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Special Purpose Individual Weapon | |
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Type | Bullpup flechette rifle |
Place of origin | United States |
Production history | |
Designed | 1951 |
Specifications | |
Mass |
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Cartridge | 12 gauge flechette rounds, XM110 5.6×53mm (Project SALVO) |
Rate of fire |
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Feed system | 60-round detachable box magazine (Project SALVO and NIBLICK) |
Sights | None |
The Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts continued to be tested under the Future Rifle Program and again in the 1980s under the Advanced Combat Rifle program, but neither program resulted in a system useful enough to warrant replacing the M16.