Talk:Mattress (rocket)

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WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008[edit]

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sea Mattress[edit]

This whole section seems uselessly vague. Which Allied nation developed this? What year? What was the official model designation? What is the origin of the "mattress" name?

I also find it highly suspicious that a single rocket launch system of early design could possibly fire 800 to 1000 rockets in 45 seconds since the crew would probably be sheltered some distance away from the firing blast and could not do any reloading manually, while rockets by nature have no recoil to function any automatic reloading mechanism. Did one launch system consist of 1000 launch tubes? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.239.51.44 (talk) 23:02, 19 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]

It was Britain who developed the systems. I have made that clearer in the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.52 (talk) 10:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

See Landing Craft Tank (Rocket). "Did one launch system consist of 1000 launch tubes?" - yes it did. The tank deck was outfitted with around a thousand launchers, and the rockets were fired in ripples, so as not to overstress the deck.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.52 (talk) 10:10, 8 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]