Japanese Anti-Aircraft Rockets WW2

[moin1900]

Hi everybody

Japanese Ground-to-Air rockets and Air-to-Air rockets !

Funryu
http://www.j-aircraft.org/xplanes/hikoki_files/rocketry.html
Any drawings or pictures of the launcher ?
Other drawings, pictures etc. ?

And here the "Sa-Go" ?
http://uk.geocities.com/sadakichi09/army/IJAAR.htm

Did they develop guided Air-to-Air Rockets ?
Sonic-controlled fuse etc. ?

Thanks a lot for help and Many greetings

 

[Pelzig]

Visit http://www.j-aircraft.org/xplanes/index.html and click on the + beside Site Areas in the left hand menu. There, you'll find a link to Missiles/Rockets of the IJA and IJN which includes the Funryu and I-Go series. A bit outdated info-wise, but, should get you by.

Cheers,

Ed

 

[Abingdon]

The Imperial Japanese Navy made extensive efforts on unguided anti-aircraft rockets in 1945, mostly from multi-launch racks. They also had surface-to-surface rockets mounted on the Shinyo special attack boats. There is a 1945 US Navy report on these on the web ( I don't have the site bookmarked unfortunately)

The Imperial Japanese Army made extensive use of surface-to-surface rockets in 1945, notably on Iwo Jima.

 

[moin1900]

Hi everybody

unguided japanese air-air weapons
http://forum.axishistory.com/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=96475

Many greetings

 

[Abingdon]

Here's a photo of the IJN 120mm anti-aircraft rocket launcher

 

[r16]

ı remember reading an article about Japanese aircraft carriers and their ineffective 127 mm flak rockets . Not challenging Searay's post but the calibre surprised me .

 

[Pelzig]

A very good link to aerial rocket bomb information:

http://www.j-aircraft.org/smf/index.php?topic=3477.0

 

[Abingdon]

Regarding the caliber of the IJN naval AA rockets, the US Technical Mission to Japan report "Ordnance Targets: Japanese Naval Rockets" describes them as "12 cm". The USAFPAC AAA Research Board report "Survey of Japanese Anti-aircraft Artillery" also describes them as 120mm. The later report is the source of the photos I posted.

 

[nuedel]

I have found this:

http://www.fischer-tropsch.org/primary_documents/gvt_reports/USNAVY/USNTMJ%20Reports/USNTMJ-200J-0032-0065%20Report%20X-02-1.pdf

 

[hesham]

Hi,


here is artist drawing to the Funryu-2.