Here's a good pic from and up coming game "wartime command". The weapon is a Panzerfaust 60 and note the relatively flat trajectory of the warhead and the range it's being fired at. This is how the Panzerfaust should be ingame.
Let's say a german soldier fires a panzerfaust 30 at 0 degrees from his shoulder, (1.5 m above ground) and that the ground is level.
Seems like the rocket will hit the ground after approx 0.4 seconds, 11 metres from the german.
Wrong. Assuming the projectile wont gain any lift during it's flight and it is fired in a 0 degree angle, the projectile will hit the ground 0.55 seconds after launch, 16.5 meters from the operator. Still, it is little more than a half of the weapons total range of 30 meters, which proves that the weapon does have some arc (as does Bazooka and Panzerschrek). However, 16.5m is something totally different than what we are seeing in FH currently. If you fire the 'faust straight forward, it wont fly for more than a couple of meters and you might get killed in the blast yourself. If you want to reach that 16.5m in FH you must aim high, and reaching 30 meters is practically impossible on flat ground.
Further, assuming I calculated it right, in order for the 'faust to fly the designated 30 meters it has to be launched in a 9.5 degree angle. Which is not that much, especially when compared to the current situation.
Looking over my calculations again, I see that I was wrong (I did it in a hurry, fast and wrong). I forgot to count in the acceleration of the rocket. The trajectory I calculated would have been more appropriate to a down-powered version of the PIAT.
How fast does a rocket fired from a panzerfaust accelerate, by the way?
Here's a good pic from and up coming game "wartime command". The weapon is a Panzerfaust 60 and note the relatively flat trajectory of the warhead and the range it's being fired at. This is how the Panzerfaust should be ingame.
Interesting pic... in that range even a Panzerschreck and Bazooka has a problem in FH. I think they need to up the speed a bit.
Looking over my calculations again, I see that I was wrong (I did it in a hurry, fast and wrong). I forgot to count in the acceleration of the rocket. The trajectory I calculated would have been more appropriate to a down-powered version of the PIAT.
How fast does a rocket fired from a panzerfaust accelerate, by the way?
Damn, another mistake. How fast the panzerfaust accelerates has nothing to do with it's airtime. Exel, I think you've done a mistake, the only way an object will use 0.55 secs to hit the ground is if it starts 3 metres above ground.
this sites info confirms what most here claims, the faust was stronger than the schreck which is quite obvoius since the faust had an 800g warhead compared to the 660g warhead of the schreck. also check the trajectory info on the faust, it defintely didn't fly in a straight line. 15 degrees elevation for 33m range. the schreck though had a nice flightline.
/Flunken
Last edited by Flunken; April 21st, 2004 at 03:14 PM.
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