This was invented by a guy in Australia years ago but he had no clout in the military world and it never took off. They even discussed using it for seeding crops and things.
And then imagine superman spun the earth in reverse turning back time and the bullets came out and back into the gun and then you wake up and then imagine it was a dream and then imagine that
@@BillCasey-r7c I think the system was an interesting idea only not as practical as it made it out to be. It’s like a Guinness thing yeah it can shoot 1M RPM. Cool…that’s about it probably cool in a video game with unlimited ammo. The weapons we have now can shoot 6K RPM but they don’t, gotta conserve ammo and barrel life.
@@BillCasey-r7c I don't know how the power cord is protected or if there is like some kind of back up system in case you lose power. But one good sniper shot to the power cable and the weapon is essentially a really cool outdoor ornament 😂
you probly could but id think itd be more like an edited video making it do that also could you imagine how much ammo that would take to make it actually fire that many rounds to play that?
Would be, if it wasn't cancelled. One of pros of this system was interchangeable barrels, so in same mount, you could have few dosens of small caliber to serve as machine gun, or you could install 40mm grenade launcher. Antidrone weapons now utilise microwaves or/and lasers. Developed as anti-aircraft, but not effective enough against aircrafts, it's surprisingly effective against drones
I rember an old murder show with one of these where they made it out like the weapon vaporized the victim completely. Obviously sci-fi nonsense but was still cool to learn these existed
don't think the bullets used for this are big enough to stop an incoming missile, range is also limited as well. It's more for anti-personal if anything @@T1Oracle
There was a show in the early 2000s that featured this. I'm not surprised it failed. There really isn't any need for this weapon. It would have been a huge waste of ammo. Another weapon they featured was a drum fed shotgun that had various different high-tech shotgun shells. including a taser shell, exploding shells, and homing beacon shells. I'm not surprised that it didn't work out either. Then they showed off caseless ammo for the military. That didn't pan out, either.
I remember watching that show. I might even have it on a hard drive somewhere. The shotgun was beast! I don't know why they never developed it, even just with regular shotgun rounds for the drum. Although the mini missiles it fired were cool. HE, Frag and Incendiary grenades with little fins that pop out once fired. The camera shell was dumb though. Shoot a camera into the air that has a parachute and the image goes wireless to the team leader. Except the image spins and your brain can't capture anything useful except maybe a bit of dizziness.
"waste of ammo" - Cost per shot is one reason lasers are being looked at seriously, but are also taking time to reach usability equivalent to traditional 'kinetic' technology. - IIRC some have been fielded, then withdrawn.
Rails only needed to carry a few milliamps rather than a railgun which needs to carry a million plus amps. The rails only touch off the propellant, they dont actually contribute to giving the bullet kinetic energy.
Nope. A rail gun uses electricity to propel the projectile. It does it by either using magnetism to push/pull it and accelerate it to high speed, or the rails make direct contact with the projectile, creating plasma to push the projectile instead of the explosion from gunpowder. In this design, each projectile is backed by gunpowder, which is ignited electrically.
Command says we have clearance! Weapons free boys here we go! OK, you ready? On FIRE... Ready, Aim, Fi... Brrrr. No, on FIRE, reload and let's do it again... Ready, aim, Fi... Brrrr. ON FIIY-YER, ON FIRE, DONT SHOOT UNTIL I SAY Fi-Yer, now reload! Ready, aim, F... Brrrr. Damnit Johnson! Why do you keep doing that! Not my fault sir, by the time you're done saying the word fire I'm ready to reload 🤷
its 1 million rounds a minute at max but its not surprising the way it works its electronically fired and had caseless ammo so nothing to have to cycle rounds in like a C-RAM does
@@GaryBastian-l9sI think he's saying it has the ability to shoot 1 million bullets per minute but it will never happen because it cannot store that much
@Zembie1 I don't have link But they modified a bunch of blasters into one big amalgamation that fired the long darts. It utilized a spring system I believe, rotated around like a gatling gun. I'm currently looking around for it again but it's hard to pin down currently
this came out about 20 years ago. It was improved with electronics and cameras. It can be air dropped into a battle field. It will then self setup and scan the area for whatever its programs say is a bad thing. Tanks. Troops. Name it. When it detects what its looking for it kills it. The problem with this is the tech left behind and the fact that it could not see the differenc between friend of foe for troops. They also had one for 40mm. Makes ya wonder what they have now.
