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French Smoke Rockets SERAM type 545/745

Dreamk

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The SERAM Type 545 and type 745 "roquette fumigene" was widely used by the French airforce in the late fifties and sixties. As a matter of fact it was aso commonly used by air forces using the better know SERAM T10 rocket in its various declinaisons (HEAT, Frag, etc..) . From photographies it appears very similar in shape and dimensions to the SERAM Type 900 "roquette d'exercice" (training Rocket) except that the head was of the same diameter as the motor body and not wider.

Can someone gives data on this rocket (dimensions, weight, duration of smoke effect, fuze, etc..)?

A few photograps of this rocket:
First a T10 rocket together with a Type 900 training rocket

Roquette Fumigene 900 et roquette T10 Screenshot 2023-12-12 165450.jpg

Here the smoke rocket together with a French smoke grenade, also often used by French spotting planes in operations - I add a better photograph pf this smoke grenades)

Roquette Fumigene et Grenade Fumigene Screenshot 2023-12-12 170853.jpg Grenades Fumigenes (lanceees a la main) L19 Screenshot 2023-12-12 001151.jpg

The Type 900 under a French Cessna L-19 spotter plane during the war in Algeria in the late fifties/early sixties

Roquettes Fumigenes l19-roquettes-2_orig.jpgRoquettes Fumigenes l19-roquettes-bpk_orig.jpgRoquettes Fumigenes 1961 Screenshot 2023-12-12 001032.jpg

And here Together with a Matra Launcher (37mm rockets most probably) unde the wing of a L-19

paniers de roquettes MATRA explosives LR 181 (18 roquettes de 37 mm) et roquettes fumigènes.gif

Whoever can add more details on these rockets is more than welcome :)
 
Hazord Hi!
This is a T10 in situ. Mounting brackets seem to be in the same orientation as on the museum photograph (Helsinki - Finns use them on their Fouga magisters).
Am I missing something?

06_27_T28_esc03_05_Rearmement_Mecheria_795x504.jpg
 
Actually the brackets are correct, just upside down. If the pins face forward, they are for the under side of the rocket, so another rocket can be attached below it to the bracket of the rocket above it. The empty tube of the bracket needs to be on top to mount over the pins on the launcher.
 
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