metal storm 3 shot grenade launcher Options

[hobgoblin]

http://www.gizmag.com/metal-storm-3-shot-g...ertified/10908/

now thats firepower (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Warentester]

Yeah, the metal storm system reaches up to 1Mio Shots/Minute
Check this out

[KarmaInferno]

The major problem with MetalStorm is the space it takes.

If you have an application where you only need to fire a limited amount of ammunition, it's great.

If you need to be able to fire a large amount of ammo, well, you need to start packing on additional barrels.

That can get kinda unwieldy.

Something like a machine gun emplacement, would you rather be swinging around a massive heavy gun with 30 barrels, or a much lighter single barrel (or even 6-barrel rotary) weapon with an ammo feed?



-karma

[Warentester]

It depends what you want to do. If you need to shoot only once, the metal storm might be of interest. That way you could for example shoot a full-auto burst from a sniper rifle without suffering recoil (or at least without having the recoil affecting precision)

[AllTheNothing]

The metal Storm system is interesting but unless you have some loading mechanism you are stuck with switching multiple pre-loaded barrels, muzzle loading, break action loading and breach loadingm I'm not an expert but none of this options seems to me a good choise for combat zone; it could work great for bolt action sniper rifles thought.

[hobgoblin]

something tells me that if one can carry multiple preloaded under-barrel grenade launchers and use some kind of quick release so that when 3 rounds have been fired one just drop the whole launcher assembly and attach a new one, it could work...

but it still may be more effective to just use the reloadable single round one, i guess...

[RedeemerofOgar]

The best use i've seen is integrating the electronic-fire with electronic-targeting on a fast-flyover vehicle of some sort. Precision strafing for the win.

[Heath Robinson]

In the case of underbarrel mortars your riflemen typically carry three grenades at most as far as I know. The ammunition limitation is, therefore, not exactly a problem for standard practice.

Nonstandard practicewise? It's probably better to carry those extra barrels slung beneath additional rifles.

[KarmaInferno]

The best use i've seen is integrating the electronic-fire with electronic-targeting on a fast-flyover vehicle of some sort. Precision strafing for the win.

I could have sworn I saw a concept vid of multiple short MetalStorm launchers mounted sideways in a missile, so that as the missile flew over a battlefield the launchers would fire downward as it went along.

The forward-facing targeting system would note targets ahead and have the launcher fire down as the missile passed over them.

Maybe I'm thinking of a non-MetalStorm system?



-karma

[hobgoblin]

http://www.metalstorm.com/content/view/74/114/