I call BULLSHIT

[unixronin]

A centrifuge-based gun with no sound, no heat, no mechanical wear, no recoil even when firing .50-caliber projectiles at up to 8000fps at up to 120,000rpm cyclic, that cannot jam ...

Um, excuse me.  But.  This article was supposed to be published on April 1, right....?

Update:

phanatic, a poster on the guns thread, calculated the power requirements of this weapon from the specs claimed by the crank inventor and assuming perfect 100% efficiency.  Using those assumptions, he came up with a sustained power consumption of 100MW -- approximately 134,000 horsepower.

Noiseless?  Heatless?  Portable?  .... Yeah, RIGHT.

Comments

[koyote.livejournal.com]

I think that the frictionless and heatless comments aren't exactly intended to be cold-fusionesque. It's very tempting when critiquing a design to go voerboard on that. The projectiles won't be hot, the device won't flare up on an IR sensor like a rifle, it's relatively heatless, etc.

I mean, okay, let's talk about 1940s era recoilless rifles. Recoilless? Well, no, you couldn't actually balance a 75mm RR on a pin and fire it and expect it to stay. But it's an accepted and usefully descriptive term for "able to be shoulder fired rather than mounted in a tank"- and people don't argue it much.