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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: sullie363 on August 10, 2004, 03:19:54 PM
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This is not about a nuke.
With all this talk of new planes, have new weapons been considered? Don't get me wrong, new planes is great, but so would new weapons. And the ones I have in mind, they would have to be perked. This perk system may have to work where you recover the cost of the weapon if you kill something with it. Afterall, weapons don't come back to base like planes do so if you use one, then you had better hit something.
First idea is the BAT missile. Able to carry a 1K warhead, the BAT was a WWII era anti ship radar guided glide bomb. It was used and it sunk many ships. It could travel as far as 20 miles when released at 25, 000 feet at a launching speed of 140-210 mph. While normally carried by bombers, I have seen film of one carried on the center line of the F4U. This link is for the BAT.
BAT Missile (http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/dsh/artifacts/RM-bat.htm )
A second weapon, not sure if it should be perked or not, was the "Tiny Tim" 11.75" rocket. It was an air launched rocket. 10ft long and as wide as a 500lb bomb which is what it used for a warhead. The idea was to provide a standoff weapon which could deliver a big punch. It could be fired from the F4U, F6F, TBM, and SB2C. The weapon had to fall before firing or damage would be dealt to the aircraft. The rocket came late and was only used in Okinawa.
Tiny Tim (http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/tiny-tim.html)
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Thats sweet , never knew or even heard about that , only one I knew of was the Radio Controlled Anti Ship the Germans used in WWII <
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Besides that one, the Germans also had a missile with a tv camera in it. Those crafty Germans, always thinking.
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some of those would be cool...
But they should cost Perks to purchase to use them, , , and U dont get them back :eek:
so things dont get rediculousen otherwise.. .. Lets all go Tiger hunting with our massive and redily available Huge fat missiles!
(lol if U replace the word tiger with the word cougar. :D makes this post worth reading)
MonkeyMeat
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Originally posted by MnkyMeat
some of those would be cool...
But they should cost Perks to purchase to use them, , , and U dont get them back :eek:
so things dont get rediculousen otherwise.. .. Lets all go Tiger hunting with our massive and redily available Huge fat missiles!
(lol if U replace the word tiger with the word cougar. :D makes this post worth reading)
MonkeyMeat
Yeah, which is why I said they should cost perks and you only recover the cost if you accomplish something with the weapon. Or, you don't recover the costs at all and only use those weapons for the greater good. By that I mean winning.
Using this system of voluntarily losing perks on powerful weapons would reduce their use, but allow for some decisive attacks.