Closed Philippine made Rockets. First in southeast Asia

[meowzkingz]

Philippine made Rockets. First in southeast Asia

Top-secret project of then President Ferdinand Marcos to develop a rocket or missile endogenously. The name of the rocket is Bongbong 1.

On 1972 a series of 37 dynamic tests were conducted on the 180-mm rocket. All tests were performed at Caballo Island except for four firings in Fort Magsaysay. Different versions...were used: short version, with fixed fins, long version with fixed fins, long version with folding fins, and thepressure-assisted takeoff type...The launchers were Fixed Open Frame (short), Fixed Open Frame (long), truck-mounted tube launcher, truck-mounted open frame and submerged launcher for underwater firing"

the project stop in 1986

 

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