"Metal Storm" (240,000 shots/min gun) to be tested

[Rakido]

Plus why use 240K rounds to kill one person when one will do

"mine is bigger than yours" - syndrome

[borat]

"mine is bigger than yours" - syndrome

AKA I live and they die. If im sat in the line of fire i want the best kit, to give me the best chance of surviving. Any government that doesnt look into kit like this is negligent on both their military people and for the protection of its homeland. Lets just hope it never needs to be used in anger.

[Dr Mordrid]

The way things are going I hope it's ready for Iran

Things are really looking sour when the French start rattling their nuclear sabers as Chirac did last week....

Dr. Mordrid

[Wulfman]

Plus why use 240K rounds to kill one person when one will do

statistically speaking: it takes quite a large number of bullets/kill if you check the amount of ammunition spent in modern (and more ancient) wars.

mfg
wulfman

[KvHagedorn]

Why not just train all our soldiers as snipers?

[Dr Mordrid]

According to the news there is a dramatic increase in the size of the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in the offing, so you may get your wish.

I also find this analysis in the Asia Times quite interesting. The writer postulates on why the West and other regional powers have come to such a rapid conclusion that Iran must be stopped now;

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA24Ak01.html

Why the West will attack Iran
By Spengler

Why did French President Jacques Chirac last week threaten to use non-conventional - that is, nuclear - weapons against terrorist states? And why did Iran announce that it would shift foreign-exchange reserves out of European banks (although it has since retracted this warning)? The answer lies in the nature of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. Iran needs nuclear weapons, I believe, not to attack Israel, but to support imperial expansion by conventional military means.

Iran's oil exports will shrink to zero in 20 years, just at the demographic inflection point when the costs of maintaining an aged population will crush its state finances, as I reported in Demographics and Iran's imperial design (September 13, 2005). Just outside Iran's present frontiers lie the oil resources of Iraq, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan, and not far away are the oil concentrations of eastern Saudi Arabia. Its neighbors are quite as alarmed as Washington about the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran, and privately quite happy for Washington to wipe out this capability.

It is remarkable how quickly an international consensus has emerged for the eventual use of force against Iran. Chirac's indirect reference to the French nuclear capability was a warning to Tehran. Mohamed ElBaradei, whose Nobel Peace Prize last year was awarded to rap the knuckles of the United States, told Newsweek that in the extreme case, force might be required to stop Iran's acquiring a nuclear capability. German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung told the newspaper Bild am Sonntag that the military option could not be abandoned, although diplomatic efforts should be tried first. Bild, Germany's largest-circulation daily, ran Iranian President Mahmud Ahmedinejad's picture next to Adolf Hitler's, with the headline, "Will Iran plunge the world into the abyss?"

Dr. Mordrid