Foreign Interest
In 2000 Chinese agents approached Michael O'Dwyer, inventor of the Metal Storm 'super gun' technology, and offered him US$100M to go to China to develop the technology. O'Dwyer refused and informed the Australian government of the approach. Since then the Chinese have developed technology and calls their military development program, 'Metal Storm'.
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