Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 massproduce, with a mechanism so simple and rugged that it can be fired under water and requires practically no maintenance, the gun-as advertised-could prove an equally deadly weapon for combat troops...
...least, reasoned two Washington-based Russian military attachés after reading reports on what its developer calls "the world's most accurate unguided rocket." Though they could easily have bought a Gyrojet in the capital, they showed up for some reason at a gun shop in San Jose, Calif., last week. "They spoke very good English," recalled Dealer Frank Schilling. "You'd never have taken them for a couple of those umphing Russians...
Schilling took them for something, however, and refused to sell them the rocket gun under a state law that prohibits the sale of firearms to foreigners. Since ammunition was not covered by the law, he sold them 13 rocket bullets, promised 24 more-then called police. When the visitors showed up the next day for the promised ammunition, two San Jose detectives were waiting, and after an exchange of credentials, came to the conclusion that the Russians had not in fact done anything illegal...
Whether the U.S. would have been better or worse served if the Soviet army-or SMERSH-had elected to adopt the weapon is open to question. The U.S. Army tested the gun in December and has not yet made a report. However, an authoritative technical publication, the American Rifleman, reports that Gyrojet is wanting in several respects-including accuracy...
...Saigon. The two officers talked, slapped each other's back, seemed to reach an agreement for the removal of the howitzers. But Yeu kept them trained on the Danang base, demanding the removal of the Vietnamese marines. For three days, the marines and Yeu remained eyeball-to-eyeball, gun-to-gun. Finally, last week, the central government ordered the Vietnamese marines to leave the base, and Yeu abandoned his position...