# Laser guide on the rocket launcher?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680
**Category:** The Drawing Board
**Created:** [October 13, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680 "2015-10-13T02:49:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@vipches](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vipches)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/1 "2015-10-13T02:49:13Z")
Anyone who play half life should know what I’m saying, since the rocket launcher has a long range, I think mabye we need something to keep rocket stay on the line
so, I think mabye the laser guide gun part that can install on the launcher should do the trick, because rocket was such rarely ammunition, and heavy weapon was my favorite stuff,
I need the rocket can actually hit something, but we do know there is no way someone can firing the rocket and hit target on such long range, so I think mabye the laser guide should be able to help with that…
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### Author:  [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/2 "2015-10-13T02:55:23Z")
The best way to implement this is to create a new type of launcher that uses this technology and requires a ups to power the guiding system. This launcher would have superb accuracy.
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### Author:  [@vipches](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vipches)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 3:28am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/3 "2015-10-13T03:28:08Z")
> [@Noctifer](#):
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> The best way to implement this is to create a new type of launcher that uses this technology and requires a ups to power the guiding system. This launcher would have superb accuracy.
Unlikely… because the rocket launcher on this game was very rare weapon, so far I only found it on the outpost… sometime I got lucky found it on the group death body… not even the bunker can found one… not to mention the rocket ammuntion, if only I can build rocket my self…
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### Author:  [@Noctifer](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Noctifer)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 3:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/4 "2015-10-13T03:46:16Z")
The thing is that laser guided systems are embedded onto a launcher as far as I know, they can’t simply be installed. The only way to make it install compatible would be to make this rocket launcher craft able.
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/5 "2015-10-13T04:11:40Z")
or to make it so you craft mod the launcher and craft/mod the ammo for it.
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### Author:  [@Midaychi](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Midaychi)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 4:41am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/6 "2015-10-13T04:41:35Z")
Glue a manhack to a rocket?
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### Author:  [@Karicter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Karicter)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/7 "2015-10-13T04:51:24Z")
The answer is a T.O.W missile. Wire guidance is close enough.
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/8 "2015-10-13T04:58:16Z")
plus no Jamming!
Well… its not like anything is going to TRY after the apocalypse not really anything left with the knowhow/ ability to jam missile guidance
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### Author:  [@Karicter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Karicter)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:03am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/9 "2015-10-13T05:03:15Z")
You obviously haven’t met Mr. Eyebot or Mrs. Nagbot, I mean Secubot.
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/10 "2015-10-13T05:04:26Z")
Oh I have. Luckily they are not military grade enough to jam laser rockets. They just really really want to.
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### Author:  [@Karicter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Karicter)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/11 "2015-10-13T05:14:29Z")
You hear a whoop-whoop! to the north-east.
You see a SecuBot to the north-east
You hear “Stop having fun perp!” from the north-east.
You hear “Put down the entertaining rocket launcher perp!” from the north-east.
You are Stunned!
Secubot has tazed you!
Secu bot fires it’s 9MM Submachine gun.
Your L. Leg is hurt!
You hear “Get a job and move out of our basement, your father has given up trying to help you succeed in life and I just don’t know if you’re ever going to find the right girl if you continue like this!” from the north-east.
Really commit suicide? Y/N
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:18am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/12 "2015-10-13T05:18:13Z")
… couple things.
1.don’t think they have 9mm.
2.they are not your mother
3. you wana talk about it? I mean you ok and everything? Also suicide is never the (correct) answer.
4. They are not anti fun bots. they are cop bots.
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### Author:  [@Karicter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Karicter)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/13 "2015-10-13T05:35:39Z")
Lol well firstly that was a crack at basement 20something year olds;
I’m married, have a house, a son, pets, and plenty of real life guns to entertain myself not including reversing the barrel.
Secondly, they do in fact have SMGs, you’re thinking of a Copbot.
Thirdly, come on man, don’t kill the joke with technicalities.
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/14 "2015-10-13T05:42:01Z")
Other video games are a terrible source of information about weapons. laser-guided munitions aren’t useful at the ranges we deal with in dda.
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### Author:  [@Karicter](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Karicter)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 5:48am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/15 "2015-10-13T05:48:47Z")
> [@Kevin Granade](#):
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> Other video games are a terrible source of information about weapons. laser-guided munitions aren’t useful at the ranges we deal with in dda.
To expand on this, since this is a much smarter way of explaining away laser guidance, a fuel-powered projectile is moving at very fast speeds, granted not sound-barrier breaking, but still too fast to simply snake around like, well a snake, and impact a target WITHIN 100 meters when your target is more than a 50 meter correction. Even Half-Life had it Somewhat correct; Ever notice how you had to exaggerate swinging the laser out wide if you missed the target in order to correct the path? Adjustments on a projectile in reality of that nature aren’t magic. Though take a look at this and maybe someday they will be:
> **[DARPA Has Created Self-Guided, Mid-Flight Changing Bullets](https://www.iflscience.com/darpa-has-created-self-guided-mid-flight-changing-bullets-26579)**
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> DARPA Has Created Self-Guided, Mid-Flight Changing Bullets
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### Author:  [@Litppunk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Litppunk)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 12:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/16 "2015-10-13T12:39:07Z")
COOL!
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/laser-guide-on-the-rocket-launcher/10680/17 "2015-10-13T14:55:02Z")
[quote=“Karicter, post:15, topic:10680”]Adjustments on a projectile in reality of that nature aren’t magic. Though take a look at this and maybe someday they will be:
[http://www.iflscience.com/technology/darpa-has-created-self-guided-mid-flight-changing-bullets[/quote]](http://www.iflscience.com/technology/darpa-has-created-self-guided-mid-flight-changing-bullets%5B/quote%5D)
That’s cool, but it’s the same fin-corrected flight path, just with a ballistic projectile instead of a rocket-propelled one, the ranges at which it makes sense to do it are similar, i.e. many times the maximum firing distance in DDA.