Rocket launchers

The ordn uses of polyesters are varied. They range from adhesives (Ref 4), ammo boxes (Ref 5), grenade deactivator (ftef 7), component sealers (Refs 4 8), rocket launchers (Ref la), minesweeper hulls (Ref 14), to binders in expls (Refs 3,6, 19,21,32,33,34,35,37 40),... 

The U.S. 3.5" high explosive antitank rocket (or similar rockets used by other modem military forces) can be cannibalized or altered and used in a variety of improvised techniques. It can be placed as a shaped charge or land mine or it can be launched either electrically or nonelectrically without use of the rocket launcher. Such improvised firing offers the advantages of rigging the rocket as a booby trap or, at least, permitting the operator to be well out of the area before the rocket fires. 

The junior officers in the room have heard this before, but the final summation somehow jolts them. This will actually happen. It may bring the solution to a big problem. Until now, because they blend into the noncombatant civilian population, coalition troops could distinguish the terrorists only by the rifles and rocket launchers they carry. 

Part 3 of BS7114 is concerned with the methods of testing of fireworks and certain items of auxiliary equipment such as rocket launchers. In essence, the standard calls up chemical and physical test methods that are applied to all types of firework, from toy caps to large rockets. Fireworks that are incomplete or not intended for sale to the general public are excluded. 

ROCKET LAUNCHER A tube, frame, box or base from which rockets may be launched. 

Rocket Launchers Panzerschreck, Wurfrah-men, Wurfgerat, Nehelwerfer Panzerwer-fer (pp Ger 164 to Ger 165 with 8 figs)... 

Rocket Launcher, 2.36 inch, known as Bazooka, developed in 1942. It was 54 long and weighed 12 lbs could penetrate up to 4 armor at close range. Used successfully during WWII (Ref 1, p 629) (See also Bazooka in Vol 2, p B26)... 

Rocket Launcher, 3.5 inch, is the modern successor of original 2.36 inch launcher. Used successfully during Korean War... 

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... 

Accdg to Refs I R, Japanese Rocket Launchers were mostly wooden troughs, others were guide rails and steel barrels (tubes). Launchers were provided with some electric ignition device. The most practical launcher was used by the Japanese Army under the name Type 4 20-cm Rocket Launcher, described in Ref 1, p 204 and shown in Fig 320 on p 206. It consisted fo a metal tube on a mounting permitting fine adjustments in elevation and train. The launcher was in three parts which could easily be disassembled for transportation. A rate of fire of from 1 to 2 rounds per minute could be obtd... 

Rocket Launcher and Rocket Motor Model 10 (p 172) was designed to propel the 60-kg aircraft bomb out of an inclined trough. The launcher was constructed of wood and metal with legs made of iron pikes. The launcher channel was a right angle wooden trough, ca 20 ft long with a motor and bomb positioner... 

Rocket Motors (Roketto Hasshaki) are devices designed to provide propulsive power (propel or launch) to a Bomb or Rocket Projectile of an inclined trough or barrel called Launchers One of such Rocket Motors is described and illustrated in the book of Tantum Hoffschmidt (Ref 7, p 172) under the title Rocket Launcher and Rocket Motor Model 10 . It is briefly described here under Rocket Launchers. They are also described in Ref 2, pp 120-1 Another Rocket Mortar (Type 4 Mk 1) is described here under ROCKET BOMBS as a device used to propel Baka Piloted Rocket Bomb (Ref 2, p 118)... 

Taisensha funshin toshaki. Antitank Rocket Launcher... 

Katiusha (Katyusha or Kostikov s Gun). Russ 132mm rocket launcher M-13. It consisted of a truck-mounted system for firing 16 rockets from eight rails. The M-13 weighed 7.1 tons and fired 94-lb rockets to a max range of 9846 yards... 

Launchers. See Vol 2 of Encycl, p C28-R (Rocket Launcher) and Vol 6 (1974), p G139-R (Grenade Launcher) G185 (Guided Missile Launcher)... 

Guided Missile Launcher. A device or installation from which a self-propelled missile is launched. It usually incorporates a rail, tube, wooden or steel frames, etc for giving the missile initial guidance. Some of the launchers are the same as used for launching rockets. Germans developed and used during WWII many types of launchers and nearly all of them are described in PATR 2510(1958), p Get 164 under Rocket Launcher or Projector with numerous illustrations on p Ger 165. Some of them are shown in the Figs included here... 

Other definitions given in Ref 8 include trench mortar (p C28-L), rocket launcher (p C28-R) and guided missile launcher (p C29-L) The following US guns of WWII are listed... 

Engin autopropulse. Self-propelled device. This term corresponds to both reaction motor and jet-propelled motor. It is also used for a rocket launcher, such as " Bazooka ... 

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... 

Establecimento Klackner SAIC, Bs Aires (Rifles, rocket launchers and shell bodies)... 

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