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Title: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: bangsbox on February 10, 2011, 12:39:52 PM
we need air to air rockets for 163 and 262, and maybe those air bombs the japs used on bomber.
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: oakranger on February 10, 2011, 01:12:21 PM
Should have include in my thread that the 163 used the same rockets as the 262, R-4/M.  However, this is a A-0 and we have "B" which i have not yet read anything of them using rockets.  Also, i believe that Germany only tested on the 163 and find it not successful do to time flight of the AC among other factors of it. 

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,306258.15.html (http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,306258.15.html)

(http://i393.photobucket.com/albums/pp20/skbluestem/163.png)
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: dirtdart on February 10, 2011, 03:55:58 PM
+1
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: Dadsguns on February 10, 2011, 04:17:23 PM
+2
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: Krusty on February 10, 2011, 04:30:17 PM
No on the 163. You can clearly tell that's an early prototype in the photo. Some of those weren't even powered (they were towed gliders to test handling).

Yes on the 262. It's been requested many times and will continue to be! 262 pilots would love to play around with these rockets!
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: LLogann on February 12, 2011, 01:01:03 PM
Gosh DARN It......  Twice in one day, I'm gonna log.   :cry  

Krusty & oakranger are right about the 163, this one doesn't appear have cannons.  Plus in AH, way to many people would wind up flying straight into the rocket's flight path and blow themselves up along with their target.  That's when the whines would really start.   :salute

BIG PLUS ONE for the A-1a/R-1.

No on the 163. You can clearly tell that's an early prototype in the photo. Some of those weren't even powered (they were towed gliders to test handling).

Yes on the 262. It's been requested many times and will continue to be! 262 pilots would love to play around with these rockets!
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: oakranger on February 12, 2011, 01:58:42 PM
Gosh DARN It......  Twice in one day, I'm gonna log.   :cry 

Krusty is right about the 163, this one doesn't appear have cannons.  Plus in AH, way to many people would wind up flying straight into the rocket's flight path and blow themselves up along with their target.  That's when the whines would really start.   :salute

BIG PLUS ONE for the A-1a/R-1.


That is because that is a A-0, as i stated.  And the 262 used the R-4/M
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: LLogann on February 12, 2011, 02:33:18 PM
Fixed   :D



 :salute
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: Chauncy on February 14, 2011, 09:36:45 AM
As long as the topic is the air-to-air rockets.  The WGR21 tubes could be detached in flight.  This would be nice to un-cripple any acft using them.
Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: oakranger on February 14, 2011, 11:52:23 AM
As long as the topic is the air-to-air rockets.  The WGR21 tubes could be detached in flight.  This would be nice to un-cripple any acft using them.

I wonder if they could released the tubes after they have been used. 

Title: Re: air to air rockets for 163 and 262
Post by: Krusty on February 14, 2011, 11:56:12 AM
HTC has said not to that. WGr21 tubes could, in extreme emergency, be jettisoned. However they were valuable reusable war material. In AH they'd be jettisoned as soon as fired. It would not be used properly (thrown away at a whim) and it would be the constant norm rather than the rare emergency.