Sandia’s Z Machine is sometimes referred to as the fastest gun in the West but is actually the fastest in the world, and it is now able to propel small plates at 34 kilometers a second, faster ...

Over the next 10 years, the Kholod was the world record holder for outright atmospheric speed and it is still the fastest machine to have traveled within Earth’s atmosphere.

To identify the fastest firing guns in the world, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed information on maximum rate of fire (measured in rounds per minute) from Military Today, American Rifleman, and The Range ...

The fastest-firing guns have a maximum rate of fire of up to 1,200 rounds per minute. Click here to see the 9 fastest firing machine guns in the world.

“It’s known as the fastest gun in the west,” says Chuck Cornelison, head of Nasa’s Ballistic Range Complex and my guide to the facility.