ID of German unguided rocket needed

blockhaj

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So i wonder if anyone knows what rockets these are on the German Sea Hawk Mk.100?
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They are obviously training variants of some type of rocket but what rocket is it? Ive guessed french T10 rockets but iv'e found nothing about Germany using the type, or any rocket of the era. While on the topic of German rockets did Germany use Hvars and RP-3s during this era as well?
 
There label "sixty pounder" rocket projectiles and must be a British product
since they were used on British Sea Hawk Mk.100

Source
http://www.airvectors.net/avsehawk.html
 
Michel Van said:
There label "sixty pounder" rocket projectiles and must be a British product
since they were used on British Sea Hawk Mk.100

Source
http://www.airvectors.net/avsehawk.html
The British did not use the Mk.100 it was only exported to Germany. As for the rockets they are referring to the RP-3 which is not the rocket on the german mk100.
 
They look like RP-3s to me, just with the warhead removed and replaced by a simple nose cone.
 
GTX said:
They look like RP-3s to me, just with the warhead removed and replaced by a simple nose cone.
The RP-3s had square fins and couldn't be mounted so close to each other.
 
blockhaj said:
GTX said:
They look like RP-3s to me, just with the warhead removed and replaced by a simple nose cone.
The RP-3s had square fins and couldn't be mounted so close to each other.

Postwar RP-3s apparently had cropped fins. Combined with the original solid AP warhead, it might look very much like this.

Found the attached image in a doc from the RAF Historical Society (page 99)

https://docplayer.net/40929348-Royal-air-force-historical-society-journal.html
 

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Seem very similar to this photo with the exception that the warheads are removed:

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The three per rack was also used by the Hunter. The old Airfix kit of the Hunter Mk.6 had them included, as did the early packaging of the Folland Gnat.

Which looked like these from the Airfix kit where the history section in the instruction sheet says they're RP-3's
 

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Nice to know. But did the fins interlock like on the picture?
 

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