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| Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Charleston, South Carolina
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| Me 410 Rockets? Can anyone explain what this is. Looks like a rocket launch tube. these are the only 2 pictures i have seen, and it looks like its a rotary type launcher. Also, does anyone have any documents on this. ![]()
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| a failure, the rotary mortar principle when fired tore the nose of the 410 right off. obviously dropped in care of crew safety and functionality
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| Thanks for the info Eric, I sure would hate to have that sitting under me.
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| Erich is bang on the money. That is Me 410 B-1 W.Nr. 425416 which was equipped with a six shot revolving WGr 21 rocket launcher. Tested on February 3rd 1944 the experiment ended in failure after the rockets blew the nose panels off the aircraft! Whoops.
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| Senior Member | Timing is everything.
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| Yep...that was one of those ideas that were just a little ahead of thier time...
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| Light blue touch-paper and retire.....permanently!!
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| That said the '410 had probably the most diverse array of weapon packages ever tried on a Luftwaffe aircraft. No photon torpedo though.
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| Should have mounted sharks with lazer beams under the wings.
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| Dunno...I thought the Ju88 had quite a few different weapons configs...
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| Senior Member | here ya go |
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| Very nice Mr B17!
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| Senior Member | Dam, that's a bigass rocket!
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| There's a quote by a KG51 pilot using those rockets for the first time in Dierich's "History of KG51", I'll dig it out later.
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| Senior Member | No Problem. It's not good but explains the idea in a brief explanation. |
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