Metal Storm Mortar

Stacked Ammo, massive rates of fire.

[@IAMELECTROBOYYY]

"enable" and "disable" sound similar in a warzone.

[@YevhenRawrs]

If you swung it around in a short arc, and calculated it well enough, you could potentially send those 46 rounds over a half-moon sort of shaped area of ground, blanketing it with mortar fire in a short period of time.

[@bushwhakked]

If only they could create this technology with snowballs in mind.

[@Warhamer116]

If this thing has enought range, it can potentially fire with dragging fire (when the first shots are still midflight at high altitude, last shots are fired at low altitude and all shots hit the target at the same time). This means that one mortar and crew can potentially hit 100+ mortar rounds into target in less than few seconds. I have only one word. Scary.

[@tropixMw2]

Stormlord Dosent even matter with that firerate

[@davidtasker6729]

Wow

[@dwilson3297]

dear santa

[@BonesTheCat]

A mortar isn't the round. It's the design of delivery platform.

[@rhapsodyman2000]

You can see during the live fire that the mortars are tumbling almost immediately out of the barrel. Probably because there are no stabilizing tail fins. Likely to cut down the size of the magazines. Even if this design could properly detonate on impact with the mortar tumbling and the fuse off center, it would have worse range and accuracy than a man portable grenade launcher like the M32.

[@connerforbis1466]

D I S A B L E

[@davecrupel2817]

Crippling Disease E N A B L E

[@davidmbeckmann]

I want to see the impacts of the grenades!

[@commnter10]

Combined with an aiming system like 'the anti-everything gun', this type gun would appear to be a fantastic antisubmarine weapon. It should be able to lay down grids of 'hedgehog' rounds that would cover a possible sub location with a shower of sinking rounds. With some magnetic proximity fuses or even hived sonar-containing rounds, a sub would have a high chance of getting hit.

[@BonesTheCat]

Rounds Per Minute is more about the volume of rounds a weapon can fire in the shortest period of time as opposed to the length of time a weapon could fire. Metal Storm could deliver enough explosive via this mortar to cover the area the size of a football field (for example) in the same time it'll take a standard mortar to drop one round that'll cover the equivalent of the in-goal, comparatively (figuratively speaking).

[@Mopja100]

I thought I was being rick rolled

[@WTF7176]

The operating principle is brilliant. I would like to see an 84mm or 105mm set up. This is without doubt the way to the future!

[@CrazyShooterDood]

One could also set these up remotely. I saw an episode of Future Weapons where mortars such as this were set up along potentially active armor highways... they can be fired remotely, giving the ability to destroy an advancing tank column before it reaches a Coalition position.

[@JohnSmith-fu6yu]

Pioneered by Australia licensed to the US,

[@AsloAso]

Not many people may know this, but Metal Storm is an Australian based defence manufacturer.

[@socialus5689]

Good ol' 2006 quality.

[@BonesTheCat]

These days, they don't know the struggles we had trying to max out the 240p lol

[@weylandracingandfab186]

Force multiplication son. This system. Digital tracking, and fire adjustments. A two person fire team could hold back a battalion.

[@imaDrAgOnBoRnkinda]

Sounds like Phil Collins. LOL

[@L.J.Kommer]

+imaDrAgOnBoRnkinda But the question is, can you feel it coming in the air, tonight?

[@brianwesley28]

Susspsuedio.

[@loveandnapalm]

Phil in the 80's all coked up. Dead ringer.

[@yescharliesurfs]

Wanna take out a fire team? Send four rounds down range and they're immediately eviscerated. Is there a tank in the way? Send fifty rounds down range and it's also out of action. Want to keep up a low rate of fire for a long time? You get the idea. Versatile rate of fire and the ability to engage any number of targets makes this system more efficient and effective than conventional mortars.

[@Gj23jk2]

A mortar's designed to be fired at a much higher trajectory and greater range than a 40mm grenade. It has fins for stability and the shells weigh a lot more. The absolute smallest light mortar you can get is 60mm, and it still has a range of 3,500 m. A 40mm grenade has a max range of 200 m.

[@BonesTheCat]

I only approve this cause it's so fucking random I liked it. If you can decipher it, it makes for best comment so far. Watch out Skynet, here comes Aleksa.

[@bassmasta992]

I'm working on one of these in my backyard in the event of random zombie invasion (presumed to happen around when left 4 dead comes out) it's made of PVC pipe, shoots rocks, fires by Co2 cartridges, and can break a wooden board if i throw the whole machine at it.

