Metal Storm

China’s Newest Machine Gun Could Fire Half a Million Rounds Per Minute

But it remains unclear what the weapon’s purpose would be. 

450,000 Rounds Per Minute? Meet China’s New “Metal Storm” Gun

The Chinese Communist Party is infamous for quite a few different transgressions and malign acts. Among these transgressions are their knockoffs and egregious copycatting of various Western products and technologies—as I personally witnessed...

Metal Storm: This Gun Supposedly Fired a 1,000,000 Rounds a Minute

Here’s What You Need to Know: A million 9mm rounds could cut through a tank like a hot knife through butter. Until the invention of the first repeating rifles in the...

Meet the Metal Storm: It Could Fire 1,000,000 Bullets Per Minute

Key Point: This gun could fire a massive amount of ammo to take out a lot of infantry. But it is huge, cumbersome, and expensive. Until the invention of the first...

Metal Storm: The Gun That Could Fire A Million Rounds a Minute

Until the invention of the first repeating rifles in the middle of the 19th century, the average soldier could typically fire about three rounds per minute. The truly skilled might...