Le Prieur rockets (French Fusées Le Prieur) were a type of incendiary air-to-air rocket used in World War I against observation balloons and airships...

Yves Paul Gaston Le Prieur (23 March 1885 – 1 June 1963) was an officer of the French Navy and an inventor. Le Prieur followed his father in joining the...

balloon. They did not always work. One of the notable rockets from World War I was the Le Prieur rocket which had a range of about 115 m (126 yd), limited...

service life coincided with the period when the first air-to-air rockets, the Le Prieur rocket, were used most frequently, and the type has a closer association...

rockets, also called rocket torpedoes, developed by naval Capitaine Yves Le Prieur. [...] The first operational use of Le Prieur anti-balloon rockets...

Velocity Aircraft Rocket Le Prieur rocket List of aircraft weapons RP-3 – British 3 inch rocket, known as "60lb" Soviet rocketry "Russian Rocket Projectiles...

rocket equation and calculated the energies required to reach the Moon and nearby planets. 1916 - first use of rockets (with the solid fuel Le Prieur...

Yves Le Prieur, a French naval officer (who later invented a pioneering scuba-diving apparatus), developed air-to-air solid-fuel Le Prieur rockets - used...

(British service) 1 × Lewis gun on Foster mounting on upper wing Rockets: 8 × Le Prieur rockets (rarely fitted) Avionics 26 cm (10 in) camera (some aircraft...

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