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Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Sea Mattress

This whole section seems uselessly vague. Which Allied nation developed this? What year? What was the official model designation? What is the origin of the "mattress" name?

I also find it highly suspicious that a single rocket launch system of early design could possibly fire 800 to 1000 rockets in 45 seconds since the crew would probably be sheltered some distance away from the firing blast and could not do any reloading manually, while rockets by nature have no recoil to function any automatic reloading mechanism. Did one launch system consist of 1000 launch tubes?