Apparently they could not get the Metal Storm to work outside of testing. But if they could, a fighter jet could literally carry more ammo because it does not need that massive Vulcan cannon. So, more than 600 rounds (An F-16's gun loadout) bumped up to 3000 rounds. And no, you would not set it up to dump a million rounds per min, 3000 RPM is fine. The point is the electronic firing system. This could work given more work, by hobbyists and inventors over big companies. But as it is Metal Storm is in as much danger of being a lost technology as Gyrojets. But Gyrojet's use cases are harder (not impossible) to square, where Metal Storm could easily replace machine guns and cannons
Invented by an Australian who took his invention to the Australian Military who said they weren't interested. Typically short sighted. I recall reading about the inventer having to go to the US for funding.
Australia wasn’t short sighted, they knew this system didn’t actually accomplish anything that wasn’t already able to be done better by a typical mini-gun. That’s why the project didn’t go anywhere with the US either. It was made to prove that something is possible, without considering whether it needed to be possible to begin with. In short, it’s an invention without a purpose.
It's also one of the longest to reload and least reliable. Compared to CIWs, I could only shoot down one or two vampires, and CIWs has multiple batteries and can be loaded with multiple crates.
I can see one usage for this: Instantaneous suppressive fire against an overwhelming enemy force. A single shot from this combined with tactical smoke would cause an extreme amount of chaos for an entrenched enemy when outnumbered. Having said that, my god what a burden she is
no, no, no you got that wrong. let me explain: that thing will be installed in your hallway. if homeinvaders break through the door, it will send them into a parallel dimension. the short burst also makes sure, that your neighbors wont be disturbed by too much gunshots.
@@BratislavMetulski my problem with that is the simple fact that you're trading your hearing and your house Like that's not even home defense anymore That's home offense
15-20y ago, there was yearly CGI videos of a proposal to put this on fighter aircraft! I wonder what caused the company's downfall? Barrel pressures, electronics, reloading, disposal costs etc. ? Real question ..What's its cost? Probably just answered my own question.
Yeah, you should’ve seen me with a 42 pounds of mullein and a leaf blower and a tractor on cruise control and a case of beer😊 The difference between my bullets and those bullets, my bullets keep hitting for 100 years they don’t vanish anytime the land is disturbed my seeds start growing again, and I brought them to a sanctuary😊
It's still limited by the ballistic trajectories of the projectiles. To be effective it needs a lot of computing power and sensor input. Otherwise it's just another range toy that's a pain in the backside to load and maintain. A swarm attack of small drones would totally overwhelm the weapon.
I don't know exactly what the number would be, but I feel like there's gotta be a certain rounds-per-minute where there's diminishing returns; like once you get so fast, going even faster doesn't add anything to the system (except for price)
Arent these the same people that made smart bullets? Also this tech is old af. But what was neat is Treyarch made a reference to the storm with the Storm PSR in bo2
Created by an Australian, because in Australia. When you absolutely, positively want to kill a funelweb spider or one of the 10 deadliest snakes in the world that reside here or a 65 million yr old dinosaur that pretends to be a crocodile.... METAL STORM MF's.
The 1m RPM one is basically just a very fancy shotgun lol
No not at all
@@chadcurtiss5965 It was a joke.
nope its a machinegun cause it doesnt fire all the rounds at one time its one after the other
@@IsfetSolaris🤦🏻♂️
@@IsfetSolarisalso its from more than one barrel so even so itd still be like more than one gun
Went bust years ago. The tech never took off because miss fires caused the entire tube to fail from what I can remember.
Surly it's been perfected. US military got it figured out.
Yeah that, and also the fact that it could only fire for less than a second… that’s not very useful compared to a typical mini gun.
One of so many tubes wouldn't be that bad.
@@JopicIt can fire much more longer, just with less rounds per minute, as each round is fired individually.
@@Astrofrank that just makes it functionally a mini gun with a lower ammo capacity.
Literally like 20 year old technology at this point.
older than that.. this was show cased on the british tv shw called "tomorrows world".. that stopped being broadcast in the early 90's
Yeah, and I have never seen one out in the wilde.
lol, just like the F-22 lmao
My very thought I remember this tech was supposed to be revolutionary 25 + years ago. Me thinks it's probably too expensive to field.
