Ammunition, rocket

Rocket Ammunition with Explosively Loaded Projectiles are packaged, for example, in specially designed preformed fiberglas resin impregnated or A1 containers (Refs 33 and 34)... 

The items used for military purposes include those used for small arms ammunition, artillery ammunition, rocket ammunition, aircraft bombs, land sea mines, grenades, demolition devices and pyrotechnic devices. As some items (such as detonators, primers, etc) can be used in several kinds of ammunition our write-up might contain some repetitions... 

US rocket ammunition, described in Ref 36a, is more than 10 years old... 

ROCKET (or Roketto) (Funshindan) or Rocket Ammunition Raketto Danyaku) can be defined as any self-propelled, unguided missile which is fired from a device called a launcher, as was Ger Faustpatrone, Russian Katiusha or Amer Bazooka. Japanese launchers are briefly described here under ROCKET LAUNCHERS. Each Rocket Missile carried its own propeller... 

IV. Rocket Ammunition is fired from a device called a "launcher, such as the "bazooka of WW II fame. Rocket launchers consist of either guide rails or guide tubes fitted wich some electric ignition device. Each rocket carries its own propelling rype motor and a warhead containing an HE or a chemical agent... 

RAAP RCRA RDM RDX RIP ROD RWM Radford Army Ammunition Plant Resource Conservation and Recovery Act rocket dismantling machine cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (an energetic material) request for proposals record of decision rotary washout machine... 

Atomic Rockets. See Vol 1, p A504-R under Atomic Weapons and Ammunition... 

HE, RA (High-Explosive, Rocket Action) Projectile used in 105-mm Semifixed Ammunition M548 is shown here in Fig 43b, where it is briefly described (Ref 52 Appendix, pp 2-115 2-116)... 

Hj) Height of Burst (Sonic) Test. The purpose of this test is to det the height of burst of a fuze using sonic techniques. This technique requires the measurement of the time of arrival of sound at directional microphones precisely placed in a plane. A brief description of this test is given on p IIIB-20 Ref 39 Addnl info can be obtd from "Instrumentation Section, Technical Services Laboratory, Ammunition Development Division, Ammunition Engineering Directorate, Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, NJ 07801 H2) Hydraulic Ram and Vibrator Test. This test could be used to simulate impact shock on bombs or rockets assembled with fuzes that are launched from aircraft. It also could check the transportability of fuzes that experience this environment. This test is listed, but not described in Ref 39, p IIB-37... 

Color Brown Significance 1) Rocket motors OP 4 Ammunition Instructions for the Naval Service May 1943... 

Although aircraft was introduced as an auxiliary warfare weapon by various countries as early as 1910, their actual combat use did not begin until WWI. By this time, incendiary materials were used in the following devices a) small arms ammunition b) shells c) trench mortar projectiles d) grenades and other hand weapons e) aircraft bombs f) flame projectors (described separately) and g) rockets... 

The newest trend in research and development in ammunition was along the line of Rockets (Roketto). Very few types were used during the war, but there were many experimental models of Antitank (Taisensha) and Artillery (Hohei) Rockets, ranging in size from 75mm to 60cm... 

Note Under Navy Ammunition are also described Rockets (Ref 3, pp 512—14) Mortars (pp 515—17) and Projectile Fuzes (pp 514—43),... 

The ordnance commonly used by the military also includes small arms ammunition, large caliber guns (tank guns), projectiles, rockets and missiles. A propellant (low explosive which undergoes rapid and controlled combustion without detona-... 

Group C Propellants or other deflagrating explosives or ammunition containing an explosive such as cordites, propelling charges for rocket motors, power cartridges. 

Ever since the invention of NC and NG, attempts were made to apply them either by themselves or in mixtures for military purposes. Under the term uses for military purposes may be understood propellants in rifle, cannon, rocket and pyrotechnic ammunition booster and bursting charges in bombs, grenades, mines (land and sea), artillery projectiles, warheads of torpedoes and of rockets, etc military blasting operations, military cratering, military demolition, military excavation and production of antitank ditches... 

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