Description
The 4.5 inch barrage rocket is a light demolition rocket intended for launching from landing boats, from amphibious trucks, or from portable launchers of one or more rails.
The head and motor are coupled by means of a threaded adapter, and the fuze screws into the nose of the head. The head is cylindrical, the forward and hemispherical and the rear end reduced. About 6.5 pounds of high explosive can be loaded through a 2 3/4 inch hole in the rear, which is sealed later with a motor adapter. The fuze liner, in the nose of the head, contains a booster charge of granular TNT.
Two circular shrouds, the same diameter.as the body, are attached to supporting fins at the rear of the motor. Two wires brought out through the powder grain and the nozzle connect to the two shrouds. The forward shroud is insulated from the rest of the rocket to prevent a short circuit to the after grounded shroud.
The propellant consists of a single cylindrical grain of ballistite 11 inches long, with a 1.7-inch outer diameter.
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Source(s)
OP 1664, Volume 1 - US Explosive Ordnance (1947)
