Disappearing rocket

A GM -12 is a destructible rocket for meteorological purposes, the use by fulfilling its mission of exploding foil, which are incorporated into the missile body can be decomposed into harmless small pieces of debris. One such rocket has the advantage that it can also come down over a populated area without causing property damage and personal injury.

Had the test rocket of Plastics Technology study mbH (KTS ) in city of Bonn has a length of 1.85 m, a launch weight of 23 kg, a diameter of 0.116 meters, a burn time of 2.25 seconds and a maximum altitude of 12 kilometers. You may have been the only destructible rocket that's ever flown.

However, there are major problems to dismantle required for the nozzle metal parts. Therefore, no series production destructible missile has been made. Even in the U.S. was working on a destructible rocket.

Source

• H.-U. Widdel, meteorological rockets in Germany, Publication Series of the German Space position eV, dawn diamond ring

• Missile type