The Werfer-Granate 21 rocket launcher, also known as the BR 21 (the "BR" standing for Bordrakete) in official Luftwaffe manuals, was a weapon used by the...
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the Luftwaffe to break up Allied bomber formations in 1943 as the Werfer-Granate 21. Over four hundred thousand rockets and 1,400 launchers were completed...
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Remote-Controlled A-A Rocket" – a supersonic surface-to-air missile. Werfer-Granate 21 – a heavy-calibre (21 cm/8 inch) unguided air-to-air rocket, in use by the summer...
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Recoilless Weapons from the U.S. Intelligence Bulletin, March 1945 Luftwaffe manual for Werfer-Granate 21 rocket use on late model Fw 190 As-in German...
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underwing tubular launchers, two per wing panel, firing converted 21 cm (8 in) Werfer-Granate 21 infantry barrage rockets. Two Geschwader, Zerstörergeschwader...
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Bf 109G was for the fitment of a pair of the powerful Werfer-Granate 21 (Wfr. Gr. 21 or BR 21) underwing mounted rocket launchers, while the Focke-Wulf...
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armament was proposed, with either a single Werfer-Granate 21 for aerial targets or a single Werfer-Granate 28/32 for ground targets. Landing was to have...
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conversion kit, comprising the fitting of a pair of under-wing Werfer-Granate 21 (BR 21) rocket mortars, and were designated Fw 190 A-4/R6. The most important...
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added to the canopy. The A-6/R6 was fitted with twin heavy calibre Werfer-Granate 21 (BR 21) unguided, air-to-air rockets, fired from single underwing tubular...
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for the MK 108. Also, the Nebelwerfer 42-derived Werfer-Granate 21 (Wfr. Gr. 21, or Bordrakete BR 21) rockets fitted to Messerschmitt Bf 109 and Bf 110...
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compensate for its inaccuracy. Le Prieur rocket SNEB R4M Orkan RZ.65 Werfer-Granate 21 44M Lidérc Ro-3 Ro-5 Type 3 No.1 Mk 28 Type 3 No.6 Mk 27 Srak m/55...
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down with just a few hits. The adoption of the 21 cm Nebelwerfer-derived Werfer-Granate 21 (Wfr. Gr. 21) rocket mortar by the Luftwaffe in mid-August 1943...
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Henschel Hs 293, guided anti-ship, boost-glide missile R4M rocket Werfer-Granate 21 heavy-calibre air-to-air unguided rocket "Sprengcylindrisch"' (high-explosive)...
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Romania had also gained access to certain Wunderwaffen, such as the Werfer-Granate 21. The first Romanian-made Fiesler Storch was completed in October 1943...
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fighters of 5 Staffel/JG 11, which had pioneered the fitment of the Werfer-Granate 21 unguided air-to-air rocket weapon system to the Luftwaffe's single...
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(railroad gun) 21 cm K 12 (E) (railroad gun) 21 cm Mörser 16 21 cm Mörser 18 21 cm Kanone 38 – 1 cannon sent to Japan, 7 used domestically 21 cm Kanone 39...
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during the war, and the Luftwaffe had shown that volleys of their Werfer-Granate 21 rockets, first used by elements of the Luftwaffe's JG 1 and JG 11...
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Zerstörer heavy fighters, and the adoption in spring 1943 of the Werfer-Granate 21 unguided rockets, gave the German single and twin-engined defensive...
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Bf 109G – and also used for the Fw 190A – was one that mounted the Werfer-Granate 21 heavy calibre rocket weapon system with one launching tube under each...
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Bf 109Gs and Fw 190As each armed with pairs of Werfer-Granate 21 rocket ordnance, developed from the 21 cm Nebelwerfer 42 ground barrage rocket system...
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bombs on top of the bomber formations or using the heavy-calibre Werfer-Granate 21 unguided, underwing-launched rockets. In spring of 1944 the introduction...
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Fighter 148 2 x 20 mm MG 151 autocannons 2 x FN Browning machine guns Werfer-Granate 21 (1) JRS-79B Bomber 36 5 x machine guns 1,575 kg of bombs JRS-79B1...
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added to the canopy. The A-6/R6 was fitted with twin heavy calibre Werfer-Granate 21 (BR 21) unguided, air-to-air rockets, fired from single underwing tubular...
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Aircraft from 1910 to 1945, Part 2]. Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French) (239): 14–21. ISSN 0757-4169. Passingham, Malcolm & Noël, Jean (November 1989). "Les avions...
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Knoke shot down a B-17, Elusive Elcy, of the 94th Bomb Group using Werfer-Granate 21 unguided rockets launched from modified mortar tubes. Encountering...
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cannon pod under the fuselage and armed with Werfer-Granate 21. All gruppen of ZG 76 had the Werfer-Granate 21 installed to break up American bomber formations...
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the gun ceased to function. The fighters could carry an additional Werfer-Granate 21 aerial mortar, as could the Bf 109 or Focke-Wulf Fw 190. In addition...
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Air-to-air rocket Germany RS-82 rocket Air-to-air rocket Soviet Union Werfer-Granate 21 Air-to-air rocket Germany 3.5-inch forward firing aircraft rocket...
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immense destruction. When encumbered with a total of four 21 cm (8 in) Werfer-Granate 21 (Wfr.Gr. 21) rocket tubes, with two of these under each outer wing...
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Romania had also gained access to certain Wunderwaffen, such as the Werfer-Granate 21. The first Romanian-made Fiesler Storch was completed in October 1943...
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