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Scary...but very awesome

Oh yeah, that's definitely on the list.

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Can you believe that??? I knew it was only a matter of time before we found different means of propelling projectiles....That makes a mini-gun look like a single-shot.

I know, ain't it COOOL!!!!!!!!!!

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Leroy Green: The truth will be revealed only to eyes unclouded by desire.
Sho'nuff: It's mumbo jumbo like that and skinny little lizards like you thinkin' they the Last Dragon that gives kung-fu a bad name.

I don't like guns, and wouldn't want one of those for myself, but that is some cool tech and I'm glad our military has it.

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I love that show Future Weapons

i rue the day when we stop thinking up cool new ways to kill each other

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Smart bombs, precision guided armament
A more sophisticated way to end up dead
Still we search and invent such intelligent weapons
That kill each other like the Gears of War
Hoo-rah!!!

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Only if I can mount it on the front of my car to clear the road.

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-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

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I see several obvious problems. As a personal weapon, how does one reload in a battlefield environment? As a crew served weapon again how does one reload in a timely manner?

The length of the barrel limits ammo capacity so the fantastic numbers they list as to rate of fire mean nothing.

If the enemy has follow on forces you are a sitting duck after you expend your ammo.

A simple procedure , tactic, would develop similar to what was done with single shot slow loading rifles and pistols. Feint to draw the fire then rush when the tube is empty.

Without information on reload times and barrel capacity these weapons would have to be backed up with conventional weapons.

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I never said that you had no right to have an opinion. I just said that it was, in fact, worth nothing.

-Maineman ( on 12 June 2007)

We're all aware of it's down-falls, it's just an interesting piece of techonology. Every firearm started off with gliches. The first firearms involved taking minutes to load one shot. If someone had written off the firearm by saying, "well, this thing takes too long to load, and it's not very accurate, and you can only stick one round in at a time," then we'd still be shooting bows and arrows.

I think there is validity to your claims though. I would imagine that they would come up with tubes that had everything stacked already and when reloading, you just empty the tubes into the end or rear of the barrel. Eventually they will invent a way to rapidly re-load. I'll agree that right now, as it is, the Metal Storm needs alot of improvement and that their statistics of 1,000,000 rounds per minute are just statistics that are generalized based on how many rounds are fired in a second.

I'm all about conventional weapons, and there will never be a full replacement for them. But I imagine that you will see these metal storm arms on tanks, aircraft, vehicles, etc... more so than you will see taking the place of conventional arms.