Identify this once-flying-object

[diginagain]

Looks like the remains of an SS11, launched from the Scout AH1, but not for many a year.

IIRC, the two blue tubes are the propulsion exhausts, so this one is unlikely to have made its way there under it's own steam.

The blue tubes would also indicate that this one is a dummy load.

Inadvertant release might be ruled out, as it was rail mounted, went off the front (obviously), and I'd be interested to see a picture of a Scout low level, nose low enough for it to have slid off.

The most likely explanation is that it was 'acquired' as a trophy when we went to Lynx/TOW, and subsequently went out of fashion.

The number may be date-related - we were still lobbing them around into the early eighties in BATUS & FI

Hope this helps.

(HWI to back me up?)