Posted on 12/12/2004 4:20:42 PM PST by stockpirate
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 steps required to load, fire, eject and reload weapons. In a quantum leap Metal Storm takes ballistics from nineteenth century mechanical operations into the new millennium.
The Concept
Metal Storm's technology achieves its unparalleled performance through the concept of numerous bullets stacked in a barrel, with each bullet separated by a propellant load, such that the leading propellant can be reliably ignited to fire the bullet, without the resulting high pressure and temperature causing unplanned blowby ignition of the trailing propellant load, and without collapse of the projectile column in the barrel.
This unique concept has been accomplished through the invention of a bullet which on the one hand expands and locks in the barrel in response to high pressure immediately in front of the bullet. As a consequence, each bullet in turn can be fired in sequence from the barrel, and an individual barrel tube, loaded with numerous rounds and exclusive of any ammunition feed or ejection system, breech opening, or any mechanical operation whatsoever, when provided with an electric priming system is, in effect, a complete weapon.
Barrels can be grouped in any configuration required for a particular application, while remaining simple and compact, and have no moving parts, no separate magazine, no ammunition feed or ejection system. Excluding consideration of appropriate ancillary systems such as recoil control systems, target acquisition systems and turreting systems, the only moving parts in Metal Storm's barrel technology are the bullets.
Use of the Technology
As an effective military weapon system, the technology offers the safety of 100% electronic keying capabilities, the advantage of on-board selection of a non-lethal response capability, and in another form, the potential to provide an area denial capability without the use of conventional landmines.
The technology also has potential application in a range of diverse commercial areas, including fire fighting, fireworks, precision agricultural chemical distribution, fastening systems for use in the construction industry, and seismic surveying for minerals and oil.
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Something like that.
Next, smart bullets ~ they only hit the target you want to hit.
To be frank, I have followed this stock for nearly a year. Thus far it is a shnauzer, short on capital, and even Aussies don't appear interested in the company. I can't figure it out; maybe it takes two years to load the one million rounds.
I believe this was tested in Afcra$istan.
I got a link to that site a few years back - pretty amazing firepower.
ANY REAL DEMONSTRATIONS?
I hope it deploy to Iraq .
Hope it's still "one shot one kill".
Don't think I can afford to take it to the firing range.
No, they have handguns and every type of weapon you can think of.
The stock also trades in Aust. and there are only a limited number of shares here of the US stock and it hardly ever trades.
EGLFE
One video details how an unmanned aircraft can lay down a path of 40mm granades 100 yards wide by 2 miles, in seconds.
---that concept was first tried in flintlock form about 1750---
The stock trades on NASDAQ and averages 210,000 shares daily.
Makes no sense.
The concept actually goes back to the 1500's, but this is a whole new ballgame here, were talking firepower on steroids.
---I think we're talking about a stock scam based on a silly technology that has no practical military use, given the alternatives--
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