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Yet another gun. (Destiny)

by Quirel, Sunday, September 15, 2013, 15:05 (3847 days ago) @ scarab

So, Scarab linked to this tri-barreled revolver, which got me thinking.

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Back in the 1960's, America's Project SALVO focused on burst-fire with small projectiles or fletchettes. The light recoil and high rate of fire desired by the project would result in much higher hit probabilities than... Ok, sod it, elements in the US Army wanted burst fire and pattern fire rifles, and many of the prototypes submitted by multiple companies had three barrels.

Forty years later, over in Deutschland...


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