Folks,
Everyone and his mother is claiming that the two rocket pods in the photos below are 68mm SNEB pods. And they are referring to Wikipedia as the source. The problem is that my self and two others wrote that article with a lot of info that Thomas-Brandt sent me a long time back. I have never see a pod built for the French 68mm rocket looking like that. The French AF and Navy at least usually doubles up two 19 rocket pods on a pylon. And they moved away from pods using fragile nose cones that shatter when the first rocket is fired. I am stumped. Could it be a Russia pod fitted or the Italian SNIA 81mm rockets?
Jack E. Hammond
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By: jackehammond - 24th February 2011 at 08:38
Folks,
My info is OLD as I stopped doing research for magazines after 7 years after I got called back to my mind numbing factory job that paid very, very dang good money with benefits, etc. But that small job kept me from starving at least. Thanks for setting the record straight. I wonder how the pod works. I know that Thomas-Brandt wasn’t happy with the fragile cover that the first rocket caused to come apart. Maybe a small charge takes the cover off just mini seconds before the first rocket goes????
Jack E. Hammond
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By: the_baphomet_00 - 24th February 2011 at 05:55
It´s a F1 rocket pod.
By: TEEJ - 24th February 2011 at 02:54
See following Alpha Jet image.
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d165/hws5mp/Matrapods001.jpg
Above image discussed here with pod identified as F1 pod? It is the large stumpy one at the rear.
http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?topic=24530.0
Jane’s has the following. Note the saddleback on the F1 Launcher.
The F1 launcher is 2.18 m long and has a body diameter of 564 mm, but because of its hard saddleback it is 637 mm deep beneath the suspension lugs. Its weight when fully loaded is 270 kg
http://www.janes.com/articles/Janes-Air-Launched-Weapons/MATRA-rocket-launchers-France.html
The following although a flight sim does have a drawing of a Matra F1 pod.
http://www.checksix-fr.com/downloads/falcon4/Topolo/zip/Falcon4MirageF1.pdf
TJ
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd February 2011 at 23:06
I’m not aware of any Russian rocket pod which looks like that, how long ago was it that you obtained those brochures? Because depending on the timeframe I think there may have been some developments of the SNEB series since then, such as the pods on the Tiger helo and I believe the Rafale may receive rockets pods in future too.
As for the Italian pods, if the Lybian rockets are of that origin (an interesting and perfectly possible alternative!) these photos of the deserted aircraft appear to be the first good images of them. A cursory google search certainly didn’t turn anything useful up for comparison!
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February 23, 2011 at 7:33 pm