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YOU MIGHT ENJOY THIS VIDEO. I wonder when Obama will say we are not allowed to use it.

Project Advances Development on Innovative Weapon System Metal Storm (ASX: MST) (NASDAQ: MTSX) is pleased to announce that Metal Storm Incorporated (MSI) has been awarded a major contract worth almost $US1 million to progress the development of one of its weapon systems for the U.S. military. MSI has been contracted by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) for the further development of a 12-gauge, Multi-shot Grenade Launcher. The Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF) contract is valued at $US936,695. Work commences immediately with delivery scheduled in under 12 months. The project will extend the work performed previously under a contract with...

The Chinese military allegedly offered an Australian weapons inventor more than $134 million ($US100 million) to go to Beijing and work on one of the deadliest guns in the world, the Nine Network reports. But Australian and US military forces are said to be determined to ensure the gun, known as Metal Storm and developed in Brisbane, does not end up in enemy hands. Despite growing trade relations between China and the West, the US still regards the Asian power as an enemy. Listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, the company Metal Storm Ltd makes a new type of gun...

After years of development, a new class of weapon that uses computer-controlled electronic ignition instead of primers to fire projectiles may be finally taking its much coveted place in the U.S. military inventory. Brisbane, Australia-based Metal Storm has delivered a four-barrel weapon to the Naval Surface Warfare Center for testing that uses a small electrical current instead a conventional firing pin to deliver stacked rounds at an astounding rate. How astounding? Try 1 million rounds per minute. That's the rate, by the way, not the volume; still, there's no way you want to be anywhere near the wrong end of...

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A new high-tech tool for police provides alternative to todays high speed police chases. A launcher fires a Dart into a car that includes a GPS system used to track the car. Program being tested in LA, in connection with the US Justice Department, for 4 to 6 months. The product is made by Starchaser and uses launcher technology from Metal Storm. "High-tech jab to end LA's car chase fixation By Gerard Wright in Los Angeles February 4, 2006" ------------------------------------------------- Remember the big PR on Metal storm two weeks ago. "Security & Terrorism New super-gun to be tested in Feb...

ISTANBUL, TURKEY – The year is 2007. After a clash with Turkish forces in northern Iraq, US troops stage a surprise attack. Reeling, Turkey turns to Russia and the European Union, who turn back the American onslaught. This is the plot of "Metal Storm," one of the fastest- selling books in Turkish history. The book is clearly sold as fiction, but its premise has entered Turkey's public discourse in a way that sometimes seems to blur the line between fantasy and reality. "The Foreign Ministry and General Staff are reading it keenly," Murat Yetkin, a columnist for the Turkish daily...

ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Metal Storm Limited (Nasdaq: MTSX; ASX trading code: MST) The US Department of Energy (DOE) has placed a notice on its website (www.fbo.gov/spg/DOE/PAM/HQ/DE%2DAC52%2D05NA26814/listing.html) advising that it intends to solicit and negotiate a contract with Metal Storm for research and development of a short range neutralisation protection system using Metal Storm's 40mm multi-barrel technology. The proposed contract would be for one year duration for consideration less than US $250,000. A copy of DOE's description of the proposed contract is attached.DOE is required to place such a notice where it intends to solicit and negotiate...

The Technology Introduction Metal Storm's technology provides a means whereby objects, such as bullets that have been tightly grouped in multiple tube containers such as barrels, can be stored, transported in and electrically fired from those same containers. These containers or barrels can be grouped in any configuration, to meet any particular application. The technology has no known equivalent, and can provide an electronically variable burst rate of fire, from conventionally slow to previously unobtainable rates, in excess of one million rounds per minute. The technology was originally inspired by a desire to try to reduce the number of mechanical...

Look at this video of a future application for UAVs applying an electronic ballistics weapons system. Their web sight has some really cool videos related to actual and future applications of this new technology.

<p>PALM BEACH, Florida -- A new computer chip promises to keep police guns from firing if they fall into the wrong hands.</p> <p>The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun. If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. But if a child or criminal would get hold of the gun, it would be useless.</p>

WASHINGTON, May 12 (UPI) -- EXCLUSIVE A new ballistic technology that can fire burst rates in excess of one million rounds per minute from a 36-barrel weapon was one of the reasons Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld canceled the $11 billion Crusader artillery system. The technology is known as "Metal Storm," which is also the name of the Australian research and development company that owns it. The fastest weapons today are mechanical Gatling gun styles that can fire at the rate of some 6,000 rounds per minute. Infantry rifles average 600 rounds, which is the firing rate for a magazine of...

It has no moving parts. Yet, it can fire standard, small-caliber projectiles from multiple barrels at speeds up to one million rounds per minute. Is it still a gun? Its creators call it Metal Storm. No moving parts mean no jams in the traditional sense and a quiet operating mechanism. The high rate of fire is not just a function of the number of barrels. The cartridges are initiated with an electronic impulse. Building on earlier technology, successfully demonstrated over the past three years, Metal Storm continues to try to drag small arms technology—some might suggest kicking and screaming—into the...