Arrow IV, not just for artillery?

[Charistoph]

Would it be a crazy idea if someone reconfigured the Arrow IV launcher to fire from an aerospace fighter and configure an ammo variant for anti-shipping instead of anti-terrain?

[Vition2]

If you are looking for the effectiveness of the official anti-ship "bombs", then I would say no.  Reasoning being that each bomb is 10 times the mass of the standard Arrow IV (2 tons per bomb compared to 5 missiles per ton, reference TO, pg 414).  This difference makes it very difficult for me to see a launcher that would be able to properly handle the "bomb".

That doesn't mean that Arrow IVs aren't effective against warships, 2 points of capital-scale damage isn't anything to sneer at when it's coming from something 1000 times smaller than the warship it's firing on.

[marauder648]

can't ASF's have Arrow AAM's under their wings?

[Maingunnery]

If you are looking for the effectiveness of the official anti-ship "bombs", then I would say no.  Reasoning being that each bomb is 10 times the mass of the standard Arrow IV (2 tons per bomb compared to 5 missiles per ton, reference TO, pg 414).  This difference makes it very difficult for me to see a launcher that would be able to properly handle the "bomb".

That doesn't mean that Arrow IVs aren't effective against warships, 2 points of capital-scale damage isn't anything to sneer at when it's coming from something 1000 times smaller than the warship it's firing on.

The best use of onboard arrow launchers might be against fighters with reflective armor.

[Tai Dai Cultist]

The best use of onboard arrow launchers might be against fighters with reflective armor.

I know homing Arrow IVs don't deal AE damage.  Not sure is Air-to-Air Arrow IVs also lose the AE type.

[Maingunnery]

I know homing Arrow IVs don't deal AE damage.  Not sure is Air-to-Air Arrow IVs also lose the AE type.

Regular arrows (Cluster or non-homing) to have AE and F, just use those.