The AH-1F is still missing countermeasure pods after this (AH-1F "Modernized" Cobra missing flares/chaff - Already Reported & Solved Issues - War Thunder - Official Forum) report made in 2020… 4 years later and still no fix implemented. Please, address this.
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Is this going to be adressed? Being restricted to only heli rushing sucks, neither me or the 2 enemies i kill have any fun at all. Long range fights give the enemies quite a bit of time to quite literally move out of unguided rockets’ way, in terms of ATGMs you still need to close the distance to just under 3.5km where you might not be able to evade a missile anyway.
I think it’d work because most missiles that the AH-1F faces include IRCCM, most of those can be defeated by deploying flares in a particular way (go roughly 100 degrees off the missile and displace altitude), this forces the pilot to abort their attack or risk being shot down before your BGM gets to the target. Surviving has a downside of rarely being able to actually do the killing part which in my eyes is fine especially at 9.7 and in general just gives a bit more “interaction” outcomes than just “either you die, or the enemy dies”.
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If it was a russian helicopter…
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To be fair, it states on page 4-52 the M-130 General Purpose Dispenser is only for chaff in use (but not that it couldn’t be used with flares).
Reasonably, given the fact the IRCM light doesn’t work how it does in real life, giving it flares would be a good balance mechanic. Sadly, it looks like Gaijin may shut down the flare countermeasures it was going to get in the update about to drop given the fact this guy has been running around with bug reports on the AH-1F/S ( [DEV] AH-1F Не должно быть ЛТЦ // Gaijin.net // Issues)
Congrats it’s getting countermeasures