Would be best mounted inside fortified structures like a simple movable turret and loaded with shotshell. Meaning it would be the best last line of defense.
@@MLaak86 Going bankrupt a decade ago because nobody was interested didn't help. The problems are fundamentally this is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist. The mortar versions? We have cluster munitions and mines for that. The machine gun has severe technical issues and can't be scaled up because the length of the barrels becomes ridiculous (the equivalent of the 30-rounder used in every Western assault rifle is a barrel 39 inches long). The shotguns could never find a client because switching a barrel is the same as switching a magazine and historically military and LE buyers like pump-actions because you can chamber special rounds without having to totally reload them.
I wonder what went wrong with it. Id imagine costs of shooting is pretty high. But you know there is some bad guy out there that could use like 20 A-10s full auto worth of metal to the face.
Perhaps why this weapon technology has yet to catch on is that it has not had a suitable method of being employed in that it is too heavy to be carried by a person but too short range to be well suited for vehicle employment. That said it looks like an ideal weapon to be employed via an e-bike either as a front firing weapon mounted on the frame and forward firing or in the front cargo bay of a cargo e-bike. In the front firing case it could be pointed in azimuth just by turning the bike and might have a way to adjust it elevation either manually or by a motor controlled say with a twist grip mounted on the handle bar. Mounted as such it could serve much like the Gatlin gun serves on jet fighters in that it can put a huge volume of fire on a target in a very short burst even with the bike on the move with proper sighting aids such as a helmet mounted display. In the case where it is mounted in the front cargo bay of an e0bike it could be remotely controlled and be adjustable to be fired as such when the cargo e-bike is lain on its side with the human even being several hundred feet away using say a 100ft USB cable to control it or WIFI. Employing this technology on E-bikes would then make the weapon quite mobile verses just being employed in a static defense. in that an E-Bike can both easily carry that weight and can most anyplace be it ridden or pushed even in buildings and up flights of stairs. Thus it seems these two (metal storm plus e-bikes) would work well as a pair.
I can't see this ever being real. There's simply a point where the amount of bullets is unnecessary. It's just wasteful. Not to mention it would probably overheat in seconds due to no rotating barrels. Impractical, expensive, and a waste of metal.
@@bugjams At its highest fire rate it would expend its ammunition in much less than a second. Also I imagine one can select how many rounds would be fired in a burst so as to be able not to waste rounds as well as one can select lower fire rates as well if desired. Also it does have multiple barrels, but unlike a Gatlin gun they all fire at once which should have no additional effect on the heating of each barrel for a short burst.
@@tankythemagnorite9855 Problem is if a hypersonic weapon is on-target and in gun range, what's left of it is likely to still hit you no matter how much ammo you put into it. Point defence against those will have to focus on very early intercepts. Plus Metal Storm doesn't scale up easily, even a 5.56mm version with 30 rounds needs 39 inches of barrel for just the ammo.
Just do the rest of the math to work that out, gawd, that’s really it, just divide it down to how much ammo there is available, so if you multiplied it, you should get one million rounds in one minute. ☝🏻 Okay, if that thing had to fire a million rounds in a minute just to satisfy your skeptical mind, it would have a meltdown. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
