Nulka - active missile decoy

Having read most of "A Fire Across the Desert" (the story about Australian rocketry development), I was doing a google search for pictures of rockets in the book, when I ran across another Australian rocket story. It's called "Nulka: A Compelling Story", about the development of the active, hovering rocket decoy ment to protect ships from sea-skimming missile threats. Wikipedia blurb on the rocket: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nulka
Download a pdf of the book here: https://www.dst.defence.gov.au/publication/nulka-compelling-story

Does it hover using rocket thrust or is that a propeller that comes out of the forward end of the rocket?


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RocketFeller said:

Does it hover using rocket thrust or is that a propeller that comes out of the forward end of the rocket?

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It hovers on rocket thrust. On about about page 21/22 of the book, they discuss the problems with helicopter flight. The book goes into detail about how hard this design was (support by rocket thrust alone). The things sticking out at the top are antennas.