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 Know: A handful of Gyrojet weapons saw combat in Southeast Asia with the U.S. military’s secretive Studies and Observation Group. In the 1960s an American engineer and his ...

Key point: A lack of ammunition has made this collector’s item difficult to shoot today. In the 1960s an American engineer and his partner invented a gun that fired rocket-propelled ammunition. Yes, ...

The history of small arms engineering is a push and pull between wild imaginations and the harsher realities of what people are looking for in a given firearm. We look back on history-defining rifles ...

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 ...

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