Metal Storm is a defence technology company that develops high-firepower small arms and firepower multipliers utilising unique, electronically initiated, stacked projectile technology. With offices and supporting ‘in house’ engineering capability in Australia and the USA, Metal Storm is focusing its technology effort on medium caliber capabilities and applications, in particular 40mm.
The value of Metal Storm technology lies in the core capability advantages it provides in a range of applications compared with existing ‘conventional’ technologies. These core advantages provide advances in capability for military and security forces. The company is in a development phase as it transitions its technology from proof of concept to product implementation.
High-firepower small arms
Metal Storm’s high-firepower small arms technology feature a number of unique core elements including:
- Munitions stacked inside the barrel
- Electronically fired
- Provides the ability to group barrels in any configuration - from single barrel weapons to multi barrel pods
- High firepower-to-weight ratio
These unique elements of Metal Storm technology provide for a number of key capability advantages not available from conventional weapon technology. These include:
- Increased lethality from conventional munition warheads
- Cumulative effect of firepower
- Simultaneous delivery of different munitions
- Instant selectable choice of munitions
- Variable rates of fire
- Intense bursts of repeatable firepower
- Scaled response
- Remote operation
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