Helicopter Damage.

[macktheknifeau]

Any time I take\buy\get helos in any scen, they usually get hit by a max range, 1% chance manpad, take 1 damage and retreat straight away.

[User_no_longer_active]

I've had Apaches get hit by AK-47s, 1 point of damage, and retreat off map...

[harlikwin]

Well there was that farmer that popped an apache with and AK or some sort of bolt action rifle and brogught it down. I remember seeing it all over tv during the 2003 invasion of iraq.

[thatguy96]

Helicopters are extremely fragile when it comes down to it, whether you want to believe it or not. Their immense utility in combat and having changed the face of it forever is what keeps them in active frontline use, but people are always trying to deal with the inherent fragility of the concept. Imagine, for an instant, that 1 point of damage is all in the tail rotor assembly. When you take into account the size of the aircraft, the tail rotor hub is relatively small, but if it is destroyed, the system becomes virtually uncontrollable. Same deal with any serious damage to portions of the main rotor hub, individual rotors, and on newer helicopters the computer flight systems (blamed in the UK for a number of accidents involving their CH-47 fleet).

[Listy]

After seeing a vid ground test on a CH-47, where there was a slight problem with the rotors I'd say any helicopter thats damaged should get on the ground sharpish.

For those of you who want to know, the helicopter was tied down and filmed. It started shaking, then the fusalauge started warping left and right. Finaly the rear engine houseing collapsed into the cargo bay. The total time was about a minute.

[Dracula]

Well I can understand the instinct of life preserving of the pilots.

BUT some chopers should be MORE RESISTANT to small fire arms like Apaches, Supercobras and other gunship of that sort. I can remember that in the initial version of Steel panther2 (1997) helicopters could fight after taking substentials damages (more than one point) so MAYBE if some let say experienced crews(veterans and elites) of gunships success in a rally check maybe then those helicopters could continue the fight. In my humble opinion most of the players would agree to my point of view. After all its very frustrating to have nice killing birds and see them turn their bleeding noses toward mother base to seek shelter...

Cheers

Vincent

[Mobhack]

Apaches, Hinds etc have armour - this stops a certain level of AAA fires from having any effect. The hit simply becomes a no-effect one. But if any does get through causing damage, planes and helos RTB. This has been the case since SP1/2/3 days.

Cheers
Andy

[pdoktar]

Only certain parts of AHs are armored. But the one biggest part isn´t, the rotor. So burst of small arms will damage it, and ricochets may damage other vulnerable top parts, like the rotor carriage.