{"id":1333,"date":"2015-03-04T03:25:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2016-09-15T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T23:31:00","slug":"m55-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/m55-rocket\/","title":{"rendered":"M55 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>In 1951 the US Army Chemical Corps and Ordnance Corps initiated a joint program to develop a 115mm chemical rocket. The US Army Ordnance Corps designed the 115mm T238 and launcher in 1957 to provide the army a means to attack large area targets with chemical agents.<\/p>\n<p>Artillery and mortars are for small area targets; and due to different spin stabilities weapons intended for explosives are not ideal for chemical delivery. The 115mm rocket was subsequently accepted as the M55 rocket with M91 launcher.<\/p>\n<p>Produced from 1959\u20131965, the M55s were manufactured at Newport Army Ammunition Plant and tested at Aberdeen Proving Ground.<\/p>\n<p>The Army produced unitary warheads filled with Sarin (GB) and VX nerve agents for the M55.<\/p>\n<h3>Declassified Documents<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/images\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/weapons\/ADB951717.pdf\">A Evaluation of the Duration of Fly Through Obtained When Tracking with the Speed Ring Sight on the M-55 Weapon<\/a> [27 Pages, 5.5MB]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/weapons\/ADB951717.pdf\">https:\/\/documents.theblackvault.com\/documents\/weapons\/ADB951717.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background In 1951 the US Army Chemical Corps and Ordnance Corps initiated a joint program to develop a 115mm chemical rocket. The US Army Ordnance Corps designed the 115mm T238 and launcher in 1957 to provide the army a means to attack large area targets with chemical agents. Artillery and mortars are for small area<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","transcript_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18],"tags":[654,655,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-1333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-military-defense","8":"category-weapons","9":"tag-m55","10":"tag-rocket","11":"tag-weapon"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/img_2092.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theblackvault.com\/documentarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}