In the future, Russian combat aircraft may receive vertical missile launchers, launch of which will be carried out in mortar. The patent for the corresponding invention is published in the database of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS).
Mortar launch of guided aircraft missiles, anti-missiles and other munitions from vertical launchers were proposed by KB specialists “Torch” them. Grushina and NPP “mms radar”. According to the authors of the invention, this method of firing is safer and allows you to launch missiles even from an aircraft standing on the ground.
The method of vertical air launch of missiles includes a vertical launch of a missile from a launch canister, placed on an air carrier
– gives TASS an excerpt from the patent.
Launching rockets from a vertical launch canister in a mortar or “cold start” suggests, that the rocket will be ejected from the launcher without turning on the engine, ie. with some sort of expelling charge. Rocket engines turn on already at a safe distance from the carrier. To compensate for the pressure from the oncoming air flow, the authors propose to use stabilization engines in the nose of the missiles.
note, what “cold start” well known and widely used in Russian weapons, eg, to launch an ICBM, in some anti-aircraft missile systems, etc.. The authors of the invention opposed the launch of missiles from the vertical launchers of the aircraft proposed by the Americans., considered unsafe. Developers from the USA offered “hot” start, when the rocket engine was turned on while still in the launch container.
