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Dread Weapon System

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Dread Weapon System

Devastating, Jam-Proof, and Silent

http://www.military.com/soldiertech/0,14632,Soldiertech_DREAD,,00.html
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(This is one scary looking weapon!)

No heat, no recoil, no sound, no gunpowder, no flash -- just 120,000 rounds per minute of pulverizing power. The next generation of weapons systems has arrived: the DREAD centrifuge-powered weapon system.
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Unless I'm mistaken, this thread is about the Dread Weapon System. If you wish to debate the possiblilty of World peace, please start your own thread.


As the creator of this thread, thank you.

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Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You're welcome!
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Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
DREAD is the key word here - and this monstrosity should be dreaded, from both ends of the barrel. Obviously this was designed to inflict as much damage as possible in the shortest time, and when the greatest damage is to human life, dread should be paramount to the user as well as to those looking down its barrel. Just ask anyone with a conscience how it feels to take a life, and the honest answer is bloody awful. There is no glory in it, and certainly no reward.
The truly sad thing here is that someone believed such a devastating weapon was even necessary.
Also, DZ, my point about firearms only in self defence was that if there was no aggression, there'd be no shots fired in anger and no reason to retaliate in kind. In any event, using such a weapon is barbaric, in self defence or otherwise.
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Tarkus...I have made a request to Jafo to delete all my posts in this thread and once again...sorry for getting carried away! It's just a touchy subject.
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Just like all weapons, useless in the end...
Reply #33 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Thrads get 'derailed' often.... but in this case it's not quite 'black and white'. This weapon concept naturally raises such issues of 'overkill' [yep, great pun] and war, foreign policy, et al, so it's not necessarily 'off-topic'.

Comments 'shouldn't' be deleted ad hoc just for that, otherwise responses must be as well....and all that is draconian censorship that people justly despise.

Back on topic....a home-grown inventor in Oz with no weapon/balistic background came up with an electric fired tube gun....all the bullets in the one barrel .... that had the capacity to fire at a silly rate of knots .... was so 'good' the US Military got all 'moist' and he probably got rich.

This thingie uses centrifuge....it's the equivalent of the big brat in the schoolyard throwing stones harder and faster than you can.

Morbidly curiously interesting technology....all we need is new and better ways to kill people...

Dunno about that zero inertia B.S. in space....last I heard...every action has an equal and opposite one...so if that's the scope of their physics prowess the whole thing's a dud...

Reply #34 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thrads.....threads, too.... Spell checker
Reply #35 from WinCustomize Forums Top
LoL..Got yourself Jafo..

Tarkus, I do apologize as well for getting myself involved in the debate..but as WG points out, it is a touchy subject..I have been raised in a military family so I suppose thats where my point of views are born from..
I do agree that all the coversation was relavant to the weapon itself, but it perhaps not the direction you really wanted it to go..

W/G..perhaps when I have more time (gotta run in a few mins here) we could open a thread concerning this vary topic so that others may share their points of view..

in the mean time,
Take care everyone!
Zero.
Reply #36 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Weapons are a necessary evil... as long as there are bad guys out there who wish to opress the masses, there will be a need for weapons to fight against them...
Reply #37 from WinCustomize Forums Top
To secure peace is to prepare for war...