The Metal Storm Weapon system, it is based on an electronically fire gun and launcher design with multiple rounds stacked in a single barrel. The only moving part is the bullets themselves. O’Dwyer has constructed a triple-barrel, a nine-barrel, and a 36-barrel firing prototype design which he named Bertha. The inventors says that “the reason 36 barrels was simply to indicate to them and to others the future versatility of this system, in that with the 36 barrels they had 540 rounds on board and, based on the 45,000-round-per-minute rate per barrel, that gave them a maximum firing rate of 1.62 million rounds per minute.” Video…

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