SteveB wrote:
"cavelamb" wrote in message
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Could be the first real advance in hand held weaponry since gunpowder?

The Dread


http://www.defensereview.com/modules...rticle&sid=526


But, what is the DREAD, really? How does it work? In a sentence, the DREAD
is an electrically-powered centrifuge weapon, or centrifuge "gun". So,
instead of using self-contained cartridges containing powdered propellant
(gunpowder), the DREAD's ammunition will be .308 and .50 caliber round
metal balls (steel, tungsten, tungsten carbide, ceramic-coated tungsten,
etc...) that will be literally spun out of the weapon at speeds as high as
8000 fps (give or take a few hundred feet-per-second) at rather extreme
rpm's, striking their targets with overwhelming and devastating firepower.
We're talking about total target saturation, here. All this, of course,
makes the DREAD revolutionary in the literal sense, as well as the
conceptual one.

Have heard of this over a year now. Seems if it had real merit, one would
have heard more or seen it more. I think there are only limited tactical
situations where saturation fire is advantageous. I saw another system
where the bullets were essentially stacked, and electronically fired. It
seems like a centrifugal firing mechanism wouldn't be very accurate except
for spraying a certain arc of the circle.


I see no reason to assume any inaccuracy.
In fact, it could be scary accurate, if you wanted.