This was invented by a guy in Australia years ago but he had no clout in the military world and it never took off. They even discussed using it for seeding crops and things.
Imagine getting hit by that weapon and you got a digital number 8 on your dead body
Then you get home and your wife shouts at you what have you done with the new sweater 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂indeed
No body, just pink dust
@@johnrodgers2171 Yep! ..*poof*
And then imagine superman spun the earth in reverse turning back time and the bullets came out and back into the gun and then you wake up and then imagine it was a dream and then imagine that
That Australian company is defunct since 2012
It was in Redcliffe Qld wasn't it?
@@Paul-hp6zpit was Brisbane. Very close
Yeah the patent and company was bought out by the US defense force. Then they shelved the design and started reusing it for the rail gun project.
" I gave you guys a million rounds a minute ago! Whatta ya mean you're out?"
😂 sir it was a mis-fire…new guy hit the wrong button
@@WhatTheFact365this is why the system didn't succeed.
Maybe, with today's radar, it worth another look. But, look twice, fire once.
@@BillCasey-r7c I think the system was an interesting idea only not as practical as it made it out to be. It’s like a Guinness thing yeah it can shoot 1M RPM. Cool…that’s about it probably cool in a video game with unlimited ammo. The weapons we have now can shoot 6K RPM but they don’t, gotta conserve ammo and barrel life.
@@WhatTheFact365 that's so true. Plus, if the target is juking, plus leading the target, plus keeping a tight group, it's gotta be tough!!‼️
@@BillCasey-r7c I don't know how the power cord is protected or if there is like some kind of back up system in case you lose power. But one good sniper shot to the power cable and the weapon is essentially a really cool outdoor ornament 😂
I like the sound the 60000 rpm makes
A fart? Lmao
@@chadcurtiss5965🤦🏻♂️
But is it practical
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@@magnet4214 🤦🏻♂️
Their guns go "POW POW"
Our guns go "BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!"
Honestly i was expecting it to play imperial march at the end. Someone could program it to do that right?
I’m all for it! Let’s start a petition
you probly could but id think itd be more like an edited video making it do that also could you imagine how much ammo that would take to make it actually fire that many rounds to play that?
@@chadcurtiss5965🤦🏻♂️
Would be expensive as heck
@@saitamaman6714 🥲
It looks like a great anti-drone weapon!!
Scaled down, I was thinking the same thing.
Would be, if it wasn't cancelled. One of pros of this system was interchangeable barrels, so in same mount, you could have few dosens of small caliber to serve as machine gun, or you could install 40mm grenade launcher.
Antidrone weapons now utilise microwaves or/and lasers. Developed as anti-aircraft, but not effective enough against aircrafts, it's surprisingly effective against drones
Not really
I rember an old murder show with one of these where they made it out like the weapon vaporized the victim completely. Obviously sci-fi nonsense but was still cool to learn these existed
CSI Miami S6E11
Sounds like this is the Tsar Bomba of firearms. Technilogically fascinating but at the same time functionally pointless.
On point
A last line of anti missile defense for a high value asset?
don't think the bullets used for this are big enough to stop an incoming missile, range is also limited as well. It's more for anti-personal if anything @@T1Oracle
ITS basically a shotgun with buck shot of 5.56
Crowd control.
But but , we discontinued it 😉
One small problem. After you kill anything 10k times you may be wasting a few extra rounds.
Brrrrrrrrttt and then there is a people shaped Red mist!
This is what I need for my home defense gun and no I won't explain
Everybody gangsta till someone plays imperial march on the gun.
Never met a target that i needed to shoot 50,000 times in .001 seconds.
What school did you go to ? Must've been a special one with abacus. 😅
It's a a wall of lead to take out a target, like a missile.
@johnpoole7327 What school did you go to 😂
You missed the drones sent to Isreal from Iran, huh?😅😅
@@michaelbrooks6416 I don't think you'd want to be firing 1 million rounds/minute over a populated area.
There was a show in the early 2000s that featured this. I'm not surprised it failed. There really isn't any need for this weapon. It would have been a huge waste of ammo.
