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		jcoby on June 13, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Pentagon is battling the clock to fix serious,... How in the world does that work? Bullets spin at ridiculous rates; some 3000 RPS. At long distances it'll have made over 10k revolutions before it hits the target!

TeMPOraL on June 13, 2019 [–]

I honestly don't know. I vaguely remember a schematic I saw some 10-15 years ago or so. It may very well not work at all, it was a concept.

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