Anyone know how this works?

[Maljonic]

http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040606_fr_tobin_300.swf

My guess is a small, rapid fire machine gun.

 

[DaGaffer]

http://media2.foxnews.com/040606/040606_fr_tobin_300.swf

My guess is a small, rapid fire machine gun.

More like a shotgun. Its a kind of combined reactive armour/antimissile thing. in other words, not a "force-field". This is a glen btw.

 

[TdC]

glen! it's a shotgun btw iirc.

 

[nath]

Like wot he had in james bond!

 

[Maljonic]

I thought it might be a mini version of those square things they put on ships, that fire like a million rounds a minute. Shotgun makes more sense though.

 

[TdC]

gatekeepers? they pwn

 

[Maljonic]

Just found this site while searching for pictures of the rapid fire thingy:

http://www.meads-amd.com/

Has some interesting videos, take ages to load though.

 

[RandomBastard]

gatekeepers? they pwn

You mean the Phalanx.

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.285/changeNav/3533

or the Goal Keeper.

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.2219

Phalanx is my favourite though

 

[Maljonic]

I think maybe the one I saw was experimental, or rare. It didn't have a barrel like those two, though it is similar looking. It was radar guided I think, but it was more like a box shaped thing with a square that had loads of holes in it, maybe a thousand? At it's top rate it fired 1 million round per minute, totally obliterating an incoming missile threat, and sounding like a continuous, high-pitched buzz at full speed. Not the same as those in Battlefield 2.

 

[RandomBastard]

I think maybe the one I saw was experimental, or rare. It didn't have a barrel like those two, though it is similar looking. It was radar guided I think, but it was more like a box shaped thing with a square that had loads of holes in it, maybe a thousand? At it's top rate it fired 1 million round per minute, totally obliterating an incoming missile threat, and sounding like a continuous, high-pitched buzz at full speed. Not the same as those in Battlefield 2.

Thats an electric machine gun as opposed to firing rounds mechanically it uses electric current to fire the rounds for a very rapid fire.

The two i linked too are gatling cannons (i.e. high speed conventional machine guns) for naval uses.

 

[JingleBells]

This is just an update on https://forums.freddyshouse.com/showthread.php?t=195451

 

[TdC]

You mean the Phalanx.

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.285/changeNav/3533

or the Goal Keeper.

http://www.royal-navy.mod.uk/server/show/nav.2219

Phalanx is my favourite though

that was it, goal keeper! cheers

 

[Raven]

looks like a complex series of weights and pullies to me