Land Mattress Artillery Rocket

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.

Land mattress artillery rocket. Land mattress multi rocket launcher based on the british sea mattresses used in 1944 normandy invasion wwii. Each time it is clicked if loaded it will fire a barrage of 16 shots towards enemy lines. The british system known as mattress was developed in 1943.

The british eventually introduced their famous land mattress rocket projector during the latter half of 1944. The land version had an operational range of 8 000 yards 7 3 km. 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.

It is a 16 barreled rocket launcher which is crewed by 2 men. Its long form name was projector rocket 3 inch no. The land mattress rocket launcher system was developed from the royal navy mattress project.

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. Roll over image to zoom in. These vary in accuracy so the land mattress is best used against large numbers of enemy troops.

Developed by a canadian artillery officer lt. Artillery rocket system daisy duration. Mattress was the term applied to ground based british devised multiple rocket launchers during world war ii compared with the german and soviet forays into this area the nebelwerfer and katyusha launchers respectively the western allies deployed these weapons late in the war.

Towed rockets trailers wwii canada united kingdom 1 285 6mm scale. Wb group 17 907 views. The land mattress is the allied equivalent of the german nebelwerfer.