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| − | [[Image:Aicwmetalstorm.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Metal Storm AICW with 40mm grenade launcher]] | + | [[Image:Aicwmetalstorm.jpg|thumb|right|500px|Metal Storm AICW with 40mm grenade launcher using a 3-round reloadable stack]] |
'''This page is for any Metal Storm firearm other that than VLE pistol. For the VLE pistol see here- [[Metal Storm VLE]]''' | '''This page is for any Metal Storm firearm other that than VLE pistol. For the VLE pistol see here- [[Metal Storm VLE]]''' | ||
| − | '''Metal Storm Weapons''' | + | '''Metal Storm Weapons''' are a series of proposed (and prototype) weapons created by the Australian company, Metal Storm Ltd. These weapons use stacked rounds in a single barrel with electrochemical ignition, allowing for enormously high fire rates due to a lack of moving parts. While quoting a cyclic fire rate of any kind is slightly misleading (since these weapons have no action and therefore no cycle of function) their headline proof-of-concept demonstrator, a 36-barrel rig, fired 180 rounds at a total fire rate of one million rounds per minute (ie, 5 rounds from each barrel at 27,777 RPM), making it the fastest-firing gun in existence. This rig had notable pressure problems due to firing rounds while the preceding round was still inside the barrel, and was not a practical weapon system. The Metal Storm VLE pistol appears to have also essentially been a proof of concept demonstrator to show how much the technology could be miniaturised. |
| − | '''Weapons | + | The technology's main shortcomings are reloading and varying ballistics; a Metal Storm weapon must have an entire pre-loaded barrel or barrel section replaced each time it is empty, and since the rounds are stacked in the barrel, each successive round travels down a longer barrel and therefore has slightly different ballistics. This has largely limited practical applications of the technology to mortars and repeating grenade launchers where varying accuracy is not a major concern. |
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| + | '''Weapons using Metal Storm technology have been featured in the following video games and television series:''' | ||
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Revision as of 07:45, 2 December 2011
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This page is for any Metal Storm firearm other that than VLE pistol. For the VLE pistol see here- Metal Storm VLE
Metal Storm Weapons are a series of proposed (and prototype) weapons created by the Australian company, Metal Storm Ltd. These weapons use stacked rounds in a single barrel with electrochemical ignition, allowing for enormously high fire rates due to a lack of moving parts. While quoting a cyclic fire rate of any kind is slightly misleading (since these weapons have no action and therefore no cycle of function) their headline proof-of-concept demonstrator, a 36-barrel rig, fired 180 rounds at a total fire rate of one million rounds per minute (ie, 5 rounds from each barrel at 27,777 RPM), making it the fastest-firing gun in existence. This rig had notable pressure problems due to firing rounds while the preceding round was still inside the barrel, and was not a practical weapon system. The Metal Storm VLE pistol appears to have also essentially been a proof of concept demonstrator to show how much the technology could be miniaturised.
The technology's main shortcomings are reloading and varying ballistics; a Metal Storm weapon must have an entire pre-loaded barrel or barrel section replaced each time it is empty, and since the rounds are stacked in the barrel, each successive round travels down a longer barrel and therefore has slightly different ballistics. This has largely limited practical applications of the technology to mortars and repeating grenade launchers where varying accuracy is not a major concern.
Weapons using Metal Storm technology have been featured in the following video games and television series:
