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jpaige17

09/10/12 11:54 AM

#17720 RE: jpaige17 #17696

Why is nobody talking about our aerospace/defense prototype part used by the XM25? This piece of Liquidmetal:



is part of this:



which is part of this:



which goes in this round:



which is fired by this:



Here is a video about it:



and a Powerpoint presentation about it with a timeline:

http://www.dtic.mil/ndia/2011smallarms/Thursday12439Stucki.pdf

Began 30 month EMD effort on 28 Apr 2011
? Design will be finalized by month 9 and select facilitization and
manufacture will begin
? 36 FOA systems delivered beginning in month 24
? ATK will begin testing 10 systems approx month 8
? Will conduct 6 months of testing on systems
? Systems will go through a variety of Tests
? Environmental, life cycling, human factors, safety, etc.
Similar to DT testing the Gov’t plans to perform