Warious artillery/rockets stuff (super/bizzare weapons)

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Re: Warious artillery/rockets stuff (super/bizzare weapons)

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Post by searay » 05 Jan 2013, 19:45

#2 (the Soviet F-22 USV 76mm gun with sWG rocket racks) is not actually a German weapon, but an improvised US Army weapon built using captured equipment by the 16th Ordnance Company, 102nd Division, Ninth US Army in German in 1945. They had found a large cache of German rockets and made a few different types of launchers to use up the rockets.

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Post by jopaerya » 06 Jan 2013, 11:12

Thanks Tom

I could not place it either as a rocket launcher .

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Re: Warious artillery/rockets stuff (super/bizzare weapons)

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Post by Andrzej Ditrich » 13 Jan 2013, 19:53

searay wrote:#2 (the Soviet F-22 USV 76mm gun with sWG rocket racks) is not actually a German weapon, but an improvised US Army weapon built using captured equipment by the 16th Ordnance Company, 102nd Division, Ninth US Army in German in 1945. They had found a large cache of German rockets and made a few different types of launchers to use up the rockets.
Thanks for info.
Here are other stills showing different weapon: Culemeyer 60t heavy trailer with steel frame makeshift launcher.
Looks like the same moment-soviet AT gun is visible in the background. Perhaps there are some films of that gun firing too(?)
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Re: Warious artillery/rockets stuff (super/bizzare weapons)

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Post by Andrzej Ditrich » 13 Jan 2013, 19:57

Hmm actually not a weapon now-but it was in past: Flak 2cm lafette with cameras attached to the barrel???
This was used in Peneemunde for filming firing tests.
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Re: Warious artillery/rockets stuff (super/bizzare weapons)

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Post by searay » 13 Jan 2013, 21:53

Andrzej:
The big frame launcher on the trailer was built by the 370th Ordnance Battalion (also Ninth US Army). Here's a better still photo.
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Post by searay » 13 Jan 2013, 21:57

Here's another view of the improvised Werfer on the Soviet F-22 USV carriage
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Post by Andrzej Ditrich » 13 Jan 2013, 22:06

Thanks! Excellent quality photos-and it's also good to have confirmation from different source :D

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Post by jopaerya » 13 Jan 2013, 22:15

Great picture's Guys 8-) 8-) 8-)

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