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Old 11-19-2003, 08:05 PM   #10 (permalink)
Moonduck
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The non-combat uses are great, innovative. The combat uses leave me non-plussed.

Organ guns (row of barrels side by side, like pipes on an organ, except horizontal) have been in use for quite some time (pre-Napoleonic era) and were used to put massive amounts of fire downrange at once. Sort of the pre-cursor to the machine gun. It was a neat idea, but took forever to reload. I wonder if these guns, essentially nothing more than complex organ guns, also have similar reload issues. If so, combat utility is minimal.

In essence, I see this as an interesting design that will likely only be successfully used for specific applications. I cannot see this technolgy becoming mainstream for far too many reasons.
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