Info on these guns came out a year or more ago. I wonder what the state of the technology is that’s still secret today?
This is Metal Storm, a weapons system that forsakes old-style mechanics for the speed of electronics.
Its inventor is Mike O’Dwyer, a one-time grocer in the Australian city of Brisbane. He’s spent 30 years and much of his own money to develop the technology.
And then there’s this system for tracking and shooting at anything moving within a specified area.
Successful Firing of Area Denial Weapon System
Australia is signatory to the 1997 Ottawa Treaty that bans the use of Anti-Personnel Land Mines (APL). Through the banning of APLs, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) needed to identify a more appropriate weapon system to deny access by a dismounted enemy to large areas of ground. [...] The ADWS aims to demonstrate area denial technology that can overcome the indiscriminate nature of land mines by addressing the requirement for a human-in-the-loop to initiate the weapon system. The ADWS concept provides an option that is Ottawa Treaty Compliant.
ADWS is based on integrating Metal Storm 40 mm stacked projectiles into a multi-barrel pod system and linking them with intrusion sensors and a fire control system.
The concept demonstration system comprised four weapon pods, each containing four barrels, networked and linked to a command and control station. Each demonstrator pod has the capability to fire up to 20 projectiles in varying user-selectable combinations including rates of fire, barrel selection and firing sequence.
Angel, please keep your prejudices to yourself. NRA members aren’t ignorant hicks who talk like that. Also, if you ever listened to any gun owner, would know guns aren’t toys. Plus Americans don’t need an excuse to own firearms, they have a Constitutional right, you should look it up sometime. Not to mention that no one thinks civilians should own 40mm grenade launches as this system can be. Try thinking for a change.
#21, Ron, Angel, please keep your prejudices to yourself. NRA members aren’t ignorant hicks who talk like that….
OK, I’m calling you on that. If you have a reputable link that could prove they aren’t, I’ll buy it. Until then, I’ll let the NRA continue to believe their crap about the right to own assault weapons is inherent.
You want a reputable link on “their crap about the right to own assault weapons is inherent” Mr Fusion? Here is one,
http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/facts/funddocs/billeng.htm
I call it the Bill of Right, bigots like you may call it “Out Dated White Slave Owner Crap”, but most of us don’t. How about a link proving the NRA is a bunch or hicks? No moonbat junk please, and one again keep your prejudices to yourself. Like most on the far left, when reality conflicts with your ideology, it is reality that must change.
I’m an NRA member…. An “assault weapon” as defined by the Clinton ban is simply an ugly rifle… The whole thing was nonsense….
But, back on topic, the French made a State Secret out of a similar device (albeit wit a lot less capacity) about 100 years ago. Extremely slow to reload, and too big to hide. You have to be able to reload these things and to hide them. Otherwise the other guy will either just wait until you empty it (doesn’t take long) and/or blow it up with whatever conventional ordnance he’s got handy.
Unfortunately the ADWS is also an easy target…. I’m not excited at all by land mines, but they will stop an advancing enemy if he doesn’t have the technology to neutralize them first. We have the obligation to build mines that’ll shut themselves off after a known interval. The technology is there….
And, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go out and clean my assault rifle in case the minefields don’t work….
Regards
You know guys, I will call people on their positions on various articles posted online, but why does everyone have to take what is basically an interesting post and let degenerate into flaming partisanship? Don’t all of you get enough of that trolling on TV?