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I have been building some Swedish missiles lately and found a memorial print from DATA-SAAB with an article that sparkled my interest.
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| I put together an old pen and a large drop tank with some plastic card into a 1/72 scale model. The result is something rather unknown. Much because the project never was built. |
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I have problems on how to display missiles. I decided to fake a launch waggon for it, so it is truly fictional. Here is some information about the Rb 330. A Google translate of the text in the DATA-SAAB print gives: Robot 330, intended primarily to perform attack missions on harbours and facilities on the other side of the Baltic Sea at a distance of approximately 500 km. The doctrine was to prevent shipping from the Baltic countries. Robot 330, which was a two-stage rocket would be 11.7 meters long and have a weight of 4385 kg. The projection was made from a combined trailer and launching pad a 45-degree angle. First stage, driven by a gunpowder engine, was 4.1 meters long, weighing 1500 kg and would then be detached when it reached Mach 2 at a height of 1.8 kilometres. |
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The second stage would be 7.6 meters long, weighing 2825 kg and have a diameter of 0.55 meters, it was powered by two ram engines and would reach 3.6 times the speed of sound and a cruising altitude of 23-24 kilometres. In the final phase it would dive, and warhead detonated at an appropriate height. Warhead would be a conventional charge, or a nuclear bomb with a weight of 300 kg. My English isn't good enough to correct it. I suspect that the "gunpowder engine" isn't the correct term. It might mean "solid-fuel" rocket. The project was abandoned 1959 as it would have been too expensive but reading the specs, I suspect it would have been hard to intercept it. |
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