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Here's the thing: the Cold War had a lot of 'throwing darts at the wall' on the US side (and many of them were just feasibility studies like the Hiller), and the 1960s still had the US Army and Navy still suffering from the USAF's 'nuclear monopoly' era (they lost quite a bit of institutional...

Still, it is a step in the right direction in the long run, to be honest.

From what I can tell, modern ceramic body armor is basically -in GURPS terms- durable ablative armor. Have a few shots and it's done for. However, it should be noted that the research wasn't for nothing as one of the LSAT variants is a caseless system built upon the G11. Now, something from the...

The G11 Assault Rifle... Got all the bugs worked out of it and... the cold war ended with a side order of reunification. From the tests, it's surprisingly effective and reliable after the propellant block problems were solved.

It was a CIWS mount:

The AH-56 'Chyenne', killed by a combination of the stupid 'twin-engine only' requirement (the AH-1 only got by because it shared a lot of its parts with the Hueys), the US Air Force being itself, and a nasty crash that killed its test crew. Most of the problems were either solved or had...