British public company dedicated to the manufacture of weapons through countless ROFs, or Royal Ordnance Factories.

-In WWII it had factories spread throughout English soil.

-They manufactured from cannons to rifles, tanks, ammunition, etc. Lately missiles and rocket engines.

-In 1985 it was privatized in favor of BAe, British Aerospace Defense Group.

-It made the “Rayo” rockets (among a lot of other material).

“Rayo rocket missile”

-The drive unit is made of aluminized HTPB compound.

“RO, Leros 1b”

-Or the small LAE type rocket engines, or Liquid-Apogee-Engine.

-The Leros 1b may be an example of one of these engines.

-It is a bi-propellant rocket engine, in which MON or mixtures of nitrogen oxide as oxidizer and hydrazine as fuel have been tested.

-The Rook rockets are known from 1960, with solid fuel (only 6 seconds of operation) or the Stonechat from 1969, another solid fuel for 37 seconds, etc. etc

From Appendix 7: Royal Ordnance, a division of British Aerospace, is said to have been acquired by the American Atlantic Research Corp. Although only the liquid rocket line.

-We now have an illustration of the Leros 2 that uses MON3 and MMH fuels.

“Leros 2 brochure”

From Appendix 11: In 2003 it has merged with the French Celerg to form Roxel, an Anglo-French group.