Re: [ME] Re: a really stupid question ...

[Gurth <gurth@xxxxxxxxx>]

According to Robert J. Hansen, on Fri, 12 Jan 2001 the word on the street was...

> It requires a lot more than a car battery to operate it.

According to a book I just looked in, it's got a 28V motor but I found no
indication of the power requirement.

> 6000 rounds per minute, six barrels = 1000 revolutions per minute.  If
> someone would be so kind as to provide me with the mass of the barrel
> assembly and the width of the weapon, I'd be able to come up with exact
> torque numbers.  They won't be pretty, though.

Weapon mass is about 16 kg.

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