This patent application discloses a lightweight composite launcher pod which includes a multiplicity of elongated launcher tubes that are accurately aligned in a composite material with the composite material having four outer sides wiht alignment surfaces on three of the sides and bearing and alignment surfaces on the other side, and the lightweight composite launcher pod being capable of serving as the shipping and storage container for rockets before launching of the rockets as well as for launching the rockets therefrom when mounted in a launcher structure.
Lightweight Composite Launcher Pod
1984
14 pages
Report
No indication
English
Ordnance , Rockets , Industrial & Mechanical Engineering , Composite Materials , Patent applications , Rocket launchers , Composite materials , Launch tubes , Composite structures , Syntactic foams , Fiberglass , Alignment , Reinforcement(Structures) , Molding techniques , Shipping containers , Storage , External stores
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