Why is there no gatling gun that fires 40mm High explosive grenades at 5,000 rounds per minute
>>489018603Too badass. Sounds tight as fuck
>>489018603There was one a little less revolutions Anon:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M129_grenade_launcherThe high-low pressure system built into those grenades is wasted in a gatling system but anyhow
probably the rounds arent aerodynamic enough to reach 5000rpm
>>489018603How do you know there isn't one? Darpa fr fr.
>>489018725>>489018603That's a good question.My guess is there's no market for it. if we blow something up we just use an appropriate sized bomb.Spraying bullets is a requirement since we can't just use 5mile bullets to shoot an entire field where as you can just use a fuckhuge bomb instead of needing to carpet bomb it woth firecrackers
>>489018603heat would blow the nades in the barrel at that speedthere is that "shotgun" though.
>>489018603You deserve honorary American citizenship for this post
>the sheer retardation ITT
>>489019779We will figure it out eventually. Also you can design the nades to be only detonated by electrical signal not heat.
>>489018603expensiveunless ur a gundam who just magically reloads ur arsenal for free between battles
>>489018603>>>>/k/
>>489020236where do you think the thread came fromthey only talk about the ukraine/kiev now
>>489018603>5000 rpmbecause physics40mm are slow out the tube
>>489021159HmmHere's a crazy idea, what if the barrels didn't move but the gun itself spins?
>>489018603What's the usecase? Gunships are dead, CAS doing strafing runs are dead. You don't want to have this rpm on anything ground or water based either because it's too wasteful.
>>489022667We might see some really aggressive upscaling of CIWS type weapons if droneswarms become a de facto normal in war. Think 1940s AA on aircraft carriers but re-tuned to try and handle several hundred dog-sized targets instead of several dozen house-sized ones.Airbursting 40mm at 5000rpm might actually be on the menu.
>>489019779Depends how many barrels there are
>>489023282Drones aren't fast enough for this RoF to matter, rockets that are fast enough are probably easier to intercept with other rockets. You've made more sense but I can't see how a 20mm can't do the same job reasonably as well.
>>489024473The RoF isn't for trying to catch high-speed targets, it's for having to saturate a massive area filled with tons of targets using a limited number of gun emplacements. I'm thinking about the types of coordinated drone formations that China currently uses for celebratory shows in the night sky, sort of like fireworks.Most everything we know about shooting down incoming missiles comes with the assumption that they're relatively few in number, but high speed and hard to track. Saturation attacks have always been possible but are extraordinarily costly when each unit in the swarm costs tens of millions of dollars. But if each unit costs maybe 10 grand instead, then the numbers blow out completely in how many individual vectors you can field. Imagine this but every single point of light is a bomb, and you need to shoot all of them down.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpaSXwpKzGkTotal area saturation is your only real option. It's almost more feasible to start seriously considering EMP weapons.
>>489025559directed emp? how would an emp platform even work, it would fuck over everything else in the area and then theres>just shield itif it were that easy then it negates the emp because "lol everything is shielded"
>>489025893We are very very good at electronic warfare. EMPs have never been directly weaponized but it's an EM effect like any other, which can be projected by an antenna. You can absolutely aim a directional one with a purpose-built system. Even if we couldn't roll out a dedicated EMP platform, the SPY radar on an Aegis class cruiser would literally fry dozens of drones a second just by sweeping over them. Don't ask what happens to flocks of birds that unknowingly fly in front of those arrays.
>>489018603Warfare has yet to deserve the blessed holy bolter.
>>489018603Because there is already a 30mm with HE rounds that would outperform it in any situation in which you would want a gatling gun.
>>489019700>checkedyep, cluster munitions and cluster artillery do that job
