DSG Technology

DSG Technology is a defense technology company associated with Horten, Norway, that designs and delivers advanced small-caliber ammunition and projectile technologies. Its public-facing brand, presented through the website dsgtec.com under the banner "Advancing Lethality," positions the company as "the new standard in precision, lethality, and versatility." DSG describes itself as a nimble and innovative business that has become a trusted partner of customers needing rapid results, with a focus on doctrine-changing projectiles. The company's best-known product families are CAV-X and XMP. CAV-X is marketed as the world's first true "Multi-Environment Ammunition™," capable of engaging open-air, submerged, and semi-submerged targets. According to DSG, CAV-X projectiles maintain accuracy and lethality through water, delivering terminal ballistics many meters beneath the surface, and can be fired air-to-water or water-to-water. The projectile's engineering is said to allow firing into water from any angle without deflection, reducing ricochet and collateral-damage risk in congested maritime environments. XMP is described as turning cover into concealment with devastating effects, using an advanced composition and ballistic profile to deliver unprecedented penetration, consistent performance, and superior stability across supersonic, transonic, and subsonic regimes. DSG states that its current management team has transformed a decade-long research and development effort in supercavitation and penetration into a field-ready capability. The company emphasizes quality, trust, and end-user requirements in its stated mission to bring lethal and capable ammunition to the modern front line. Its applications include targeting combat divers and engaging underwater targets from aerial platforms, which places it in the specialized niche of multi-environment small-caliber munitions. The brand operates in the defense and security sector, where customers are typically military, law-enforcement, and government organizations rather than consumer markets. Public information about DSG's corporate structure, ownership, and financial status is limited; Wikidata identifies it simply as a company in Horten, Norway, and the official website presents a U.S. entity, DSG Tec USA, Inc., alongside the DSG Technology brand. The company's identity is therefore best understood as a defense-technology brand built around patented projectile and ammunition innovations, with a Norwegian heritage and a U.S. commercial presence.

DSG Technology is identified in public data as a company in Horten, Norway. Its official website presents the brand under the name DSG Technology and a U.S. operating entity, DSG Tec USA, Inc., with the tagline "Advancing Lethality." The company states that its current management team has completely transformed DSG's decade-long research and development in supercavitation and penetration into a field-ready capability. This indicates that DSG's origins lie in an extended R&D phase focused on projectile physics, particularly supercavitation — the phenomenon that allows a projectile to travel through water inside a gas cavity with reduced drag. That research produced the company's two flagship product families. CAV-X is described as the world's first true Multi-Environment Ammunition™, able to engage open-air, submerged, and semi-submerged targets. DSG says the projectile maintains accuracy and lethality through water, delivering terminal ballistics many meters beneath the surface, and can be fired air-to-water or water-to-water. Its engineering also allows it to be fired into water from any angle without deflection, mitigating ricochet and collateral-damage risk in congested maritime environments. Applications cited include targeting combat divers and engaging underwater targets from aerial platforms. The second family, XMP, is presented as turning cover into concealment with devastating effects. DSG describes its advanced composition and ballistic profile as delivering unprecedented penetration, consistent performance, and superior stability across supersonic, transonic, and subsonic regimes. Together, CAV-X and XMP are characterized by DSG as a new class of patented ammunition that exceeds performance requirements previously thought to be beyond the limitations of small-caliber projectiles. The company positions itself as a nimble, innovative business and a trusted partner of those who need rapid results, prioritizing quality, trust, and end-user requirements. Its stated vision is to bring the most lethal and capable ammunition to the modern front line. Beyond these public statements, detailed corporate history — such as exact founding dates, ownership changes, or financial milestones — is not provided in the available evidence, and the brand's public record remains centered on its patented projectile technologies and its Norwegian and U.S. presence.

• DSG conducts a decade-long research and development effort in supercavitation and penetration.

• DSG's current management team transforms the R&D into a field-ready capability.

• CAV-X is introduced as the world's first true Multi-Environment Ammunition™.

• XMP is introduced as advanced-penetration ammunition with superior stability across supersonic, transonic, and subsonic regimes.

Specialized defense-technology brand focused on patented, doctrine-changing small-caliber projectiles for multi-environment and high-penetration applications.

• CAV-X

  Multi-Environment Ammunition™ capable of engaging open-air, submerged, and semi-submerged targets; maintains accuracy and lethality through water and can be fired air-to-water or water-to-water.

• XMP

  Advanced-penetration ammunition with an advanced composition and ballistic profile delivering unprecedented penetration, consistent performance, and superior stability.

1. 1DSG Tec USA, Inc. – Advancing Lethalitydsgtec.com
2. 2DSG Technology (Norway) – Wikidatawikidata.org