Anyone flying the MI-35m/24v is wondering “Snail, where are my 9M120-1’s ???”
The Mi-35M is equipped with the OPS-24N/GOES-342 system, which is the only optical guidance station on all versions of the aircraft. This system is explicitly designed to provide laser designation for the 9M120-1 (Ataka-M) missile. Therefore, the helicopter is technically capable of using the 9M120-1, and its omission in-game is an oversight.
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The older OPS-23 system (on the Mi-24V) also used a laser designator for the 9M120-1.
Unless you can prove that the heli was never flown without carrying the 9m120-1, then the “not historically accurate” claim is false.
It will probably get them in the future as they usually do.
clearly you misunderstood.
Your title says “not historically accurate”
right, because the 9m120-1’s aren’t available on these helis in game when they should have been included already.
And for that to not be historically accurate, it would have to be the case that the heli always carried the weapon in every sortie.
If there was even one time where it didnt carry it, then it historically could not carry it too.