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<blockquote data-quote="HeavenShallBurn" data-source="post: 4051854" data-attributes="member: 39593">The problem with MetalStorm isn't end effect so much as inaccuracy and the weight factor and no amount of technology is going to help the second.&nbsp; The technique of bullet stacking creates a situation where the rounds don't all have the same aimpoint or trajectory, too much margin of error.&nbsp; Only way this can be solved is guided projectiles.&nbsp; Second is insurmountable and it's the weight/effect curve.&nbsp; A metalstorm weapon doesn't have a magazine, the barrel is the magazine, reloading involves swapping the loaded barrel.&nbsp; And in order to withstand the stresses of firing barrels have to be very strong.&nbsp; Which also means they're much heavier than a magazine of equal capacity.&nbsp; So troops end up carrying less ammo with lower accuracy.&nbsp; If you want to showcase an advanced firearm technology use liquid propellants.&nbsp; A bullet is chambered and liquid propellant is injected then electrically ignited.&nbsp; Think of it like the combustion chamber in an engine block, and the cylinder is a bullet.&nbsp; Liquid propellants can achieve far greater impulse than solid propellants and moving propellant from inside a cartridge to a single tank increases the unit per volume.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HeavenShallBurn, post: 4051854, member: 39593"] The problem with MetalStorm isn't end effect so much as inaccuracy and the weight factor and no amount of technology is going to help the second. The technique of bullet stacking creates a situation where the rounds don't all have the same aimpoint or trajectory, too much margin of error. Only way this can be solved is guided projectiles. Second is insurmountable and it's the weight/effect curve. A metalstorm weapon doesn't have a magazine, the barrel [b]is[/b] the magazine, reloading involves swapping the loaded barrel. And in order to withstand the stresses of firing barrels have to be very strong. Which also means they're much heavier than a magazine of equal capacity. So troops end up carrying less ammo with lower accuracy. If you want to showcase an advanced firearm technology use liquid propellants. A bullet is chambered and liquid propellant is injected then electrically ignited. Think of it like the combustion chamber in an engine block, and the cylinder is a bullet. Liquid propellants can achieve far greater impulse than solid propellants and moving propellant from inside a cartridge to a single tank increases the unit per volume. [/QUOTE]

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