A new Chinese rapid-fire machine gun is capable of firing up to 450,000 rounds per minute per barrel, potentially surpassing existing systems such as the US military’s Phalanx. The weapon utilizes a novel box-style rotary firing system with disposable barrels and an electronic trigger for unmatched speed and efficiency.
China is pushing the boundaries of weapons technology with the development of a new rapid-fire machine gun. Equipped with at least five barrels, this weapon can fire up to 450,000 rounds per minute per barrel. This generates an unmatched barrage capable of intercepting hypersonic missiles exceeding Mach 7. By comparison, the US military’s most advanced Phalanx system reaches only 4,500 rounds per minute.
Researchers in Taiyuan, central China’s industrial hub, have devised a novel solution: a replaceable container-like magazine loaded with barrels pre-packed with bullets. After firing, the barrels and the entire container are discarded as a single disposable unit. The box-style rotary firing system boosts loading speed, reduces barrel wear, and maintains accuracy, enabling multiple strikes, continuous operations, and quick counterattacks. The developments were detailed by Lu Xutao and his team from North University of China in a December paper published in.Traditional machine guns with mechanical triggers cannot meet the PLA’s requirement of 7,500 shots per second. To address this, Lu and his team designed an electronic trigger using coils.Lu’s team further explained that the contactless trigger works by instantly melting an alloy wire embedded in the bullet, creating a high-energy metal jet to ignite the explosive. This electronic trigger achieves remarkable efficiency, with a firing time of just 17.5 microseconds. According to test data, it is capable of meeting the target performance of 450,000 rounds per minute per barrel, the team noted.The weapon, known as Metal Storm, was initially proposed by Australian inventor Mike O’Dwyer in the 1990s. His company, Metal Storm Inc, developed a 36-barrel test system capable of firing at an astonishing rate of 1 million per minute. In 2006, O’Dwyer revealed that the PLA had offered $100 million for the technolog
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