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06-01-2004, 03:46 PM
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06-01-2004, 11:02 PM
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| I found a pic of a Spit carrying rockets. I had never seen this before. Maybe you all have but I thought this was pretty interesting. | |
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06-02-2004, 06:46 AM
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06-02-2004, 02:52 PM
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Country:  | i've seen them with rockets before, but never just single rails..............
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06-02-2004, 02:56 PM
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#170 | | the old Sage
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Country:  | have you considered the Fw190F-8 mit Panzerblitz rockets..........quite a death machine against soviet armor and MT's ! | |
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06-02-2004, 03:15 PM
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#171 | | Master of Ewes
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Country: | what were the Air-to-Air rockets used by the germans, the ones thet fired in quick sucession..............
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06-02-2004, 03:21 PM
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#172 | | the old Sage
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Country: | March 18, 1945 the Me 262A1a's of III./JG 7 intercepted a US B-17 pulk and fired off salvo's of R4M rockets destroying some 18 plus Allied viermots..........
R4M's and the head could be replaced by a Panzerschrek type head used for ground attack and that is precisely what JG 7 did when flying out of Prague in spring of 1945, intercepting the Soviet hordes
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06-02-2004, 03:36 PM
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#173 | | Master of Ewes
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i saw a pic of them mounted under the wings of a 262 in two sets of 12, was this common??
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06-02-2004, 03:38 PM
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#174 | | the old Sage
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Country: | yes 12 was the usual number although some experiments led to 24 under each wing. A bit heavy on slender delicate wings, but not certain if these trials were ever carried out against heavy bombers | |
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06-02-2004, 11:14 PM
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| The rockets weren't all that heavy though, were they? I mean, they clearly appear to be much smaller that the rockets used by America of Britain.
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06-02-2004, 11:41 PM
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#176 | | the old Sage
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Country: | typical pose and the rocket itself........ | |
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06-02-2004, 11:44 PM
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| Excellent pic Erich. I've heard the rails were actually built out of wood. Any truth to that?
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06-03-2004, 12:05 AM
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#178 | | the old Sage
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Country: | yes they were. good observation. you can see the tail sections of sorts. The R4M agasint the heavy bombers actually had the tail fan out and caused the rocket to spin tightly keeping a fairly straight trajectory. the heavy Panzerschrek head can be seen on the anti-tank round. we of course all know the damage done by the Panzerschreck with it's 8.8cm round against Soviet armor. so here we have the round in the aerial form and quite lethal at that......... | |
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06-03-2004, 12:13 AM
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| Good thing for our bomber boys more of those didn't make it into action then.
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06-03-2004, 12:16 AM
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#180 | | the old Sage
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Country: | no kidding and glad that JG 7 did not have these uglies as early as fall of 44 or January of 45 when JG 7 got really into action. Nice that there was an overabundance of P-51 escorts to break up the jet formations as much as possible ........... | |
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