An airliner other than offering from boeing as of more recently is a lot stronger built than a helicopter.
I can see significant damage to the gearbox from such a jolt at minimum
canadian ADATS is so ass i take the stormer AD to top tier until we get skysabre
I’ve had Stingers and Type 91s fail to lock helis at <1.5km, glad the AD has a gun put it that way. Though typically lock ranges are at max 3km, realistically 2.5km for helicopters. For contrast I can reliably lock aircraft at 4-6km map dependant.
There’s a trick the lav can do where the player fires a hydra, fires a stinger at the rocket, then as the rocket burns out the stinger locks the nearest target to where the hydra was. Kinda like the inverse to the rockets-as-flares trick one can pull in flareless aircraft.
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Sarcasm aside, military helicopters are designed to withstand being shot at to at least some degree.
I can’t - gearboxes are generally over-engineered - you’d have to bring the whole rotating assembly to an instantaneous stop to do any significant damage to the gearbox, and that isn’t going to happen short of hitting the ground while still under power. (I’ve seen the results of that too)
Blades themselves are designed to withstand impact even in light civil helicopters, and IMO the more likely result of a blade strike is “some damage” to the blade, and the RPAS being wrecked.
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Off to a great start, some whiner starts on about CAS
Is it a gameplay mechanic that should be present? No.
What a joke.
Heeeey I have just the thing for ya : D
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IRL helicopter crews can carry portable jamming devices, if I recall correctly. Gaijin could look into that
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Well… helis go a few hundret kmh faster then drones usualy go… so thats that. And also without a warhead you would need to hit the rotors and then u need to have a heavy drone to do dmg wich again will be a slow drone.
Like in WT… the drones are slow but kinda heavy. Getting a Heli kill with these drones is actually pretty hard to do and often a waste of valuable time u spend trying.
wow you fly helicopter soo well
Well, scout drone in war thunder is ZALA 421-16EM
So it weights just under 2kg. It could cause some damage to helo, depending what and where it will hit, main blades, I doubt it would drop it instant like it does, but tail rotor doesnt need big damage, so I would assume hitting tail would be more efficient.
And using Orion or Predator would cause total damage in blades…
Predator is over 500Kg empty, so I would assume Orion is somewhere quite near that
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All this reasoning on realism are always fun to read warthunder is not realistic its a game ad so it should balanced as such. Hitting an heli with a drone is not easy sayin g otherwise is pure cope an so you should be rewarded with a kill (this also remove the crew lock), the same should be with any cannon just because it feal miserable to strike an heli/ plane with a 120 and only get a critical hit (realistic goblin be like but actualy a uranium penetrator hitting that part hit noting so no kill) dont care is not fun, the same can be sayed to hitting someone with a bomb just to recive an hitmarker caused by random geometry of the map
So you say, hitting helo or a plain with apfsd should always score a kill?
Why should it? There is no explosive filler in dart. It’s not 120mm diameter, it’s a long 2-3cm wide stick of doom not boom , so it really needs to hit some critical components, or pilot to be 100% quaranteed kill.
This is where example abrams crew uses that multipurpose round, to deal with helos.
And yes, I’m actually against that scout drone vs helo in WT , or make it that you need to hit tail rotor for disabling the helo.
Does it fell god to center mas hit an heli/ plane with a main gun and not kill it just ask you this question?
Holy gamer vid.
Yeah drones crashing you is a real thing, some people even send them over into heli spawns which is even worse considering I’ve been crashed upon barely taking off and starting to gain speed.
Also this topic got derailed by ground purists really fast didn’t it
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Lol spawncamped by kamikaze UAV
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I usually have little sympathy however it’s clear you are putting in a lot of effort simply to be put to an end by someone trolling you with a drone with next to no effort required.
Regardless it’s a very real strat to deal with a very real problem, so if you want to nerf this then you must also in some way nerf helicopters to make up for the spike in efficiency they will receive.
You compare bird with drone don’t make any sense because is like cutting meat with chainsaw.
In real battle fpv drone hit the helicopter and make it crash
Usually those fvp drones has explosives with em…
And like in that news, it didnt crash immediately, like those do in wt
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WT is game vs real life unless Gaijin decide to make helicopter immune against scout drones.
Because Helis are doing so great rn…
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