Italian helicopters

Is this really how the grind of Italian helicopters in War Thunder is supposed to look like?

You start with a pretty good helicopter, the Hungarian Mi 24, which requires 180k research points, it’s not that bad, you can play PvE helicopter battles and get pretty good results, but later it gets worse. The next helicopter is the A.109, which wasn’t even created for military purposes, it was used to transport passengers (from what I’ve read).

Despite this, the A.109 helicopter is in the game and to get it you have to grind for a few days. Is it worth it?

While the Mi-24 is bearable, the A.109 is unplayable. It may be good for realistic tank battles with 4 improved TOW missiles, but is it worth 400k research points. Even if I played it in PvE helicopter battles, I would be the least effective of the entire team, because with x28 Mighty Mouse missiles I can’t even destroy 3 tanks. If by some miracle I manage to get another helicopter it will be another Mi 24, which has some better features than its predecessor but nothing else stands out. I wonder if this is developer laziness or if there are simply no other Italian helicopters that would complete the tree. And finally there are 2 helicopters that I hope will be worth all this grind. I would like to hear suggestions from other players what they think about it and if this game needs some severe changes to the Italian helicopter tree or PvE battles.

Italian helicopters TT suffers from low level of attention from devs, it could get way more machines from Agusta, while Hungarian Hinds could have its own line reinforced with Romanian IAR helicopters.
Helicopters grind is in general frustrating, you can easily get them just using tanks, but spading is long and boring. PVE takes too much time and reward is not worth it, you can try spading helies in ground assault, although it’s team dependent.
Spaded A.109EOA-2 is pretty good, since it has target tracking mechanic now.

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yeah, my grind is almost over, I need 110k more research points to unlock A.109EOA-2, I’m just worried about what’s next. I have to grind 4 days again to get another Hungarian Mi-24