Editing Nebelwerfer (section)

===15 cm ''Nebelwerfer'' 41===
{{Main|15 cm Nebelwerfer 41}}
Rocket development had begun during the 1920s and reached fruition in the late thirties. This offered the opportunity for the ''Nebeltruppen'' to deliver large quantities of [[poison gas]] or smoke simultaneously. The first weapon to be delivered to the troops was the 15&nbsp;cm ''Nebelwerfer'' 41 in 1940, after the [[Battle of France]], a purpose-designed rocket with gas, smoke and high-explosive warheads. It, like virtually all German rocket designs, was spin-stabilized to increase accuracy. One very unusual feature was that the rocket motor was in the front, the exhaust venturi being about two-thirds down the body from the nose, with the intent to optimize the blast effect of the rocket as the warhead would still be above the ground when it detonated. This proved to greatly complicate manufacture for not much extra effect and it was not copied on later rocket designs. It was fired from a six-tube launcher mounted on a towed carriage adapted from that used by the [[3.7 cm PaK 36]] and had a range of {{convert|6900|m|yd}}.<ref>Gander and Chamberlain, p. 321</ref> Almost five and a half million 15&nbsp;cm rockets and 6,000 launchers were manufactured over the course of the war.<ref name=p>{{cite web|url=http://sturmvogel.orbat.com/GermWeapProd.html|title=German Weapon and Ammunition Production 1 Sep 39-1 Apr 45|access-date=2009-05-23|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120421033226/http://sturmvogel.orbat.com/GermWeapProd.html|archive-date=21 April 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref>