The description almost sounds like a WMD.
I’ve never fired a gun in my life, but I’d sure like to snap off a couple of rounds of those!
A miss from a 20mm can kill and they’ve been around since [Vietnam?] [Korea?] For awhile at least.
What the hell is a “thermobaric event”? Sounds like the pressure-wave of an explosion, quite frankly. The language of this article looks to my (admittedly untrained-in-munitions) eyes like a lot of techno-mumbo-jumbo for “We’ve got a new kind of explosive round. It blows up and kills things in a new and special way.”
“An overpressure”? WTF is that? Again, seems little more than technobabble for a concussive pressure wave from an explosion.
You can call it “barotrauma”, if you like, but it means you got the shit pounded out of you by the force of an explosion. Neat, but why all the meaningless pseudo-geek-speak? Sounds like they’re trying to sell something from RONCO.
Even an Imperial Stormtrooper could hit someone with these bullets!
Yes, this is basically a “bigger boom” story. Here is another article about a much bigger cousin of the small arms round.
As I understand it, a thermobaric shell is optimized to create increased atmospheric pressure rather than to fling out shrapnel. Apparently in tunnel and bunker systems, a sudden severe overpressure followed by return to lower pressure has greater destructive potential.
“The aircraft next to which I am currently standing is one of our most cost intensive ordnance delivery vectors.”… or something.
I was once very nearly killed by a miss. She grazed my eyebrow with a nine iron. :smack:
Now dat is foolishness, as you are obviously a 5 iron shot.
I don’t have to miss with my [url=]Metal Storm. I like the second to last video, now that’s firepower!
I presume that [URL=http://www.metalstorm.com/04_videos/videos.html]this](]Metal Storm[/url) is the link you wanted.
I’m sure it will be used in the XM29
A very interesting weapon.
Hmm, my first broken link. I wonder how that happened?
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I don’t have to miss with my Metal Storm. I like the second to last video, now that’s firepower!
There. I hate to leave mistakes unresolved.
It’s really fun if you weld a half-dozen or so to the top of a SheVa.
Consider it done.
You know, I just had a thought. If you’ve ever seen the show “Mail Call” on the Hitler-er, History Channel, you’ll know that R. Lee Ermey likes nothing better than “blowing crap up.” So, if all of us send him an email, we just might get to see these things in action…
Bet the A-Team still couldn’t kill anyone with these things.
Did the A-Team ever kill anybody? 
A miss has always been capable of killing: all this does is change which of the two parties dies.
Such a small thing. Hardly seems worth the investment, does it? 