Imagine a gun with no recoil, no sound, no heat, no gunpowder, no visible firing signature (muzzle flash), and no stoppages or jams of any kind. Now imagine that this gun could fire .308 caliber and .50 caliber metal projectiles accurately at up to 8,000 fps (feet-per-second), featured an infinitely variable/programmable cyclic rate-of-fire (as high as 120,000 rounds-per-minute), and were capable of laying down a 360-degree field of fire. What if you could mount this weapon on any military Humvee (HMMWV), any helicopter/gunship, any armored personnel carrier (APC), and any other vehicle for which the technology were applicable?

Stop imagining, such a weapon already exists and its called the DREAD.
The DREAD is an electrically powered centrifuge gun that works by spinning at high speed and flinging its ammo (.308 or .50 calibre metal balls) at a target.
Because it is electrically powered with no powdered propellant it is virtually silent, except for the sonic boom the metal balls make as they break the sound barrier after launching. The creators of the system have apparently signed up with a large US “defence entity” to develop the DREAD tech for both “lethal and less-lethal applications“.

Less-lethal? wtf does that mean?

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