To: IronJack
This is far from a new idea, Metalsorm has just repackaged the stacked-charge concept with electronic ignition.
This version is impractical for a number of reasons, the first being that you have to replace the barrel to reload. There used to be matchlock rifles that literally had a sliding lock and trigger mechanism, which would align with three or four flash-holes on the barrel. The shooter started and the front and worked back, firing the stacked charges just like in this new version. Once in a while, some combustion gas would leak rearward and *all* of the charges would detonate at the same time. I hope Metalstorm has world-class insurance; they're marketing a high-tech pipe bomb.
To: Charles Martel
It doesn't sound like the technology is all that workable. And how many bullets do you need to direct at any given target anyway? Since all the rounds leave the barrel within a split second of each other, they should all strike nearly the same point. How dead do you need to make something?
32 posted on
09/30/2002 6:16:57 PM PDT by
IronJack
To: Charles Martel
This version is impractical for a number of reasons, the first being that you have to replace the barrel to reload.
Uh sounds extremely practical to me as a close in anti missle or air defence weapon. Your launcher would just replace the spent barrels like they reload missles.
35 posted on
09/30/2002 7:15:03 PM PDT by
Kozak
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