Interesting theory...

[otiarstill]

Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as

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[anarchangel23]

This turned up on the Transhuman Space list about a year ago and people brought up several valid criticisms of it. Unfortunately I can't remember what they were! I suspect the verdict was over-optimistic marketing of a design without a prototype. I think the motor would make a noise. Do those bullet break the sound barrier (I can't be assed doing the maths)?

[otiarstill]

A year ago...damn. This is far older than I thought.

And yes, there is a crack as they break the sound barrier...but it claims thats its hard to pinpoint the weapon location with that...

[anarchangel23]

It may not have been that long, It was definitely last year though, probably following an initial press release. I see it's now close to release. It'll be interesting to see anyway.

[anarchangel23]

I was going to mention the Metal storm one too, but I see it's linked below :)

[devolve_absolve]

http://homepage.mac.com/karsten/Tech%20Ramblings/C1065734593/E302606032/

this gun is much cooler =D