![]() The fact that batteries and electronics are innately less reliable and durable than a mechanical firing pin was also a factor, as by their nature all Metal Storm devices use electrical ignition. This largely limited practical applications of the technology to mortars and repeating area-suppression grenade launchers where varying accuracy is not a major concern. Secondly, since the loads are stacked in the barrel, each successive projectile travels down a longer barrel and therefore has slightly different ballistics. The technology's main shortcomings are reloading and varying ballistics firstly, all but one of the Metal Storm weapons (the 3GL) required an entire pre-loaded barrel or barrel section to be replaced each time they were empty. (Interestingly, Season 6 of CSI: Miami depicted an exaggerated 229-barreled version of the "Bertha" rig under the fictional name "DX4 Vaporizer" the prop from the show is also frequently confused with the real deal on the internet.) 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. This rig had notable pressure problems due to firing while the preceding bullet was still inside the barrel, and was not a practical weapon system. 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 called "Bertha," fired 180 shots at a total fire rate of one million rounds per minute (ie, 5 shots from each barrel at ~27,777 RPM), making it the fastest-firing gun in existence. ![]() ![]() ![]() These weapons use superposed loads in a single barrel with electrochemical ignition, allowing for enormously high fire rates due to a lack of moving parts. Metal Storm Weapons are a series of proposed (and prototype) weapons created by the Australian company Metal Storm Ltd. Metal Storm multi-barrel pod mounted on UGV - 40mm ![]()
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