Metal Storm continues to market in the US

October 13, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Australia, Industry Analysis, Metal Storm, Promotions, S&T, development program 

The Army of the United States Association (AUSA) held their national convention last week. One of the key parts of this is exhibits by a large number of defense contractors, big and little. Metal Storm the Australian company that is developing rapid fire electronic gun systems attended. They have received some contracts with the US Military to work on their systems. Metal Storm uses multiple barrel system with a stack of ammunition in them. By firing electronically they can launch all of the ready rounds very quickly. Rates of fire for their larger systems are very impressive and their is a lot of potential for them. No nation yet has committed a large sum to buying these systems, which range in size from 9mm to 40mm; although it is probably scalable to larger rounds.

See the press release at MarketWatch.com.

Here is a link to the demonstration video they used at AUSA.

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Global Warming favors Boeing

May 26, 2008 by Dagpotter · Comment
Filed under: Boeing, Contract Awards, EADS, GAO, Military Aviation, Northrop Grumman Corp., Promotions, Protest, U.S. Air Force, commercial aviation, development program, logistics, production program 

According to this article a Washington Democratic Congressman wants to introduce legislation that requires the DoD to evaluate the “green house gas” emissions when awarding defense contracts. If this had been done as part of the KC-45 award, then Boeing would have won as nominally the KC-767 emits less harmful gases then the larger A330. Read more

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