iran is looking at metalstorm bfmg, page-2

This is what I have been waiting for all these years, the other 40mm weapons are very very good, but this BFMG will make lots and lots of dollars, and not just the weapon but the ammo as well!

The photo of the BFMG in the PDF I posted is the first evidence I have seen that it now lives! and if they are quoting those ranges with different propellants in the PDF, then surely they must have also fired it?????

Now lets see, the phalanx fires up to 4,500 rpm and has six barrels, so if the max rate of fire is used then the weapon is turning at 750 revs per min, but remember, it's velocity is only 1,100 m/s, compare that with the metalstorms BFMG,if what they are saying about these propellants is correct? C4- 8100 m/s,TNT- 7024 m/s,PENT- 8300 m/s,RDX- 8500m/s, because E=MC squared , if you double the velocity you nearly quadruple the kinetic impact. I'm not sure of the calibre they are talking about? but if it is 50 cal say? it would still be better than the 20mm phalanx by a long shot, as far as kinetic impact would be concerned,but the ammunition is smaller, therefore you could have more than the 1,550 rounds available to the Phalanx? possibly something like 2,000 perhaps?

If the BFMG was travelling at 750 revs per min, it would be firing at a rate of 6000 rounds per min, which is far superior to the phalanx, but even better is that it is also cooler at that rate of fire as well, because each barrel only fires 93.75 times a min for 6000 rounds, where as in the phalanx, each barrel fires 125 times for it's 4,500 rounds, the reason why the phalanx is limited to this rate of fire is because it is mechanical, whereas the mst BFMG is electronically fired and can therefore have a much greater ROF "IF" required?

Just Imagine how Raytheon would be feeling after buying the right to manufacture the Phalanx from General Dynamics (there is that name again?) only to see this coming at them?

The Phalanx Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) is an anti-Anti-ship missile system that was designed and manufactured by the General Dynamics Corporation, Pomona Division.[1] It is now manufactured by the Raytheon Company. It is used by the United States Navy on every class of surface combat ship and by the United States Coast Guard aboard its Hamilton and Legend class cutters. It is also used by navies of 23 allied nations. Because of their distinctive barrel-shaped radome and their automated nature of operation


(For Block 1A/B)


Gun: 20 mm M61 Vulcan Gatling gun autocannon.[1]
Height: 4.7 m.
Weight: 12,250 lb (5,560 kg).[1]
Elevation +82 to −5 degrees.
Muzzle velocity: 1,100 m/s.
Rate of fire: 4,500 rounds/minute.
Maximum burst size: 1000 rounds.
Ammunition: 1,550 rounds.