Mousetrap Bomb Rack (?)

[edwest4]

Oh kay.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWII-1942-...891132?hash=item594a6f33fc:g:-fIAAOSwTppek32z

 

[cluttonfred]

The note on the back says "Bomb rack, Experimental, for Mousetrap Projectile" so perhaps "Mousetrap" is the bomb not the rack? Sounds like the Mousetrap anti-submarine rockets, perhaps without the rocket charge as those don't look like rails? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap_(weapon) and https://www.history.navy.mil/conten...tlantic/anti-submarine-warfare/mousetrap.html

 

[TomS]

The note on the back says "Bomb rack, Experimental, for Mousetrap Projectile" so perhaps "Mousetrap" is the bomb not the rack? Sounds like the Mousetrap anti-submarine rockets, perhaps without the rocket charge as those don't look like rails? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mousetrap_(weapon) and https://www.history.navy.mil/conten...tlantic/anti-submarine-warfare/mousetrap.html

Just so. Mousetrap was tested as an air-launched bomb, with retrorockets to offset the aircraft's forward speed so it would fall vertically onto a submarine target.

https://www.google.com/books/editio...ojectile+aircraft&pg=PA17&printsec=frontcover