Ares Incorporated
Ares Incorporated is an American weapons manufacturer and firearms engineering company co-founded by the American weapons inventor and developer Eugene Stoner in 1971. The company is based in Port Clinton, Ohio, and produces fire control systems, turret systems, small arms, automatic cannons and industrial machinery. Mr. Stoner left the company in 1989, joining Knight's Armament Company in 1990, where his designs included the Stoner 96, a further refinement of the Ares LMG/Stoner 63.Products
Ares has a history of innovative weapon systems, weapons, and accessories including:
- 1973–1978: Ares FARC
- 1974–1984: 35mm Eagle Air Defense System, 35mm autocannon, 35mm CVAST Turret System
- 1975–1988: 75mm XM274 Medium Caliber anti-armor automatic cannon and the XM21 Loader
- 1980–1982: 90mm Medium Caliber anti-armor automatic cannons
- 1985–1986: Ares FMG
- 1984–1988:.50 caliber PCTA, 33% lighter than M33 cartridge
- 1984–1987: 20mm CTA 6-barrel Gatling Gun
- 1985–1989:.50 caliber TAMG
- 1986–1989: AIWS
- 1986–1994: 45mm XM295 COMVAT automatic cannon and autoloader using CT ammunition developed by Orbital-ATK
- 1987–1990:.50 caliber TARG concept with the 35mm Demonstrator and the Ares designed and manufactured firing mount
- 2004–2011: LSAT that included, 5.56mm CT Spiral 1 ammunition design, 5.56mm LMG weapon action, 5.56mm Carbine
- 2006–2013: Test and refinement of US Army Benet Laboratories' 105mm RAVEN Demonstrator and the Ares designed and manufactured firing mount
- 2008–2013: Designed, manufactured, and tested the Medium caliber 45mm RAVEN Demonstrator and firing mount
- 2005–present: 7.62mm EPG designed by Gene Stoner in the early 1970s; updated and developed for today's remote weapon stations
- 2007–present: Developing manufacturing technology to rifle barrels with an explosively bonded Tantalum-Tungsten liner
- 2014–present: Design the intermediate caliber CT carbine
- Small, medium, and large caliber Mann barrels and launchers
Services
- Complete firing test range encompassing over 650 acres
- Interior and exterior ballistic instrumentation
- Indoor and outdoor firing ranges
- Small arms to 155mm artillery weapons
- Gun barrel design and manufacturing
- Experimental and one-of-a-kind gun barrels
- Weapon Systems, weapons, and component design and manufacturing
- Laser bore measuring medium caliber gun barrels
