http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_DREAD,,00.html?ESRC=recruiting.nl
"No heat, no recoil, no sound, no gunpowder, no flash -- just 120,000 rounds per minute of pulverizing power. The next generation of weapons systems has arrived: the DREAD centrifuge-powered weapon system."
The guy has a patent on the weapon so not something dreamt up as a joke. But canceling out gyroscopic forces, and providing that sort of firepower with low power requirements and accuracy, guess time will tell.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,520,169.WKU.&OS=PN/6,520,169&RS=PN/6,520,169
"No heat, no recoil, no sound, no gunpowder, no flash -- just 120,000 rounds per minute of pulverizing power. The next generation of weapons systems has arrived: the DREAD centrifuge-powered weapon system."
The guy has a patent on the weapon so not something dreamt up as a joke. But canceling out gyroscopic forces, and providing that sort of firepower with low power requirements and accuracy, guess time will tell.
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,520,169.WKU.&OS=PN/6,520,169&RS=PN/6,520,169
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