[@BonesTheCat]

Thesaurus Definition: Noun1.mortar - a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.

[@grandpa212]

Okay now just up the ante with 60/81mm mortars :-)

[@ubiquitous27]

And then... "Windows will restart in 4 minutes"

[@Ohjjin]

Damn, can you guys imagine a whole line of those things firing at an enemy base? I'd be shitting my pants if I were on the other side of that.

[@BonesTheCat]

You're right. Good question. Depends on the purpose I guess. I personally take this application as a defensive weapon. I think of it like an airborne minefield.

[@dogga7948]

this things crazy can shoot 1million rounds per minute 16,000 per second and destroy 3 supersonic missiles in 1.3 seconds I just cant believe this is made by the land down under STRAYA

[@R4V3-0N]

+dogga794 why can't you believe it?

[@Dimetropteryx]

Load of shit, all of it.

[@blackbirght]

It can't fire 1 million rounds per minute, if can fire probably 8000 rounds for half a second and then 10 people have to spend 2 minutes or more to reload all the 40+ tubes and then it can fire another 8000 rounds for half a second and the rest is alll advertising bulshit

[@tank2449]

i dont know about you but that math just doesnt add up does it? 16,000 times 60 seconds? that equals 960,000.

[@WilliamStewart1]

dogga794 Company went out of business.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@XxxSakura101 Yeah but Metalstorm aren't US. They are Australian.

[@DemonChickenNugets]

Frankieonpcin1080p

[@BonesTheCat]

Frankie was here? Cool.

[@stoffes]

DemonChickenNugets he that cheats in dayz , csgo ??? ahhaaaa him

[@BonesTheCat]

Cenimarus Thanks for chiming in a year later.

[@danielwichers2005]

So why did you say Frankieonpc1080p then? *Just tuning in the next year*

[@michi125125]

no problem

[@BonesTheCat]

LOL "Am I on camera?" Pig ugly and thick as pig shit too. Not one comment in a year and a half?. lmao. Good try, troll.

[@BonesTheCat]

They took it to the US military who put it under contract so no one else could use it. The share price right now is $0.01 because of this. Headquarters is in Brisbane.

[@WTF7176]

This is one sick piece of weaponry! I wonder if they have a 105mm version? No signature flash, quick reload and the speed can be adjusted. What more do you want?

[@miguelgjmgj]

But, WE WANNA SEE EXPLOSIONS

[@BonesTheCat]

The term 'autonomous' is the key thing for a lot of applications for this technology. It's light weight and low maintenance for the massive rates of fire, as well.

[@xx_opitc_xxhd541]

Loving the 120p quality xD

[@BonesTheCat]

...and at the start it says 'filmed in Australia' you dipshit. ...and it wasn't 'made for you'.

[@Ktotheane]

This was made in Australia, I think dont think they ended up producing it though

[@BonesTheCat]

Somewhere between the image being transmitted from the screen and your brain comprehending it. It's LIVE FIRE, not LIVE ROUNDS.

[@NikovK]

This weapon fires at 3,000 RPM, but reloads at 1 round every three to five seconds, or 30 rpm. The Mk19 fires 40mm rounds at 60 RPM, but reloads from a belt at one round, one second. Thus a Mk19 is not only a one-man weapon system, it also attains a higher rate of fire with existing technology easier to train a soldier in. Aside from the opening salvo this weapon can achieve (the same amount of explosive is in one medium artillery round) I've never seen its real strengths.

[@BonesTheCat]

IF we didn't have technology we'd still be smashing each other with sticks and rocks. It's not the tech that's the problem.

[@BonesTheCat]

You're one of the few to see the potential.

[@BonesTheCat]

@indalcecio Well no, this is showing the potential fire rate. You can control the rate of fire.

[@Kareszkoma]

if the reload were to be automatic, now that would be... destructive...

[@TestECull]

We tried arial bombardment, see Vietnam. We tried artillery bombardment, see WWI. Mortars are always going to be just as needed as they have been since they were first put to use. Metal storm is just improving on this by allowing safer mortar fire at much higher rates of fire, all from the comfort of the interior of an M1A2.

