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rwfisher · October 12, 2005, 06:59 PM

Yeah, and since you don't have to worry about ejecting the spent case, an automatic weapon can have extremely high cyclic rates of fire (ala G11).

I would wager the highest velocity out of a "gun" was obtained with this scenario...

http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html

I think the estimate was ~56km/s...or 183,727 feet/s; I would wager that it didn't go far....

October 12, 2005, 06:59 PM	#39
rwfisher Member Join Date: September 24, 2005 Posts: 16	caseless ammo Yeah, and since you don't have to worry about ejecting the spent case, an automatic weapon can have extremely high cyclic rates of fire (ala G11). I would wager the highest velocity out of a "gun" was obtained with this scenario... http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/Brownlee.html I think the estimate was ~56km/s...or 183,727 feet/s; I would wager that it didn't go far....