the chinese are all over metalstorm ip

This was posted by another poster on yahoo, it has significant ramifications for mst technology, well done Sarah, if you care to google "metalstorm" + cnki.com.cn

You will find a wealth of other research papers by the Chinese acedemia.

China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI)


http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOT...

The Application of Metal Storm System to Close-in Defense
PAN Zhi-gang1,WANG Xue-jun2 (1.Naval Unit 92740,Ningbo,315508,China,2.Naval University of Engineering,Wuhan,430033,China)

This paper analyzes the mission of metal storm weapon system in close-in defense.The new system's necessary and feasibility are pointed out,it's structure and basic function are also suggested.Then it mainly points out some key technologies which need to be solved.In the end,the new system's advantages are summarized.So it can give a new thought for the close-in defense.