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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Petrus" data-source="post: 64512" data-attributes="member: 341">Sometime in the early 1950s the US Air Force evaluated the Swiss Oerlikon 8-cm unguided rockets. They were thought an efficient anti-tank weapon as they had very high velocity and accuracy.The rockets were being tried on a few types of aircraft. They were tested on the F-86F Sabre as well as the H-21 helicopter. Reportedly four F-84Fs were modified to carry 24 of the rockets and sent to Korea under PROJECT SWATROCK code-name, where the rockets were being tested operationally*. Below you'll find a drawing of the Oerlikon rocket and its installation underwing of a Swiss P-51. And excerpts from a report  titled "Operational Suitability Test of the F-86F Airplane" (<a href="http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD017568&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf">http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=AD017568&Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf</a>), unfortunately some of the pictures are of rather poor quality.I would be interested in any further info on the USAF's testing of the Oerlikon rockets, esp. in any pictures showing American aircraft armed with the Swiss ordnance.Best regards,Piotr* As far as I know the trials of the Oerlikon rockets in Korea has been described by one of the pilots who took part in Project Swatrock, Jack Broughton in his book "Going Downtown. The War Against Hanoi and Washington".</blockquote>