"Bullet drop" & Dumbfire Rockets.
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Watching the various videos available I find myself wondering if the dumbfire rockets mounted on various weapons platforms, vehicle or otherwise, suffer from "bullet drop".
I think, given the nature of the weapon, that they are available on demand and that vehicle mounted versions, particularly those mounted for Close Air Support, can be ripple fired (rapid fired) they should, unlike guided weapons, suffer from bullet drop.
I fully expect that skilled weapon operators will get sufficiently skilled with these systems that they will not suffer any loss of accuracy with this feature, and may indeed get skilled enough to "lob" them over low cover. But I think that some small amount of bullet drop on dumbfired rockets will assist in making guided missiles more desirable for precision based applications.
This adds an eliment of skill to the usage of dumbifred rockets which would otherwise be largely "point and click" warfare and lack any "barrier to entry" which required farmiliarity with the weapon system.
I am not suggesting using these weapons be made prohibatively difficult, only that varying degrees of "bullet drop" be tested, and considered in order to add a new dimension to an otherwise fairly simple and uncomplicated weapon.
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