Hi,
Armament of AH-1W is not complete.
It is possible to install:
4 AGM-65 Maveric air-to-surface missiles,
4 '‘Sidearm’ anti-radar missiles,
2 CBU-55B bombs,
4 LAU-7 launchers with AIM-92 Stinger or AIM-9L Sidewinder air-to-air guided missiles,
2 40-mm M118 grenade launchers,
I propose to add this armament and increase BR of AH-1w to 11.0
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For missing weapons, bug reports must be made with sources attesting to the aircraft’s capacity to carry this type of equipment; creating topics in the forum is useless.
SEAD missiles are not in the game for now
Cluster bombs are not in the game for now
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that would make a U.S Helicopter competitive and balanced with russia and chinese helis. we cant have that in this game.
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the anti radiation missiles are not in game for anyone yet, and CAS will get crazy once that is put int the game.
Mmmm, 11.7 AH-1W.
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Idk about 11.7, maybe 11.3. We already have the Israeli AH-60 with 16 FnF missiles at that BR. I believe the AH-1W only carried 2 at most, the inner pylons are probably not wired to support such a weapon. In-game Mavericks (with HEAT warhead) only have about 4-4.5km launched from 100m standstill, so not incredibly great range and energy to hit especially moving targets either. Their only redeeming quality would be their damage, though penetration wise they would be worse which may be more relevant now that the missile is more likely to impact frontal armor in head-on scenarios.
IDK what the variant fired was either during tests, but the only picture I can find shows a white Maverick, so either A or B variant. Iran seemed to have more extensivly used/modded AGM-65As on their AH-1Js, which also carried only 2. Possibley the Maverick variant used on the AH-1W were surpluss A variants too, which would further decrease tracking range to around 3km. Though it matters not that much in the end since they are fire and forget, but having only 2 missiles means very frequent trips back and forth to the airfield.
Oh yeah I guess here are some examples of only 2 Mavericks, on AH-1W it’s not clear though, but consdiering it isn’t capable to hand hellfires from the inner pylons, it is probably because they are not wired for smart weapons.
And even if it would be 11.7, honestly I would take it at the cost of the albeit unique but niche 10.7 spot (US has no 10.7 lineup, which isn’t an unique problem either, so 10.7 overall isn’t a very favourable BR anyway). Otherwise is going to lack FnF options for their helicopters for a long while. I don’t believe 114Ls will be coming any time soon. Even if it won’t be terribly effective at 11.7, I could see it still being useful due to fire and forget capability.
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There’s a lot wrong with the AH-1W and I’ve been meaning to make a thread about it
A clean AH-1W is slower than a fully armed AH-1F for a start
have they even fixed the gunpods permanently being part of the DM?
I mean
China has an AH-1W
Which should be better armed then the US one but here we are.
A lot actually could use these, but the range would be much lower due to the deceased Air speed.
Currently “don’t have a place” but I’d love to see these for all aircraft
Cluster bombs are ground mains nightmares, but I think they aren’t, I’d like to have them, but it will be a while.
This one I don’t know about.
Practically useless, unless in large volume.
Taiwan.
Republic of China
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In what way?
ROCAF AH-1W is modernized to AH1Z standards.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/auOQakPx9BWH
You know the US still uses the AH-1W? Do you really think they don’t use the AIM-9M and AGM-114K as well? The AGM-114A and AIM-9L are considered obsolete by the US…
Actually, the US AH-1W should be the superior one, aside from already having double the countermeasures, it should also have HIRSS as found on the AH-1Z, which the Taiwanese one did not get.
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It was retired in 2020 but you’re right that it would have used more modern munitions, the ROC still plans to keep theirs in service for longer but they haven’t seen them with any substantial upgrades, and I don’t think there’d be a plan to do so now that Taiwan also operates AH-64Es.
I’m not sure why Gaijin would think 4 mavericks would make the AH-1W stomp KA-50s and TY-90s but alright.
Because Gaijin knows any kind of high tier helis were shot down by TY90 is pretty silly, it is even worse than AIM92 now when you use that to against helis.
yet none of the U.S Helis have any fire and forget weapons. Maybe if you thought for a moment as to why this is?
Because Mavericks would arguably be a downgrade, 114Ls would be broken, and also the Russian and Chinese helis also lack their FnFs for the same reason we don’t have 114Ls.