A Film to bust the Myth...

[BaldEagl]

Yer u can.  I did a sceen shot write up on it once before the boards were changed.  3 rockets tracks a tank and 5 blows it up.  F6f works well for me.

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Salvo 3 rcokets from an F6F-5 and you can clean kill any tank but a Tiger.  I do it all the time.

[Anaxogoras]

Yeah, I gotta say that unless you're trying to take a base, friendly aircraft gunning down the enemy tanks is annoying.  It's way too easy for the aircraft to get the kills with just a few hits when the tanks do the real work.

[opposum]

I have never got an assist from a GV that I rocketed. I have killed a couple of tanks and osti's that way but you have to hit it dead on and there is a very high chance of it bouncing off instead. I gave up trying to kill hvy armor with rockets months ago. Light armor is a different story.

the early model p38 that has the rockets right under the cockpit is a super uber awesome and acurate tank killer if your trying to kill them with rockets.

[A8TOOL]

Quote from: LYNX on Yesterday at 07:36:42 PM
Yer u can.  I did a sceen shot write up on it once before the boards were changed.  3 rockets tracks a tank and 5 blows it up.  F6f works well for me.

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Salvo 3 rcokets from an F6F-5 and you can clean kill any tank but a Tiger.  I do it all the time.

Salvo 3 rcokets from an F6F-5 and you can clean kill any tank but a Tiger.  I do it all the time.

Maybe my prob is not salvoing 3 at a time. I have them set to fire one at a time for ...well everything I shoot at with them

[BaldEagl]

Quote from: LYNX on Yesterday at 07:36:42 PM
Yer u can.  I did a sceen shot write up on it once before the boards were changed.  3 rockets tracks a tank and 5 blows it up.  F6f works well for me.

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Salvo 3 rcokets from an F6F-5 and you can clean kill any tank but a Tiger.  I do it all the time.

Maybe my prob is not salvoing 3 at a time. I have them set to fire one at a time for ...well everything I shoot at with them

That's likely the problem.  I used to fire one at a time and was occasionally succesful but my success rate sky-rocketed when I went to salvo 3/delay .05.  It's still not easy but I get the clean kill slightly over 50% of the time now and am still improving.  My biggest problem now is I get impatient and don't set up for the slightly diving shot on the rear which is required for the kill.

[Ack-Ack]

the early model p38 that has the rockets right under the cockpit is a super uber awesome and acurate tank killer if your trying to kill them with rockets.

There was never a P-38 with a center line rocket launch system.  The early P-38s had 6 bazooka tubes, 3 on each wing to fire the M8 4.5" rockets, later P-38 models used 5" HVAR rockets.  Please show a picture of a wartime production model early P-38 with a center line rocket launch system. 


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[OOZ662]

Our P38G has the rocket tubes mounted on both sides of the cockpit. Close enough for government work, I'd say. No reason to jump him for it.