In an update roughly half a year ago, the tech trees of nations like the USA, China, and the USSR received new, powerful helicopters equipped with more lethal munitions. In contrast, the tech trees of Germany, Sweden, Italy, and Israel have, to this day, not received helicopters or weapon loadouts of a similar calibre or capability.
While I acknowledge that recent updates have done a commendable job balancing the fixed-wing aircraft tech trees across all nations, this progress only highlights the severe imbalance currently plaguing the helicopter tech trees.
Therefore, I sincerely hope the developers will prioritize addressing this gap. I respectfully urge the addition of better standoff anti-ground munitions and new helicopters to these underpowered tech trees.
A concrete suggestion to achieve this would be to make the Spike NLOS missile (https://www.rafael.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Spike-nlos-eo-guided-stand-off-missile.pdf)available to the German and Israeli tech trees, and potentially even to the Italian and Swedish trees. I understand that these countries do not operate this specific weapon in real life. However, this is theoretically feasible, a principle the developers have cited before for implementing vehicles and weapons. Examples that come to mind are the KH-38MT on the Japanese Su-30MKM or certain configurations on the Chinese T-84.
In the logic the developers have previously established for game balance, assigning advanced munitions to helicopters of nations that donβt historically operate them is a reasonable and necessary step to bring parity to these tech trees.
Germany has confirmed the introduction of the new H145M helicopter into service, which can theoretically mount Spike NLOS. Furthermore, to counter the new DIRCM-equipped helicopters currently present in other tech trees, it can be fitted with smoke grenades to compensate for this disadvantage.
As the manufacturer of Spike NLOS, Israel has concrete evidence confirming that the AH-64D is capable of carrying Spike NLOS (Photos Of AH-64D Apache Armed With "Spike" Missiles Prove That The Weapon Is Operational For the Israeli Attack Helicopters - The Aviationist)
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Italy can get Spike ER2 on AH-129D or even better the newest AW249 with 16 of them.
Although all Spike missiles have shit speed anyway.