[@diosdadoapias]

you can not take in seconds two tanks at 10 meters apart because you have to directly hit a tank with the ordnance to destroy it then you have to move and aim the launcher to have a direct hit on the 2nd tank, and there is that target motion which make acquisition of target difficult. There is a practical limitation of speed firing otherwise you are just expending bullets or ordnance unnecessarily wasting precious ammo, and there is always that payload limitation a soldier can take. If he/she can not conserve ammo; he/she will have no more ammo for fighting making the soldier ineffective and at risk. Try machine gunning targets on line formation and at prone position and see if how many targets can you hit and count how many bullets each target have taken and how many bullets were wasted, and do it at the fastest time .

[@mikecimerian6913]

It will behave like an air dropped cluster bomb with higher accuracy. The caliber is small but patterns can be used from incendiary, smoke, high explosive and armor piercing ammunition.

[@zackviola520]

You raise an excellent point my friend while I've seen the test videos and I must say, fire power like this is impressive, I am just not a huge fan of it, i honestly don't believe electronics would ever completely replace a gas powered rifle a d like you said an electro magnetic pulse would bring the entire system offline

[@redreaper-xe6so]

It looks fantastically effective, basically doing thte job of a short-range nebelwerfer. the multiple rounds would increase the chance of hit and put more rounds on target at once, since, the beginning of a barrage is the most effective. an FCS would help it lay all nice on target too. Very, very useful looking machine.

[@letsdothisthing3769]

Impressive. However, how can it be accurate with barrels at different trajectories ?

[@layon9560]

its easy to dodge a pistol than a shotgun

[@SamBrickell]

+LetsDo ThisThing They arent at different trajectories they are jut paralellel.

[@SooSneeky]

+LetsDo ThisThing Its not meant to be "accurate" its meant to blanket an area with fire power

[@wehavegunsinu.s.a9560]

LetsDo ThisThing you talking 40 something rounds in seconds of 40mm grenade rounds are you really trying to ask about its accuracy. with 10 m or more per round of killing distance think about it

[@lingxingching6549]

LetsDo ThisThing don't need to be accurate if you have 3000 rpm

[@sakieh]

Well, I think the reload we are seeing is the slow "this is the way it is done" type reload, and showing the technical aspects. In actual use, it would probably be much faster due to drill.

[@rogeliotaruc4401]

fuc# that reload....they have to work on that.....

[@BulletsOverHarmony]

I wonder if Metal Storm's weapons are protected against an EMP. Because if not, a weapon that gives off an EMP would completely shutdown the weapon. Since the entire weapon is electronic and has no moving parts at all. All it would take is a nuclear bomb (or another bomb that gives off an EMP) over the area and Metal Storm weapons would be worthless. I just hope the people at Metal Storm considered this, and have implemented some way to deter an EMP from affecting their weapons.

[@greenwhale773]

Sounds like an Asian guy? " Enabo" "Reloada"

[@dnno1]

with 46 rounds at that rate, you could take down a hardened bunker almost instantly. You could also take out a tank column or another enemy mortar position. Furthermore, this can be unmanned. You won't need a spotter since the system will do all that by itself.

[@anwarboumahdi3037]

Franky brought me here .:

[@HipHopEmperorSalute]

Never knew raccoons could speak.

[@gawne87]

one question with these weapon systems, does the rpm affect the accuracy i.e higher rpm less accurate?

[@vaportung]

Frankie anyone?

[@Rikhardi]

what vid?

[@elguarpoe]

where was the earth shattering KA BOOOM!?

[@BonesTheCat]

lol That's it?....it's not an 'if', it's how it's done. That's what this particular use of the MS technology is for.

[@Riddco]

Awesome! 4 shots per barrel! Thats a hell of a lot of firepower!

[@BonesTheCat]

Thankyou.

[@MasterShot-ke1mr]

some nice LIVE ROUNDS impacting downrange would be nice

[@paulhogarth6765]

I would imagine the move to multistack, electonic fired arms is for the greatest possible integration of remote operators of military equipment. Like imagine if platoon commanders had access to multiple field assets such as this, as well as integrated gun cams and satellite intelligence through, say, a tablet-like device? Allowing the commander the maximum possible awareness and control over all available assets? Automated mortars and machineguns to set up overwatch and suppress flashpoints?

[@BonesTheCat]

Thankyou.

[@Garrym3k]

I can take out a platoon of tanks in a fraction of a second.

[@krtbrd]

best thing is its aussie

[@spiritrider3348]

reminds me of my paper pea shooters in high school!!

[@BonesTheCat]

@meetsouder The harsh reality of war is to kill the maximum amount of people in the shortest period of time. Yeah, slaughter is the perfect word for it. We're kidding ourselves if we believe otherwise. It's not a game. It's about killing people. That's the real world. Not what the media want you to believe. Like war is some sort of humanitarian effort. That bullshit. It's about money and dying.

