Model, Rocket Torpedo, Hassan er-Rammah or Hasan al-Rammah, ca. 1280 A.D.
Two flat copper pans riveted together, with silver gray strip or spine fitted over the top pan, probably aluminum, and decorated with red and blue designs, wavy edge, arrow point and arrow tail in back; two cylindrical, brass rocket tubes, one under each side of bottom pan, with points on each front and protruding fuse from each end; clamps for rocket tubes, aluminum; two arrows, one on each side, joined between each rocket tube and the underside of the bottom pan; tubes, aluminum, painted arrow tails, probably copper sheet, at each end of the arrows.
Created by
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Date Created
01/14/2022
Source
Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
Keywords
Models; Rockets; Space
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