| Is it possible to make a high-powered laser | | | | optic main centerpiece would go through the |
| machine gun that uses no gun powered and fires | | | | center of all the bullets lined up in the chamber |
| the bullets in such rapid succession that there is | | | | end to end. As one bullet fired the bullet |
| no worry of barrel melt down or missing your | | | | underneath it would melt the tip and push the |
| target? Would such a laser finding, aiming and | | | | fiber back to wires on either side inside the bullet |
| firing machine gun type rapid-fire system be a | | | | body to the argon foam cup, as it fired it would |
| worthy invention to protect our nation's most | | | | melt the tip of the next bullet firing it and so on. |
| important assets? | | | | Once you let off the laser fire button or a robotic |
| I propose we build one to determine if the | | | | firing mechanism stopped firing, the system would |
| concept is doable and a viable way to design a | | | | stop at whatever bullet it was on. Each round |
| better defensive weapon. The Rapid Fire Laser | | | | would contain additional on-impact explosives if |
| Bullet Firing Mechanism "RFLF" could solve many | | | | appropriate for the application. The top of the tip |
| problems and be a much safer system. Even the | | | | around the melted center of the tip would be |
| bullets themselves would be safe to transport or | | | | made of sapphire from a lab. |
| store in a weapons cache. | | | | This system is preferable due to the fact that |
| How would this RFLF system work? Well, there | | | | there is not shell to discard or produce. As a |
| would be Argon Gas or CO2 Foam in the bottom | | | | space weapon there is not needed for storage of |
| cup of each bullet. The bullets would have a fiber | | | | extra shells or weight to take into orbit and there |
| optic center surrounded by copper inside of the | | | | is no space debris from the expended shells. Also |
| center, which would be fairly small and surrounded | | | | since the bullets would glow, you have every |
| by a center punch hardened interior. The fiber | | | | bullet as a tracer round. Think on this. |