later in early access Flechette 2.75 rokckets?

[Sobakopes]

Air to air they would be pretty good in helicopter combat provided that you set them to fuse at like 500m.literally shotgun. For ground you set fuse at 1200-1500m and you're good to go. 

Edited October 28, 2021 by Sobakopes

[kgillers3]

4 minutes ago, Sobakopes said:

Air to air they would be pretty good in helicopter combat provided that you set them to fuse at like 500m.literally shotgun. For ground you set fuse at 1200-1500m and you're good to go. 

 

Are you talking for the Apache? 

[Sobakopes]

1 минуту назад, kgillers3 сказал:

Are you talking for the Apache? 

About every helicopter including Apache. I have in game experience using s8 for helicopter dogfights. I've had some success with KOM rockets. Flechettes would be only better as they don't need direct hits. 

[Sobakopes]

Hind and hip don't have rangefinder so you set distance. Apache also has this mode when you set fixed range for gun or rockets. 

During ww2 500 m was too far for guns in air combat. I would understand 500m for 12.7 gatling yakb because it shoots at 4500 rpm but not the chain gun. 

Edited October 28, 2021 by Sobakopes

[Enduro14]

Food for thought, we set our Carl rounds to 50 meters beyond the tgt for proper airburst over said target.  Be interesting if that is something with the flechete rounds on the Apache as well?

[Sobakopes]

11 минут назад, Enduro14 сказал:

Food for thought, we set our Carl rounds to 50 meters beyond the tgt for proper airburst over said target.  Be interesting if that is something with the flechete rounds on the Apache as well?

Probably because on target means 50m short in the first place

[Hummingbird]

33 minutes ago, Sobakopes said:

Hind and hip don't have rangefinder so you set distance. Apache also has this mode when you set fixed range for gun or rockets. 

During ww2 500 m was too far for guns in air combat. I would understand 500m for 12.7 gatling yakb because it shoots at 4500 rpm but not the chain gun. 

 

 

Really? Then how does the gunsight compensate for range when using both gun & rockets? Is it all just gyro?

 

[Sobakopes]

5 минут назад, Hummingbird сказал:

 

Really? Then how does the gunsight compensate for range when using both gun & rockets? Is it all just gyro?

 

Have you ever tried gunnery with hip and hind?

With hip you need to account for collective, ball position and range. You center the ball and eliminate climb or descent before aiming the rockets. You need to gauge and guess range for a specified aim setting on milliradians. 

With hind the on board ballistic computer takes all needed corrections in regards to your climb rate, collective setting ball position and sideslip. That's why asp17 gunsight is so convenient. You still need to gauge range visually because there s no range finder just stadia metric visual range funding. 

 

It has ballistic computer. Just that you set a range for it. 

[Sobakopes]

1 час назад, kgillers3 сказал:

Correct it's called man range (short for manual range).  Don't get it twisted I'm not telling you to do it however you want.  I'm just sharing knowledge that if you want to start a dive, the aircraft will set the fuse appropriately so you're not guessing oh at 1500 away. Latterally you could use a direct to the target i'm getting too deep into this which is what I wanted to avoid.  

Point is.  I don't care how you do it, I just wanted to share that you don't have to run a man range for the aircraft that this forum is about.  Just trying to make life easier for peeps. It's same engagement process as anything. Me personally I think running a man range for the engagement is unnecessarily complicated because now you must estimate your slant range.

 

In air ground ofc you could just rangefind with Apache because it's so easy and convenient. In air to air you still need to man range and set fuse at like 500 mm. I guess range finding an air target can be done but not in a heated situation. 

[Sinclair_76]

Still have a couple of flechettes which I got to pick after a live fire exercise.

Edited October 29, 2021 by Sinclair_76