S-24

Description

S-24 is a heavy HE unguided bomb with a rocket motor attached and basic aerodynamic fins and nose cone.

Vehicles equipped with this weapon

• IL-28Sh
• ▂Mi-24D
• Mi-24P
• Mi-24V
• MiG-21F-13

General info

The S-24 is a HE rocket type in war thunder with a peak velocity of 410 m/s and minimal launch angle variance. The S-24 alongside the smaller S-21 and S-1of rockets are often called "Tiny Ivans" due to their similar usage in ground battles.

Effective damage

HE rocket type with approximately 71 metre fragment dispersion radius

Comparison with analogues

The S-24 performs similar to the smaller S-21 and S-1of ground strike rockets, only with a bigger 'boom.'

Usage in battles

In War Thunder the S-24 has a timed fuse so it may be used against aircraft and the strong explosive filler allows it to be used to knock out MBTs, pillboxes and even ships with 80mm penetration and a TNT filler of 25.5 kg.

Pros and cons

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Pros:

• Excellent anti-everything tool

Cons:

• It can take some time getting used to the differing ranges which the rocket should be launched from. Becuase the rocket reaches max speed almost instantly after launch, you can use basic linear maths to approximate distance to launch the rocket by calculating the time it takes the rocket to fly the fused distance setting by:
  • Time to detonate: t = FuseDistance / 410
  • Adjustment distance ad = t * your aircraft speed - t * enemy aircraft speed longitudinal component relative to you, (or to put simply, the closing-in rate)
  • Add the distance fuse and ad together and you get the distance to fire the rocket. Example:
    • Flying an Il-28Sh at 832 kph ~= 230 m/s, and enemy aircraft is closing-in at a rate of 0.5km/s (head-on situation) with a launch fuse of 300m:
      • Adjustment distance is approximately 366 metres
      • Therefore you should fire at 366 + 300 = 866 metres.
    • Flying a MiG-21F-13 at mach 1.04 on Stalingrad (Summer) on the deck behind an AD-4 flying at 200 knots 30 degrees off your flight path:
      • Stalingrad (Summer) temperature is 15 degrees celcius, therefore MiG-21F-13's speed is 343 * 1.04 = 357 m/s
      • AD-4:
        • speed approximation from knots to metres per second is divide by 2: 100m/s
        • Cosine of 30 degrees is about 0.87
        • Therefore his speed in relation to you is 87 m/s
    • Adjustment distance is therefore 357 - 87
    • You should fire when the distance marker of the enemy is 570 metres away.

History

In real life, The S-24 was an unguided rocket intended for anti-infantry and other light target ground strikes with a ground proximity fuse that can be set between 3 and 33 metres with a forward direction biased shrapnel spray. Initially it did not have a proximity fuse however was added later as testing showed over 70% of the shrapnel was uselessly embedded into the ground in the vicinity where the rocket landed.

Media

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See also

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Rockets
USA
70 mm	FFAR Mighty Mouse · Hydra-70 M247
110 mm	M8
127 mm	HVAR · Zuni Mk32 Mod 0 ATAP
298 mm	Tiny Tim
408 mm	Yasser
Germany
55 mm	R4M
73 mm	RZ.65
88 mm	Pb2
150 mm	Wgr.41 Spr
210 mm	Wfr.Gr.21
USSR
55 mm	S-5K · S-5KP · S-5M
80 mm	S-8KO · S-8M
82 mm	M-8 · ROS-82 · RBS-82
122 mm	S-13OF
127 mm	S-3K
132 mm	M13 · M-13UK · ROFS-132 · ROS-132 · RBS-132
212 mm	S-1of · S-21
240 mm	S-24 · S-24B
300 mm	M-31
420 mm	S-25O · S-25OF · S-25OFM
425 mm	TT-250
Britain
51 mm	RP
70 mm	CRV7 M247
80 mm	Type R80 SURA T-80-P 3 · Type R80 SURA T-80-US 3
87 mm	AP Mk I · AP Mk II
152 mm	RP-3
183 mm	Triplex R.P.
292 mm	Uncle Tom · Red Angel
Japan
100 mm	Type 5 No.1 Mod.9
120 mm	Type 3 No.1 Mod.28 Mk.1
130 mm	Type 75
210 mm	Type 3 No.6 Mod.27 Mk.1 · Type 5 No.6 Mod.9
China
55 mm	Type 57-1
70 mm	FS70
90 mm	Type 90-1
130 mm	Type 130-2
Italy
50 mm	ARF/8M3(AP-AT)
70 mm	Skyfire-70 AC/AP
France
68 mm	SNEB type 23 · TDA
70 mm	FZ49
100 mm	TBA ECC · TBA Multi-Dart 100 AB
120 mm	T10 140 · T10 151
Sweden
75 mm	srak m/55 Frida · srak m/57B
81 mm	Oerlikon Typ 3Z 8Dla
135 mm	m/56D · psrak m/70
145 mm	psrak m/49B · Psrak m/49/56
150 mm	srak m/51
180 mm	hprak m/49
Israel
80 mm	Flz.-Rakete Oerlikon
127 mm	AR