But good for BMD and long range supersonic and hypersonic cruise missiles.

That’s why we need composite ceramic steel armor for ships like we use in MBTs so that ships can be armoured up to or exceed ww2 levels.

We can always make it smart like CBU 105 cluster bomb or currently under development XM 7 Spider anti-personnel networked munitions system.

With shrinking budgets governments can invest in only so many technologies, it is pity that metal storm is not one of them.

Laser cannot completely replace gun and missile based CIWS for point defence because it needs long time to heat a target to have a catastrophic kill and large electricity requirement. It also suffers from atmospheric interference its not like a hot knife through butter as shown in science fiction. The best solution is…

I think Metal Storm has potential as a CIWS or APS as vehicle mounted system. Today ATGMs and RPGs have become so prolific that we cannot just add armour to combat vehicles to protect themselves we have to shoot them down before they hit us.It can also be used as a CQB weapon(Crysis 3 Typhoon)

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