Question about rockets?

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Jawbreaker
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Question about rockets?

Post by Jawbreaker »

I was just wondering if you guys are planning on fixing the Hand held rocket systems used in the game. I watched Future Weapons on the Discover Channel about two weeks back and they did a special on a hand held rocket system that looks exactly like the ones in bf2 (dont know the exact name of them) and they work the same as well.

Basically, the operator has a loader who reloads him when needed, the operator can paint his target with his system, then once the rockets launched they can fire and forget (basically paint and run after firing). Now heres the interesting fact, the rocket doesnt fly in a straight line, what happens is when its launched, it shoots itself out of the tube, then about a second or so after its outside of the system its engine engages and it shoots really high into the air and a high angle of attack, then comes down on the target basically Directly on top of them.

According to the show these weapons are already in use today with our military forces. And from what I can tell in the game, the ones we use look EXACLTY like the ones in the show. Now I dont know if this sort of thing is possible... but it would totally rock to have this sort of thing in game. Imagine, you can fire and forget so when you try and kill a tank, you have a lower % chance of getting killed.
duckhunt
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Post by duckhunt »

I made a thread about this ages ago, Saw a similar program about the new-ish British Javelin missile system (corrections welcome). It would be great, coming hurtling down on top of a tank where the armour is weak. I really like the idea of painting and fire and forget, however the tanks would also need some better counter measures to balance things. If you could fire it only when a vehicle target is laser painted, this could also adress the issue that rocket launchers are being overused as anti personnel weapons.
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