New weapons ideas bubbling up from down under...

[url]http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,46570,00.html[/url]

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Goodbye anti-ship guided missles.  Harpoon, Exocet, you have met your match.

From story:

"Just how lethal? That depends on how many rounds you want to fire and how many barrels you want to put to use. In a test firing of 36 barrels, lashed together and firing full bore, the gun reduced a series of 15 wooden doors to toothpicks in just two-tenths of a second."

Damn. Think ATF will approve them for civy use?[:D]

Another pic from the article:

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it's really worth watching their video footage about concept deployment for military useage.   The idea of having 4-5 of these things deployed in the field and being able to rain down multiple munitions over a very large battlefield within a matter of split seconds is quite impressive.


Hell with the techno-geeked out smart handguns.   I like the military application stuff though like the large square boxe pictured at the top.

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