Another weapon they featured was a drum fed shotgun that had various different high-tech shotgun shells. including a taser shell, exploding shells, and homing beacon shells. I'm not surprised that it didn't work out either.
Then they showed off caseless ammo for the military. That didn't pan out, either.
It was csi Miami
Here china ,china ,china,,,,come,here.....😅
Oh well !
Back to the Acme drawing board !
I remember watching that show. I might even have it on a hard drive somewhere. The shotgun was beast! I don't know why they never developed it, even just with regular shotgun rounds for the drum. Although the mini missiles it fired were cool. HE, Frag and Incendiary grenades with little fins that pop out once fired. The camera shell was dumb though. Shoot a camera into the air that has a parachute and the image goes wireless to the team leader. Except the image spins and your brain can't capture anything useful except maybe a bit of dizziness.
"waste of ammo"
- Cost per shot is one reason lasers are being looked at seriously, but are also taking time to reach usability equivalent to traditional 'kinetic' technology.
- IIRC some have been fielded, then withdrawn.
And it was never developed beyond a prototype…
Probably cause the idea was kinda dumb.
Of all the walls that can stop an aggressor, nothing beats a wall of supersonic lead .
It's funny, this is just the evolutionary peak of volley gun technology.
The forbidden techno.
More like forbidden fart
Sounds like a gun just farted !!!! lol I love it
"When the student is ready, the teacher appears."
A small rail gun. Wonder how often the rails need to be changed relative to shots fired.
Rails only needed to carry a few milliamps rather than a railgun which needs to carry a million plus amps. The rails only touch off the propellant, they dont actually contribute to giving the bullet kinetic energy.
Nope. A rail gun uses electricity to propel the projectile. It does it by either using magnetism to push/pull it and accelerate it to high speed, or the rails make direct contact with the projectile, creating plasma to push the projectile instead of the explosion from gunpowder.
In this design, each projectile is backed by gunpowder, which is ignited electrically.
Command says we have clearance! Weapons free boys here we go!
OK, you ready? On FIRE...
Ready, Aim, Fi...
Brrrr.
No, on FIRE, reload and let's do it again...
Ready, aim, Fi...
Brrrr.
ON FIIY-YER, ON FIRE, DONT SHOOT UNTIL I SAY Fi-Yer, now reload!
Ready, aim, F...
Brrrr.
Damnit Johnson! Why do you keep doing that!
Not my fault sir, by the time you're done saying the word fire I'm ready to reload 🤷
😂 Dam it Johnson!
Australian inventor...went to AU's gov military, they called him a cooke . A 5★ U.S General saw his seminar... Rapid fire was born...
It cannot fire a million rounds per minute. It can fire at a rate of a million rounds per minute.
Makes absolutely no sence
Because it runs out of ammo 😂
@@deanlollis9177 Yes it does...
Fast as 1 million per minute, max load runs out in 200 milliseconds. Not a minute later. Rate vs total numbers of rounds.
How long to pay for and reload a million rnďs ?
I heard it can go up to 16,000 rounds per second! In comparison, the C-RAM has a fire rate of 75 rounds per second.
"How much lead you want this thing to fire ?"
"Enough to replace every atom of target with lead"
That's insane!!!!
@@nobody4y 🤦🏻♂️
its 1 million rounds a minute at max but its not surprising the way it works its electronically fired and had caseless ammo so nothing to have to cycle rounds in like a C-RAM does
@@glcart-cs5sc 🤦♂️🤷♂️
Australian idea that our military didn’t want so it got sold overseas
Look, even as an American, this is obscenely overkill.
Unless accuracy is the goel, this an electric shot gun at best
When you show up the indoor range, "no rapid fire", you do get to return.
Most scariest fart in ever history of woepons
Last fart someone will hear
It's like throwing a 4x4 sheet of lead long side forward .... Vaporizing any flesh it hits
Thats some 🌮 Tuesday types of speed right there 😂
😂 extra bean 🌮
@@WhatTheFact365 hahaha 😆
This would be great on the beach in Taiwan. Interlocking kill zones for landing craft. Just have several underground and pop up.
or just use mines idk
Yeah you'll be out of ammo in 5mins.🤦🤦🤦 Assuming they have 300M rounds storage for each unit
And they all take 2 hours to reload. Really SMART!
It cannot fire a mill a min, it has a fire rate of a mill per min...
