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Offline Drane

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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2015, 09:52:13 AM »
My favorite plane for killing gv with rockets is the P38J. You don't need a special gunsight because they go pretty much where you point. Once killed 6 lvt in the water with 6 rockets after bombing a couple.

Someone here has nice gun sights for using rockets on some planes. Is it Bustr?
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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2015, 03:11:58 PM »
Shhhsh, they don't want them because they aren't aimbots.
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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #17 on: July 23, 2015, 01:37:05 PM »
Once I rocketed a Tiger 1 and killed it in the F6f.  I thought there was a glitch or something.  I was in a very steep dive. and was getting ready to roll around to get lined up to drop bombs. 

Angle has a lot to do with it.  In fact, the right angle on a Panzer can get hilled by an F6F's 50 cals.  You have to hit it JUST right from just the right angle.

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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #18 on: July 24, 2015, 03:59:35 AM »
in the 190F8 after your out of rkts and bombs you can still nab up 3-4 kills with the 20mm. pepper tanks like crazy and when the GVers get them youll get the kill for it quite often lol
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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #19 on: July 24, 2015, 06:36:50 AM »
in the 190F8 after your out of rkts and bombs you can still nab up 3-4 kills with the 20mm. pepper tanks like crazy and when the GVers get them youll get the kill for it quite often lol
Its because the tracks aren't armored and soak damage points.

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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #20 on: July 27, 2015, 04:48:54 PM »
You can kill panzers very easily in a 152. dive straight down on them, aim for turret :)
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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #22 on: August 16, 2015, 12:39:53 AM »
Its because the tracks aren't armored and soak damage points.

But you aren't earning the kills, you're stealing the kill from the guy who actually did all the work.
This is true but who put in more work to get the kill the guy who spend 3 mintues making repeated passes or the GVer that took 30 seconds to shoot 2-3 shots?
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Re: American Rockets can they kill GVs?
« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2015, 04:34:47 PM »
My favorite plane for killing gv with rockets is the P38J. You don't need a special gunsight because they go pretty much where you point. Once killed 6 lvt in the water with 6 rockets after bombing a couple.

Someone here has nice gun sights for using rockets on some planes. Is it Bustr?

The only problem with the bazooka rockets on the P-38J is that the rockets are low velocity and shorter range than the more powerful HVAR rockets carried on the P-38L.  There is also the penalty of the bazooka tubes has on the performance of the P-38J.  The bazooka tubes add a lot of drag and make maneuvering rather sluggish compared to the christmas tree launchers on the P-38L.
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