The Army May Have Found Its Next Rifle In A Colorado Garage

[Electrocuter]

Isn't this pretty much the exact same concept as those Metal Storm weapons from years ago?

[Unclejimmema]

No. Metal Storm basically stacked bullets and charges on top of one another in single barrels, with the selling point being that because they were electronically fired they could have extremely high rates of fire. The only real relationship here is it being electronically fired and that with metal Storm they'd usually group up multiple barrels.

Oddly enough that was a concept stemming from the 1700, with handfuls of flintlocks made using mutliple Flint's/locks coupled with ball and charged stacked on one another to increase the rate of fire. Both suffer from the same issue, neither we're easily reloadable and while Metal Storms solution was to just swap the barrel out for another preloaded barrel it still never really took off due to the expense involved.

[Provost]

Those blocks look like they'd weigh significantly more than current ammunition.

[Saxon]

I feel like every time someone starts spouting an all in one solution for a weapon that its probably shit.

[FiveEyes]

Looks like it was designed for a game rather than actual world use.

[neesu]

Hell, we've even had electrically primed rifles already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qP6Q9ZEsEo

There's a reason they didn't take off.

[revengeanomics]

Who are we kidding...
Just get out the rehashed M4's and be done with it.