What is your preferred combat helicopter and why??

[- Piloto da Morte -]

ka-50

Mi-24 Hind

Ah-64A Apache

Ah-64D Apache

AH-1 Cobra

Mi-28 Havok

UH-1 'Huey'

KA-52 Alligator

OH-58D Kiowa Warrior

Comanche

 

OTHERS...???

 

i like of the Apache to atack at night and day... and the rotary 30mm :)

[Cosmonaut]

Cobra :thumbup:

 

I like the sound of the Huey engine although I don't know if it actually uses the same engine anymore but from the ones I've heard it sounds pretty cool anyway. Also I like skids on a chopper, for some reason it looks better to me... As you can see my decision is based purely on what matters in an attack helicopter, sound and looks ;)

[adi-Michael]

Ah-64D Apache

[-sulan-]

Ka-50, and it was even before this sim I swear :) I allways liked it because of it's rotors, and because it looks so "russian". Something about russian military aviation that looks very cool to me :D

 

Huey is also a favourite!

[airea]

Comanche would be nice:)

 

Yeah yeah I know, it is classified, it is still not in use...:)

[GGTharos]

It will never be in use.

[thereminqblank]

Hind, Cobra, Ka-50, both Apaches - pretty much because they look cool

[Boberro]

Of course Ka-50\52. Beautiful look and Vikhrs with TV ^^ :D

[-akyla-]

Ka-50. Because of its ejector seat, vikhrs, rotors, single seat, powerful gun.:)

[Doggy]

KA-50 Hokum, that's why I'm here. It was my very first "big" scale paper-model... many years ago :)

[Woodstock]

AH-64D Apache Longbow

 

I loved Jane´s Longbow and Longbow 2, logged many many hours in those two and especially enjoyed human pilot and gunner with a friend via LAN.

[Aeroscout]

Where's the UH-60? (actually, the seahawk's even cooler. ASW!)

 

Ya, Comanche's pretty cool, but...

[jagheterjan]

MH-60 PaveHawk & MH-53 PaveLow... I'd love to take these for a CSAR ride in DCS some day in the future. Night-time NOE flying for miles on end and then meeting a Herc for A2A refuelling during the early dawn... :drool:

[Yeniceri]

T-129 Mangusta all the way :)

[159th_Viper]

Super-Hind!

 

Why - Just Look at the Beast :D

 

 

 

[SUBS17]

AH64D combat proven and an absoulte killing machine:thumbup:, also LB2 used to rock back in the day.

[Legolasindar]

AH-64D Apache Longbow

[Guest Frenchy702]

Ka-50... and lynx AH/MK 7 with TOW... THE record setter..;)

 

 

 

Junglie till I die

[Mugatu]

Tiger, super quiet, quick, agile, modern avionics, hellfire, mistral, trigate, spike-er, nose mounted 30mm cannon, agile, light 6800kg, networked, 2 crew, execellent sensors roof or mast mounted, ir/tv laser, modern ews, nice mechanical design of the rotor head, ...

 

and

 

biased :)

[jonob66]

Lynx, fastest chopper ever!! :thumbup:

[Mugatu]

^^^

 

How fast?

[RedTiger]

Cobra.

 

Looks tough and mean.

[PoleCat]

Was the AH-64 longbow. Is now the KA-50 Black Shark. Ask me again when DCS releases the AH-64 module and I will no doubt come full circle again.:matrix:

 

Out

[- Piloto da Morte -]

we will see :)

[Feuerfalke]

That is not easy to answer.

 

From the pure looks the Mi-24D Hind. As most inventions from the Russian side, it's simple, basic, design for field-use and deadly.

 

Overall I prefer the AH-46 (especially the Longbow), though. A great design and comparing numbers of units and mission successes to losses in a terrain with extremely little cover at all, the AH-64 has nothing else to demonstrate, IMHO.

 

In LB2 I prefered the Blackhawk and the Kiowa, though.

 

A small sidenote to the "fasted Helo" - during my time in the Germany navy we lost 4 or 5 Lynx, thank God with no crew losses. Best was during a mission in the Med. The Pilot had to train a landing with one turbine and deactivated the Engine No1 just before beginning the approach. When he almost touched down the other engine failed and sent the Helo to water. For some odd reason it stayed above the surface, the crew escaped unharmed and the frigate turned to save them and the Helo. As they got closer they minimally touched the helo and it instantly vanished in the sea. The Captain laughed out and said "Scratch another one". It was the 3rd on this mission....:doh: