New weapon system will let shooters adjust bullet velocity
Written by admin on July 23rd, 2008 in gadgets.
As US toy manufacturer, that’s right I said toy manufacturer, has been tapped by the Army to design a new rifle that can be set to deliver rounds at lethal or non-lethal speeds. The company called, Lund and Company Invention, is the maker of rockets powered by hydrogen created from electrosized water and now the same tech for these toy rockets will be used for a new type of firearm system.
The new gun technology will be dubbed the Variable Velocity Weapon System (VWS) and lets soldiers switch the gun from lethal to non-lethal modes for combat or simple crowd control. They way it will work is that a combustion chamber in the gun will mix fuel with air to create the explosion needed to carry the a payload like a standard bullet or non-lethal rubber bullet. The chamber can be adjusted allowing the mix to be altered, controlling the power of the explosion, and thus the velocity of the bullet can also be adjusted.
The current system has been designed around a .50 caliber rifle, but the toymaker says the VWS can be put to use from guns measuring from a, “handgun to Howitzer.” Production of the VWS could go full steam in 18 months, but demos of the variable velocity gun system could ready in as little as 6 months.
Read more at New Scientist via DVICE.
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