Show I I I CENTRIFUGAL GUN I I GAINS ATTENTION I I I I Weapon Is Said to Have Greater Greter Speed and Range Than Browning Type I Washington Juno June 23 A 23 A new model of ot machine gun sun operating b by centrifugal I gal Jal force and using ising no explosive Is iA being secretly tested b by army array officials anc an 1 other go ern governmental experts at the I bureau of oC standards stan ards The weapon is said sid to have 8 a capacity capacity capacI capac- capac capac capac- I ity of 1000 shots a minute against the 00 or of tho the present types of ot explosive explosive gun un but Its Hl muzzle velocity is only 1 1210 10 feet per pel second at 0 revolutions per minute as compared compard with 2700 feet of the Browning gun I I The great Scat advantage of the centrifugal centrifugal G gal l gun Iun experts sa say sai would oud be bo in It its noiseless operation which should make It difficult of or location by b an On enemy m The gun consists consist of ot a a 3 rotating barr barrel bar bar- r rel rd l. l approximately approximate half an Inch in di diameter dl- dl I ameter r attached to motor-driven motor shafts the speed of or which are re un under er instant control By varying the tho speen of the driving rl shaft shaf the operator con- con t the range and is able to determine determine determine deter deter- mine the fire of the weapon by adjusting adjusting adjust adjust- ing the th Cee feed to increase or diminish h tho number nUmb r of projectiles inserted In m Inthe Inthe the chamber chaber In a given S1 en period |