Metal Storm Mortar

[@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.

[@IAMELECTROBOYYY]

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

[@bushwhakked]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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

[@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).

[@dwilson3297]

dear santa

[@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]

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

[@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.

[@davidmbeckmann]

I want to see the impacts of the grenades!

[@AsloAso]

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

[@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,

[@connerforbis1466]

D I S A B L E

[@davecrupel2817]

Crippling Disease E N A B L E

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@bulgogi1212]

I see a lot of the same complaints about this system here on youtube. It's not about sending 100 grenades at 1 target as quickly as possible, it's about having the flexability to send ordnance as needed while saving storage space and reloading time. These tubes are already preloaded, can be stacked and you need to load it once for every 4 or more grenades. You can fire as little as one round if neccesary or send an entire volley. That's also the genius of it, not just the fire rate

[@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.

[@Riddco]

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

[@socialus5689]

Good ol' 2006 quality.

[@BonesTheCat]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@michaelgloch]

this so beats that nerf gun turret you can hook up to your computer. Toys R Us should have these in the stores by Christmas. Kid's will love them!

[@Mopja100]

I thought I was being rick rolled

[@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.

[@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

[@wupme]

@mratomix yes. Its called cost. A Bunker buster is pretty expensive. Grenades come cheaper. Also this thing can be mount onto a car, and be used in alot situations where a bunker buster is just too much.

[@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

[@Zourkoskey]

The electricity ignites the primer instead of a firing pin. There's still gunpowder in the round, so there would be problems with overheating. It may be negated a bit by having so many barrels, but barrel overheating would still be a problem.

[@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.

[@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?

[@ubiquitous27]

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

[@FearDivinity]

It isn't so much about killing people as it is about denying the enemy the ability to move through an area of land. This is called "Area Denial"

[@Ktotheane]

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

[@rockyrhodes1234]

it is firing 40mm HE rounds, the same fired from a M203 underslung GL, dont expect it to penetrate any armour... this is mainly only a rapid firing mortar. not a AT wep..

[@BonesTheCat]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@grandpa212]

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

[@sohei11]

True, and for those of you hating on this system, umm hate to break it to you but there's a version of this for the Abrams and it's ridiculously good for supporting infantry, the real issue it has though is endurance which isn't too good because you need to reload externally.

[@xx_opitc_xxhd541]

Loving the 120p quality xD

[@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.

[@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.

[@weylandracingandfab186]

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

[@miguelgjmgj]

But, WE WANNA SEE EXPLOSIONS

[@scottleft3672]

this will give the movie "aliens" a new lease on life.

[@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 .

[@jjaapp18]

Is it just me or have weapons systems become more and more beautiful over the years?

[@Kareszkoma]

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

[@slickstrings]

Not many people seem to understand this system. Each stacked shot is fired individually by a computer. It can fire as many or as few, as fast or as slow as required. Think of the use. You have these remotely set up. A convoy comes rolling along, and one emplacement (on a moveable turret) quickly and accurately places a blanket of fire towards them before they have time to even react to the first shot. All that while keeping the operators at a safe distance. The idea is devistating for defence.

[@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

[@indalcecio]

@BonesTheCat Good point I suppose, I wasn't thinking of the fact that you don't HAVE to fire them all at once.

[@anwarboumahdi3037]

Franky brought me here .:

[@HipHopEmperorSalute]

Never knew raccoons could speak.

[@duquetteroxx]

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

[@greenwhale773]

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

[@digitalbroadcaster]

Oh, Bonesthecat, where on my post does it say "I claim to be an expert here guys"? I've looked a few times now and the words haven't changed to display that. I wonder what the recoil is on this contraption as they all fire!

[@rogeliotaruc4401]

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

[@jay64stang]

Sounds like the fast tom-toms you'd hear in climactic scene in an action movie...

[@vaportung]

Frankie anyone?

[@Rikhardi]

what vid?

[@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.

[@TheClassFool]

Looks like a mortar equivalent to a DPICM round used in 155mm artillery. Simply put it can pepper the area with 40mm grenades which like the bomblets will take out any unprotected infantry immediately in a large radius before they can move into cover or extract. If the metal storm is given accurate stepper motors to tilt axis combined with firing solution software, I imagine they could quickly fire in a spiral pattern for fastest maximum coverage. We're always researching ways to kill better.

