A Mysorean soldier, using his rocket as a flagstaff (Robert Home, 1793/4).
Type
Rocket
Place of origin
Kingdom of Mysore
Service history
Used by
Hyder Ali and Tipu Sultan
Wars
Anglo-Mysore Wars
Specifications
Length
200 mm (7.9 in)
length
1,000 mm (39 in)
Diameter
38–76 mm (1.5–3.0 in)
Crew
1
Propellant
Black powder
References
Mysorean rockets were an Indian military weapon. The iron-cased rockets were successfully deployed for military use. The Mysorean army, under Hyder Ali and his son Tipu Sultan, used the rockets effectively against the British East India Company during the 1780s and 1790s. Their conflicts with the company exposed the British to this technology further, which was then used to advance European rocketry with the development of the Congreve rocket in 1805.[1][2]
^A. Bowdoin Van Riper (29 October 2007). Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology. JHU Press. pp. 14–. ISBN 978-0-8018-8792-5.
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