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Rudolf Nebel, a German aviator and rocket builder whose last name translates as "fog", is sometimes incorrectly named as the inventor of the Nebelwerfer artillery. Nebel did, however, develop a powder-based rocket system with the same name that he used as a fighter pilot during World War I, [5] downing two British planes. [6]
The 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (15 cm NbW 41) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War.It served with units of the Nebeltruppen, German Chemical Corps units that had the responsibility for poison gas and smoke weapons that were also used to deliver high-explosives during the war.
The Germans also had self-propelled rocket artillery in the form of the Panzerwerfer and Wurfrahmen 40 which equipped half-track armoured fighting vehicles. An oddity in the subject of rocket artillery during this time was the German "Sturmtiger", a vehicle based on the Tiger I heavy tank chassis that was armed with a 380 mm rocket mortar.
The 28/32 cm Nebelwerfer 41 (28/32 cm NbW 41) was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War.It served with units of the so-called Nebeltruppen, the German equivalent of the U.S. Army's Chemical Corps.
The German Panzerwerfer refers to either of two different types of half-tracked multiple rocket launchers employed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War.The two self-propelled artillery vehicles are the 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.4/1 (based on the Opel Maultier, or "mule", half-track) and 15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Schwerer Wehrmachtsschlepper (or Panzerwerfer auf ...
M8 4.5 inch Rocket United States: 132 16 BM-13-16 Katyusha Soviet Union: 1940 - 150 6 15 cm Nebelwerfer 41 Nazi Germany: 150 10 15cm Panzerwerfer 42 Nazi Germany: 180 20 Unrotated projectile United Kingdom: 190 1 Type 10 and Type 3 Rocket Boosters Japan: 203 1 Type 4 20 cm Rocket Launcher Japan: 210 1 20 cm Naval Rocket Launcher Japan: 210 5 ...
The Light Artillery Rocket System (or LARS) is a series of West German vehicle mounted multi-barrel rocket launchers designed for rapid concentration of fire on designated targets. The rockets are of 110 mm caliber.
The secret development from 1926–1930 allowed German industry to deliver a trouble-free design at the beginning of German re-armament in 1933. [4] It was the first artillery weapon equipped with rocket-assisted ammunition to increase range.