Gazelles weapons and loadouts options.

[Stratos]

During the many years the Gazelle has seen service, it operated in multitude of nations, and many of them adapted the helicopter to their own needs, I'm wondering what will we see in the module as more weapons and options means more fun to the user and more varied and interesting missions can be created.

Lets see some of the mentioned adaptations and roles.

 

For example the Gazelle was used as a small assault chopper eliminating the doors so the helicopter can carry 3 to 4 armed soldiers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ED hinted a more prominent role of infantry in helo ops. Wouldn't be nice to see some soldiers on our Gazelles?

 

Now about french Gazelles, the french ALAT mounted the M621 20mm gun on the starboard side of their Gazelles with the ammo on the cargo compartment and used them in combat:

 

 

 

 

 

Now about the Serbians, they are using their Gazelles in a bit of A-A role, or at least carry Strela SAMS as self defense.

 

 

 

 

Seems the Serbians offered several options for their Soko build Gazelles. No idea If those were ever added to real choppers. And I see it more as a "what if" than anything else.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enjoy!

[Frosty]

How do you find all your information ?

[SilentGun]

How do you find all your information ?

 

My thoughts exactly...

[Stratos]

Everything is on Google guys. Why do you ask?

[Zibell]

Secret agent spy confirmed.

[cilli]

I wonder if they had ever considered to implement in the module the possibility to call for artillery strike.

So the helicopter could be used in a reconnaissance role, should be a nice add.

And also there's no need for modification to the look of the aircraft.

[fixen]

I wonder if they had ever considered to implement in the module the possibility to call for artillery strike.

So the helicopter could be used in a reconnaissance role, should be a nice add.

And also there's no need for modification to the look of the aircraft.

 

Yes, as a 10 kill streak....

 

Joking aside, you can kinda do that yourself with CA. But better implementation would be nice.

[cilli]

...you can kinda do that yourself with CA...

 

Yes, I’ve seen it in some videos...

 

But I mean use some other way than the F10 window, maybe a popup map, somewhat like the kneeboard, something that involve some map reading skills.

 

Using F10 to me seem like cheating.

[BaD CrC]

I wonder if they had ever considered to implement in the module the possibility to call for artillery strike.

So the helicopter could be used in a reconnaissance role, should be a nice add.

And also there's no need for modification to the look of the aircraft.

 

There is a new trigger coming with the Gazelle module (according to the latest interview of Pat01 on checksix) that will allow you to set a flag whenever a recce had been performed on a given target through the Viviane camera. This means that it should be dead easy in the ME to call for an artillery strike based on this recce flag.

[Rogue Trooper]

Sweet.

[rrohde]

There is a new trigger coming with the Gazelle module (according to the latest interview of Pat01 on checksix) that will allow you to set a flag whenever a recce had been performed on a given target through the Viviane camera. This means that it should be dead easy in the ME to call for an artillery strike based on this recce flag.

 

How is this done in the current Gazelle release version?

 

Thanks.

[BaD CrC]

Old news. This feature has been abandoned by Polychop just before they released the module as it turned out to be too complex to implement after all.

[Sryan]

Woah what missile is that on the Serbian Gazelle? Is that a Malyutka? That would a cool weapon to have since its MCLOS (Manual Command Line of Sight. Control stick activity commands the control surfaces on the missile). Though the missile would fit an Mi-2, Mi-8 or Mi-24 simulation more :P Maybe in collaboration with BST?

[BaD CrC]

There should be a mistral version available as a free upgrade this summer. The Mistral is the French equivalent of the Igla or the Stinger.

[Dudikoff]

Woah what missile is that on the Serbian Gazelle? Is that a Malyutka? That would a cool weapon to have since its MCLOS (Manual Command Line of Sight. Control stick activity commands the control surfaces on the missile).

 

It uses the later SACLOS variant.