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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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rockets, also called rocket torpedoes, developed by naval Capitaine Yves Le Prieur. [...] The first operational use of Le Prieur anti-balloon rockets...
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Velocity Aircraft Rocket Le Prieur rocket List of aircraft weapons RP-3 – British 3 inch rocket, known as "60lb" Soviet rocketry "Russian Rocket Projectiles...
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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...
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(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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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...
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40. Dragon's breath Early thermal weapons Flame gun Huo Long Jing Le Prieur rocket List of flamethrowers M202A1 FLASH Meng Huo You Molotov cocktail Petroleum...
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