F-5E3 Rocket Damage

[SnowTiger]

Is it just me or does the Tiger's Rockets actually suck ?

 

I don't know if this is typical of All Modules/Rockets because I haven't flown other aircraft (other than the Mustang) for many months.

 

I had the heaviest load of Rockets that the Tiger can carry and set it up to fire 1 rocket from each of 4 pods per pickle press.

I have a mission with a "tight group/line" of parked Lightly Armored Infantry Vehicles.

 

I took several passes at this line and fired my entire load of rockets was fired and was only able to kill 1 of 12 vehicles. I know damn well I was hitting them .. heck I can hardly miss them. But the Overall Damage and/or the Splash Damage Radius seems way too weak.

 

I know Splash Damage from all sorts of ordinance has been a issue over the years but I thought by now this was resolved.

 

Is it just me or are others finding the same lousy results ?

Is it just the Tiger II and its Rockets or is it the same for All Rockets in All Modules ?

 

BTW I'm usually always using the LAU 3 x 19 HEAT rockets. I don't have any better luck with HE (of course because these are Armored Vehicles albeit Lightly Armored .. i.e. Not Tanks).

And there are no AP Rockets in the list but I think the HEAT are basically High Explosive Armor Piercing ... ?

[Jenrick]

There is very little splash damage to rockets compared to bombs, which mitigates any shrapnel effects you'd see real world. However real world HEAT rockets actually don't have much blast damage (for a rocket), and unless you add a fragmentation sleeve not much shrapnel either. The warhead is designed to put all it's energy into a very concentrated spot. So you would need a direct hit most likely, you might check the events listing and see if you are getting hits.