Improvements made to the rockets having to be able to be suspended by means of a missile launching clusters, in particular to an aerodyne

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846,246. Suspending and launching rockets from aircraft. BREVETS AERO-MECANIQUES S. A. Aug. 13, 1958 [Aug. 27, 1957], No. 26055/58. Class 9(2). Electrically-fired rockets I, II, III are suspended horizontally beneath an aircraft wing, 1 in vertical rows, each rocket being supported by its slidable tail unit 3 and a frangible screw 6 which passes through a retractable member 5 of the rocket immediately above. On closing the firing switch 12 electricity from a source 8 passes successively through the conductors 10 and retractable members 5 of the superior rockets to the switch 14 and primer 7 of the lowest rocket, the circuit being completed through the metallic framework 9 of the rockets and aircraft. The switch 14 in each rocket is actuated by the retractable member 5 of the same rocket, whereby so long as the member 5 is in the vertical position (as when it supports the rocket immediately below) the primer 7 of the same rocket is short circuited and earthed to the metallic framework 9. When the rocket next below is fired, the screw 6 is broken and the propellent gases of the departing rocket urge the member 5 to the retracted or horizontal position, actuating the switch 14 and thus pulling the premier 7 in the firing circuit. Thus each rocket is fired in succession from the lowest. Delay means (which may be mechanical, electrical hydraulic or pneumatic) are provided. For safety in storage and transport a switch 15 shuts circuits and earths primer 7 except when the rocket is leaving from the aircraft or another rocket. Provision is made for single shot firing. Specifications 610,685, 738,870 and 771,852 are referred to.