Seriously. It only has a capacity of 180 rounds. Add in reload time, and it can probably actually fire 90-360 rounds per minute.
My shotgun fires more pellets at a higher *rate*.
So it's actually very slow? 😅😅
Most valuable comment so far!
@@GaryBastian-l9sI think he's saying it has the ability to shoot 1 million bullets per minute but it will never happen because it cannot store that much
60000 rpm for home defence..even if it goes off entire neighborhood would think you are having a heck of an upset tummy
On a different reel i found a man said it's cost "400,00 per 12sec"💀...
This has been revolutionary since about 1998 😂
I recall reading about this in the 90's. This video was the first time I have heard of it ever since. I reckon it didn't become super popular.
@@herrakaarme You’d be correct! The weapon didn’t get anywhere and the company went belly up.
There's nothing Innovative about loading several rounds down the same Barrel for sequential fire.
The innovation is in the electronic firing capability
I survived getting shot by one of these, they really hurt.
Only thing more astonishing is the total scrubbing from the internet. Oh come on.
Everytime we shoot, we have to lower our shields. This is the solution, Harkonnen.
Fun fact, someone made a nerf blaster fire faster than this thing and is the world's fastest firing "weapon"
Proof?
@Zembie1 I don't have link
But they modified a bunch of blasters into one big amalgamation that fired the long darts. It utilized a spring system I believe, rotated around like a gatling gun.
I'm currently looking around for it again but it's hard to pin down currently
You can change the rate of fire so you can choose how dead you want you're enemies to be 👍
Sometimes, humans make me sad. So much money and time spent on ever more inventive ways to kill each other.
Shooting two 9mm handguns simultaneously: ♾️ rpm
Lol it's like the machine gun version of dragon skin armor. No where to be seen now.
It was going to be sold on the US domestic/civilian market though never did, maybe little too much personal freedom
And it only takes one sniper with one bullet to take out the operator.
Makes the warthog look like a musket
🤔😆
Would have been a perfect video if it played the imperial march on it at the end
We have advanced in firearm technology so far that we wrapped back to Volley gun mechanisms.
this came out about 20 years ago. It was improved with electronics and cameras. It can be air dropped into a battle field. It will then self setup and scan the area for whatever its programs say is a bad thing. Tanks. Troops. Name it. When it detects what its looking for it kills it. The problem with this is the tech left behind and the fact that it could not see the differenc between friend of foe for troops. They also had one for 40mm. Makes ya wonder what they have now.
Apparently they could not get the Metal Storm to work outside of testing. But if they could, a fighter jet could literally carry more ammo because it does not need that massive Vulcan cannon. So, more than 600 rounds (An F-16's gun loadout) bumped up to 3000 rounds. And no, you would not set it up to dump a million rounds per min, 3000 RPM is fine. The point is the electronic firing system.
This could work given more work, by hobbyists and inventors over big companies. But as it is Metal Storm is in as much danger of being a lost technology as Gyrojets. But Gyrojet's use cases are harder (not impossible) to square, where Metal Storm could easily replace machine guns and cannons
Invented by an Australian who took his invention to the Australian Military who said they weren't interested. Typically short sighted.
I recall reading about the inventer having to go to the US for funding.
Yeah and the US dragged their feet until the patient ran out and it went no where or so we are lead to believe
Australia wasn’t short sighted, they knew this system didn’t actually accomplish anything that wasn’t already able to be done better by a typical mini-gun. That’s why the project didn’t go anywhere with the US either. It was made to prove that something is possible, without considering whether it needed to be possible to begin with. In short, it’s an invention without a purpose.
Everuone gangsta till the gun itself is the alarm
It's also one of the longest to reload and least reliable. Compared to CIWs, I could only shoot down one or two vampires, and CIWs has multiple batteries and can be loaded with multiple crates.
nah just dont reload have more than one setup thats already loaded or whatever
also vampires dont exist the way they do in the movies or whatever 🤦🏻♂️
also i dont think its that unreliable theres not that much to go wrong its an electronically fired gun with caseless ammo like a muzzle loader
Invented here in Australia
I can see one usage for this:
Instantaneous suppressive fire against an overwhelming enemy force. A single shot from this combined with tactical smoke would cause an extreme amount of chaos for an entrenched enemy when outnumbered.
