Fuselage ordinance & rockets
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P/O W. 'Moggy' Cattermole Wrote:Well, i can't say i'm privy to Me262 tactics, but i was under the impression that me262's fired Rockets in a single salvo so that you had a deadly in effect high explosive buckshot for taking down large bombers. That is what the R4M was for -- taking down bombers. I do not know about the ground attack rockets such as the 60lb rockets on the tempest, but i rather suspect that they launched their rockets in twos like in the sim. Note you cannot choose to alternate between left and right wings when firing guns and cannons. And for the same point, i think most aircraft dropped bombs in pairs as well, if they were out on the wings. This is not the age of electronic weapons systems a la gunship2000. Dropping bombs in twos on heavy bombers, however, that i couldn't comment on.

Wrong, R4M were launched 6 by 6 (three under each wing each time, from outter to inner rockets)because the error of trajectory covered the whole wingspan of a bomber, The trajectory was nearly the same of the Mk108, they didn't have to modify the Reflex-visier16 (Revi16) to launch rockets or to use Mk108.
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