You are out of your mind if you think your average Apache pilot will survive an encounter with an OSA or Roland. They won’t. If you aren’t ready to accept that helis are SAM food, then this conversation is pointless.
We won’t get this until we get a playable heli mode. The heli PvE mode is absolute buns and the Devs don’t seem to care all that much about heli gameplay.
Gaijin hasn’t even been able to make Ground RB or Air RB decent for years. The frame modes are still made for early cold war era equipment. They aren’t made for even 1970’s MBT’s and Air RB maps are not made for anything above 9.0.
My honest OH-58 reaction
Even if Hellfires are cheese this low
hard to say it’s meta when it’s same BR as an A-10A with Mavs
A-10A its premium and has a higher SP cost.
Also more easy to IR lock with a spaa.
From what someone said in this forum, the lock range of IR SPAA against helis was increased for the infantry event and never reverted.
Not for all helis. Its hind, kamov and some others which can be locked front aspect even from 6 km