Help me guys - perk / improved torpedo bomber?

[Sundog]

Thats assuming there aren't any winds aloft!  

Oh, give me a Tigercat!  

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Sundog
VMF-111 Devildogs
MAG-33

'Criticism is always easier than craftmanship.'

[TheWobble]

u = initial velocity(=0 in this case)
t = time
a = acceleration
s = displacement
 

Using the formula: s = u*t + 0.5*a*t^2

We get a time of 39.44 seconds for a bomb to reach the ground when dropped from an altitude of 25,000ft(without drag).

In that time a bomber travelling at 250mph covers 2.74 miles - not 4.7 miles, for that you would need a bomber doing 429mph.

Thanks for the math juzz, gues I was a little off..but STILL

2.7 miles vs 5km,..hardly an advantage.

[LJK Raubvogel]

Wobble, let me make it a bit simpler. YOu are going 50mph in your 4x4 pickup truck with the gun rack and the nekkid lady mudflaps. You drop an unlit bottle rocket. Then you drop a lit bottle rocket. Which one is going to go farther?  

[M.C.202]

Sundog said:

> Oh, give me a Tigercat!

If I had to one plane to everything, the F7F is in the top three, and unlike two of the
others, it's a carrier plane :-)



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M.C.202
Dino in Reno

[TheWobble]

 

Wobble, let me make it a bit simpler. YOu are going 50mph in your 4x4 pickup truck with the gun rack and the nekkid lady mudflaps. You drop an unlit bottle rocket. Then you drop a lit bottle rocket. Which one is going to go farther?

I know which will go further rip, but look at the numbers will ya..

let Me make it simple..

NORMAL BOMB IN AH DROPPED FROM 25,000 FEET GOING 250MPH

DINSTANCE IT GOES FOREWARD:  2.74 miles.


Hs293-A1 Antiship Missle dropped from 25,000 feet.

DISTANCE IT GOES FOREWARD: 3.1 miles (5km)


so basically the missle will only go .4 miles further than the missle  BASED ON THE NUMBERS GIVEN FOR THE MISSLE AND THE ACTUAL NUMBERS IN AH.

So like I said  IN AH the missle wouldent offer much of any advantage (.4 mile advantage from 25k)

[Sorrow[S=A]]

You do realize that the propulsion on the rocket is about 1/4 as effective when dropped from 25k then it is at 17k compared to a bomb right wobble?

Basically at 25k it is a bomb that has a few seconds of acceleration- at 17k it's a missile because as you get lower the time spent under power to the time spent being ballistic  ratio changes.

 And lastly your aware of the fact that aiming this thing at either altitude would approach the requirement of a computer or very sophisticated equipment. It's meant to be fired withing a couple thousand feet of the ship so it's still producing thrust when it hits and makes the ballistic curve easier that a torpedo to aim.

[TheWobble]

Sorrow, he gave me numbers from 25k so i was assuming it was used from 25k, so my reply is besed on the idea of launching it at 25k...  from lower, YES it would be better than a bomb..but not from 25k