P-47D Rockets & Strafing Techniques

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This lesson is part two of how to use the P-47 in a ground attack role. This video covers how to use its rockets and .50 cals for ground strafing.
Here is the mission I created for this video so you can download it and fly it for yourself to practice: www.dropbox.co...
Comments and feedback are always welcome, so if this video helped you out hit the like button and let me know in the comments below. Cheers!

[@frostkillht]

This is awesome, can't wait for the release of Bodenplatte.

[@hammeringhutch9613]

Awesome video, I find this helpful for other planes I use in ground attack missions, such as the IL2. Thanks again for the professional videos! Can't wait to see what comes next as we get new aircraft in the game!

[@e.kent.d9561]

Both videos were VERY helpful and fun to watch.

[@veeaa]

You are my bible! I wish I could shoot ad well. One thing I note is that your jinking does not really change your heading much at all. Since 99,5% of AA rounds miss anyway, it's just a matter of shooting as many rounds as possible at the enemy plane. If you don't change the heading enough, eventually you will get hit.

[@JugheadJones03]

I like the dude jumping off the train in the first pass!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Yeah it's a nice little touch seeing them run away from cars, trains, artillery, etc...

[@rderespini]

Looking forward to practicing these techniques sometime this weekend. Thanks for another excellent video Requiem!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Cheers Ronald, be sure to let us know if they work for you!

[@leiker06]

Good video. Although the K14 is nice I wouldn’t recommend it for ground attack. The standard gunsight has a pipper for the rockets. Really comes in handy when firing them.

[@RequiemsACTL]

Yeah it's personal preference. I like the K-14 so you can have the gyro sight as the backup for air-air. I want to make a video covering the other sight for rocket use (I think it's the L-3 or something like that).

[@rastafari7584]

@@RequiemsACTL Hi, did you have a chance to make a video for the other sight?

[@RequiemsACTL]

@@rastafari7584 Yep I'm working on one for rockets with the DCS version at the moment.

[@armin4823]

Very informative as always! Do you happen to know what the markers on the normal, non gyro, gunsight are for? When you pick the rockets it gets extra lines.

[@RequiemsACTL]

That's the L-3 gunsight. It was used in P47s, P38s, and P61s for the most part. I believe its 100 mil wide but I haven't found any actual technical info that would let me do a proper tutorial for it yet. I'm still looking for some regarding it so when I find what I need I'll make a video.

[@OpticF]

In the game it seems like the \·/ mark matches the rockets impact point.

[@bannon315]

help very much, thank you for your hard work !

[@davca333]

thanks again for great video, do you use IR head tracking? Could you please share joystick setting, I still get the rubber effect in some planes and i wonder what setting you have, because i dont see it in your videos or replays. thank you! keep up the good work!

[@RequiemsACTL]

Yeah I use track ir. My joystick settings are 40% pitch and yaw curve with 0.03 noise filter

[@kenw9681]

Were both the machine guns and the rockets, on a P-47, positioned on its wings in such a way that if they were all fired at once in separate straffing or rocket attacks, their rounds would all be closely grouped together when they struck the target that was in the pilot's canopy gunsight?

[@icterio1]

Great video. Two notes; in the locomotive pass it appears your aircraft would be hit by dangerous debris and shrapnel, maybe too low? Also, why specify the K-14 gunsight if you only use fixed reticule mode?

[@RequiemsACTL]

It's possible but I didn't suffer any damage from the pass so I figured it was fine as you can definitely frag yourself in the sim. I think the lighting that occurs inside the cockpit makes it look worse than it is. I specify to use the K-14 gunsight because it gives you the option of using the gyro. If you were engaged on the way out to target what would you need to do? Drop all that ordnance and be in a dogfight instead where having that gyro is very useful.

[@lwallace79]

@@RequiemsACTL Yeah, the one nice thing that comes along with rockets on the P-47 is a modified gunsight designed for rocket attacks. So, I guess it's a trade-off between having a sight optimized for ground attack and one that is especially meant for air-to-air fighting.

[@RequiemsACTL]

@@lwallace79 Yeah true. It would be nice to have a specific sight for the rockets for sure. Also from what I've read it appears the fixed sight is 4° wide (70mils) and is meant for ground targets or as backup if gyro fails of course. I know you like these extra details :-) www.revolvy.com/page/Gyro-gunsight The 4° figure comes from a description of the fixed sight for the GGS MkII D...which is basically the same as the K-14.

[@velijohgis]

With what I've learned from commando comics, if you strafed an ammo train that low, you would be swiss cheese.

[@RequiemsACTL]

Oh wow Commando comics...god I remember reading soooooo many of those as a kid growing up!!

[@velijohgis]

@@RequiemsACTL Cool. Me too, I newer quit :D

[@JimmyBlonde]

And there's always someone on hand to shout "AIEEEEEEEEE, Mein Gott! or Himmel!"

[@xxxxDuke]

Great video - as usual

[@TheCrash1983]

thank you

[@RequiemsACTL]

You're welcome Crash

[@FGCH03]

The 1000 feet where you fire rockets it’s horizontal or vertical ?

[@18eNick]

What was your gun convergence range?

[@RequiemsACTL]

4-500m probably

[@Sexe95]

you manage to fly so low that if the game implemented wildlife you might encounter one

[@RequiemsACTL]

That's true, you definitely don't need to go as low I was going in the video. Staying above treetop level is much safer. I just wanted to make sure I didn't get snagged by AA which would kill the whole attack sequence used to make these two videos LOL