Yep and attackers are already not the funniest things to use in arb, helis would be even worse
fixed wing Cas around 9.3 is pretty pointless, even without guided missiles just radar guided cannon spaa can easily defeat or force you to stay away because all you have is usually dumb ordnance or at most MCLOS missiles .Wait until you get agms or laser guided weapons you can use outside 5km, and make sure to stay at that distance from the battlefield and no ty90 will reach you.
I have for example played a ton of both A-10s at 10.3 and 10.7 and have never even once had to deal with a Chinese helo or even a manpads spaa
fwiw the AH-1Fs in the SEAD event were the most proactive in doing the objective, I don’t see them working great in the current state of Air RB, they’d be more suited to the style of Objective based missions/Enduring Confrontation.
The biggest concern I would have is any Helo vs Helo interaction with top tiers, e.g. the Mi-28NM is almost untouchable to any IR AAM/ATGM, outranges everything with Air Proxy Vikhrs and will be even worse to face with other Helis when it has LMUR. Tiger UHT vs anything with LDIRCM is just funny to think about, it can only run or ram.
Better off remaking a PvP mode than putting them in with fixed wings, sure some could work but they’ll be sitting ducks against certain aircraft & good players, especially not helped when some don’t carry armament to defend themselves.
A reworked PvP mode could honestly work & it’s daft that the devs never really bother to do it outside the original version. It also didn’t help that the following PvPvE EC mode was a mess (ohh boy time to fly my huey an get nuked by a Ka-50 across the map).
An now that separate BR’s are finally a thing, I would’ve thought they’d have tried making a new mode with separated BR’s liike every standard mode yet here we unfortunately are.
Bring them to ARB.
Adapt this for heli’s