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- From: ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
- Subject: Re: The use of unguided rockets in WWII
- Message-ID: <Bxo1D2.6Hw@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Economics, University of Adelaide
- References: <BxGrsF.75K@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:46:14 GMT
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- From ecrjbruce@economics.adelaide.edu.au
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- In article <BxGrsF.75K@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>, Anthony Lee <anthony@cs.uq.oz.au> writes:
- > Recently, in one of the threads, there is a mention of the
- > use of unguided rockets as air-to-surface weapons, in particular
- > to attack tanks. My question, is how do the pilots aim these
- > weapons, since they are unguided ?
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- Assuming you are referring to the 3.5" (I think) rockets used by the RAF on
- Hurricanes Tempests, Typhoons, Beaufughters, Mossies etc, it was quite simple.
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- You have a nice rudimentary sight that you line the target up with - then you
- generally let loose with 4 or 8 rockets, the theory being that at least one of
- the damn things must hit the target! As you have surmised they were very
- inaccurate and not particularly well liked by the pilots (except when they hit
- - apparently they made some pretty huge explosions) as they caused a lot of
- drag and made the aircraft handle like a pig. Still they were a fore runner to
- todays missiles so I guess it's like trying to compare the you beaut Apple ][
- to a 486 or something.
-
- regs
-
- Rob
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