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Metal Storm and ST Kinetics Successfully Fires Jointly-Developed High Explosive Stacked Rounds Singapore -- Metal Storm Limited and Singapore Technologies Kinetics (ST Kinetics) are pleased to announce the successful firing of a range of jointly-developed, stacked configuration low velocity 40 mm electrically ignited munitions (EIM). The firings included high explosive (HE) munitions; enhanced blast explosive (EBX) munitions and air burst munitions (ABM). Less than lethal (LTL) munitions development will be undertaken in the future. The firings follow from a teaming agreement that was signed by both parties in September 2005 to co-develop, produce and market 40 mm munitions for Metal Storm weapon systems. The agreement also provides for a broader relationship in which ST Kinetics would market Metal Storm 40 mm weapons systems in selected markets. The firings, which were completed last week at ST Kinetics??™ Bukit Timah range in Singapore, validate the compatibility between Metal Storm??™s stacked round technology and selected ST Kinetics??™ commercially available warheads. ???ST Kinetics is keen to become a total solutions provider for 40 mm munitions, encompassing both lethal and less than lethal products. We are delighted with the results of our joint developments and their compatibility with Metal Storm??™s weapon systems. We look forward to capitalising on these initial achievements to further the commercial opportunities between our companies under our teaming agreement.??? Sew Chee Jhuen, Deputy President (Operations) and President Defence Business, ST Kinetics ???The significance of these firings is that we can now take selected ST Kinetics commercially available, off the shelf warheads and combine them with our own stacked munitions technology to provide an expanding suite of explosive and less than lethal munitions. The ability to use ST Kinetics??™ off the shelf warheads is a major commercial step for the company. It positions us to demonstrate a range of selectable munitions in our integrated weapon systems to defence customers. We value ST Kinetics??™ support in achieving this outcome, and plan to utilise this range of munitions in a number of existing and planned weapon system projects. ST Kinetics??™ munitions are very much a key element in many of our future projects.??? David Smith, Chief Executive Officer, Metal Storm Limited Metal Storm is exhibiting its technology as a guest of ST Kinetics at the Asian Aerospace Exhibition in Singapore 21- 26 February 2006. Source: Metal Storm ATK Receives Additional $38 Million Order for Main Battle Tank Ammunition Minneapolis, -- Alliant Techsystems has received a follow-on contract from the U.S. Army to continue production of the 120mm M829A3 tank round. The value of the production year 4 award is approximately $38 million. Including a contract awarded earlier in the company??™s fiscal year for production year 3, the total value of FY06 awards for M829A3 rounds is approximately $77 million. Under terms of the contract, ATK will manufacture the composite sabot; load, assemble and pack the round; and provide logistics support. Used by the U.S. Army??™s M1A1/A2 Abrams main battle tanks, the M829A3 is the most advanced armor-piercing, Kinetic Energy tank cartridge in the arsenal. Its state-of-the-art composite sabot, propellant, and penetrator technologies give it outstanding accuracy and lethality and are designed to ensure that U.S. armored forces maintain battlefield supremacy. ATK is the sole source supplier of the M829A3 and will have delivered over 35,000 M829A3 units once PY4 is complete. Production of the M829A3 occurs at ATK??™s manufacturing center of excellence in Rocket Center, West Virginia. Program management is headquartered in Plymouth, Minnesota. The company is the nation??™s largest manufacturer of ammunition and it produces a complete family of tactical and training rounds for main battle tanks. Source: Alliant Techsystems BAE SYSTEMS IAAPS Program Demonstrates Capability To Defeat Kinetic Energy Threats Under TARDEC Survivability Program SANTA CLARA, Calif. ??“ BAE Systems has demonstrated the capability to defeat kinetic energy threats under contract to the U.S. Army??™s Tank and Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) survivability program, achieving another significant milestone in the Integrated Army Active Protection System (IAAPS) program. In end-to-end live fire testing, IAAPS demonstrated defeat of multiple near-simultaneous close-in rocket propelled grenades (RPGs) and anti-tank guided missiles (ATGMs), as well as tank-fired high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT), tank-fired fragmentation and mortar rounds. Many of these tests were conducted on-the-move at speeds over 40 kph. During the current successive testing over a two-week period, IAAPS consistently delivered an interceptor within the required kill radius to defeat kinetic energy (KE) threats. These tests were conducted during the most heavily instrumented active protection system testing to date. Additionally, the tests demonstrated that a KE round was significantly affected by the interim interceptor warhead, indicating future capability may be possible sooner than expected. These tests further expand the capabilities proven by the most thoroughly tested U.S. active protection system (APS). ???These achievements have provided ground truth by validating full-spectrum APS modeling and simulation, and demonstrating measurable progress toward objective system performance for lightweight protection of ground combat vehicles,??? said Mark Middione, BAE Systems??™ IAAPS program manager. Team members from TARDEC, BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman, performed the stressing series of live fire tests against KE threats at Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona, with staff from TARDEC, the U.S. Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) in attendance. Progressing from early successes against RPGs and ATGMs three and a half years ago, to the latest series of tank fired threat defeats, this leading research on the IAAPS Program has resulted in a full spectrum system that offers the warfighter early fielding of a low-weight alternative to heavy armor. Source: BAE Systems |
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