[@BonesTheCat]

Depends on how you define rapid. If you compare it against the 'rapid' turn around of a space shuttle mission, then it's rapid. How many rounds did they shoot off?. 24?, without counting. How long would it take for you to shoot off 24 rounds from a traditional single tube mortar?. You'd have to allow for cooling, so compared against that, it's rapid. It shoots four rounds in the same time a normal one shoots one - if this was a single tube mortar.

[@BonesTheCat]

Whats the blast radius of a 40mm nade?.......5 metres?. Times that by 12 x 4 and you have your area. The debate I've been having here since posting this is exactly if it's applicable. I think most agree it has a use. I think area denial. Like an airborne minefield, so to speak. Computers can recalculate equations fairly rapidly so it wouldn't take long for the computer to readjust trajectory for coverage. That might limit the fire rate, somewhat, but it'll increase the coverage.

[@BonesTheCat]

Don't talk to me like you're sharing facts unless you know what the fuck you're on about. From their own website. Customers (4 from 10 due to space restrictions): U.S. Missile Defense Agency, U.S. Army Armaments Research, Development, Engineering Command (ARDEC), U.S. Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory, U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) For this particular application consider this word: PROTOTYPE. Check out PARTNERS and CUSTOMERS at MS Website. Fucken dipshit.

[@BonesTheCat]

How about hitting a platoon of 30 in one volley?. If they have a pre-established area of ground with sensors just under the soil the computer can distinguish (much like how anti-tank mines go off only if something the size of a tank goes near it) what is going past. Let's two trucks and a platoon (or whatthefuckever) wander into this pre-set area. The computer will send a volley towards the trucks and a volley to the soldiers based on spread of personel. Think of it as an airborne mine field.

[@BonesTheCat]

Do you know how many stupid fucking comments I've had to read since posting this video?. There's another video that gets stupid fucking comments too. Between the two, I'm losing my faith in the intelligence of people online. You might think me a fucking snob. Get around to uploading a vid yourself one day on something you're interested in and you'll figure it out for yourself after 2,000th comment you've read.

[@BonesTheCat]

Also include the 4 barrel autonomous gun turrets and a UAV with a metal storm payload and you've got a defensive area fucking NOTHING will get through. If one - say - 40mm shell has a kill radius of 15 feet. What size area could 48 shells cover all in one volley...hitting within half a second of eachother?.

[@SyntheticFuture]

hmm yes I have to agree. Besides in the loading sequence part you can see he can only load 1 tube at a time... meaning the other (what is it?) 15ish barrels stay unused after the first time fired? Oke it's a prototype, but still it should be fixed allready to make it really kickass.

[@BonesTheCat]

lol I actually DID disable comments for awhile because I was OVER IT but I got PM's requesting they be turned back on. That was about a week ago, I'm regretting it already. I don't mind the odd retarded comment, but it's the majority dude.

[@BonesTheCat]

The technology yes, not the mortar. They have defence systems with the concept of "walls of lead", they just don't have the cyclic rate until this technology came along...check out my other videos with the relevant weapons for air defence.

[@barberman1087]

nice firing speed tho medieval reloading speed

[@1984wrx]

Now that's how you waste money. GOOOOOOO METAL STORM

[@Dimetropteryx]

Short range, low velocity, low capacity, small payload. No wonder it hasn't caught on in 20 years, it's outperformed by pretty much everything. Are the rounds even stabilized, rotationally or otherwise? Good luck hitting the broad side of a barn, from the inside. And no, a high rate of fire is not useful for most applications. Only if you want to increase the probability of hitting a target at least once.

[@hrthrhs]

i've read that they can use this weapon as a replacement for land mines. a landmine detects the enemy and blows up. This thing detects the enemy and shoots it - and it can do it from kilometers away.

[@BonesTheCat]

LOL No it isn't. It has more than one barrel. That's the only thing they've got in common. Using your logic, a battleship as a weapons platform is the same concept.

[@KaaneDragonShinobi]

They could always just make one of these mortars that has reloads just a big old fucking pre-made rectangle with all of the cylinders grafted onto it. Sort of like a magazine. And if it's too heavy to load easily then they could just split it in half. And each magazine could have the wiring needed to manage this kind of synchronization built into it, and once the grenades themselves are used, the magazines could be recycled and refilled with grenades somewhere else. This might solve the reload rate problem. Might be stupid but just my two cents.

