Dread anyone?

It was unconditional in that the Japanese had to agree to whatever we wanted. And they did.

The balls would not be touching the outer walls. They would be dropped down a feed tube in the center at the correct time for the spinning barrel to be lined up with the shot when the ball had traveled from the center to the exit. Since you would would have multiple barrels, the firing rate would be much higher than the RPM.

What recoil? It is not the Newtonian forces of expanding gases, is the tangential force of the weight of the ball against the barrel as it rolls / slides down the tube.

Can't be a multibarrel design, the video said the balls were like 3/8" apart. Barrels arranged like spokes could not deliver shots that close together.

Thank You, Randy

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F=V.dm/dt

The recoil is there whatever mechanism you use to accelerate the ammunition. that's how rockets work

There will be differences in the spectrum of the recoil waveform (it is a waveform in a machine gun) but the recoil will still be there.

Mark Rand RTFM

Guys like him can never see it themselves. Lots of other people can too. It's obvious that many men here, and I use the term loosely, are virtually indistinguishable from the "terrorists" they despise so much. They want to act in the exact same way as their enemies do. They always see a big difference between themselves and the "bad guys" and they never know that the bad guys think exactly the same way they do. You can't make them see it though so it's a waste of time pointing out how similar they are to the people they hate. We see it though.

Hawke

Your ignorance is noted with some pity.

Gunner

"Not so old as to need virgins to excite him, nor old enough to have the patience to teach one."