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The Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts continued to be tested under the Future Rifle Program and again in the 1980s under the Advanced Combat Rifle program, but neither program resulted in a ...
The first three (the Special Purpose Individual Weapon, the Future Rifle Program, and the Advanced Combat Rifle program) demonstrated the ballistic problems of flechette ammunition, and the ACR program also showed the inability of kinetic-energy firearms to significantly compensate for human inaccuracy (the small accuracy increase of all of the ...
The AAI ACR was a prototype flechette-firing assault rifle built for the US Army's Advanced Combat Rifle program of 1989/90. Although the AAI design proved effective, as did most of the weapons submitted, the entire ACR program ended with none of the entrants achieving performance 100% better than the M16A2, the baseline for a successful ACR weapon.
XM29 (5.56×45mm NATO and 20 mm airburst munition (early)/25 mm airburst munition) - program canceled; Advanced Combat Rifle program entries (concluded 1991) Misc. Future Rifle Program entries (canceled) Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) program entries - concluded/canceled)
5.56mm Point Target SPIW (Special Purpose Individual Weapon) at the National Firearms Museum. The Special Purpose Individual Weapon was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a workable XM-216 flechette-based "rifle", though other concepts were also involved.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Agriculture said on Friday the Food for Progress aid program could resume for agreements made in fiscal year 2024 or earlier, according to an email seen by Reuters.
Keith Raniere, the ex-leader of NXIVM, was convicted in 2019 of seven counts that included racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy, sex trafficking ...
Safe treatment shows Alzheimer’s potential. One of the challenges of treating Alzheimer’s is finding therapeutics that can cross the blood-brain barrier and get into the brain. Xenon gas can ...