Having said that, my god what a burden she is
no, no, no you got that wrong. let me explain: that thing will be installed in your hallway. if homeinvaders break through the door, it will send them into a parallel dimension. the short burst also makes sure, that your neighbors wont be disturbed by too much gunshots.
@@BratislavMetulski my problem with that is the simple fact that you're trading your hearing and your house
Like that's not even home defense anymore
That's home offense
15-20y ago, there was yearly CGI videos of a proposal to put this on fighter aircraft!
I wonder what caused the company's downfall?
Barrel pressures, electronics, reloading, disposal costs etc. ?
Real question ..What's its cost?
Probably just answered my own question.
It was too much expensive and less reliable than conventional weapons.
1 million rounds loaded in an arcraft would make take-offs very interesting
So 64 barrels is faster than one ?amazing
Couldn't touch me when I'm in Rambo mode.
😁
Pretty sure this is what they had as PDCs on The Expanse.
Yeah, you should’ve seen me with a 42 pounds of mullein and a leaf blower and a tractor on cruise control and a case of beer😊
The difference between my bullets and those bullets, my bullets keep hitting for 100 years they don’t vanish anytime the land is disturbed my seeds start growing again, and I brought them to a sanctuary😊
You van even draw cool patterns into your opponents with this one!
It's still limited by the ballistic trajectories of the projectiles. To be effective it needs a lot of computing power and sensor input. Otherwise it's just another range toy that's a pain in the backside to load and maintain. A swarm attack of small drones would totally overwhelm the weapon.
Good luck cleaning that beast!!
It's hard to even imagine what a million rounds a minute would look like although it sounds pretty darn awesome
a highly tuned fart machine X_d
I don't know exactly what the number would be, but I feel like there's gotta be a certain rounds-per-minute where there's diminishing returns; like once you get so fast, going even faster doesn't add anything to the system (except for price)
Beautiful ❤😂
What is the practical application of this technology. It had been around for years and yet has not been applied in any situation.
Arent these the same people that made smart bullets? Also this tech is old af.
But what was neat is Treyarch made a reference to the storm with the Storm PSR in bo2
It needed tons of power, and the barrel heat was so high that it would regularly destroy the barrel
Damn son cant we try to invent some shit that benefits humanity and not turning people into lunch meat
Aussies should send their surplus of this to the Ukrainians...
They should have made it as grenade launcher or mortar. Currently it just fires ones and that's all.
They did make a grenade launcher
Created by an Australian, because in Australia. When you absolutely, positively want to kill a funelweb spider or one of the 10 deadliest snakes in the world that reside here or a 65 million yr old dinosaur that pretends to be a crocodile.... METAL STORM MF's.
😂
Imagine a sword saint standing with a sharp katana while the Metal Storm fires 180 rounds in its highest rate of fire (1m rpm). What will happen?
He stops 1 😂
@@WhatTheFact365 Right. And the other 179 rounds kills it.
What’s the improvement of 14 lbs of lead made up of 1000 bullets over 14 lbs of lead from a cannon? I mean besides terrible range and velocity
The new horrifying sound of future warfare.
What, no mention of it invented here in Australia
This is good.
I'm gonna need eleven of those.
Asap
And don't ask why.
😄
It's really fast but it got limited magazine capacity
Mosquitoes say: "Make my day..!"👈🦟🦟
find the CSI miami episode where one of these is used .....
S6.E11: Guerrillas in the Mist ; three gunrunners are killed by a new high-tech weapon called “the Vaporizer”
If no one has invented a faster reload method and cooling system for this yet.. I have figured it out. Took me about 2 minutes.
Developed by a Australian company mind you. You missed that part
thanks for pointing that out 👍
Defunct since 2012
It can basically go from 1rpm to 1million rpm
edit: Technically 0 rpm to 1 million...
0 to a million real quick
AI has already tagged shit like this to put in their annihilation robots. Duck!
I saw this weapon system on Discovery channel in 2003-2004. Nothing new about it.
Great idea
Maybe they need to bring it back with radar for drone protection? Seems like it has niche and purpose now.
The inventor made out like a bandit selling it to China. I don't think they managed to work out all the bugs.
Accuracy left the chat. Spray and pray is very old technique but this is good for storming foot soldiers
I swore it was going to play the Imperial March....