8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon

8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon
8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon Inert version
Type	Unguided air-to-surface rocket
Place of origin	Switzerland
Service history
In service	until 1991
Used by	Swiss Air Force
Production history
Designed	1947–1952
Manufacturer	Oerlikon-Bührle
Variants	HEF (impact fuze) HEF (proximity fuze) HEAT (25 cm penetration) Inert training
Specifications
Mass	ca 10-12,3 kg without warhead
Length	600-1 050 mm (depending on variant)
Diameter	80 mm
Calibre	80 mm
Muzzle velocity	650-700 m/s
Effective firing range	1500 m (HEAT)
Sights	Contrave

The Oerlikon-Bührle 8 cm Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon (8 cm aircraft roket) is an 80-mm rocket produced in Switzerland by Oerlikon-Buehrle. Developed from 1947 to 1952 and used until 1991 by the Swiss Air Force under the name Oe85.

Overview

The three main parts of the rocket

The rocket consists essentially of three parts:

• The drive unit with the solid rocket fuel inside and four tail fins and two mounting devices with which the rocket is attached to the weapon carrier.
• The warhead, Optional is a high-explosive fragmentation and hollow-charge or for training an inert warhead.
• The impact fuze.

From the rocket exists also a "Manipulier" (training / inert)version, they have no explosives and no rocket propellant, however, are identical to the real projectile in the shape, aerodynamic and weight. It was used on the de Havilland Venom and Hawker Hunter fighters. The use in the FFA P-16 was planned, but it was only used for trials and testing of the P-16 prototypes because these aircraft never went into serial production. For the projectiles, there were three different weapons carrier / Pylons:

• Pylon for a single rocket
• Pylon for two rockets in tandem
• Pylon for four missiles on each pylon side in tandem

External Pictures

• On aircraft fitted with 2 and 4 pylon
• various images of the rocket

References

• https://web.archive.org/web/20140808061757/http://www.lw.admin.ch/internet/luftwaffe/de/home/themen/history/mittelaus/hunter/bewaffnung.html
• https://www.swiss-archives.ch/detail.aspx?ID=7171229
• Tidsskrift i sjöväsendet. Nr.7 1953.

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