Italian Ab 205

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The Italian AB 205 is the 7.7 BR Italian helicopter.

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Currently it sits at 7.7 which is the lowest BR you can reasonably place one a Helicopter however despite this the vehicle remains completely useless due to its terrible loadout receiving only 14 FFAR missiles, with no ccip for them. I think we all know how that can make aiming a pain with such a small amount of them not to mention the complete lack of damage they do often just failing to hurt the target at all. Its backup weapon is two 7.62mm machine guns which while cool for making fancy edits and photoshoots isn’t very good from a gameplay standpoint. I’m kind of curious if there is any way this helicopter could be buffed perhaps giving it more FFAR rockets in exchange for removing the guns like the Japanese Huey has.

My Personal Idea would be to remove this helicopter and instead use the A.109EOA-2.

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This vehicle sits at 8.7 which wouldn’t make it an unreasonably high BR for a starting helicopter, Important to note I only chose this one over the MI-24D because its Italian, and I thought it make more sense for your first Italian Helicopter to actually be Italian it would just sit before the MI-24D Instead of after it.

But if anyone has other suggestions or Ideas for Italy’s starting heli or how the tree is structured let me know.

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the best Ka-50/52 killer back in the day
used it to grind the A-109 before they added the ability to grind with tanks

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It should actually be able to carry 19 rockets launchers, iirc it’s already been reported.
Although imo such utility helicopters need active scouting to have at least some value on the battlefield.

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It is funny to catch other helicopters unaware with this thing although its not very useful and I don’t think I’ve ever pulled it off successfully since typically 7.62 tickles them and then they proceed to remove you from the air.

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I’d rather helicopters not have scouting that just seems like a bad idea.

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before they added spawn markers for heli pads it used to be good
7.62 atleast from my memory was good enough to pen the cockpit sides and rockets if you knew how to aim could work aswell

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Idk Helicopter are just in that weird state now where you are either immortal or a stale leaf, 7.62 for the most part against other helicopters just kind of tickles them.

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Not all helicopters, only utility ones, don’t see any issues with that especially since there are already drones which can scout.

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I don’t want drones to be able to scout and I don’t want heli’s too either it just seems terrible.