[thatguy96]

This is for the Vietnam pack I've been working on. In terms of formation accuracy, there really should be no difference in the US OOB between the scout helos and light attack ones. Arming of scout helicopters in the Aeroscout elements of Air Cav units became pretty much the norm after studies concluded the importance of this by the mid-1960s. This was the first consideration.

Secondly, in that OOB I'm currently using all the armed helicopter classes as such:

Attack Helo - For what its intended, attack helos
Light Attack Helo - Armed Aeroscout type helicopters
COIN Armed Helo - This is perhaps the issue, because this class is for Aerial Rocket Artillery until the end of 1969, but for "Nighthawk" type gunships specially modified for night operations.

Now the Nighthawks were intially just another attack helo, but seperating them by class allowed them to be more isolated in terms of how they could be purchased, and for more specific formations including them to be created.

The primary issue with the historical accuracy, is the fact that the AH-1G was used in the ARA role after 1969, and I'm not entirely sure when ARA was removed from the TO&E, if it even technically has, but so this was the reason I asked. If I could combine the light attack helos with the light helos, then I could make the nighthawks light attack helos, and free up the COIN armed helo class for ARA helicopters.