REVOLVING ROCKET LAUNCHER Russian patent published in 2009 - IPC F41F3/42 

FIELD: combat equipment.

SUBSTANCE: revolving rocket launcher comprises hollow launching tube coupled with the launcher and rocket spinning device that links rocket with launching tube. Adapter is fixed at the tube outlet cross section, along tube perimetre, while its side surfaces have lengthwise flow-pass slits arranged along adapter edges and tangentially to its surface in direction of rocket revolution. Cylindrical shell is arranged outside launching tube to move axially there along and stop flow-pass slits.

EFFECT: possibility to control powder gas efflux from slits and tangential reactive gasdynamic force.

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