chairman's report from annual report, page-15

Is this the same Maul from the CEO Bulletin November 2007

"Could be rapidly transitioned to Full product development"

four and a half years later...surely a joke...time to see things as they are...

Capitalizing on work performed in the US office, we have also been progressing two additional product concepts which, with sufficient market demand, could be rapidly transitioned to full product development.

“FIRESTORM”

The “FireStorm” program capitalizes on our existing experience in vehicle and robotic platform weaponization, to create a Metal Storm lightweight gymbal mount for use in fixed position, vehicle
and small robotic mount applications. The “FireStorm” mount was exhibited at AUSA on the iRobot Warrior platform, sporting a 4 barrel 16 shot 40mm Metal Storm weapons pod.
The prototype shown at AUSA was designed and built by Metal Storm, and includes dual axis motors, integrated fire control system and motor controllers. Work is currently underway to evaluate third party sighting and control software for integration.
Whilst not confirmed, our intention is to use “FireStorm” in live fire trials in the USA before the end of Q1 of next year.
I believe that “FireStorm” is an exciting development for the company, allowing it to address a niche in the market it was not able to tackle before. “FireStorm” is not designed as an ultra fast response mount, and in that context it does not compete with our flagship RedbackTM product. However it does have advantages where the customer is more sensitive to cost than performance, or where the complete system needs to be significantly lighter and smaller than RedbackTM.
We anticipate it being attractive to customers wanting lower cost fixed asset protection using networked fixed mount or robotic weapons systems, or any other application requiring lightweight, low cost grenade launching capability.

MAUL
Metal Storm has applied its expertise in stacked round systems to a 12 gauge (18mm) 4 shot under-barrel weapon codenamed MAUL. (Multi-shot Accessory Under-barrel Launcher) as a part of a contract with the US Marines.
The system was devised to launch multiple FRAG-12 door breeching grenades from a safe stand off distance without reloading. However the application can be much broader, with a range of lethal and less lethal payloads potentially able to be launched from MAUL.