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Post by airc777 on Jul 7, 2019 22:05:29 GMT
Nazis weren't the only ones with that idea. The US F-94C Starfire interceptor also carried a bunch of rockets in folding launchers in the nose. This proven troublesome, so they were replaced by conventional pods, but the general idea was the same. In general, however, unguided rockets have a major problem: low accuracy. That makes them, in practice, vastly inferior to guns in terms of effective range. This is why, aside from early Cold War/late WWII designs (where firepower was the problem, heavy bombers of the era were though) they are mostly relegated to air to ground role. There's nothing better than a rocket pod when you just need to cover an area with explosions, but for attacking single, hardened targets their performance is less than stellar. Rockets only get better than cannons when you have reliable guidance for them. Which is harder than it might seem. There are things you can do to combat this. Most directly saving some delta V for terminal guidance.
Indirectly spin the rockets, then have a shape charge warhead offset ~45 degrees to the rockets direction of travel, then have your proximity detonation sensor inline with the shape charges detonation path. Spinning sensor scans the volume in front of the direction of travel, when it flags the target it detonates.
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Post by cipherpunks on Jul 8, 2019 0:25:46 GMT
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