S-24
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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
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.
- Multiply this by the fuse time (0.73s)
- Adjustment distance is therefore 357 - 87 * 0.73 = 197.1
- You should fire when the distance marker of the enemy is 497 metres away and aim 36.5 metres in front of the AD-4's sideways component flight path or in degrees the offset should be:
- tan-1(36.5/497) = you will need to lead by 4.2 degrees.
- 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:
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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