I don’t get it, why is the Cheyenne at 9.7, it’s almost impossible to survive even if you try really hard, IR missiles can lock it through trees, if you are closer that 2km tanks routinely one shots you, light tanks have trackers and are basically AA, you have no countermeasures against Mistrals, Stingers and Strealas that one taps you from 6km away, mean while you have rockets that are spaced so whide you can’t hit a tank with a center aim from kms away, TOWs that take so long that you get shot down way before they hit its target, and you can’t manuvere in a bop-up attack. It’s almost impossible to get a better than 1to1 score no matter how hard you try because everybody is faster and has much longer range than you and better orientation. The only workable tactic is hit and run with stand of distances of multiple km’s.
The Cheyenne is a 8.7 helicopter at 9.7 currently. Its gun CCIP dosen’t work because of a known bug, it can’t stop going straight, it looses it target track with the smallest of rolls. Rear aspect IR missiles can lock it from the front, I don’t get the justification for such a high BR with it’s current state. It’s adversaries have the advantage on all fronts.
The Cheyenne can’t target fast enough, can’t sneak into position can’t get away fast enough, dosen’t get any warning and can’t flare or chaff missiles.
Meanwhile it is out ranged 30-300 percent. Other 9.7 helicopters have IR missiles, Radar aided mistrals are 9.3 and completely outranges you.
The AH-1F which also sits at 9.7 and also has FLIR and TOWs are much better suited to sneak around and bop-up and it has IRCM and RWR. It’s a much better platform to employ those features
The Cheyenne currently is just a giant AH-1G that relies on RNG luck to surprise and hit the first stationary tank it’s sees and if somebody spawned IR equipped AA then it’s gg well played. There was a happy medium with helicopters at 9.7 prior to the Cheyenne and IR range changes but now it has just reversed the KA-50 helicopter problem, now the AA’s/light vehicles/tanks/aircraft that one shots you and you can’t skill your way out of it.
The balance needs to change or the Cheyenne needs to go down in BR at least until the bugs are fixed and it can have a propper flight model.