies...
bflr
Just got to make a way to generate that kind of amperage on a ship platform, and not alter the genetic makeup of the crew in the process.
For sure! Maybe that much amperage will create another Philadelphia experiment! (Not that I actually believe THAT story though)
aWESOME! let’s all keep quiet before the Kenyan Klown starts de-funding it.
Amperage doesn't mean much without knowing the voltage. But even if it's a large number of watts, it only lasts for 5 milliseconds. The power is discharged from a bank of capacitors, and recharged for each shot.
At a shot each second, the average amperage is 2.2 million amps * 0.005 seconds = 11,000 amps continuous (assuming no losses in charging, discharging, etc. -- which is unrealistic).
If the Zumwalt class destroyer is ever built, it will have 10 times the power available on current destroyers.
Jack Bauer could use one right about now. It’s far too time consuming to have to cut SIM cards out of the bellies of bad guys.
Frantzie wrote,
Do they have a carry version?
Doesn’t matter, it’ll be banned in D.C. anyway.
General Atomics builds very large capacitors and the equipment to charge them. It’s right up their alley.
Whew.
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