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Did BO Manufacture End The MTO Phantom Magnetic Airsoft Rifle Project?

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We have been wondering what happened to the MTO Phantom that BO Dynamics almost announced two years ago. The MTO Phantom is vaunted to have a dynamic airflow with 97% power efficiency and battery consumption down to 90% making it the most power efficient airsoft tech.  Plus, it has excellent trigger response and a guarantee that it can fire a million BB rounds.

That is, if it ever gets to be released. But with the updated posted by BO Dynamics on their Facebook Page, it looks like the MTO Phantom is a still born project:

Nous avons bien pris connaissance de vos nombreux commentaires à propos de la solution MTO appliquée à l’airsoft sur laquelle travaillait notre partenaire Magneto Research.

Après de longs mois d’attente, et suite à un changement radical d’orientation de la part de Magneto Research, BO Manufacture a décidé de mettre un terme à sa collaboration avec cette entreprise. En effet, Magneto Research qui nous proposait ses services en sous-traitance, a choisi d’abandonner les applications destinées à l’airsoft.

Toute l’équipe BO Manufacture comprend votre déception et se recentre sur son savoir historique, au plus proche des terrains et des joueurs, pour vous proposer des répliques fiables, originales et accompagnées d’un service de qualité.

Airsoftement,

L’équipe BO Manufacture

English translation via Goggle Translate:

We have taken note of your many comments about the MTO solution applied to the airsoft on which our partner Magneto Research worked. 

After long months of waiting, and following a radical change of direction on the part of Magneto Research, BO Manufacture decided to put an end to its collaboration with this company. In fact, Magneto Research, which offered us its outsourced services, chose to abandon applications intended for airsoft.

The entire BO Manufacture team understands your disappointment and refocuses on its historical knowledge, closer to the fields and players, to offer you reliable, original replicas and accompanied by a quality service.

Airsoftement,

The BO Manufacture team

The MTO Phantom is a different type of airsoft tech as it uses lesser parts as well as does not depend on an external tank or a gas source. If it uses electro-magneto-pneumatic propulsion (that’s how we understand it), then it is indeed a more efficient way to push the BBs out of the barrel. However, we may perhaps not get to understand it fully and the closest we can get to knowing about it is during the presentation of Eric Gautier of BO Manufacture/BO Dynamics at the Airsoft Meetup during the IWA Outdoor Classics 2016:

Afterwards, nothing much was heard about the project with announcements that production is delayed and appearance at CES 2017.  The last major announcement being the termination of cooperation with Magneto Research as posted on the BO Manufacture Facebook Page.

We got in touch with them and they indeed confirmed that they are stopping the project and that they will be focusing on the fully licensed Fabarm Professional STF/12 Airsoft Shotguns as they have the licence from Fabarm of Italy. They are cooperating with VFC for the CO2 version of the shotgun and a springer version will also be released.

Will the magnetic airsoft project remain dead? We cannot say as there have already been ideas in the past about magnetic airsoft guns prior to the announcement of the MTO. Someone may just pick up idea and come out with their implementation in the future.

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