AI Ka-27 made out of solid armor?

[Diesel_Thunder]

I have a mission I created where I can practice various weapons with the A-10C (both Warthog and Tank Killer), with a variety of ground targets, a ship, and an orbiting Ka-27.

 

Lately I've noticed that the Ka-27 is rather difficult to shoot down, and unless the rotors are destroyed and it crashes, it will continue flying. In my mission, I cold start and take off from Kobuleti, and have a short flight to the abandoned airfield to the south along the coastline. That is where most of my practice targets are, plus the orbiting helo. When my target helo takes damage, but is still able to fly, it will turn south and try to land at Batumi (I don't have it scripted or programmed to do that).

 

So last night, I tried to shoot it down and failed. I then proceeded to see what it takes to destroy it. The -27 took two AIM-9M hits and kept going, and it proceeded to Batumi. I took care of the remaining ground targets and then went to finish off the helo, which had just landed. I gave it several passes of 30mm combat mix, and only managed to set it on fire. Also came around and fired a pair of MK-151 APKWS rockets into it. Still no kill. Out of mild annoyance that this stupid helo still isn't dead and being Winchester, I flew back to Kobuleti and re-armed. This time I brought a GBU-10 and a pair of GBU-12's to the party. I took off and flew up to 17k feet, and found my target. 2,000 lbs of laser guided high explosives later, and I finally have a destroyed Ka-27.

 

The post mission log registered the bomb hit, but the final demise of the Ka-27 was logged as crashed, and not destroyed like my other targets. I didn't keep the track as the mission ran long, but I am sure I could duplicate this if a track is needed.

 

In summary, the Ka-27 took all the following in order to be destroyed:

• Two AIM-9M hits
• Multiple strafing runs with 30mm CM
• A pair of Mk-151 APKWS rockets
• GBU-10

 

[Flappie]

I cannot reproduce your issue with the latest OB. My first AIM-9 left her engines on fire. The second one destroyed her.

Ka-27_destroyed_by_2_AIM-9.trk Ka-27_destroyed_by_Shilkas.trk

[Diesel_Thunder]

@Flappie

 

My results are the same now in the current OB. First AIM-9 set it on fire and it begun a descent. The second one splashed it, nothing catastrophic, but it did enter death spiral and crashed. The kill was registered after impact of the second AIM-9 and well before it augered in.

 

Certainly didn't take a GBU-10 to finish it off this time

Edited June 1, 2021 by Diesel_Thunder