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Apache flechette rocket
- Thread starter fotomanx
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V40
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Peter,
try this page. Hopefully it is what you are looking for.
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/275in-rockets.html
try this page. Hopefully it is what you are looking for.
http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/275in-rockets.html
look up the WDU-4 Warhead.
Actually I think the old 2.75 inch flechette warhead is still being used in some cases, but the standard flechette rocket fired from the Apache and the Apache Longbow today is the Hydra 70, M255 or M255A1. Although the Hydra 70 is a design based on the 2.75 inch rocket, the old 2.75 inch designation is not used with it. The M255 carries about 2500 each 28 grain flechettes while the M255E1 or M255A1 carries about 1,180 each 60 grain flechettes. I don't have photos but there is all kinds of information on the rockets on-line.
We covered some of the 2.75-inch flechette stuff in the flechette thread: http://www.bocn.co.uk/vbforum/flechettes-t57425p9.html?highlight=flechette
I've got some more newer shots of different warheads someplace, taken about the time of my move, so they never got posted. I'm still playing around, trying to match flechettes with the carrier munitions. I'm only adding them to the database if I see them pulled from the carrier myself or have a copy of a valid technical document - no "I was told from a a friend who knew a guy" identifications.
I've got some more newer shots of different warheads someplace, taken about the time of my move, so they never got posted. I'm still playing around, trying to match flechettes with the carrier munitions. I'm only adding them to the database if I see them pulled from the carrier myself or have a copy of a valid technical document - no "I was told from a a friend who knew a guy" identifications.