6 ‘Tactical’ Weapons That Are Anything But (warning-offensive author comments)

[Are_grits_groceries]

So the military invests a lot of money into, you guessed it, weapons and fortifications. Over the years, some words have gained ground and popularity amongst the military production types. Once upon a time it was cannon. Then submersible, howitzer, and stealth. Now, it’s tactical. And much like the aforementioned ‘technologies,’ the word is far ahead of it’s time.
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Now according to Merriam-Webster, the two most viable definitions for tactical are “using or being weapons or forces employed at the battlefront” (which seems silly, since all weapons would then be tactical) or “of or relating to small-scale actions serving a larger purpose.” That last one sounds right. Until you see some of the things they call tactical, like:

The AA12
The AA12 is a tactical automatic shotgun. And yes, that is probably the only time you will ever hear ‘tactical’ and ’shotgun’ in the same sentence. This bastard child of innovation and boys who like to hear “BOOM” has no recoil, and can fire 300 12-gauge rounds in under a minute. The only possible way this sorry excuse for a writer can imagine this weapon would fit that second description would be staring into the abysmal, rotting face of Armageddon. If you are being attacked by wave after wave of dozens of shambling, half-naked mostly-dead zombies, this baby would surely come in handy for ‘tactically’ mowing them bitches down.


The Metal Storm
Metal Storm’s website boasts it as the next tactical weapon in America’s arsenal, though it’s not quite there yet. Whether or not it makes it, it IS F****** AWESOME. Essentially, each gun barrel up to, and exceeding, 40 millimeters in diameter, has a long stack of bullets in each barrel. Each bullet gets fired using an electrical charge, propelling out the barrel faster than Superman. The best part of this gun? It can fire over a million rounds per minute. To put that into perspective, that’s about the equivalent of 333 miniguns firing simultaneously. As pants-shittingly awesome that is, there’s nothing tactical about the ability to level a forest with a gun. Except, you know, Armageddon.


The video about Metal Storm is on this site. It gives you an idea what it can really do.
http://www.metalstorm.com/

http://regretfulmorning.com/2009/03/6-tactical-weapons-that-are-anything-but/

This gives you an idea of some nasty shit. I had never heard of "Metal Storm." If that had been in Mumbai in any form, the damage is unimaginable. I'll bet your tax dollars are at work here.
(the website is not one I frequent. I checked out the title. Metal Storm was enough for me) :scared:

[Tejas]

1. Thanks for belittling our sons and daughters in the military

Typical snide BS at worst.

"This bastard child of innovation and boys who like to hear “BOOM” has no recoil, and can fire 300 12-gauge rounds in under a minute."


1) Our sons and daughters in .mil will disagree with the "boom" drivel, a terrorist's body hitting the ground is the desired sound.

2) I don't see a 300 round mag in that shotgun.






clue: there is no such thing as a 300 round shotgun magazine.

[Bandit]

3. The post doesn't say anything about a three hundred round magazine

It says it can fire three hundred rounds per minute just as the "supposed" forty MM cannon can fire "over a million rounds a minute" The M-16 can fire over seven hundred rounds per minute but that doesn't mean there are seven hundred round clips available. That being said the shotgun would have been nice in triple canopy jungle where visibility is down to less than twenty feet.

[Tejas]

4. You know that and I know that, but

one of the favorite deceptive tactics of wannabe journalists AND the anti-2nd Amendment crowd is to create as much hysteria as possible. The OP is just such an example.

Yes, you/I know that magazine capacity limits are a fact, but it never seems to come up in conversation/articles promoted by Brady et al. Imagine that!

Sort've like having a collection of 50 AR-15's, the antis/gun-grabbers can't seem to wrap their heads around the idea that a person can only fire one at a time.

[spoony]

5. I think the "boom" comment was about developers?

And if the military wasn't using money on this shit they could care for our troops and vets better.

[aikoaiko]

2. Also in late breaking news: War is hell.

Weapons destroy people and/things. Its really that simple. I don't understand what your issue is with these weapons other than semantic issue of the use of the word tactical.

[bemildred]

6. "tactical" == "keeping your own ass alive" OR 'winning the battle".

"strategic" == "winning the war" and "achieving your military long-term goals"

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. What a dumb article.

What a dumb link.