DARPA Scientists Had a Plan to Replace the M-16 Rifle. It Failed.
Matthew Moss
Security,
It wasn't so easy.
Here's What You Need To Remember:
In the early 1970s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency worked on a “Low Maintenance Rifle” concept—or LMR. DARPA thought the new weapon could be a replacement for the troubled M-16 rifle.
The Pentagon hired TRW Systems to design the new gun. The U.S. Army’s Small Arms Systems Agency at Aberdeen Proving Ground monitored the project’s progress.
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