ABSTRACT
Given its inaccuracy, the 3 inch rocket appears to have been a totally inadequate weapon for engaging tanks. Admittedly this was not the rocket's only or even primary role, but that it was the best the RAF had for the job in 1944-45 is nevertheless surprising, for despite its doctrinal opposition to aircraft intervening on the battlefield the RAF had earlier in the war acknowledged the need for air action against German armour and had employed a much more potent specific anti-tank weapons system.
