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Rocket-assisted projectile, the Glossary

A rocket-assisted projectile (RAP) is a cannon, howitzer, mortar, or recoilless rifle round incorporating a rocket motor for independent propulsion.^[1]

18 relations: Advanced Gun System, Ballistics, Base bleed, Belgian Land Component, Cannon, Extended Range Guided Munition, Howitzer, Krupp K5, Long Range Land Attack Projectile, M-1978 Koksan, M549, M777 howitzer, Mortar (weapon), NATO, Recoilless rifle, Rocket, Sturmtiger, World War II.
Artillery ammunition

Advanced Gun System

The Advanced Gun System (AGS) is a naval artillery system developed and produced by BAE Systems Armaments & Services for the ''Zumwalt''-class destroyer of the United States Navy.

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Ballistics is the field of mechanics concerned with the launching, flight behaviour and impact effects of projectiles, especially ranged weapon munitions such as bullets, unguided bombs, rockets or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.

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Base bleed

Base bleed or base burn (BB) is a system used on some artillery shells to increase range, typically by about 20–35%. Rocket-assisted projectile and base bleed are artillery ammunition.

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Belgian Land Component

The Land Component (Landcomponent, Composante terre), historically and commonly still referred to as the Belgian Army (Landmacht, Armée Belge), is the land branch of the Belgian Armed Forces.

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Cannon

A cannon is a large-caliber gun classified as a type of artillery, which usually launches a projectile using explosive chemical propellant.

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Extended Range Guided Munition

The Extended Range Guided Munition was a precision guided rocket-assisted 5-inch (127 mm) shell (projectile) development by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy.

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Howitzer

The howitzer is an artillery weapon that falls between a cannon (or field gun) and a mortar.

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Krupp K5

The Krupp K5 was a heavy railway gun used by Nazi Germany throughout World War II.

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Long Range Land Attack Projectile

The Long Range Land Attack Projectile (LRLAP) is a canceled precision guided naval artillery shell for the U.S. Navy's Advanced Gun System (AGS).

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M-1978 Koksan

The M-1978 Koksan, or officially Chuch'ep'o (Chuch'e Cannon) is a 170 mm self-propelled gun of North Korean design and manufacture.

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M549

The M549 is a high-explosive rocket-assisted (HERA) 155 mm howitzer round developed for use by the US military in order to add additional range to standard howitzers, with a maximum range from a M198 howitzer.

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M777 howitzer

The M777 howitzer is a British towed 155 mm artillery piece in the howitzer class.

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Mortar (weapon)

A mortar today is usually a simple, lightweight, man-portable, muzzle-loaded cannon, consisting of a smooth-bore (although some models use a rifled barrel) metal tube fixed to a base plate (to spread out the recoil) with a lightweight bipod mount and a sight.

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NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO; Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance of 32 member states—30 European and 2 North American.

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Recoilless rifle

A recoilless rifle (rifled), recoilless launcher (smoothbore), or simply recoilless gun, sometimes abbreviated to "RR" or "RCL" (for ReCoilLess) is a type of lightweight artillery system or man-portable launcher that is designed to eject some form of countermass such as propellant gas from the rear of the weapon at the moment of firing, creating forward thrust that counteracts most of the weapon's recoil.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket-assisted_projectile

Also known as Assisted projectile, Rocket Assisted Projectile.

Rocket-assisted projectile, the Glossary

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