Clone Trooper Rocket Launcher Range

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-03-20 07:33am

I just realized that The Databank lists the clone troopers' PLX missiles as being able to track a target for 40 kilometers!

That strikes me as quite impressive.

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-03-20 07:51am

That is indeed very impressive for an infantry weapon.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-03-20 08:02am

To put it in perspective, that's almost twice the range of a 203 mm Howitzer firing a non-rocket assisted projectile.

And this is from a shoulder-mounted weapon.

This lends credence to the in-game mechanics of Jedi Outcast, in which a homing missile will tenaciously seek its target once designated, even circling many times if it overshoots the target.

I guess it shouldn't have come as a surprise, but SW technology can cram a lot of fuel into a little rocket.

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-03-20 08:21am

That must be some ridiculously efficient fuel. Could you fire it at a target way out of line of sight (reported to you by say, Scout troopers on speeder bikes), and then have the missile seek out a target autonomously (an IFF system would be good to make sure that it doesn't destroy your own hardware). You would of course fire it at a high angle.

GAM guidance missile range is given as 40km, however a figure isn't given for EPR guidance. Wonder why.

Funnily enough, it looks like PLX adheres to a Soviet style designation system, PLX-1 for Clonetroopers, then PLX-2 and PLX-2M (the M perhaps standing for modernized like in the Soviet system) for the Stormtroopers. I love the repulsorlift 'invisible tripod' for the PLX-2/2M idea.

Has this been added to the main page yet?

nightmare · Post by **nightmare** » 2004-03-20 03:06pm

The PLX-2M has 50 km range, and stores six missiles.

Robert Treder · Post by **Robert Treder** » 2004-03-22 11:37pm

Vympel wrote:Has this been added to the main page yet?

The main SD.N page? Not entirely; the PLX has been on the "Ground Combat" page since its inception, but its entry hasn't been updated since the databank update. The reason I was looking at the databank entry is that I was rereading the SD.N Ground Combat page, and I wanted to see if the databank entry had any new info.

As it turns out, the original EGWT entry lists the PLX-2M with a 50 km range, as nightmare pointed out. It also notes that the PLX-2M can carry proton warheads which can damage an AT-AT or a starfighter with a "lucky hit"...whatever that means. Do they mean in a strategic area or with shields down?

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-03-22 11:53pm

Robert Treder wrote:As it turns out, the original EGWT entry lists the PLX-2M with a 50 km range, as nightmare pointed out. It also notes that the PLX-2M can carry proton warheads which can damage an AT-AT or a starfighter with a "lucky hit"...whatever that means. Do they mean in a strategic area or with shields down?

Probably a weak area. A lucky hit against a tank is a flank/rear shot for example.