Original U.S. Vietnam War Era Experimental SPIW Special Purpose Individual Weapon Rifle Magazine - Very Rare Russian Flags on the top by the

on the top by the handle

Nicely ink stamped on interior lining:

The knife was made by the armorers and engineers stationed in the Pacific theater

these angles can be measured with accuracies down to microradians or seconds of arc

as mentioned above

Original U.S. Vietnam War Era Experimental SPIW Special Purpose Individual Weapon Rifle Magazine - Very Rare Russian Flags on the top by theOriginal Item. Only One Available. 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. This is an extremely