The Gun that Fires a Million Bullets a Minute
The below is an unedited draft of an entry on Mike 'Angel of Death' O'Dwyer that was published in Secrets & Lies. As always, any comments or feedback is most welcome.
The Gun that Fires a Million Bullets a Minute
When we see the coverage of Gulf War III in a few years time, expect to see terrible new US military weapons ranging from the mysterious flying back triangles being tested in our skies today and Metal Storm – an electronic firing system allows for the building of a gun that can fire a million bullets a minute.
Developed by Australian Mike O’Dwyers, the technology behind the Metal Storm guns is the most radical and scary development in ballistic weapons for a century. Instead of using mechanical firing pins to shoot bullets, O’Dwyer’s guns’ hold multiple bullets in the barrel which are set off electronically fractions of a second apart. This allows the bullets to be fired in such rapid succession that the bullets behind each other actually push those in front and increase bullet velocity. In one test, a multi-barrell gun was able to deliver a firing rate of one millions bullets a minute. For anything in the line of fire it was like walking into a wall of molten lead.
Most of the prototype Metal Storm guns that O’Dwyer is developing for the US and Australian military are highly classified. However, one project under development by O’Dwyer and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ‘Metal Storm Weapons for Urban Environments.’ This features a combination of a Metal Storm prototype 40mm grenade launcher system attached to a robotic unmanned ground vehicle. It will eventually allow US generals to send in robots firing the fastest guns ever developed into urban areas without risking American lives. Imagine how much scarier the still secret projects are.
In his PR, Mike O’Dwyer likes to portray himself as an inventor who has done something worthwhile by creating Metal Storm. He has the chutzpah to say: “Part of my motivation came from the fact that my family understands loss in times of war.” When Alfred Nobel created his famous prizes, it was because the inventor of dynamite had seen an accidentally published orbituary that labelled him ‘The angel of death’. Mr. Dwyer, whatever you say, you are an angel of death.
The Gun that Fires a Million Bullets a Minute
When we see the coverage of Gulf War III in a few years time, expect to see terrible new US military weapons ranging from the mysterious flying back triangles being tested in our skies today and Metal Storm – an electronic firing system allows for the building of a gun that can fire a million bullets a minute.
Developed by Australian Mike O’Dwyers, the technology behind the Metal Storm guns is the most radical and scary development in ballistic weapons for a century. Instead of using mechanical firing pins to shoot bullets, O’Dwyer’s guns’ hold multiple bullets in the barrel which are set off electronically fractions of a second apart. This allows the bullets to be fired in such rapid succession that the bullets behind each other actually push those in front and increase bullet velocity. In one test, a multi-barrell gun was able to deliver a firing rate of one millions bullets a minute. For anything in the line of fire it was like walking into a wall of molten lead.
Most of the prototype Metal Storm guns that O’Dwyer is developing for the US and Australian military are highly classified. However, one project under development by O’Dwyer and the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is ‘Metal Storm Weapons for Urban Environments.’ This features a combination of a Metal Storm prototype 40mm grenade launcher system attached to a robotic unmanned ground vehicle. It will eventually allow US generals to send in robots firing the fastest guns ever developed into urban areas without risking American lives. Imagine how much scarier the still secret projects are.
In his PR, Mike O’Dwyer likes to portray himself as an inventor who has done something worthwhile by creating Metal Storm. He has the chutzpah to say: “Part of my motivation came from the fact that my family understands loss in times of war.” When Alfred Nobel created his famous prizes, it was because the inventor of dynamite had seen an accidentally published orbituary that labelled him ‘The angel of death’. Mr. Dwyer, whatever you say, you are an angel of death.
7 Comments:
As if our weapons today aren't lethal enough. Why do we need something that fires a million bullets per second? How dead does someone have to get before they stop moving? What scenario is needed for this weapon to be used? And, to quote myself, "just because we have the technology doesn't mean we need to use it".
This only cements my feelings that we are far more technologically than sociologically advanced. And it will be our undoing. We're children in a lethal candystore, unable to restrain ourselves.
True. Those are the sort of thoughts that led me to putting O'Dwyer in Secrets & lies.
david, perhaps now it is just time for you to befriend an Angel of Life instead...
I'd just like to say that this is one of the reasons your work is so valuable, David. Exposing and speculating about people like Mr. O'Dwyer is important. Telling the stories the way you do motivates people to process, think and (hopefully) act with greater awareness. I think critical thinking has become a weapon in today's world of veils and trap doors.
Before I was worried. Now I am terrified. What kind of minds think up crap like this, let alone build it?
How are they billing this as beneficial as compared to what's available already?
The only benefit (if there ever is one regarding weapons) is the ratio of soldiers going against each other. One man with the Metal Storm gun could go against a whole troop theoretically and get quite a few hits (before being offed himself).
Otherwise, the gun will do as much damage as any other (machine)gun -- the Metal Storm would just be overkill.
You all maybe scared but not to press the point home ... I think your all still missing the total and utter deadlyness of the idea.
Having helped on the research, let me say that this gun will turn a stack of 12 fire doors into matchsticks in a blink of an eye.
As each bullet is exactly behind the one before it can go through walls or even thick metal plate armouring. There IS NO escaping or deflecting its rain of death.
It will kill an unarmed civilian just as easily as a combat ready marine INSIDE a Chieftan Tank.
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