Would be decent but there would be better options in the US inventory and certainly on the foreign market, naval helicopters don’t often take damage, ruggedness really isn’t a factor as much as range and endurance here.
I’m not really sure why they’ve decided it’s worth the investment other than that aforementioned floatation gear, which eliminates other US helicopters, so maybe its filling that area for them, but really every naval helicopter should have floatation gear.
It also depends on them fitting the equipment, right now all its doing is dropping sonobuoys for other aircraft/vessels to monitor, it has no equipment to monitor them itself.
On the international market though Wildcat is filling the same niche, but doing literally everything better (in a Maritime environment) plus having a full ASW capability, rather than just manually dropping sonobuoys.
otherwise F-18C (Fin) and F-15J(M) would’ve gotten them too
the Tyhoons ans Gripens as well, they do perform well but not that well, especially the Gripens could use a Better weapon to be more competitive as it’s now fighting mostly Heavier, larger and faster Missile carriers
@Smin1080p_WT has there been any consideration to make the new SPAA systems/current ones like the S1 Pansir up to 12.7, to be on pair with the best planes ingame? specially these new ones are supposed to be one of the best anti airs out there, and having them fight 11.0 aircraft feels something kinda unfair… not to mention that having stuff like the ADATS at 11.7 and .3 br later things like SLAMRAAM feels a bit unfair br wise… thanks a lot!
If only gaijin would remember helicopters exist for long enough to add the wild cat.
They already added their singular helicopter addition for the next year or so with the Commanche. But still have yet to fix any of the issues with helicopters overall.
Honestly Heli PVE needs a massive rework. Cant play it with low tiers and Russian heli’s dominate high tier Heli PVE because their missiles arent agonizingly slow and they are generally fast
They need to fix the grind for them as well. Yeah sure you can use tanks to research them but the RP gain for it is still abysmal. Its why i gave up on helis after i finished the Russian tree way back in the day.
