In the 1950’s and 60’s, the world had rocket fever. Humankind was taking its first steps into space and had sights on the moon. Kids could build rockets at the kitchen table and launch them in the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: A handful of Gyrojet weapons saw combat in Southeast Asia with the U.S. military’s secretive Studies and Observation Group. In the 1960s an American engineer and his ...

The ammunition they used was essentially a small rocket, rather than a bullet and looked somewhat like rounded shotgun shells with simple hole or diagonally-cut vents for the escaping rocket gasses.