A battered Raketenwerfer 56 launcher at the U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK
Type
Rocket artillery
Place of origin
Nazi Germany
Service history
In service
1944–45
Used by
Nazi Germany
Wars
World War II
Production history
Designed
1942–44
No. built
694
Specifications
Mass
1,004 kilograms (2,213 lb) (empty)
Shell weight
127 kilograms (280 lb)
Caliber
301 millimetres (11.9 in)
Barrels
6
Elevation
-3° to +45°
Traverse
22° 30'
Muzzle velocity
230 metres per second (750 ft/s)
Maximum firing range
4,550 metres (4,980 yd)
Filling
HE
Filling weight
45 kilograms (99 lb)
The 30 cm Raketenwerfer 56 was a German multiple rocket launcher used in the Second World War. It served with units of the Nebeltruppen, the German equivalent of the U.S. Army's Chemical Corps. Just as the Chemical Corps had responsibility for poison gas and smoke weapons that were used instead to deliver high-explosives during the war so did the Nebeltruppen. The name "Nebelwerfer" is best translated as "Smoke Mortar".[1] 694 saw service from 1944–45 in all theaters except Norway.
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