>>63809831
>Rods are great against planes and allow small warheads to bring down transports and bombers
Not really. It was post WWII fad.
These warheads were tested against B-17 and such (there were thousands of free hulls lying around) that had load bearing skin, cuts across skin destroyed structural integrity of the wing and rods were very effecient against them.
But then aircraft changed construction to box spar wing (like in B-52) and plates of such spar are to thick to cut effeciently. So after initial adoption by inertia continuous rod warheads fell out of fashion.