Forgotten Weapons

1991 readers

8 users here now

This is a community dedicated to historical arms, mechanically unique arms, and Ian McCollum's Forgotten Weapons content.

Posts requesting an identification of a particular gun (or other arm) are welcome.

https://www.youtube.com/@ForgottenWeapons

https://www.forgottenweapons.com/

Rules:

1) Treat Others in a Civil Manner. Personal insults of other members are not welcome here. Neither are calls for violence.

2) No Contemporary Politics Historical politics that influenced designs or adoption of designs are excluded from this rule. Acknowledgement of existing laws to explain designs is also permissible, so long as comments aren't in made to advocate or oppose a policy.

3) No Advertising This rule doesn't apply to posting historical advertisements or showing more contemporary ads as a means of displaying information on an appropriate topic. The aim of this rule is to combat spam/irrelevant advertising campaigns.

4) Keep posts and discussions on Topic Keep it related to arms or Forgotten Weapons or closely adjacent content.

5) NSFW content must be marked, and is only acceptable if it is on topic. NSFW means gore or nudity. If such content is somehow on topic and is not just posted for shock value it may be allowed but must be marked.

Post Guide Lines

These are suggestions not rules.

-Provide a duration for videos. eg. [12:34]

-Provide a year to either indicate when a specific design was produced, patented, or released. If you have an older design being used in a recent conflict provide the year the picture was taken. Dates should be included to help contextualize, not necessarily give exact periods.

-Post a full URL, on mobile devices it can be hard to tell what you're clicking on if you only see "(Link)".

-Posts do not have to be just firearms. Blades, bows, etc. are also welcome.

Adjacent Communities

If you run a community that you feel might fit in dm a mod and we might add your's.

Want to Find a Museum Near You? Check out the mega thread: https://lemmy.world/post/9699481

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world

XM19 AAI SPIW prototype flechette "rifle" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to c/forgottenweapons@lemmy.world

0 comments fedilink hide all child comments

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/47437185

(I apologize for the photo quality. The lighting in this building was very harsh)

The Special Purpose Individual Weapon was part of a long-running weapons development program to develop a flechette-firing weapon that was supplemented by a grenade launcher. Rock Island Arsenal's Weapons Command received the project in 1962 as part of the organization of Army Materiel Command.

Four competitors submitted weapon designs: Harrington & Richardson Arms Company, Winchester Arms, AAl Corp., and Springfield Armory. Trials were held in 1964 with both Winchester and Harrington & Richardson being eliminated.

When Springfield Armory closed in 1968, AAI Corp. took over as the lead on the project and developed the XM19. By 1979, the Army concluded the XM19 did not meet the needs of the program, and it was abandoned. Despite its cancellation, the project's work on grenade launchers led to the development of the XM203, adopted in 1969 as the M203 40-mm. grenade launcher. The M203 replaced the M79 launcher.

no comments (yet)

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

there doesn't seem to be anything here