New helicopter armor systems

With the arrival of the RAH-66 and its ‘full fuselage armor’ will we see more armor that’s accurate to other helicopters, or will this just be US only thing to get their hand held because it’s a premium helicopter.

Examples of other armored helicopters include:

Ka-50 with titanium armor covering all important systems, including the Engines, Navigation, and Pilot area, capable of stopping 12.7x108 in direct 0° impact, and 23mm shell fragments.

Mi-24, with a full set of titanium armor about the pilot and weapon operator station, as well as 12.7mm round protective front glass, the Mi-24, also well known as the ‘flying BMP’ or in some cases, just straight up ‘flying tank’ it’s an absolute armor monster. It also includes titanium armor about the infantry compartment, engines, and fuel tanks, meaning that this currently slow and heavy beast will actually get protection while being slow and heavy, instead of simply being slow, heavy, unmanageable and easily 1 shot.

(The AH-64 will bed included soon)

another unrelated complaint is APFSDS or solid shots and even APHE rounds taking down these hells, a single hit of a round to the fuselage section, even a hit on ‘major’ frame strut won’t instantly rip the tail off, in fact, it would do nothing but, well, leave a small pin-hole in the fuselage, this leads to no issues with the helicopter, and would make the damage models for all helicopters, and even for airplanes as well, much more realistic.

However, none of these outcome lead to the tail being blown clean out, or the central power shaft being taken out, it’s just so unrealistic gaijin, please just fix it for the love of god, everyone will thank you for it, especially air players.

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I really hope they implement other helicopter outer armor too as this would mean they will finally spall properly when hit with munitions like apfsds or any other solid shot, also overpressure could be made to work with it added

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APFSDS against a couple mm of titanium will have virtually no spall though. Also, overpressure doesn’t work with aircraft because the pilot will just die from the shockwave…

I can just tell by your wording that you hate helicopters and think they are ratty.

  1. Better than nothing we have right now
  2. Shockwave is part of overpressure and overpressure does work (shockwave is not properly implemented if at all so most work is overpressure), if not, he-vt wouldn’t dmg cas at all, its just heavily nerfed compared to irl, especially if it was a direct hit on the air vehicle
  3. I enjoy helicopters and want them to be more realistic, not a blatant advantage due to poor modeling and game mechanics
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I remember a year or so ago, if you got hit by any sub-caliber shell, even if it was a 30mm APDS shell your helicopter would just explode