Randy
Rocket pods are easily lost to auto ack and from a plane strafing your M4. As someone mentioned earlier, there are now 8 rapid fire auto ack in town whereas in AH2, there were only 4 rapid fire auto ack. Also, 4 of the ack are on each side of the town with no buildings to shield you. So many times if all ack are up, you have more than one auto ack firing on you at any given time. It can be done, but you have to approach the guns in a systematic way to minimize damage taken from them.