The AAI SMG was designed to fire 18.5mm caliber scimitar flechette rounds and HE grenades developed by AAI, but this limited the magazine capacity to 20 rounds. The weapon was …

Nov 29, 2020 · AAI Inc The rocket motor boosts the velocity of the projectile an additional 500 feet per second before it reaches the burnout point. The canted exhaust ports in the base of the …

Jun 25, 2022 · It's referred to as the AAI SMG, and it makes the Gyrojet look like a children's toy. This thing was a fully automatic weapon firing 18.5mm rocket-propelled rounds . That's …

AAI’s CAWS entry fired a plastic cased flechette round designated SCMITR, AAI developed this ammunition to increase the shotgun’s range out to 150m while increasing hit probability.

AAI 18.5mm Submachinegun Feasibility Model (“Rocket Submachinegun”) Country of Origin: US. Appears In: DARPA weapons research in the early 1970s.

May 25, 2021 · It makes a lot of sense, a way to get a larger round out of a infantry weapon is to make it have less recoil, the way to do that is to have less energy behind the round at the time …

Mar 28, 2025 · TRICAP (triple ammunition multi-purpose assault weapon, Triple Capability [1] Multipurpose Assault Weapon) is a US Army submachine gun developed by AAI (Aircraft …

Nov 21, 2011 · So this is basically a 12-guage semi-auto shotgun firing either flechettes or FRAG-12s, just with an added rocket component for the flechettes. "SMG" is a bit of a misnomer …

Feb 18, 2018 · AAI’s ACR was an evolution of the earlier SFR/XM19 rifle. The weapon AAI submitted was gas-operated, fed from a 30-round box magazine, and fired a brass cased …

The AAI Rocket SMG is a sub machine gun developed by DARPA & the AAI Corporation initiated in the 1970s as a project to developed small arms technologies. Inspired by the Gyroject small …