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The '''''Luftfaust''''' (literally "air fist") was a rare German ground-to-air rocket launcher developed during the Second World War, and a precursor to the MANPADS concept. Intended to be a simple method of equipping infantry with a weapon effective against Allied ground-attack aircraft like the North America P-51 Mustang, Hawker Typhoon and Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik, the projectiles are high-explosive warheads from 20x138mm B cannon rounds fitted with solid-fuel rocket motors and spin-stabilized by using four angled exhaust nozzles. | The '''''Luftfaust''''' (literally "air fist") was a rare German ground-to-air rocket launcher developed during the Second World War, and a precursor to the MANPADS concept. Intended to be a simple method of equipping infantry with a weapon effective against Allied ground-attack aircraft like the North America P-51 Mustang, Hawker Typhoon and Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik, the projectiles are high-explosive warheads from 20x138mm B cannon rounds fitted with solid-fuel rocket motors and spin-stabilized by using four angled exhaust nozzles. | ||
Revision as of 08:56, 22 April 2018
The Luftfaust (literally "air fist") was a rare German ground-to-air rocket launcher developed during the Second World War, and a precursor to the MANPADS concept. Intended to be a simple method of equipping infantry with a weapon effective against Allied ground-attack aircraft like the North America P-51 Mustang, Hawker Typhoon and Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik, the projectiles are high-explosive warheads from 20x138mm B cannon rounds fitted with solid-fuel rocket motors and spin-stabilized by using four angled exhaust nozzles.
Two models were produced: Fliegerfaust A had four barrels, and the more famous model, Fliegerfaust B, had 9 lengthened barrels. The weapon is volley fire, meaning that one trigger pull would fire all barrels in a set order: it is not clear what order this was, with the most common theory being that the B model fired the middle barrel and every other outer barrel, and then the remaining barrels 0.1 or 0.2 seconds later. German records indicate only 80 of these launchers were issued for combat trials, all to a unit in Saarbrücken, but oddly there is a photograph of three discarded Luftfaust launchers lying in the rubble of the Hotel Adlon taken during the Siege of Berlin in 1945.
A six barrel 30 mm prototype was also constructed.
The concept of Luftfaust was reused in Soviet experimental launcher Kolos, designed in 1966-1968 for supply to Vietcong partisans. Kolos was seven-barreled and had a 30mm caliber. Tests proved the weapon successfull, but it was abandoned in favour of Strela-2 MANPADS.
Specifications
(Designed in 1944, production began and ended in 1945)
Type: Rocket launcher
Caliber: 20mm
Capacity: 9-rocket clip
Fire Modes: Volley fire
The Luftfaust and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Video Games
| Game Title | Referred as | Mods | Notation | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sniper Elite 4 | "Neunfaust R1" | Found in the Deathstorm Part 2: Infiltration DLC | 2017 | |
| Call of Duty: WWII | Found in Zombies mode | 2017 |