Land Mattress Artillery Rocket
The land version had an operational range of 8 000 yards 7 3 km.
Land mattress artillery rocket. Roll over image to zoom in. Towed rockets trailers wwii canada united kingdom 1 285 6mm scale. There is a brief section covering the use of guns verses rocket launchers followed by a detailed rundown on the development and technical description of how the.
Developed by a canadian artillery officer lt. Each time it is clicked if loaded it will fire a barrage of 16 shots towards enemy lines. It didn t take long for the canadian royal artillery to adopt them by converting otherwise idle light anti aircraft batteries into rocket launcher units.
The land mattress was based on the 3 inch diameter 76 mm tube of the rp 3 or 60lb rocket used as an air to ground weapon with naval 5 inch shells as warheads and consisted of a 16 or 30 tube launching system mounted on a towed carriage. The land mattress rocket launcher system was developed from the royal navy mattress project. The united states army built and deployed a small number of turret mounted t34 calliope and t40 whizbang rocket artillery tanks converted from m4 sherman medium tanks in france and italy.
Artillery rocket system daisy duration. These vary in accuracy so the land mattress is best used against large numbers of enemy troops. The british system known as mattress was developed in 1943.
Its long form name was projector rocket 3 inch no. The book covers the history of the land mattress from the original concepts through development testing and finally to deployment with accounts of various actions and the results. It is a 16 barreled rocket launcher which is crewed by 2 men.
The british eventually introduced their famous land mattress rocket projector during the latter half of 1944. During later periods of the war british and canadian troops used the land mattress a towed rocket launcher. Nevertheless they did see useful service as artillery support during the crossings of the rhine and the scheldt rivers.