Are gyrojets capable of being perfected with modern technology?

Are gyrojets capable of being perfected with modern technology?
IF the soviet union only lasted a few more years we would've had caselass ammo by now

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Yeah just print more money and gyrojet production cost would be the same as every other ammo.

Maybe with pseudomagic 40k tech but not with modern technology.
Shifting expense to the consumable part of the weapon is generally a bad game plan. You also can't retain all the advantages like the light weight and lack of recoil while also fixing its problems like the accuracy and close range lethality.
It's a deadend technology, cool as it is.

I do find it interesting that there hasn't been a push to shorten the length of rounds. 7.62mm NATO is a shortened 30-06 in many respects. 5.7mm is kinda weird because it is tiny for a carbine and long for a pistol.

But overall, increasing chamber pressure and shortening case lengths, will it continue?

gyrojet makes more sense as a guided-bullet technology for expensive long range trick shots rather than competing directly with dumb bullets.

>Are gyrojets capable of being perfected with modern technology?
no.
>IF the soviet union only lasted a few more years we would've had caselass ammo by now
no.

It's being worked on.
German Reunification is directly responsible for the G11 not being adopted.
The USSR lasting is a flawed way of saying that, but honestly he's close enough.

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We'd need to figure how to make caseless ammo less bulky first.

Yes, they are, since the ability to build miniaturized stuff is way better than back in the '60s, however they're useless for anything other than a specialized ultra-long-range (>4 km) sniper. And thus far the need has not manifested to have something like that as a regular unit.

We are already able to. With modern manufacturing techniques I'm sure that their nozzles can be produced consistently enough to be accurate and repeatable. 40k solves the problem of initial velocity with an additional traditional powder charge, but then you lose the no-recoil niche of pure gyrojets.

There's really no practical target on Earth that requires hybrid gyrojets to push out relatively heavy APHE rounds from a compact weapon with automatic fire as an option, therefore nobody has tried to make boltguns. We make do with normal bullets and rifles grenades.