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ORIGINAL: JeffK
Sid,
I understand that A-A rockets became a weapons system post WW2, but the USAAF/USN etc still used guns over Korea.
They only became a usable weapons system in the '50s.
I agree that WITP & AE needs "Rocket" device, the Western Allies & USSR made heavy use of them.
IMHO, if available, they should only be usable if an attack height of ? 2000ft or less was chosen.
(I'm now looking up the stats for the Typhoon & Tempest to add them to the mix!)
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Aircraft rockets were effective and important late in WWII. While aircraft mounted rockets were originally a British concept -
just before our games start - and they appear when the game begins on Swordfish in RHS - these were intended for ASW use.
They turned out to be useful for attacking ships and ground units as well. But the Germans - and later the Japanese probably
influenced by them - thought of fighter mounted rockets as bomber destroying weapons - and indeed they were pretty effective
in that role. This is the role USAAF decided - somewhat in retrospect - was what they wanted. In that era "strategic air power"
meant bombers - and the only role USAF really believed in for fighters was as bomber destroyers. They also came to think in terms
of nuclear armed air to air rockets - see Genie - again - however - mainly for use against enemy heavy bombers. There was even
a sort of unpiloted fighter plane - a missile - which was supposed to do the same thing. Korea came as a bit of a surprise in many ways - not least that we might face high performance fighter planes equal or even superior to our own - and that we might have to engage in classical battles for air control (involving hitting enemy bases, not just air to air combat). The key point is that rockets were triple purpose - and SHOULD work vs ships, ground targets and aircraft - something difficult to achieve in a system not designed for them. I am surprised how well the compromise of the RHS rockets works: I was willing to kill them entirely if need be - but it appears this works in practical terms far better than we had any right to expect. It is likely that they work oh so rarely in air combat. It is likely we will never know unless a test bed is built to run thousands of tests and collect the data. What is clear is they don't work very often - which we would notice.
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