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mk  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Nine-year-old Girl's Uzi Training Backfired

1200 rounds per second?! Are you sure about that? I can possibly imagine 1200 per minute, but 1200 rounds per seconds means that basically any size clip would be empty the moment you pulled the trigger.





user-inactivated  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Per minute, sorry!

I_-_I  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well,

    Metal Storm has created a 36-barreled stacked projectile machine gun, boasting the highest rate of fire in the world. The prototype weapon demonstrated a firing rate of just over 1 million rounds per minute for a 180-round burst of 0.01 seconds. Firing within 0.1 seconds from up to 1600 barrels (at maximum configuration) the gun claimed a maximum rate of fire of 1.62 million RPM and creating a dense wall (0.1 m between followup projectiles) of 24,000 projectiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm

No one said that it has to be in production....

OftenBen  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I like that thing. It's hilarious.

Complexity  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's ludicrous.

b_b  ·  3811 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I think the actual rate is about 10/sec.