Rocket problems on A-10A

[Aries101]

Hello again guys.

 

I had lot of nice missions with this awsome plane. But one thing is creeping up alot.

Now, I see 2 different pylon versions of A version. I also see 2 different HE and WP wersions of rocket. But i n order to make this question simple.

 

I need to know which rockets I can use in order not to get damn smoke out of them?

 

Like one HE and one WP version. Manual is missing detailed weapon list data sadly.

 

:(

[norbot]

This is what the mission editor shows and I think it's quite clear, what kind of rockets you can choose. :huh:

 

Normally the A-10 can carry 6 x LAU-131 or 4 x LAU-68 rocket pods (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Republic_A-10_Thunderbolt_II).

 

HE stands for "high explosive" and WP for "white Phosphorus".

Edited January 21, 2020 by norbot

[Aries101]

Hehe, That explains smoke lol

[Aries101]

Ah I thought that there is other than He rockets...

Still there are two versions: Lau-131 and lau-68. Is there any difference?

[norbot]

Both launchers can carry 7 Hydra 70 rockets. But you can carry different numbers of lauchers on the A-10, like described in my first post. :)

[Floydii]

Also, carrying two different types of launcher (both with practice smoke) is useful if you just want to fire a single rocket for marking targets and not pairs.