Word: launcher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...highly classified new Army gun, the SPIW (for Special Purpose Individual Weapon), which is being developed as a replacement for both the current M-14 rifle and the M-79 grenade launcher. An under/over rifle, the SPIW fires fast bursts of small lethal, high-velocity darts called fléchettes from its top barrel and 40-mm. antipersonnel grenades from its bottom barrel. The Army has already spent $15 million on the gun, will pick a final version next year...
Plus 14%. Officially called the Revolutionary Development Cadre, its teams were recruited from the regions in which they were working, and were trained for 13 weeks in the arts of "self-defense, self-help and self-government" at seaside Vung Tau. Skilled in everything from using a grenade launcher to digging a well and administering first aid, they are Saigon's-and the U.S.'s -first wave of shock troops in elemental nationhood. Already, 5,000 more cadremen are in training; by the end of the year hopefully 15,000 will be in the field. Some will...
...only thing the European Launcher Development Organization (ELDO) has managed to put into orbit in the four years of its existence has been its own budget. The cost of an initial set of experiments has risen from a 1962 estimate of $196 million to the present estimate of $400 million, and tests are two years behind schedule...
...capable of spraying inch-long wire chunks in every direction at about 4,800 ft. per second. The problem began one night last week when Chin felt the call of nature. Soon after he stepped outside his hut near the village of My Tho, south of Saigon, a grenade launcher roared and sent its missile into his back from a distance that must have been less than 12 yds. The Viet Cong's 40-mm. grenades need to travel that far before exploding...
...Ping-pong reconnaissance missile, fired with a bazookalike launcher, is programmed to zoom over an enemy position, take pictures, then fire reverse rockets to fly back to the launch site and land by parachute...