A plurality of missiles stowed within and adapted to be launched from a carrier aircraft, are arranged in cone-shaped clusters, that are in turn nested together to achieve a high density payload. The various clusters are independently rotatable about the conical axes so that individual missiles can be selected at random and moved into a launching position. For this purpose each missile cluster is assembled and secured on an annular support, that in turn is rotatably mounted on an annular bearing structure, wherein each cluster support and associated bearing structure have registerable circumferential gaps congruently disposed with a launching port in an exterior wall of the aircraft. Individual missiles of an inner nested cluster are thus movable, by rotating the associated cluster, into registry with the gaps in adjacent clusters and hence with the launching port and are then transversely and outwardly ejected from the cluster and through the port. The conical clustering of the missiles is used to advantage for high density payload delta-wafer shaped missiles, which are arranged in each cluster so that the longitudinal axes of the missiles lie along the slant of the cone pointing toward the cone apex and the aft ends are disposed in a step- wise circular array around the base of the cone.
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