New wave of urban warfare, Military defence

Metal Storm announced that DARPA, the central research and development organization for the US Department of Defense, has selected the company's proposal titled 'Metal Storm Weapons for Urban Environments' for a contract award.

Metal Storm is an Australian Weapons defence system, & is used in a range of Military situations, from Australia's Special forces, to on board combated system's for Australia's Air Warfare Destroyers, & the Armidale class
Patrol Boats & Battle ships.

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New Capabilities for Australian Military, and Specialist Police Teams:
The VLe handgun has been filmed firing a three shot burst in just 1/500th of a second, which equates to a rate of 1-450,000 rounds per minute.

Further developments will also include a rapid reload capability, and miniaturised electronics. A range of alternative electronic access limiters is planned for future firing systems, as is a battery-free operating capability.
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Rates of fire from 1- 450,000 rpm

Corporate Overview

Metal Storm Limited is an Australian owned electronic ballistics technology company based in Brisbane, Australia, with an office in Washington DC in the United States. The company owns the proprietary rights to revolutionary 100% electronic ballistics technology, which was invented and developed by J.Mike O'Dwyer formerly CEO, now Director & Executive Consultant.

Metal Storm's technology, which is protected by numerous patents, is currently the subject of over AU$100 million in committed funding to R&D programs by leading defence and government agencies in Australia and overseas.

Metal Storm listed on the Australian Stock Exchange - ASX code MST - on 8 July 1999, issuing 4 million shares at AU$3.00 each. In June 2000 Metal Storm announced a five-for-one share split to increase liquidity and meet growing demand for the company's shares.

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pretty interesting technology but i still dont dink we need a weapon that fires 10s of thousands of rounds per sec. if it was me i need enough for just one target and move to another otherwise i be spending more time changing clips or if the gun i carry that fires that many rounds requires carrying a 10,000 round drum on my back.

Yhe OK.

But lets face it, that much fire power will ALWAYS come in handy.

The only real use I see for metal storm is anti rocket/RPG defense where the extremely high rate of fire is necessary. Otherwise..., well it's not too practical. So high rate of fire is never required, so many barrels are heavy etc...

Heavy.


You would think so wouldn’t you but infact the GUNS are very light weight & the Multi Barrel Canon Pod (main pic) has a rate of fire of between,
1-450 000 rounds per minute.

Yet it only weights 48kg, that’s half the weight of an average backpack carried by U.S & Australian forces right now.

As im sure you already know Australian Special Forces where the first to enter the war with Iraq back in 2001/2002.

They went into Iraq 2 months before all other forces with the job off seizing all of Saddam's short & long range missiles to prevent the bombing of neighbouring countries like Israel, which Sadam was responsible for in the first Iraqi war back in the early 90's. (Desert storm)


& It was such weapons as these that allowed the Australian forces to maintain continues weapons ground fire & grenade saturation,
that enabled them to secure Saddam's rockets & missiles.

Metal Storm also makes the remote controlled weapons system & devices mounted on an unmanned ground vehicle for the USA & Australian forces already.







[edit on 23-5-2005 by Toadfish]

The high rate of fire is useless, if you need to exchange the barrels after each burst. Gatling minigun is not too heavy too and it has more ammo.

Originally posted by longbow
The high rate of fire is useless, if you need to exchange the barrels after each burst

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I dont think you do as it would be pointless, due toi the large number of extra barrels you would need to take into battle with you. ( insane )

Where did you see such a statment longbow, i would like to know
(( as if its true )) ............. insane.