What do you think mini rockets represents in game?

[Zarax]

This question bugs me lately.

I am not talking about their in game use (at least not yet) but what you think their real life counterpart would be.

Especially late in game mini rockets tends to become a "rocket machine gun", while the array stays in a weird position, maybe as short range anti cyborg artillery.

IMHO they represent a "jack of all trades" version of small missiles like today's stinger, what's your opinion?

[Michal]

Well, I think of them as something like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_70

Those are non-guided rockets for AT use, on e.g AH-1 Cobra helicopter.

[3drts]

mk-66 hydra rocket pods would fit (70mm)






Or the Russian 57mm rocket pods would also fit



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-5_rocket

Inconsistently, they are primarily used by ground attack aircraft (helicopters and slower flying planes), and I am not aware of any deployment of this weapons system on the ground.
No tank or APC uses these, just aircraft.

They are mainly used for AT use, but they are similar to (and partly inspired by) the 55mm R4M rockets used by german fighters(mainly the FW190 and ME-262) in WW2.
When used by the ME-262, they were an anti air weapon, for use against bomber formations, whereas the FW-190 employed them as these "small" (relative to other rockets of a bore size greater than 100mm) rockets in the ground attack role.

[Corporal Punishment]

Mil MI24's used S-5 Pods with descend effect against infantry entrenchments. A Czeck Hind pilot I once met used to put it this way: "When MI24 comes, you better run fast!"
Back in WW2 the US army experimented with a version of the M4 Sherman armed with two multiple launchers for 4.5 inch rockets named T34 Calliope and 7.2 inch rockets called T40 respectively. The latter was to be similar to WZ's Mini-Rocket Pod, in terms of being a short range salvo rocket weapon. To my knowledge, it is the only attempt at constructing a weapon like Mini-Rocket Pod in real life. The T40 had a range of 75 yards, the T34 Calliope spanned a distance of 4500 yards. Youtube hosts a video of a Calliope being loaded and firing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbft-EjpqNw

Technical information and Photos of the rare T40 can be found here:

http://www.752ndtank.com/RocketTanks.html

One could view the T34 Calliope as the role model of WZ's Mini-rocket Array, while the T40 may have given inspiration for the Mini-Rocket Pod.

[psychopompos]

^ those where more like the mrl turret(ro whatever its caled now)
WZs rocket pod always struck me as an adapted direct fire rocket pod as found on aircraft.

but using it as a vollied weapon would obsolete the lancer.
moving it to vtol only as a vollied weapon would overpower vtols yet more.

[Zarax]

Guess something like this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebelwerfer#Panzerwerfer

Makes me feel like doing a 20th century themed mod...

[dmkp]

Mini rockets represent mini rockets... what's hard about that?