Hydra Rocket Pods (BTD5)

Hydra Rocket Pods is the 3rd upgrade for Path 2 of the Dartling Gun in Bloons Tower Defense 5. It costs $5950 on Easy, $7000 on Medium, $7560 on Hard and $8400 on Impoppable.

It shoots out missiles that explode on impact instead of darts, the missile themselves can pop Lead Bloons, have decreased pierce back to 1 (instead of 3 from Powerful Darts) the explosions can pop any bloon including Black due to preceeding Depleted Bloontonium upgrade.

The missiles themselves can be still affected by pierce increase granted from Monkey Fort.

Summary
Hydra Rocket Pods turns all of that Dartling's darts into explosive shots. It is useful when grouped popping power is needed, although it performs worse at penetration due to its single impact explosions caused by decreased pierce (from Powerful Dart's 3 to 1).

Tips

 * In BTD5 Mobile and BMC Mobile, pair with Monkey Fort to deal double the explosions per shot. This is patched in BTDB Mobile, however.

Trivia

 * Sharp tips actually appear in the game. A single spike can be seen on top of each missile shot out.
 * This, along with The Big One, Bloon Impact, Spiked Mines (BTD5 generation only), and Flash Bomb are the only towers in the BTD5 series that can pop Black and Zebra bloons with explosions.
 * This upgrade seems to be based off of the Hydra 70 rocket pods.
 * Each rocket can pop up to 40 bloons.
 * Hydra Rocket Pods fires at decreased 66% the rate of its mirror upgrade option, Laser Cannon.
 * This is compensated by the area of rockets' explosions.
 * The Hydra Rocket Pods upgrade icon appears to look like multiple images of the Missile Launcher upgrade icon from the Bomb Tower. The same applies to Bloon Area Denial System, albeit more missiles.