Raketen Sprenggranate

[Eliteforum]

This weapon entered service in mid-1944 with patrol craft and was later fitted to larger units. Used a single-barrel projector.

Several different kinds of shells were produced, including HE, smoke and wire cable. Each HE rocket had the destructive power of an 8.8 cm AA shell.

The wire cable version was similar to the British UP AA rocket and used parachutes connected to 100 m (330 feet) of cable. It is not known if these weapons ever shot down an attacking plane.

It is interesting to note that the parachute version of this weapon was similar to the ineffective British UP AA rockets. That weapon was withdrawn from service following the loss of HMS Hood.

This is the only information I have apart from the picture, but the picture is in German (I belive)

<a href="http://www.boomspeed.com/eliteforum/86mm.jpg" target="_blank">Raketen Sprenggranate 86mm</a> This is the picture, if anyone could provide any more information on this could you please tell me what kind of fusing system it had?

And any possible improvisations/improvements?

[qube]

The image link doesnt appear to be working for me, can you host it somewhere else? Then i can see it and suggest improvments.

[Eliteforum]

Link should work now, I deleted it off the host server thing by accident when I was cleaning it up.

[Machiavelli]

Hmm, just wondering, why do you think the picture is in German? Words like shell, cap, percussion fuse and spacer sound awfully English to me. But do you have a larger version?

[Eliteforum]

Sadly, this is the only picture I can find that is showing details. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Frown]" src="frown.gif" />

[Arkangel]

Interesting design. To me it looks like the rocket motor has 6 seperate nozzles, from a single fuel grain. This would be an excellent way to impart spin sabilisation, far more so than the stinger types, since all nozzles provide thrust and spin.