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Metal Storm Inc. Offers Electronic Weapons For Lethal/Non Lethal Weapons

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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009

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By Ann RooseveltQUANTICO, Va.--Metal Storm Inc. has built a prototype of its FireStorm multi-barrel remote weapon system for the Navy, and separately completed contract work for the Office of Naval Research, a company official said. The U.S-incorporated company is part of Australia-based Metal Storm Ltd., Arthur Schatz, vice president of business development, told Defense Daily yesterday. At Metal Storm's booth at Modern Day Marine yesterday, Schatz displayed the FireStorm, a lightweight, multi-barrel 40mm electronic system has successfully been demonstrated under…

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