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A wooden chest packed with guns and explosives suspected to belong to a bikie gang has been found by detectives led there by the global AN0M sting.
Stunned police officers dug up the mysterious crate in a Perth suburb to find a huge weapons cache, including automatic machine guns and bomb-making material.
Included in the haul of 16 weapons was a fully automatic Chinese-copy AK-47, an Italian-made automatic shotgun and Powergel explosives.
Forensic and ballistics testing is now underway to see if the arms cache is linked to the local Comanchero bikie gang or any outstanding crimes.
The guns were seized as part of AN0M-linked Operation Ironside in July but Australian Federal Police have now released pictures of the hidden arsenal being discovered by a sniffer dog.
A wooden chest packed with guns and explosives suspected to belong to a bikie gang has been found by detectives led there by the global AN0M sting (pictured, a sniffer dog leads police to the arsenal)
Included in the haul of 16 weapons (pictured) was a fully automatic Chinese-copy AK-47, an Italian-made automatic shotgun and Powergel explosives
Police were tipped off by the fake AN0M encrypted messaging service which was created by police in the USA and Australia to infiltrate organised crime worldwide (pictured, more guns seized by AFP)
'Many of the weapons were found loaded and easily accessible to offenders, increasing the dangers to police and the public,' said the AFP.
They were tipped off by the fake AN0M encrypted messaging service which was created by police in the USA and Australia to infiltrate