[@digitalbroadcaster]

Banter and opinion is good. I just find it funny (in a scary sort of way) how many seemingly ordinary people know so much about weapons. It wouldn't surprise me if ever war broke out, everybody pulled out a gun of some description. Theres a lot of secret knowledgeable people out there. I actually hate guns even though I was an armourer.

[@sammyspaniel6054]

I like hearing the machined ridges on the gold tube. Kinda geekin' out about it.

[@FlukeHawkins]

Note that the tubes would probably come in racks, like you would reload (at least) a row of three three at a time.

[@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.

[@noname1963]

They also make a gun that can fire at a rate of 1 mil rounds per min. The laptop controlling it all is a Toshiba. Metal Storm is developing weapons for the U.S.

[@kirkthiets2771]

How many of these are in South Korea where tens of thousands of NK tubes are pointed at 30,000 US troops stationed there?

[@BorntoskateJr]

The rounds are already tilting sideways as they leave the barrel is that okay?

[@DEATHCLAWSLAYER]

i read at their site that it can fire at speeds of up to 650,000rpm. the ADWS has to shoot the rotors off a heli to hit because the helis are too slow

[@ReHerakhte]

It's a weapons test to demonstrate the system works the way they want it to. For that sort of testing they often don't use explosive rounds because they aren't trying to blow anything up yet.

[@ThunderAppeal]

I was thinking more along the lines similar to a MagLev design that propels the round through the barrel.

[@Walaboro]

Modern technology prevents missing. we have the weapon angles matched perfectly to the distance it will hit, and with a simple range finder, you can find the distance. and i believe its a trigonometry based calculation they use to match angle with the distance at which it will land, so really, take math and physics in high school and theoretically you would be able to aim and accurately fire this weapon. Just simplifying things

[@Hikayuhuy]

it's electronicly controlled . i guess you can hook it up to a comp and use it to calculate wind ,distance and all that stuff . awesome ....

[@NCaradoc2008]

So it's impossible to miss with this weapon? It can be loaded to shoot down missiles, shoot down artillery rounds, and fire mortar shells, all at the same time? It is so portable it can be moved on the back of a pick-up truck? It can be reloaded in seconds from your ammo dump? Sounds good. But not an infantry weapon (i.e.not a machine gun, not a mortar, not a surface-to-air weapon: can't be carried). Pretty good as mobile armoured light artillery, though.

[@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.

[@capnjonas]

I just noticed, he reloaded the tube... BARE HANDED! Thus it cools really well!

[@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?

[@Ferrant621]

"Our mortars will blot out the sun!"

[@Kintrada]

i think i fell in love at the 46 at 3k rpm test... this thing could wipe out god knows how many soldiers (if it was scaled up to proper artillary dimensions, i dont wanna even think about that)

[@arhont47]

when it fires it sounds like one of those tennis ball machines that throw tennis balls at ya

[@bujoun76]

Reloading may be an issue because it fires so quickly. You would need to carry, with you, alot of bullets and/or grenades ect. Other than that the new weapons system is a quantum leap in raw performance when it comes to projectile weapons systems! All you need is a well built metal tube (basically) and you're good to go. Id say that's very cost effective.

[@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.

[@squidballs1832]

when they shoot where does the grenades go ?

[@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.

[@WtFmAtE12244]

i want to know what happened to what they were shooting at

[@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?.

[@Jongo9]

Its at a private firing range in New Mexico (where all the other weapons are tested.)

[@ThunderAppeal]

The Apollo/Lunar flights showed how that is possible.

[@gawne87]

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

[@Josey_WaIes]

the 46x40 mm at 3000 rpm is beast. that wpuld just destroy anything it hit

[@lshssprings]

A "mortar" is an Artillery piece designed for high angle missions capable of being light weight, shoot over walls and other high structures (like mountains in our current state). That is the definition of a mortar. A 40mm is a tube launched grenade capable of multiple hundreds of meters of effectiveness. Its relatively low power but good for shooting through a window to eliminate the fuck with an AK on the other side. That, is a 40mm. Now you know the difference.

[@ToyzRule]

Looks like a potential naval weapon from hell

[@BonesTheCat]

The other thing about the 'airborne minefield' is it's safer for the general population in the area of conflict. No mines left laying around. Maybe it could be used as mortar support for SAS type scenarios. Could be used for many things.

[@AsianBorat]

lol, Metal Storm is also applying this to pistols (they get 4 barrels too!)