Red Angel

Description

The Red Angel rocket (scale is approximate)

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Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• Wyvern S4

General info

Rocket characteristics
Mass	478 kg
Explosive mass	11.97 kg
Explosive type	TNT
Armor Penetration	65-86 mm

Effective damage

The Red Angel (11.97kg) high explosive mass with a TNT warhead which travels at 548 mph (882 km/h). The rocket explodes immediately on impact. Damage is caused most by high explosives and following fragmentation.

Comparison with analogues

The Red Angel is statistically identical to the Uncle Tom.

Usage in battles

The Red Angle was designed as an Anti-Ship rocket and would be best used as such.

Pros and cons

Pros:

• Higher explosive payload than a single RP-3.
• Near-misses are a little more forgiving than with an RP-3
• Higher penetration than the RP-3
• Direct hits against most Coastal boats or small Bluewaters will usually be fatal.

Cons:

• Extremely heavy
• Can only carry 2
• Low velocity
• Compared to the Tiny Tim or RP-3, it has a very bad weight-to-damage ratio

History

Around 1950 the new Sverdlov-class cruisers caused concern in the Royal Navy, over the fear that the Soviet Navy was expanding into a wide-ranging blue water navy. A new weapon, Red Angel, was developed to meet this threat. This was larger than Uncle Tom and had a warhead intended to attack the deck armour of Sverdlovs. A salvo of six hits was thought to be sufficient to disable a Sverdlov.

Red Angel was 10 feet 9 inches (3.28 m) long and 11.25 inches (286 mm) in diameter. Overall weight was 1,055 lb (479 kg) with an 88 lb (40 kg) warhead. Like the Uncle Tom it had flip-out rear fins, but Tom's four large fins were replaced by six smaller ones.

It was first deployed on the Westland Wyvern turboprop, but had always been earmarked for the new jet naval strike aircraft developed in response to the Sverdlov threat, the Blackburn Buccaneer. The high-speed Buccaneer was noted for its rotating bomb bay and internal weapons stowage. This could carry four of the Red Angels.

Media

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  Red Angel

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  Red Angel alongside Triplex R.P. and Uncle Tom

See also

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• references to approximate analogues by other nations and research trees.

External links

• [Devblog] Unguided Brits!
• Wikipedia Page

Rockets
USA
70 mm	FFAR Mighty Mouse · Hydra-70 M247
110 mm	M8
127 mm	HVAR · Zuni Mk32 Mod 0 ATAP
298 mm	Tiny Tim
Germany
55 mm	R4M
73 mm	RZ.65
88 mm	Pb2
150 mm	Wgr.41 Spr
210 mm	Wfr.Gr.21
USSR
55 mm	S-5K · S-5KP · S-5M
80 mm	S-8KO · S-8M
82 mm	M-8 · ROS-82 · RBS-82
122 mm	S-13OF
127 mm	S-3K
132 mm	M13 · M-13UK · ROFS-132 · ROS-132 · RBS-132
212 mm	S-1of · S-21
240 mm	S-24 · S-24B
300 mm	M-31
420 mm	S-25O · S-25OF · S-25OFM
425 mm	TT-250
Britain
51 mm	RP
70 mm	CRV7 M247
80 mm	Type R80 SURA T-80-P 3 · Type R80 SURA T-80-US 3
87 mm	AP Mk I · AP Mk II
152 mm	RP-3
183 mm	Triplex R.P.
292 mm	Uncle Tom · Red Angel
Japan
100 mm	Type 5 No.1 Mod.9
120 mm	Type 3 No.1 Mod.28 Mk.1
130 mm	Type 75
210 mm	Type 3 No.6 Mod.27 Mk.1 · Type 5 No.6 Mod.9
China
55 mm	Type 57-1
70 mm	FS70
90 mm	Type 90-1
130 mm	Type 130-2
Italy
50 mm	ARF/8M3(AP-AT)
France
68 mm	SNEB type 23 · TDA
70 mm	FZ49
100 mm	TBA ECC · TBA Multi-Dart 100 AB
120 mm	T10 140 · T10 151
Sweden
75 mm	srak m/55 Frida · srak m/57B
81 mm	Oerlikon Typ 3Z 8Dla
135 mm	m/56D · psrak m/70
145 mm	psrak m/49B · Psrak m/49/56
150 mm	srak m/51
180 mm	hprak m/49
Israel
80 mm	Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon
127 mm	AR