Posted: 5/3/2006 2:59:16 PM EDT
Future Weapons "Maximum Impact" Weapons that annihilate en masse/ tonight @ 10 on the Discovery Channel. Looks pretty good saw coming attractions for this episode, some interesting stuff you guys might like.
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I was totally procrastinating on my homework when I read this, now I'm working double time to finish up by ten .. I'm psyched! Discovery used to be the best at airing firepower-related tv shows. But ever since the home-decor / bike-building craze, I think the new champ is the History Channel. |
| Anyone notice that they didn't show how you reload that metal storm pistol? They kept saying that there are no moving parts and it's just a barrel. I don't know about you guys, but if I shoot 12 rds in a split second at handgun distance that all hit the same hole and I miss, I want a follow up shot (or 12). Maybe I missed it. |
That is a good point for any of those Metal Storm weapons. You are going to go through ammo like water. Then you have to reload those multiple barrels. |
All it is, is basically a muzzle-loader with loads loaded one behind the other, until there's almost no room left in the barrel. Kinda like stuffing a tube full of caseless ammo and smacking the first round in the chain. I can't imagine those individual rounds as being very powerful, so since anti-personnel is already ruled out (as it's a bitch to reload fast enough and put enough lead downrange to be effective), missile defense and such is also ruled out because it's inherently underpowered/under-ranged. I see this as a GyroJet concept -- nifty idea but highly impractical in every sense. |