According to Kyle Wilson on Quora, TRW Inc. experimented with converting the M14 battle rifle to fire 5.56×45mm NATO from modified M16 magazines as shown below. Unfortunately, he does not cite the source of the image nor is there much information available online. Does anyone else have more...
aerojet general
aerospace defense command
air force space command
air force systems command
cold war
early 21st century
international telephone & telegraph
late 20th century
martin marietta
north american aerospace defense command
post-cold war
raytheon
space and missile systems organization (usaf)
space systems division
spacecom
trw
united states air force
united states space force
20th century
aerospace industry
apollo program
bunker ramo corporation
cold war
defense industry
early 21st century
icbm
nasa
national reconnaissance office
post-cold war
satellite
space probes
space race
spy sat
strategic defense initiative
thompson ramo wooldridge
trw
united states
united states air force
Proposed design for a Multi-Mission bus using ion engines for propulsion. Suggested missions included an untargeted asteroid belt flyby, a targeted asteroid belt flyby, a Jupiter flyby (With or without use of gravity assist to reach an out-of-ecliptic orbit following the flyby.) and a...
1970
cold war
deep space probes
early 1970s
ion thruster
jet propulsion laboratory
nasa
nuclear power
solar-powered
space age
space probes
space race
trw
united states
Back in 1968 TRW proposed that the last spacecraft in the series Pioneer A-E be modified so that it could be used as the first Venus Orbiter. Mission objectives included a study of the solar winds interaction with the Venusian environment...
1968
1970
cold war
early 1970s
inner solar system
late 1960s
meteorology
nasa
pioneer program
pioneer series probes (nasa)
planetary science
space age
space probes
space race
space weather
study of extraterrestrial atmospheres
trw
united states
venus
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