thanks for the input chap,appreciate the comments..............the weapon saw
some service,albiet limited,Used in one longer range
ambush and proved effective, dropped by the one two
picked up by the one one.....The idea was thrilling but
the long term usage was limited due to a host of difficulties
......the rockets were very expensive.a KGB agent tried to buy
one from a New York gun dealer..was refused ..but for some reason
he sold the guy the rockets he had. Makes no sense, more blurb
attached,
"A handful of Gyrojet weapons saw combat in Southeast Asia with the U.S. military’s secretive Studies and Observation Group, a cover name for a group of highly trained commandos that carried out top-secret missions behind enemy lines. As John Plaster wrote in his book SOG: The Secret Wars of America’s Commandos in Vietnam, SOG acquired a small number of the pistol version to try out in the field. SOG commandos were known to carry everything from Swedish K submachine guns to crossbows, so this was not surprising.
“In one test, a rocket round punched through an old truck door and into a water-filled 55-gallon drum, almost exiting its opposite side,” Plaster wrote. SOG men also test-fired it through sandbag walls and even tree trunks.
Vietnam uncovered problems with the Gyrojet weapons. The rocket engines disliked the humidity of Southeast Asia and sometimes burned unevenly. The need to achieve velocity at the expense of short-range lethality plus poor rocket reliability and other performance issues doomed the Gyrojet. A full-scale military contract was not to be, and ultimately only a thousand or so were built.
Today the Gyrojet weapons are collector’s items. Due to a lack of ammunition, it is almost unheard of to actually shoot one. There is at least one effort out there to restart research into Gyrojet technology. Maybe 50 years later, the time is right to try again to replace bullets with rockets. Or maybe this is still a sort of good idea whose time will never come."
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Ged
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