Rocket assisted torpedo

Claim 1

IN AN ANTI-SUBMARINE WEAPON COMPRISING A PAYLOAD APPARATUS EFFECTIVE TO OPERATE AGAINST A SUBMERGED TARGET SUBMARINE WHEN DELIVERED TO A SUSPECT WATER AREA, AND AN AIRFRAME OF GENERALLY TUBULAR CONFIGURATION SEVERABLY JOINED TO SAID PAYLOAD APPARATUS, EXTENDING REARWARDLY THEREFROM AND CARRYING REACTION PROPULSION MEANS OPERATIVE TO PROJECT SAID WEAPON INTO A BALLISTIC TRAJECTORY DIRECTED TO WARD SAID SUSPECT WATER AREA, IN COMBINATION, THE IMPROVED STRUCTURE WHEREIN SAID TUBULAR AIRFRAME IS OF BIVALVULAR CONFIGURATION, SAID BIVALVULAR AIRFRAME COMPRISING A PAIR OF SEMI-CYLINDRICAL SHELL STRUCTURES HINGED AT THEIR AFT ENDS, MEANS CLAMPING SAID SHELLSTRUCTURES AGAINST SAID PAYLOAD APPARATUS AND IN THRUST ASSOCIATION THEREWITH, AND SHEAR-RESISTING MEANS RELEASABLY MATING SAID SHELL STRUCTURES NEAR THE FORWARD PORTIONS THEREOF, SAID SHEAR-RESISTING MEANS COMPRISING A PAIR OF ALIGNMENT BLOCKS SECURED TO THE CONTIGUOUS SIDES OF SAID BIVALVULAR MEMBERS RESPECTIVELY, ONE OF THE BLOCKS IN EACH PAIR CARRYING A SHEAR-RESISTING PIN, AND THE OTHER BLOCK IN SAID PAIR HAVING A MATCHING BORE IN WHICH SAID PIN IS RECEIVED.