Unrotated Projectile ( rocket ) batteries were deployed at the beginning of the war.
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To these were added five Unrotated Projectile ( UP ) launchers in 1940, each launcher carrying twenty rockets.
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However, rockets, or'unrotated projectiles'as they were called could the used for anti-aircraft barrages.
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In 1941, the camp was visited by Winston Churchill, to view a demonstration of the Unrotated Projectile anti aircraft weapon.
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The only such system to see operational use was British, who deployed both the Unrotated Projectile and 2 inch RP during the war.
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The missile was powered by eight solid rockets taken from the existing Unrotated Projectile anti-aircraft rocket ( also used on the RP-3 ).
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About a minute after opening fire, " Prinz Eugen " scored a hit with a high-explosive shell; the explosion detonated unrotated projectile ammunition and started a large fire, which was quickly extinguished.
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While under repair in December 1939 March 1940, a 20-barrel Unrotated projectile ( UP ) rocket launcher was installed on the roof of'B'turret and her HACS Mk I directors were replaced with Mk III models.
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About a minute after opening fire, " Prinz Eugen " scored a hit with a high-explosive shell, detonating Unrotated Projectile ammunition and starting a large fire on " Hood ", which was quickly extinguished.
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The former was not very successful and seems only to have been used with British anti-aircraft artillery'unrotated projectiles'( rockets ) in World War II . Radar proximity fuzes were a big improvement over the mechanical ( time ) fuzes which they replaced.
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