I haven’t played top tier with heli’s in a while, but decided to give it a shot again. its almost instant shoot down. Well until the soviet helicopters get their protection zone, there doesnt seem like they are worth putting into my line up.
Short answer yes.
Long answer. Only usable if you have FnF or are soviets
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only ka-52 and mi-28 with new soft-kill
After firing, just ignore the missile. It’s like an 8-round scratch card. Keep scratching. You’ll always win
PARS 3 yes！
Mi-28NM and Ka-52 have had zero changes to their protection, it’s the same it’s been for years.
They’re still as useless as Apache in matches.
really ka-52 is to good and mi-28
Again, that’s been a thing for years. Nothing has changed. They defeated AIM-9Ms and R-73s since both were introduced to the game.
IR missiles are not what you use against helicopters anyway.
new mi-28 soft kill add in dive server not in game now
The thing about helis is that they will either be easy food for spaa or nearly unkillable.
Again, AIM-9Ms and R-73s have been defeated by DIRCM since both AIM-9M and R-73 were introduced to the game.
It’s on live server right now, it’s been there for years back when 9L was the best IR missile in the game.
if f-16 now shot mi-28 with agm-64 he can kill him in live server but in dev mi-28 can stop the agm-64 and all IR and some new spaa can’t hit it like the Swedish one the python 5 and aim-9x it can stop and it can stop fire and forget missile like spike and pars3 Compare this to any other helicopter.
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given that DIRCM in practice is poor and require the sensor to visually see the missiles by looking for smoke trail and exhaust of incoming missiles i think it should be way worse than it is ingame currently
it should be like, spamming lock at a 38mt in an ADATS(maybe a bit overreacting tho)
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All helis are worthless
I don’t play much helis but from SPAA point of view, in BR 8-10.0 matches they are basically invulnerable absolute cancer machines that only get shot down by high caliber PF/TF shells from things like begleit etc. or until someone spawns CAP.
From 10.3 onwards you are probably just rolling the dice if a saclos SAM is up, if they are and they have focus on you, you are basically forced into the defensive until they die or have to shoot at someone else, but most heli players don’t bother defensive flying and just eat it.
Helis with FNF capability get around this by being able to have missiles in the air while being on the defensive.
The very few good heli players I run into, if the map allows will always be looking for a new angle of attack if I fire at them at one position they move to a new one, so that’s probably what you’ll have to do in a 10.3+ match with laser guided missiles. Some maps are good for this, Vietnam for example, some not so much.