AA rocket part ???

[spotter]

Can anyone provide a positive id on these similar looking items. The only one i could find similar was in a photo taken at larkhill in the "attack of aircraft" part of their collection sat amongst rockets but there was no info visible to denote what it is/from
Thanks for looking
Allan

 

[Yodamaster]

I'm not looking far away in my doc, but caliber (3,7 inch or 95 mm) seems to be equivalent on the British L1A1 rocket (LAW80).
Perhaps a track to follow of a practice rocket nose.


Yoda

 

[spotter]

Yoda thank you, you prompted me to have a look in my stuff about the Law 80 but nothing matched, so whilst i was in my files i had a look and found a possible matching component in Rapier missiles


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[glevum]

What are the markings on the base of the item in photos 3 and 4?

It looks very like a Rapier Mk 1 missile warhead to me. They were small, the filling was about 1.5kg.

 

[spotter]

Morning Glevum
The items are not mine and i dont have any other photos apart from one showing the inert fill. The images i posted in post no3 are of the mk1 rapier.I also had a look in my tech file at the mk2 which shows a semi armour piercing warhead again similar to the items but unfortunately these files dont give any dimensions for individual components
What i could make out regarding the markings " C10 4" then below that "GW"

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[AMMOTECHXT]

The Rapier SAP version entered service in about 1990 - 92. I remember seeing a confidential document on it at the time.

 

[glevum]

The later warheads that I have seen were very different to the earlier one