october adm

Hi Boys and girls, i have in my hot little hand the latest copy of the Australian Defence Magazine (ADM) and believe it or not, on page 14 it has a nice little article on Metal Storm.

Enjoy

Metal Storm hanging in to win Force Protection Contracts.

Metal storm is a teaming partner with seven companies that have received Pentagon contracts to provide Force Protection Systems for Integrated Base Defence capabilities for security of sites and personnel.

These indefinite delivery / Indefinite Quantity contracts (“ID/IQ”), issued by the department of the Army were in response to the Force Protection Omnibus solicitation. Some 19 Companies were awarded a total of 21 contracts. Metal Storm, Inc. partnered with seven of the successful prime contractors on the submission representing a total of nine of the 21 awards granted.

The Force Protection contracts have a budget of US$997 million to allocate to the 10 objectives of the program. No contract has an allocated budget at this stage and prime contractors must now bid on task orders to receive funding.

Commenting on the awards, Peter Faulkner President of Metal Storm Inc, said “of the Army’s 10 primary objectives, Metal Storm’s Maul and FireStorm product lines are very closely aligned with the Autonomous Unmanned Systems (Remotely Operated weapons) and Lethal and Non-Lethal response capabilities”.

Metal Storm Inc is able to support the two objectives with their MAUL (Multi Shot Accessory Underbarrel Launcher) and FireStorm Fury weapons platforms and lethal and less-lethal suite of munitions. Based on Metal Storm’s Electronic Ballistics Technology, the MAUL, an individual weapon platform and the FireStom FURY, a mounted Remotely Operated Weapon System have the ability to fire both lethal and less-lethal munitions at extremely high rates of fire.


I cant provide the link as the ADM web page only has September issue, however here id the link

http://www.australiandefence.com.au/