Author Topic: 110 Rockets (Read 1220 times)

Flyboy · « **Reply #15 on:** January 25, 2005, 01:44:05 PM »

hey urchin, why the change in hendle?

Urchin · « **Reply #16 on:** January 25, 2005, 01:47:01 PM »

Don't even have a handle now. Hell, only reason I'm still on the boards is I'm suffering from withdrawal.

Furball · « **Reply #17 on:** January 25, 2005, 01:49:08 PM »

On mindanao i was in p38 taking off from a21 (you know, that little base on the island SW on the map) that we had taken. My plan was to go pork troops so our base couldnt be taken.

Saw a formation of b17's.... .salvo 10... did usual hi angle HO attack... fired all 10 rockets.... and got 3 kills.

Was so funny yet so easy.

Kweassa · « **Reply #18 on:** January 25, 2005, 02:05:12 PM »

Some info on rockets finally! 5.25 second fuses!

Now can anybody calculate just what kind of flightpath those cannons have??

No, seriously!

I've seen all kinds of recommendations in how to hit with those rockets.. but it really is so astonishingly hard to hit any buff with it.

Can anyone hit a buff with a rocket with more than about 30% chance regularly? Any tips? Screenies? Aiming point advice??

Tails · « **Reply #19 on:** January 25, 2005, 05:11:39 PM »

Hey Hitech, any chance we can get the LW rockets to be aimable at airborn targets with the Revi sight? (IE: Add that upward angle to their flight-path that was mentioned)

hitech · « **Reply #20 on:** January 25, 2005, 05:17:55 PM »

It already does have an upward angle.

HiTech

Tails · « **Reply #21 on:** January 25, 2005, 06:10:09 PM »

Well...chalk one up to foxboy not paying attention.

Buuuuut, they dont converge in the revi. Maybe we could get a way to set the convergence on these things? Likely going to be one of those 'easier said than done' things.

dedalos · « **Reply #22 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:58:14 AM »

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Originally posted by hitech
It already does have an upward angle.

HiTech

So, whats the range? How far do they go before going boom boom?

rshubert · « **Reply #23 on:** January 27, 2005, 11:39:41 AM »

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Originally posted by Kweassa
Some info on rockets finally! 5.25 second fuses!

Now can anybody calculate just what kind of flightpath those cannons have?? No, seriously!

I've seen all kinds of recommendations in how to hit with those rockets.. but it really is so astonishingly hard to hit any buff with it.

Can anyone hit a buff with a rocket with more than about 30% chance regularly? Any tips? Screenies? Aiming point advice??

I read somewhere that it was astonishingly hard to hit with them in real life, too. If there had been a 30% hit rate in the war, every airplane in Germany would have been flying into the buff formations, rockets blazing away.

Furball · « **Reply #24 on:** January 27, 2005, 12:34:31 PM »

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Originally posted by rshubert
I read somewhere that it was astonishingly hard to hit with them in real life, too. If there had been a 30% hit rate in the war, every airplane in Germany would have been flying into the buff formations, rockets blazing away.

Not true for the R4M rocket on the 262.. will see if i can dig up where i posted Galland's combat report using them.

rshubert · « **Reply #25 on:** January 27, 2005, 03:42:43 PM »

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Originally posted by Furball
Not true for the R4M rocket on the 262.. will see if i can dig up where i posted Galland's combat report using them.

Different animal. Those were uber-rockets, for sure. But they were fired 24 at a time, to create a pattern--kinda like a shotgun. We have 2 or 4 rockets.

BenDover · « **Reply #26 on:** January 27, 2005, 09:12:51 PM »

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Originally posted by dedalos
So, whats the range? How far do they go before going boom boom?

Seems to be about slightly shorter than a mile, so about 1.7k yards.

SunKing · « **Reply #27 on:** January 27, 2005, 10:58:25 PM »

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Originally posted by Kweassa
Some info on rockets finally! 5.25 second fuses!

Now can anybody calculate just what kind of flightpath those cannons have?? No, seriously!

I've seen all kinds of recommendations in how to hit with those rockets.. but it really is so astonishingly hard to hit any buff with it.

Can anyone hit a buff with a rocket with more than about 30% chance regularly? Any tips? Screenies? Aiming point advice??

works for me. Even killed a p38 at that distance intentionally.

hawker238 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 28, 2005, 06:08:12 PM »

Do the casings create drag? How much?

Urchin · « **Reply #29 on:** January 28, 2005, 06:38:42 PM »

A pretty fair amount.. enough to further nueter already unmanueverable planes.

Not really worth it in my opinion, at least not for the MA.