Ordnance – Multiple barrel guns
Patent
1987-08-06
1989-06-06
Kyle, Deborah L.
Ordnance
Multiple barrel guns
89 12, 89160, 89 3303, F41D 1030
Patent
active
048360821
ABSTRACT:
A multiple barrel gun for firing projectiles at an extremely high rate of fire, in the form of a dense cloud of projectiles. In one embodiment, hundreds of gun barrels are rapidly rotated about a fewer number of fixed firing stations. As each group of barrels approach the fixed stations, cartridges are radially fed to the barrels, and the group of barrels are concurrently fired when they become aligned with the stations. During each complete revolution of the multiple barrel gun, all of the gun barrels are successively fired in groups a number of times corresponding to the number of firing stations. The total fire power of the gun for each revolution is accordingly equal to the number of barrels times the number of firing stations. To further increase the fire power, a second series of hundreds of gun barrels are counterrotated in opposition to the first series and are independently fed with cartridges and successively fired in groups in the same manner as the first series of barrels to double the firing rate of the gun. The elevation of the gun barrels can be individually adjusted, or automatically varied, to change the shape or diameter of the cloud of projectiles being fired. The extremely high rate of fire of the gun is permitted by the construction of the gun and the triangular shape of the cartridges that enable the cartridges to be fed and ejected from the gun barrels in a transverse direction without any reciprocatory movement.
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Johnson Stephen
Kyle Deborah L.
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