Object Details
- Summary
- The 15 cm (5.9 in.) Nebelwerfer ("smoke launcher") was the standard German World War II solid-propellant artillery rocket. Spin-stabilized by 26 canted nozzles on the mid-section, it had its warhead in the rear to increase the effectiveness of its charge. Chemical warfare was the original objective of the solid-fuel rocket program, but as neither side used poison gas in Europe in World War II, Nebelwerfer units fired smoke or high-explosive projectiles. The standard launcher was a six-tube wheeled vehicle towed behind a truck or half-track. After 1940, the rocket propellant was a diglycol "smokeless powder." These rockets were first deployed in the attack on the USSR in 1941.
- This artifact is an empty cutaway showing the internal spaces for the propellant and explosive charges; the Smithsonian acquired it from the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum in 1989.
- Credit Line
- Transferred from the U.S. Army Ordnance Museum
- Inventory Number
- A19890597000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- CRAFT-Missiles & Rockets
- Materials
- Steel
- Paint
- Dimensions
- Storage (Rehoused on an aluminum pallet with 3 additional objects): 121.9 × 121.9 × 76.2cm, 145.2kg (48 × 48 × 30 in., 320lb.)
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19890597000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv920bb3dac-c0fd-4b14-9dc4-380096f601ca
