Aircraft rockets vs tanks

[prokophapala]

I'm not sure if I do something wrong or if rockets are just not supposed to destroy tanks (maybe they are just against light armor?). But the fact is that I perhaps never killed a tank with a rocket.

I speak mostly about using attack-aircraft in Arcade Ground Battles. I regularly kill with bombs, but never with rockets, so I'm often angry when I hit "8" to get into plane, and I realize that the plane is equipped with rockets, since it is waste of time for me.

I was thinking that maybe the problem is in-accuracy especially when the rockets are on wings too far from the center of aircraft it is very hard to hit. I try to shoot them from very close distance to improve accuracy. But this also means that everything is very quick, so I don't exactly see where the rocket fly and if it hits. That means I have quite bad feedback to learn how to shoot with rockets properly.

[Spaddobird]

Small rockets very rarely kill tanks and you need a direct hit for most others. The only really forgiving rockets are the tiny tims which you can use with the F6F Hellcat. I believe the accuracy of these rockets was recently nerfed so they may not be as good as I remember however I have around 70 tank kills with tiny tims so I can confirm rockets do work it's just a matter of hitting your target.

[Illusionyary]

Try RP-3s on the Hurricanes, they have long rails which guide them very accurately. Come in top down and aim about one line down and you'll kill the enemy tank in one rocket.

[Atlas]

the german wrf.gr.21's tend to be a bit more forgiving aswell, what i generally do when i get a aircraft with the weak UK/US RP-3's or HVAR's is line up my aircraft with the target tank and then orientate myself vertically instead of horizontally, so the rocket spread will have more chance of scoring a direct hit.

[Rumpelcrutchskin]

Depends on the plane, some are more accurate then others, german fighters with two rockets have absolutely best accuracy, it's very rare to miss with it.
Mosquito is also very good.

[A Toaster]

try training with a rocket attacks or watch some guids maybe that will help

[MADX0]

All of the Attackers (what you spawn with 8) can destroy tanks with their rockets, but some might struggle vs heavy tank... you just need to practice the aiming, rocket drop, convergence for thos far on the wings like the Mosquito or the P-47, the easier to use are the Fw 190, its almost impossible to miss with that one... this weekend the WW2 event was infested with Hurricanes loaded with RP3s, excellent practice though you wont find that one at AB, the mosquito uses RP3s but you need to calculate the convergence, mine's at 400m so I know when to fire the things... its just practice, on the other hand I hate qhen I choose attacker and get one with bombs...

[MagnusCerebrum]

Most rockets kill tanks in a direct hit, it just boils down to accuracy. It's generally a good thing to know which side shoots first, like the Fw190 that goes Left, Right. Then, you have to know about the rocket drop.

To me the Fw190 is easily the best rocket fighter (IL-10 quite good aswell) because of its great agility for aiming the rockets.

[ulzgoroth]

Yeah, you can kill tanks with rockets just fine, but it takes a certain amount of luck and a particular skillset that isn't really good for anything else.

For lighter rockets against heavier tanks, you may want to attack from the back rather than the front. I think that matters, though I'm not entirely sure.

Rockets have drop, scatter, and aimpoint offset due to their launching from the wings. And most of them won't kill fully-armored targets unless they hit very close. It's tricky. But I find a load of rockets often preferable to a load of bombs - with 8 HVARs in Arcade on a good day I can often kill 3 or 4 chosen targets, which seems to require more luck to pull off with most bombers. And FW rockets are huge and hull-mounted so they're much easier to hit with, though you only get a couple. I've never been any good with the Mosquito rockets, though.