WW2 Rocketry
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Were the rockets of the time not able to fly straight enough to be used against ships?
You watch ww2 footage of airplanes attacking ships. It is torpedo planes and dive bombers.
I think, why didn't they put a torpedo sized rocket on the planes and shoot the rockets from up high to hit thinner top armor?
>Were the rockets of the time not able to fly straight enough to be used against ships?
They were used against ships and U-boats all the time.
Why didn't you look it up before making stupid assumptions?
If you're going to put a torpedo sized rocket on a plane to attack ships, you may as well just use a torpedo
>>30484696
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_Tim_(rocket)
>>30484761
neat
>>30484759
torpedoes hit the heavy belt armor.
A big rocket could be fired from above to hit the thinner deck and super structure armor.
>>30484696
Henschel Hs 293
learn to use the interweb.
>>30485177
That is a guided bomb/missile thing.
I know about ze Germans and their guided anti ship weapons.
I'm talking about Allied weapons.
>>30485052
How would it be aimed?
>>30485227
Like they did smaller ground attack rockets.
Point the plane and use the gun sights.
>>30485052
>why would you use a weapon that requires both horizontal and vertical aim to be correct, as opposed to one that just requires the horizontal aim to be correct
Gee OP I don't know.
Not to mention that slinging a rocket with a warhead sized torpedo through the air would require either a huge engine/fuel source, or might as well just be a bomb.
>>30485227
Like most ww2 aircraft weaponry?
>>30485227
Pigeon.
>>30485194
The US Navy tested the ASM-N-2 Bat in World War II and employed it in combat. It wasn't even the first thing we tried but by the time it was in combat we had near total air superiority so it wasn't exactly a front burner kind of project.
>>30485256
>ww2
Not that it really matters, but.
Those are modified vietnam era B-26Ks flying in formation on a ferry flight from Guam to Nakhon Phanom.
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