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 capable of firing at semi-auto or full auto and maintain accuracy to any other firearm in similar caliber.

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 projectile maintain and increase the spin rate for further stabilization in flight.

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 equivalent to about .72 or .73 caliber, so right in the range of known Astartes boltgun patterns.

It includes Submachine guns (SMG), Machine pistols (MP), Personal defense weapon systems (PDW), and "compact submachine gun-like weapons" not easily categorized. Weapons may fit in more than one category.

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 of firing. But that makes the round slow, so what if the majority of propulsion aside from the small initial kick came after firing, hence making a rocket smg

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 Armaments, Inc) .

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 flechette round in either single shot or a high cyclic rate three round bust – …

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 arms, they sought to integrate rocket-assisted propulsion into a compact automatic weapon.