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8 cm Flz. Rakete Oerlikon

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Place of origin
  
Switzerland

Used by
  
Swiss Air Force

Manufacturer
  
Oerlikon-Bührle

In service
  
until 1991

Designed
  
1947 - 1952

8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon

Type
  
Unguided air-to-surface rocket

The Oerlikon-Bührle 8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon (8 cm aircraft roket) is an 80-mm rocket produced in Switzerland by Oerlikon-Buehrle. Developed from 1947 to 1952 and used until 1991 by the Swiss Air Force under the name Oe85.

Overview

The rocket consists essentially of three parts:

  • The drive unit with the solid roket fuel inside and four tail fins and two mounting devices with which the rocket is attached to the weapon carrier.
  • The warhead, Optional is a high-explosive fragmentation and hollow-charge or for training an inert warhead.
  • The impact fuze.

    • From the rocket exists also a "Manipulier" (training / inert)version, they have no explosives and no rocket propellant, however, are identical to the real missile in the shape, aerodynamic and weight. It was used on the fighter aircraft of the type de Havilland Venom and Hawker Hunter. The use of FFA P-16 was planned, it was only at the testing to the P-16 prototypes because these aircraft are not manufacture in series. For the missiles, there were three different weapons carrier / Pylons:

  • Pylon for a single rocket
  • Pylon for two rockets in tandem
  • Pylon for four missiles on each pylon side in tandem

    • References

    8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon Wikipedia
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