If you swung it around in a short arc, and calculated it well enough, you could potentially send those 46 rounds over a half-moon sort of shaped area of ground, blanketing it with mortar fire in a short period of time.
Combined with an aiming system like 'the anti-everything gun', this type gun would appear to be a fantastic antisubmarine weapon. It should be able to lay down grids of 'hedgehog' rounds that would cover a possible sub location with a shower of sinking rounds. With some magnetic proximity fuses or even hived sonar-containing rounds, a sub would have a high chance of getting hit.
Rounds Per Minute is more about the volume of rounds a weapon can fire in the shortest period of time as opposed to the length of time a weapon could fire. Metal Storm could deliver enough explosive via this mortar to cover the area the size of a football field (for example) in the same time it'll take a standard mortar to drop one round that'll cover the equivalent of the in-goal, comparatively (figuratively speaking).
You can see during the live fire that the mortars are tumbling almost immediately out of the barrel. Probably because there are no stabilizing tail fins. Likely to cut down the size of the magazines.
If this thing has enought range, it can potentially fire with dragging fire (when the first shots are still midflight at high altitude, last shots are fired at low altitude and all shots hit the target at the same time). This means that one mortar and crew can potentially hit 100+ mortar rounds into target in less than few seconds.
A mortar's designed to be fired at a much higher trajectory and greater range than a 40mm grenade. It has fins for stability and the shells weigh a lot more. The absolute smallest light mortar you can get is 60mm, and it still has a range of 3,500 m. A 40mm grenade has a max range of 200 m.
One could also set these up remotely. I saw an episode of Future Weapons where mortars such as this were set up along potentially active armor highways... they can be fired remotely, giving the ability to destroy an advancing tank column before it reaches a Coalition position.
I'm working on one of these in my backyard in the event of random zombie invasion (presumed to happen around when left 4 dead comes out) it's made of PVC pipe, shoots rocks, fires by Co2 cartridges, and can break a wooden board if i throw the whole machine at it.
If you swung it around in a short arc, and calculated it well enough, you could potentially send those 46 rounds over a half-moon sort of shaped area of ground, blanketing it with mortar fire in a short period of time.
"enable" and "disable" sound similar in a warzone.
Combined with an aiming system like 'the anti-everything gun', this type gun would appear to be a fantastic antisubmarine weapon. It should be able to lay down grids of 'hedgehog' rounds that would cover a possible sub location with a shower of sinking rounds. With some magnetic proximity fuses or even hived sonar-containing rounds, a sub would have a high chance of getting hit.
A mortar isn't the round. It's the design of delivery platform.
If only they could create this technology with snowballs in mind.
Rounds Per Minute is more about the volume of rounds a weapon can fire in the shortest period of time as opposed to the length of time a weapon could fire.
Metal Storm could deliver enough explosive via this mortar to cover the area the size of a football field (for example) in the same time it'll take a standard mortar to drop one round that'll cover the equivalent of the in-goal, comparatively (figuratively speaking).
D I S A B L E
I want to see the impacts of the grenades!
And then... "Windows will restart in 4 minutes"
I thought I was being rick rolled
You can see during the live fire that the mortars are tumbling almost immediately out of the barrel. Probably because there are no stabilizing tail fins. Likely to cut down the size of the magazines.
If this thing has enought range, it can potentially fire with dragging fire (when the first shots are still midflight at high altitude, last shots are fired at low altitude and all shots hit the target at the same time). This means that one mortar and crew can potentially hit 100+ mortar rounds into target in less than few seconds.
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The operating principle is brilliant. I would like to see an 84mm or 105mm set up. This is without doubt the way to the future!
Not many people may know this, but Metal Storm is an Australian based defence manufacturer.
A mortar's designed to be fired at a much higher trajectory and greater range than a 40mm grenade. It has fins for stability and the shells weigh a lot more.
The absolute smallest light mortar you can get is 60mm, and it still has a range of 3,500 m. A 40mm grenade has a max range of 200 m.
One could also set these up remotely. I saw an episode of Future Weapons where mortars such as this were set up along potentially active armor highways... they can be fired remotely, giving the ability to destroy an advancing tank column before it reaches a Coalition position.
Pioneered by Australia licensed to the US,
Damn, can you guys imagine a whole line of those things firing at an enemy base? I'd be shitting my pants if I were on the other side of that.
I'm working on one of these in my backyard in the event of random zombie invasion (presumed to happen around when left 4 dead comes out)
it's made of PVC pipe, shoots rocks, fires by Co2 cartridges, and can break a wooden board if i throw the whole machine at it.