[@BonesTheCat]

A private individual conceived it. Private firm (his) developed it. Now some parts of various governments help fund development. It's still privately owned tho.

[@BonesTheCat]

One more person mentions the Nebelwerfer and I'll stab the fucker in the ear. The ONLY thing they have in common is the multiple barrels. NOTHING else is similar.

[@duquetteroxx]

This thing is so awesome, it must have been built in a local technical college for a project or something.

[@Baleur]

@BonesTheCat Exactly. People have it as their job to literally kill other people. And as great generals of the ancient world has said, whatever advantage you can get in war, you use. This is also why most attack strategies revolve around outnumbering the enemy 3 to 1. This is also why the germans blitzkrieg was so effective in WW2. Complete and utter overkill, rushing across borders. I'd say 1 million grenades per sec landing in an enemy base is pretty useful for subduing it.

[@meetsouder]

no offence guys, but if you think about it, its pointless and just plain scary, why would you completely overkill a target with 46 rounds at 30,000 rpm?! thats not even right, thats slaughtering! a classic mortar, is perfect, yeah it takes time, but that helps remove error, and money. i disagree to the thoughts of metal storm, but i'm not some hippie either so don't pull a "get out you pacifist" on me.

[@xsfslayer]

We could be like the mass producing USSR who treats soldiers as nothing but number figures on paper, but we're not. I do believe we shouldn't stay in Iraq indefinitely, as they need to learn to control their own government. I also believe that progress was made and life is better now than before. None of the world's major problems involving war and differences would have existed without religion... but that's a different subject.

[@xsfslayer]

Actually, if you do listen to *various interviews, they have claimed both sides. Some claim that life is better, others claim that life is worse. But you must wonder whether they are Sunni or Shiite. Of course the ruling demographic under Hussein would want conformity, while the other wants change. I never said different means improvement. I basically said look at the progresses made, instead of your tunnel vision of the bad aspects of the situation.

[@xsfslayer]

What has the US destroyed that threatens your lively hood? Name one thing. How is your life worse now due to the US? Now, ask yourself how the lively hood of Iraqis and Afghanis are different today than before. Plainly compare conditions before and after, and you'll see that a democratic society where they are able to enforce their own laws is much better than the dictatorship bordering on theocracy they had before.

[@xsfslayer]

Did I say it was important for the world? No. "Set out to do in the first place," simply means that weapons designing and manufacturing is the primary purpose and niche of their business. You really have no right to dictate what legal businesses people may engage in. If that's what you want, go live in a socialist nation. Weapons design and production is a necessity in today's world. Same concept with nuclear weapons. If you don't have them, you are at a political/military disadvantage.

[@CrazyWelshy]

Reloading one barrel at a time is all well and good, but what about the whole gun? I assume there is a rack or rail where they can slot a full load into the gun at once if they rotate it? If not, this is strategic weapon in my eyes. Shoot a few shots to eliminate a few targets. But if tehy run at you en masse, it may be trouble. But I am positive that the gun would have support. Still this weapon look very deadly, I do not want to be on the receiving end.

[@animalmcburger]

They need to make a reload tray. It'd take two guys probably a good 5 minutes to reload the entire thing. Something like they have for revolvers.

[@xsfslayer]

"However, I'm not defending the production of weapons, a huge waste of money that accomplishes nothing but destruction and taking the lives of others." In other words, you would rather see the allocation of weapons production funding funneled to humane charities. That is why I am fervently disagreeing with you. I'm ignorant? Same with you.

[@xsfslayer]

Yes, I know they were a huge factor in why Germany lost WWII. As for the logic of weapons, refer to my previous post. Humans will always have their differences, and a weaponless world will only yield opportunities to those who had little; i.e. radical Islamists, pirates, rebels; i guess you can sum them all up with the word "insurgents."

[@xsfslayer]

Don't put words in my mouth. The USA holds a huge part in the shaping of modern Europe, and especially the outcome of WWII. By the outcome, I mean the final occupation and influence of the major powers after the war. Do you truly wish to live in such a world as that of Eastern Berlin? Really? I doubt it.

[@xsfslayer]

Do you take everything literal? If so, there's no hope for you. 1. I never said weapons were good. I said they were a necessity in today's world. 2. I said you cannot dictate what business a person may engage in - because you have no legal right to. You can blab and blurb all you want, but again, the world does not conform to your opinions.