NEW USE FOR ROCKET TUBES ON P-38 AND P-47 AIRCRAFT.

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:59 pm

I was looking through some Sherman tank books the other day and noticed that some American tank crews modified the original Caliope
rocket launcher on top of their Sherman tanks to accept the larger rockets
fired from ground attack planes.They mounted them in multiple triple configuration just like on the planes(5 or 6 to a row).This gave them one hell of a bunker busting capability and used many of the existing parts of the original Caliope.I have been making a Sherman with this setup for about a year off and on and I was looking for a use for those rocket tubes off the P-38 Lightning.I took them off all but the silver d-day planes.

Just an idea for some of you guys who are looking for an easy custom that will look great.

Mark

nooker21 · Post by **nooker21** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 10:01 am

if you need more rocket tubes, let us know, i'd be happy to donate the tubes off of my DDay p-38, they're just sitting around anyways...

Sgt. Stryker · Post by **Sgt. Stryker** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 12:52 pm

How did you take off those stupid looking rocket launchers on the the 21C XD P-38 without damaging the plastic inner wings?
I have the D-Day and the Samantha, but I hate those fixed launchers!

Post by **aferguson** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 1:16 pm

i just yanked mine off gently (i'm talking about the tube launchers). They are glued on but not very tightly. Just pull them off but slowly and easily and they should pop out of the little slots they are in..

Rogue · Post by **Rogue** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 2:57 pm

Me too,
I yanked them off the P-38's cause they just looked bad.
Even though I have a pic of twin dragons P-38 wearing the tubes in action.

donnieboy · Post by **donnieboy** » Thu Jan 20, 2005 8:24 pm

Hold on fellas! Before you tear off the fuselage-mounted rocket tubes on your P-38s, listen up! I have a book on fighter planes with cut-away diagrams of each plane. The diagram of the P-38 clearly shows the three-tube M-10(?) rocket system mounted via brackets on the fuselage just like 21 C has them. I'm sure they didn't use them and the wing-mounted HVAR rockets at the same point in time, but my point is I think that the 21 C P-38 is technically accurate.
Any tech reps frpm Lockheed on the board?

KAMIKAZE · Post by **KAMIKAZE** » Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:29 am

You are correct DonnieBoy.I just took mine off because a lot of the interceptor versions of the P-38 did not have them.I left them on the D-Day plane because they seemed proper for a ground attack plane.Put-Put
Maru is a different story as it did not mount the rocket tubes.As for taking them off,I gently broke them off as Aferguson did.

Mark

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NEW USE FOR ROCKET TUBES ON P-38 AND P-47 AIRCRAFT.

NEW USE FOR ROCKET TUBES ON P-38 AND P-47 AIRCRAFT.

New Use for Rocket Tubes on P-38 and P-47 Aircraft