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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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 .
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.
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
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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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..
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?
Imagine a small truck loaded with reload tubes, and a small turret with a launcher mounted on it. It could keep a large area saturated with grenades for several minutes almost interrupted.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@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.
actually the point of this is to ensure a multiple strikes in a very shot amount of time. An A-10 gets through heavy tank armor with 30 mm shells by firing at an extremely high rate via a Gatling. Other wise you would need a heavy artillery piece or get into view range to fire an anti-tank missile.
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.
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.
"enable" and "disable" sound similar in a warzone.
If only they could create this technology with snowballs in mind.
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.
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.
Stormlord Dosent even matter with that firerate
Wow
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.
A mortar isn't the round. It's the design of delivery platform.
Not many people may know this, but Metal Storm is an Australian based defence manufacturer.
I want to see the impacts of the grenades!
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).
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!
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.
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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.
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.
Pioneered by Australia licensed to the US,
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Thesaurus Definition:
Noun1.mortar - a muzzle-loading high-angle gun with a short barrel that fires shells at high elevations for a short range.
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.
Good ol' 2006 quality.
These days, they don't know the struggles we had trying to max out the 240p lol
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.
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.
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.
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.
You're one of the few to see the potential.
And then... "Windows will restart in 4 minutes"
Awesome! 4 shots per barrel! Thats a hell of a lot of firepower!
Force multiplication son. This system. Digital tracking, and fire adjustments. A two person fire team could hold back a battalion.
I thought I was being rick rolled
Okay now just up the ante with 60/81mm mortars :-)
great video! finally got to see how they reload too!
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!
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.
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.
Damn, that was amazingly written.
I like hearing the machined ridges on the gold tube. Kinda geekin' out about it.
This was made in Australia, I think dont think they ended up producing it though
Loving the 120p quality xD
one question with these weapon systems, does the rpm affect the accuracy i.e higher rpm less accurate?
this will give the movie "aliens" a new lease on life.
Sounds like Phil Collins. LOL
+imaDrAgOnBoRnkinda
But the question is, can you feel it coming in the air, tonight?
Susspsuedio.
Phil in the 80's all coked up. Dead ringer.
Impressive. However, how can it be accurate with barrels at different trajectories ?
its easy to dodge a pistol than a shotgun
+LetsDo ThisThing They arent at different trajectories they are jut paralellel.
+LetsDo ThisThing Its not meant to be "accurate" its meant to blanket an area with fire power
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
LetsDo ThisThing don't need to be accurate if you have 3000 rpm
Cool, a modern volley gun!
Looks fearsome as well
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.
But, WE WANNA SEE EXPLOSIONS
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
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.
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.
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
+dogga794 why can't you believe it?
Load of shit, all of it.
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
i dont know about you but that math just doesnt add up does it? 16,000 times 60 seconds? that equals 960,000.
dogga794 Company went out of business.
if the reload were to be automatic, now that would be... destructive...
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.
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?
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 .
Frankieonpcin1080p
Frankie was here? Cool.
DemonChickenNugets he that cheats in dayz , csgo ??? ahhaaaa him
Cenimarus Thanks for chiming in a year later.
So why did you say Frankieonpc1080p then? *Just tuning in the next year*
no problem
love the sound of it. sounds like music :D
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.
Franky brought me here .:
Never knew raccoons could speak.
fuc# that reload....they have to work on that.....
Sounds like the fast tom-toms you'd hear in climactic scene in an action movie...
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
Frankie anyone?
what vid?
Sounds like an Asian guy?
" Enabo" "Reloada"
@BonesTheCat Good point I suppose, I wasn't thinking of the fact that you don't HAVE to fire them all at once.
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.
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.
@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.
when it fires it sounds like one of those tennis ball machines that throw tennis balls at ya
I saw a 'what if' animation on MS tech strapped to UAV's or whatever with pods - dozens of rounds - raining down on areas.
when they shoot
where does the grenades go ?
Is it just me or have weapons systems become more and more beautiful over the years?
i have a question dont the explosions from the rounds in front damage the ones to the rear
"Our mortars will blot out the sun!"
nice firing speed tho medieval reloading speed
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.
This thing is so awesome, it must have been built in a local technical college for a project or something.
lol, what a wonderful way of putting it!! but at least its harder to miss this way!
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.
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..
bones dude, calm down...
awesome gun you found btw. ;)
Looks like a potential naval weapon from hell
Note that the tubes would probably come in racks, like you would reload (at least) a row of three three at a time.
I saw that as well, wonder how the system works?
man that could tear up a batallion
The Apollo/Lunar flights showed how that is possible.
Dude, wont the range of the trajectory depend on the platform launching it?
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?
Imagine a small truck loaded with reload tubes, and a small turret with a launcher mounted on it. It could keep a large area saturated with grenades for several minutes almost interrupted.
I just noticed, he reloaded the tube... BARE HANDED! Thus it cools really well!
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.
@XxxSakura101 Yeah but Metalstorm aren't US. They are Australian.
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.
No shells or casings thats how well engineered this is
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.
@indalcecio Well no, this is showing the potential fire rate. You can control the rate of fire.
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.
@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.
actually the point of this is to ensure a multiple strikes in a very shot amount of time. An A-10 gets through heavy tank armor with 30 mm shells by firing at an extremely high rate via a Gatling. Other wise you would need a heavy artillery piece or get into view range to fire an anti-tank missile.
the 46x40 mm at 3000 rpm is beast. that wpuld just destroy anything it hit
I know. But good one for checking it out.
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.