metal storm, the revolutionary unmanned gun

[brooksieb]

can you picture 16,000 bullets being fired in one second ? This weapon doesn’t even need to be manned, it can be left completly unattended. A silent assasin waiting for its pray with its sensors that can detect anything that approaches. The secret of the Metal Storm guns is that it uses electronic triggers instead of the traditional ones. there's also a handgun version of this

[The1exile]

that must be expensive. And possibly easy to break. What's the range of their sensor?

[Skittles!]

What a waste of money.

[Grooveman2007]

They're being used in Iraq to shoot down insurgent mortars.

[brooksieb]

that must be expensive. And possibly easy to break. What's the range of their sensor?

yer probably is expensive, i dont know the range of the sensor

[brooksieb]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

[Skittles!]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

Guns are useful? WHOA! Since when? Oh, right, to kill people.

[The1exile]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

could be. Then again, you could just walk in front of it with a titanium block and watch it end up breaking itself.

As for shooting down the mortars... how fast do the bullets go? Wouldn't you need to be rather close for that to work?

[The1exile]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

Guns are useful? WHOA! Since when? Oh, right, to kill people.

or to shoot them in the kneecaps.

[Grooveman2007]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

could be. Then again, you could just walk in front of it with a titanium block and watch it end up breaking itself.

As for shooting down the mortars... how fast do the bullets go? Wouldn't you need to be rather close for that to work?

Mortars are very slow for a projectile weapon, all the gun would have to do is lead the mortar as it arced through the air.

[brooksieb]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

Guns are useful? WHOA! Since when? Oh, right, to kill people.

guns are useful, and until they become obsolete they're useful...

[Skittles!]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

Guns are useful? WHOA! Since when? Oh, right, to kill people.

guns are useful, and until they become obsolete they're useful...

Why are they useful?

[brooksieb]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

Guns are useful? WHOA! Since when? Oh, right, to kill people.

guns are useful, and until they become obsolete they're useful...

Why are they useful?

because other guns made the other guns useful

[Neutrino]

To me, that thing seems like massive overkill. 16 000 bullets of any reasonable size likely mass significantly more than the mortar round itself.
Same for the anti-intruder function. Utterly obliterating the intruder with a wall of bullets doesn't strike me as an ethical thing to do. Sure, they're trespassing, but that doesn't give you the right to obliterate them with an automated sentry system.

Oh, and as Skittles said, guns are bad.

[Skittles!]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

Guns are useful? WHOA! Since when? Oh, right, to kill people.

guns are useful, and until they become obsolete they're useful...

Why are they useful?

because other guns made the other guns useful

1. That makes no sense.
2. That is flawed.
3. Guns are not useful.

[brooksieb]

What a waste of money.

no it aint, it looks like a very useful gun

Guns are useful? WHOA! Since when? Oh, right, to kill people.

guns are useful, and until they become obsolete they're useful...

Why are they useful?

because other guns made the other guns useful

1. That makes no sense.
2. That is flawed.
3. Guns are not useful.

1. That makes perfect sence.
2. That is not flawed.
2. Guns are useful for duckhunting.

[Iliad]

16,000 bullets that's kinda mean to the duck eh?

[brooksieb]

no i mean air rifles, say if u were stuck lost in a forest and all u had was a air rifle, wudnt u use it to hunt

SEE SKITTLES GUNS ARE A TOOL NOT A WEAPON

[Skittles!]

Once you reach reality, brooksieb, I'll let you believe whatever you like.

[The1exile]

Mortars are very slow for a projectile weapon, all the gun would have to do is lead the mortar as it arced through the air.

It can't lead if it's relying on the projectile passing through the sensor.

[Neutrino]

no i mean air rifles, say if u were stuck lost in a forest and all u had was a air rifle, wudnt u use it to hunt

SEE SKITTLES GUNS ARE A TOOL NOT A WEAPON

One hopes you're being sarcastic...

While theoretically capable of being used as a tool, a sword is a weapon first and formost. Same with guns. Even in your example, the gun is being used as a weapon. A weapon used for a constructive purpose, but a weapon nonetheless.

Guns are, and will forever be, weapons. Not tools. Not "instruments for fighting oppression" (badly paraphrased) or any of the other crappy alternatives I've heard. Weapons.

[Neoteny]

no i mean air rifles, say if u were stuck lost in a forest and all u had was a air rifle, wudnt u use it to hunt

SEE SKITTLES GUNS ARE A TOOL NOT A WEAPON

One hopes you're being sarcastic...

While theoretically capable of being used as a tool, a sword is a weapon first and formost. Same with guns. Even in your example, the gun is being used as a weapon. A weapon used for a constructive purpose, but a weapon nonetheless.

Guns are, and will forever be, weapons. Not tools. Not "instruments for fighting oppression" (badly paraphrased) or any of the other crappy alternatives I've heard. Weapons.

I used a gun once to pick up a bag... maybe my absurd humor is inappropriate here...

[Neoteny]

Mortars are very slow for a projectile weapon, all the gun would have to do is lead the mortar as it arced through the air.

It can't lead if it's relying on the projectile passing through the sensor.

Are you sure? If it had several sensors, I don't see why it couldn't be programmed to lead its target. I couldn't say anything about its efficiency...