190A8 air-air rockets

[Anaxogoras]

I had a very successful sortie in the 190A-8 tonight.  The loadout was with the 2x30mm MK108s, and the two air-air rockets: shot down 2 B24s, 3 B17s and 1 Spit.

Sometime after I launched the rockets I noticed that my maximum airspeed was lower than normal... low and behold, I couldn't jettison the rocket pods!  They don't come off when you fire them, and they don't drop like bombs or fuel tanks.

Is this accurate?

[Xasthur]

The rocket pods do not jettison after firing the rockets. It was possible to jettison them in the war but it was condsidered a last resort.

It is not possible to jettsion the rocket pods in AH.

[Pooh21]

when you get good with them they are highly amusing against the HOing spit/nik/lala

[Spikes]

I am horrible with the A2A rockets...

When I fire them half the time they don't blow up, and they go right by the plane. So I use them for porking.

[stodd]

i use them for killin m8s and m16s

[splitatom]

i once hadone detonate next to a spit and he got scared

[Krusty]

Here's just one thread about it. It's got an AH film link as well:

http://forums.hitechcreations.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=211547

[BigPlay]

Originally posted by Anaxogoras
I had a very successful sortie in the 190A-8 tonight.  The loadout was with the 2x30mm MK108s, and the two air-air rockets: shot down 2 B24s, 3 B17s and 1 Spit.

Sometime after I launched the rockets I noticed that my maximum airspeed was lower than normal... low and behold, I couldn't jettison the rocket pods!  They don't come off when you fire them, and they don't drop like bombs or fuel tanks.

Is this accurate?

The rockets were fired out of a tube which was attached to the bottom of each wing. The drag from those tubes is whats causing drag, much like the wing gondolas on the BF 109's

[Yeager]

Do those german A2A roks have prox fuses or do they detonate at a fixed distance from launch?

[hubsonfire]

Timed fuse. Somewhere around 1 to 1.5 seconds, IIRC.