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The Hydra 70 rocket is an American made 2.75-inch (70 mm) diameter fin-stabilized unguided rocket used primarily in the air-to-ground role. It can be equipped with a variety of warheads, and in more recent versions, guidance systems for point attacks.
The Zuni 5-inch Folding-Fin Aircraft Rocket (FFAR), or simply Zuni, is a 5.0 in (127 mm) unguided rocket developed by the Hunter Douglas Division of Bridgeport Brass Company and deployed by the United States Armed Forces, [1] [2] and the French Air Force. [3] The rocket was developed for both air-to-air and air-to-ground operations.
The first sortie carried the rocket and launcher, and the second sortie fired an inert, unguided rocket to ensure the weapon would separate from the aircraft. Two armed rockets were fired during the third sortie from 10,000 and 15,000 feet. The second rocket launched into a 70 knot headwind, and both impacted within inches of the target.
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.
Unguided rockets had been proven effective in ground-attack work during the war, and the Luftwaffe had shown that volleys of their Werfer-Granate 21 rockets, first used by elements of the Luftwaffe's JG 1 and JG 11 fighter wings on July 29, 1943, against USAAF bombers attacking Kiel and Warnemünde, could be a potent air-to-air weapon.
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 ...
The 9K52 Luna-M (Russian: Луна, English: Moon; NATO reporting name: Frog-7) is a Soviet short-range artillery rocket system which fires unguided and spin-stabilized 9M21 rockets. It was originally developed in the 1960s to provide divisional artillery support using tactical nuclear weapons but gradually modified for conventional use.
Oghab – Iranian 230 mm unguided artillery rocket; Falaq-1 – Iranian 240 mm unguided artillery rocket similar to BM-24; Falaq-2 – Iranian 333 mm unguided artillery rocket; Fajr-1 – Iranian version of 107 mm Type 63 MRS artillery rocket [292] Fajr-3 – artillery rocket [293] [294] Fajr-5 – artillery rocket [295] [296]