Missile launching tube system - uses missile launching tubes for or salvo firing of shells from missile

摘要

The equipment allows a missile carrying launching tubes to fire separate or simultaneous salvoes of shells, whose bursting points are adjustable. Means are included in the missile (1) for launching and guiding the individual shells (7), typically in the form of fixed-base tilting tubes (5), lockable on a fixed axis on the missile. The number of shells transported by the missile can be varied by the fitting of sets of launching tubes in rings, one above the other. The shells can be fired by a rotary striker which is lockable, acting via a detonator when the missile has turned over and is descending.