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List of Military Rockets Name Type Country of Origin AIR-2 Genie: Air-to-air rocket USA: Gimlet: Air-to-air rocket USA: Le Prieur: Air-to-air rocket France: Arash: Tactical rocket Iran: T-122 Sakarya: Tactical rocket Turkey: BORA: Tactical rocket Turkey: Kasirga rocket system: Tactical rocket Turkey: TOROS artillery rocket system: Tactical ...
A Fairchild AU-23 Peacemaker in flight. Counter-insurgency aircraft or COIN aircraft are a specialized variety of military light attack aircraft, armed with aircraft artillery and/or portable rockets and designed for counter-insurgency operations, [1] armed reconnaissance, air escort of ground forces, and ground support against "low-intensity engagements"; usually irregular groups of insurgents.
In military terminology, a rocket is a self-propelled, unguided or guided, weapon-system powered by a rocket engine. Though used primarily as medium- and long-range artillery systems, historically rockets have also seen considerable use as air-to-surface weapons, some use as air-to-air weapons, and even (in a few cases) as surface-to-air devices.
The first modern research into military solid-propellant rockets in the United States was conducted by Colonel Leslie Skinner at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in 1932. Little interest was shown by the US Armed Forces however, until the introduction of a British anti-aircraft rocket; [4] both nations exchanged their research data before the United States entered World War II.
T76 Rocket Projector on M4 Tank: 7.5 inch rocket launcher; T99 Rocket Projector on M26 Tank: Two 11 tube launchers on sides of the turret; T103 Rocket launcher, 8 inch, 1-rail, trailer mount; T105 Rocket Projector on M4A1 Medium Tank: Long 7.2 inch launcher; T123 rocket launcher, 4.5 inch, 25-tube, trailer mount,(M21) (1951) T128 rocket ...
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The Gimlet was an unguided air-to-air and air-to-surface rocket developed by the United States Navy during the early 1950s. Although it proved successful in testing and was ordered into large-scale production, the arrival of the guided missile as a practical and reliable weapon resulted in the cancellation of the Gimlet rocket in 1957.
Tiny Tim rockets were used by the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps near the end of the war during the Battle of Okinawa, [14] and during the Korean War. [ 15 ] During World War II, Tiny Tim rockets were credited with sinking one Japanese ship and severely damaging another. [ 4 ]