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Lionheart Ripper 40mm multi barreled(16) gun For Export

Hogsweat
03-08-2005, 06:16
LIONHEART MUNITIONS PRESENTS...
LIONHEART RIPPER DUAL PURPOSE RECOILLESS GUN

Lionheart Munitions, a subsidiary of the Hogsweatian Ministry of Defense, proudly presents the Lionheart Ripper Dual Purpose 40mm Sixteen Barreled Recoilless Multi Barrelled gun. The Ripper comes in two variants, Ripper-A and Ripper-N, Army and Navy respectively. The Ripper N Variant is mounted on Navy Vessels from Heavy Cruisers above for anti helicopter, anti air, and anti submarine work.
The Ripper-A Variant is mounted on vehicles and in static defenses for the Army as an anti air, anti tank, and anti personnel platform.

The Ripper works on the recoil-less gun platform system to dramatically reduce recoil when firing this obscenely huge cannon. When the trigger is being held the Ripper fires it's cannons in a canon-crescendo individually, the cannon's rate of fire picking up pace as it goes along.

The Ammunition for the Ripper is stored in one box with two inches of titanium steel surrounding it and the huge batteries used to power the gun. The Ripper is chain beltfed, so it's advised not to put your hand on the belt. The approximate rate of fire after thirty seconds of firing is 750 RPM. It is advised that ammunition, of which 7,500 40x225mm rounds can be stored, is not fired for long periods otherwise the eight fan blowing cooling system may overheat as may the guns and the barrels will need replacing sooner rather than later (later being six months)

The Ripper weighs about a hundred tonnes and needs a crew of six to work properly - aimer, aimer, gunner, reloader, reloader, commander.

The ripper has a maximum effective range of 2000metres.
The Ripper costs $500,000 to purchase from Lionheart Munitions. Manufacturing rights are strictly non purchasable and Lionheart Munitions, in co-operation with the Hogsweatian Government, strictly applies sanctions against anyone who produces without our strict intent.
Green Sun
03-08-2005, 06:34
A 40mm cannon minigun? I do hope that's the total size and not the individual barrels...
Fallen Earth
03-08-2005, 06:47
It looks to be the individual barrels. I need some of these in FT, I'm thinking about buying 8 million of these.....
Hogsweat
03-08-2005, 06:55
It is, in fact, each individual barrel.
Aysheaia
03-08-2005, 07:48
A 40mm gatling cannon doesn't sound implausible, aircraft carry 20-30mm gatling cannons after all. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't think it'd need to be as heavy as he describes, but perhaps the recoil-absorption mechanism needs to be that massive.
Hogsweat
03-08-2005, 07:55
True, but this does have *sixteen* barrels. The helicopter ones usually have about three or four.