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- From: scw@ollie.seas.ucla.edu
- Subject: Re: The use of unguided rockets in WWII
- Message-ID: <Bxo1D6.6JI@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: UCLA School Of Engineering & Applied Science
- References: <BxGrsF.75K@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:46:18 GMT
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- From scw@ollie.seas.ucla.edu
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- In article <BxGrsF.75K@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) writes:
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- >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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- The same way that they aim their cannon, with a gunsight.
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- Unguided rockets and shells are your basic fire and forget weapon (well once
- the round is on the way you might as well forget it, you can't do much
- about it).
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