In the 1950’s and 60’s, the world had rocket fever. Humankind was taking its first steps into space and had sights on the moon. Kids could build rockets at the kitchen table and launch them in the ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Gyrojet project was an unmitigated failure. The design suffered from poor accuracy, limited stopping power, and offered no advantages over traditional firearms.

The ammunition they used was essentially a small rocket, rather than a bullet and looked somewhat like rounded shotgun shells with simple hole or diagonally-cut vents for the escaping rocket gasses.

In "The World's Worst Weapons," Martin Dougherty details the long history of overambitious, underachieving weapons that failed to hit their mark. From brass-knuckle-knife-revolvers to rocket-propelled ...

If you thought camouflage was hard to see, imagine a technology that actually bends light waves around a soldier's uniform, making them seem invisible. That's the idea behind quantum stealth, a ...

Grasping at an opening in the market for a low-cost platform optimised for the booming aerial surveillance market, UK-based Gyrojet is single-handedly attempting to revive the autogyro. The privately ...

Police may soon operate covert surveillance missions in a restyled autogyro following the development of a Manned Airborne Surveillance (MAS) platform by Derbyshire start-up, Gyrojet. The two-seater ...

Gyrojet rocket small arms technology / by MB Associates staff Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

Object Details Location Currently not on view Credit Line Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson ca 1965 associated date 1959 ID Number 1980.0399.0672.1 catalog number 1980.0399.0672.1 accession number ...