electric machine gun is silent nov 1936

[Meanderer]

 

[AZ Jim]

Ahhh So now it's not just me, the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam that came into being in 1936!

 

[Meanderer]

Ahhh So now it's not just me, the Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam that came into being in 1936!

Yeah Jim, You're in good company!....and no "the electric machine gun" was never the name of a dance!

 

[AZ Jim]

Yeah Jim, You're in good company!....and no "the electric machine gun" was never the name of a dance!

OR a rock band?

 

[SifuPhil]

Wow - who knew they had rail guns back in the '30's?!?

 

[rt3]

It would only be until 70 years later, that batteries small enough to not require a train car and. with a fast enough discharge rate would be invented. The ones that go with this one melted along with the operator

 

[SifuPhil]

Figures the inventor would be a Texan!

 

[Meanderer]

Interesting Firearms - Metalstorm, capable of firing 1 million rounds per minute!

http://www.vincelewis.net/metalstorm.html

 

[GeneMO]

Just saw the other day where the Navy is getting ready to start using rail guns to replace cannon and missiles.