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I thought someone would have posted this already!
All the blackrifle guys saw the Gilboa last year and laughed going "that's rediculous, but at least they're thinking outside the box"
Turns out, the American's did it first...
From TFB & Gun Holsters and Gear:
One of the weapons developed during the early days of small-caliber high velocity research was a double-barreled .22 caliber FAL.
The Winchester Salvo rifle was chambered for a 5.56mm cartridge, but not the current production 5.56×45 NATO cartridge (also referred to as .223 Remington). The Salvo’s 5.56 cartridge was also called the 5.56 T65 Duplex and the .22 T65 Duplex.
The T65 Duplex cartridge used a 7.62×51 (.308 Winchester) case necked down to 5.56mm. It also used two lightweight bullets aligned nose-to-base (duplex). This means with each cartridge fired, two projectiles were sent down range. If both barrels were fired, a total of four bullets were launched.
Recoil experiments were done with the T65 cartridge. The Army determined that firing two of the T65 Duplex rounds simultaneously generated about 25% more recoil than a M1 Garand firing a standard M2 AP cartridge. Further, the Army determined that “…any caliber larger than .22 was considered too great unless the recoil was substantially reduced…” with a muzzle brake.
This rifle represents one of the earliest operational tests of the “hyper burst” concept. By the time of the ACR program in the late ’80s, this concept had fallen out of favor, as it was determined that while it did greatly increase the hit probability potential of the rifle, the errors induced by the shooter were the overwhelming contributor to misses in combat. Still, the promise of these burst-fire weapons was such that the SALVO, and later SPIW programs would continue trying to realize it in a package that was light, durable, and reliable enough for infantry use.
Project Salvo seemed to be an attempt to institutionalize the ‘spray and pray’ philosophy: if you fire enough bullets, you’ll eventually hit something. Perhaps Ian Hogg stated it best when he wrote “…Project Salvo…[sought] to improve the chance of the soldier hitting the target…without actually having to go to the trouble of training the soldier to shoot properly.”
All the blackrifle guys saw the Gilboa last year and laughed going "that's rediculous, but at least they're thinking outside the box"
Turns out, the American's did it first...
From TFB & Gun Holsters and Gear:
One of the weapons developed during the early days of small-caliber high velocity research was a double-barreled .22 caliber FAL.
The Winchester Salvo rifle was chambered for a 5.56mm cartridge, but not the current production 5.56×45 NATO cartridge (also referred to as .223 Remington). The Salvo’s 5.56 cartridge was also called the 5.56 T65 Duplex and the .22 T65 Duplex.
The T65 Duplex cartridge used a 7.62×51 (.308 Winchester) case necked down to 5.56mm. It also used two lightweight bullets aligned nose-to-base (duplex). This means with each cartridge fired, two projectiles were sent down range. If both barrels were fired, a total of four bullets were launched.
Recoil experiments were done with the T65 cartridge. The Army determined that firing two of the T65 Duplex rounds simultaneously generated about 25% more recoil than a M1 Garand firing a standard M2 AP cartridge. Further, the Army determined that “…any caliber larger than .22 was considered too great unless the recoil was substantially reduced…” with a muzzle brake.
This rifle represents one of the earliest operational tests of the “hyper burst” concept. By the time of the ACR program in the late ’80s, this concept had fallen out of favor, as it was determined that while it did greatly increase the hit probability potential of the rifle, the errors induced by the shooter were the overwhelming contributor to misses in combat. Still, the promise of these burst-fire weapons was such that the SALVO, and later SPIW programs would continue trying to realize it in a package that was light, durable, and reliable enough for infantry use.
Project Salvo seemed to be an attempt to institutionalize the ‘spray and pray’ philosophy: if you fire enough bullets, you’ll eventually hit something. Perhaps Ian Hogg stated it best when he wrote “…Project Salvo…[sought] to improve the chance of the soldier hitting the target…without actually having to go to the trouble of training the soldier to shoot properly.”
