Description
“Little Joe” is a short-range (10,000 foot) radio-controlled, flare-sighted antiaircraft missile with a 100 pound GP warhead, launched from a shipboard catapult with the aid of standard rockets. A Canard-type airframe with cruciform wing and l»ow plane, it was designed to intercept Baka-type bombs and suicide planes. The missile is powered by a JATO unit.
The missile would be launched from a catapult 20 feet long mounted in a 40-mm gun position. It would attain a velocity of 300 to 400 m.p.h. after two seconds.
An 8AS1000 E JATO unit serves as the main propulsive motor. This unit weighs 139 pounds and contains about 75 pounds of Galcit propellant. It delivers 1,000 pounds thrust for eight seconds.
Four or six 3.25-inch Aircraft Rocket Motors Mk 7 are used to assist in launching.
The 100 pound bomb has only the VT fuze.
Functioning
No information about functioning.
See Also
Bomb, 100 lb GP, AN-M30, AN-M30A1
Nose, Proximity, T51E1 (AN-M166)
Source(s)
OP 1664, Volume 2 - US Explosive Ordnance (1947)
