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Offline titanic3

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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #60 on: June 25, 2012, 10:47:46 AM »
You guys that are against the R4Ms say there is no "need" to add it.

My question: Why?

Planes that carry the WGr.21s certainly do not "need" them to kill bombers, yet they have them anyway (when was the last time you saw a 109 with rockets?).
You fail to realize that R4Ms are CONTACT fuse, ie. you have to hit something to explode. What are the chances of hitting a bomber while you yourself are traveling at 500mph+? Even less if it's a 12'o clock pass due to the increased combined closure speed, and even less if the bomber pilot actually do something other than press "X".

I've seen Boxman do his rocket runs in a 110, I've seen the bomber pilot just fly straight and level until boom. That's what SHOULD happen IF you decide to fall asleep in the middle of an attack or underestimate the accuracy of the rockets.

Again, these are contact fuse, they were used in the war, and they saw combat. If you think the R4M is too deadly, then perhaps we should remove the BK5 on the Me410 and the WGr 21s?

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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #61 on: June 25, 2012, 10:53:44 AM »
I had an Me262 at about 34,000ft Saturday night.  I was in a Mossie XVI climbing past 35,000ft trying to keep above him.  Seemed to be generally working too until a Ta152 got involved.

Never try to get a mossy VI above 22k, tried to intercept B24s at 24k and they just ran from me.

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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #62 on: June 25, 2012, 11:02:50 AM »
on topic, this rockets seem nice but a direct hit is needed to get a kill, and I doubt they are very precise. Combine that with the big bulky rack they are attached to, and I doubt we have a game breaker here.

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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #63 on: June 25, 2012, 11:11:28 AM »
Never try to get a mossy VI above 22k, tried to intercept B24s at 24k and they just ran from me.


Dunno, it isn't great due to its single stage engines with a critical altitude of 13,000ft, but I haven't had problems running down B-24s/B-17s over 20,000 in it.

That said I was in a Mosquito Mk XVI with two stage engines and a critical altitude of 28,000ft in this case.  Just no guns.


As for the R4Ms, I have no problem with those being added.
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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #64 on: June 25, 2012, 11:45:05 AM »
exactly one weapon should not be able to kill a entire formation

call it gamey if you want but the reason you can up 3 bombers its the only way to effectively do anything in them if one plane has a 1 in a 100 chance of killing the entire flight thats just stupid especially when they can do it from a range you can't hit them from

WGr21's on the 110, 109, and 190 can kill an entire formation with two rockets if used properly, and given just a bit of luck, and they can do it from beyond the range of effective retaliation.

What's more, they have both impact fuzes, and distance fuzes, so you don't even HAVE to score a direct hit.


R4M's would be deadly, but only if the bomber pilot were brain-dead.


Fact is that bombers have it several orders of magnitude easier in AH than in real life. You don't have hundreds of high caliber AA guns shooting at you, you don't have a 1000 mile long flight in which to be intercepted, you don't have radar tracking you for almost the entire length of your flight unless you're a complete moron.

There's NO reason not to get the R4M rockets for the 262. You're just a bad bomber pilot who doesn't want to learn to fly smart, so get over it.
You started this thread and it was obviously about your want and desire in spite of your use of 'we' and Google.

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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #65 on: June 27, 2012, 04:36:56 PM »
Interesting the thoughts of a 262 pilot & rockets who was in the very first mission that used them. 

He had two kills his first try out.




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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #66 on: June 30, 2012, 09:59:58 PM »
was a lot of fun
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was a sight to see
wish I had more ammo..only got 5



Perfect time for R4Ms eh?  :noid :x

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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #67 on: June 30, 2012, 11:12:28 PM »

Feel free to believe what you want, but that's how it's done. Nobody cruises at 20K in a 262 to kill bombers  :lol

you never met cal lol.


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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #68 on: July 02, 2012, 10:55:45 AM »
If you have to climb to 20-30k to Kill Bombers then you Gents infact do not know how to fly a 262 Low(4k-8k) Which is why you resort to chasing those 3 worthless kills for 3 sectors.

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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #69 on: July 02, 2012, 10:56:55 AM »
I hate lag.  :cry
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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #70 on: July 02, 2012, 01:15:49 PM »
If you have to climb to 20-30k to Kill Bombers then you Gents infact do not know how to fly a 262 Low(4k-8k) Which is why you resort to chasing those 3 worthless kills for 3 sectors.


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Re: R4Ms for Me-262s
« Reply #71 on: July 06, 2012, 11:00:33 AM »
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