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- From: Adrian Hurt <adrian@cee.heriot-watt.ac.uk>
- Subject: Re: The use of unguided rockets in WWII
- Message-ID: <BxtKDG.1wM@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
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- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 17:24:51 GMT
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- From Adrian Hurt <adrian@cee.heriot-watt.ac.uk>
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- In article <BxGrsF.75K@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> anthony@cs.uq.oz.au (Anthony Lee) 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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- As no-one else has responded (in public, anyway), here is my guess:
- They aim unguided rockets the same way they aim unguided cannon, by using
- the gunsight to point the aircraft in the general direction of the target
- and hoping the rockets hit it. They probably have to make some allowance
- for the fact that a rocket does not fly in quite the same way as a 20mm
- cannon shell.
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- If I'm wrong, no doubt someone will correct me - without too much flaming,
- I hope. If no-one says I'm wrong, I'll assume the above is correct. :-)
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