Inventors:
Lawrence D. Hoffmeister - New Market AL
Richard J. Thompson - Huntsville AL
Assignee:
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army - Washington DC
International Classification:
B31C 1300, B32B 518, B65H 8100
Abstract:
A process for making lightweight composite launcher pods in which a multicity of launcher tubes are wound on a multiplicity of mandrels and mounted in end structures of a mold and assembled into a generally rectangular mold structure and applying syntactic foam about the tube and spacer structure within the mold and finally curing the structure within the mold to provide a unitary lightweight composite launcher pod.