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, ...
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Rare Guns you've never heard of
s there such a thing as a rocket gun? Welcome to the world of the Gyrojet. Robert Mainhardt, an engineer at Los Alamos, designed the Gyrojet alongside business partner Arthur Biehl, hoping to create ...
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This American 13mm Pistol Could Fire Rockets
The Gyrojet was one of the few rocket-propelled firearms to reach the commercial market, though it never achieved widespread success before the company folded. The 13mm pistol, the most common variant ...
Almost as light as a highball tumbler, silent as a hummingbird’s flight—yet with twice the wallop of a .45—the Gyrojet rocket handgun sounds like the secret agent’s dream. Costing only $1 to ...
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 ...
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