Next SOVIET DCS Helicopter Wish List - Which of these soviet helicopters would you want to see next?

[D4n]

Which of these soviet helicopters would you want to see next?

Edited May 4, 2024 by D4n

[Silver_Dragon]

Mil Mi-4 Hound... ideal to Early / Med Cold War. a Mi-26 Halo has "problematic" and specialized ASW/Assault/EW Kamov will have little info available and no features on the core.

[Northstar98]

Difficult one, if I were to pick my top 3 from this list it would be

1. Mil Mi-6 - we already have 2 helicopters it would fit fairly well with, it's relevant for the Sinai, Syria and future Iraq and Afghanistan maps, it was fairly prolific (though not as many built as the Mi-4, nor the number of operators)
2. Mil Mi-4A/AV - prolific, staple helicopter of the mid-Cold War, would fit on many of our maps, but unfortunately is kinda lacking other units it would fit with.
3. Mil Mi-26

I would've been very interested in the Ka-27PL and to lesser extent the Ka-25BSh, but these helicopters are practically entirely dedicated to ASW and IMO ASW in DCS is frankly as good as absent. Heck, naval warfare as a whole in DCS is sorely lacking IMO and unfortunately I don't see it improving in a meaningful way within say, the next decade. Especially when you consider the amount of work needed for aerial and land warfare as it is and that the amount of functionality and content missing from naval warfer and ASW could easily justify an entire game.

Mil Mi-10 - I don't know, it feels perhaps too specialised and kinda lacking a practical purpose within DCS World (though not to the extent of the Ka-15). I think I'd rather have the Mil Mi-6 which is more relevant to DCS as it currently stands.

Ka-31 could be good, but I think it would make much more sense as an AI aircraft.

For the Ka-15 I'm not really interested - we lack Soviet air and naval assets from the period and it would largely be without a practical purpose in DCS, if we had a more comprehensive showing of Soviet helicopters, I might be more open to it, but seeing as we don't it's difficult for me to be interested in it.

 

As for Soviet aircraft not on this list, I think I'd be most interested in the following:

• Mi-8TV/TVK - an earlier version more applicable to the Cold War and the Soviet-Afghan War. The TVK incidentally has a 12.7 mm bow machine gun and 9M17 ATGMs, which could be more interesting.
• Mi-24V - quite similar to our current P, but replacing the GSh-30-2K with a turreted 12.7 mm YakB. Only really because it's a bit more prolific and iconic IMO. That said though our Mi-24P is missing features that would be perfectly accurate for it, which would also apply to the V: PKT door gunners, single-rack ATGMs, removable PZU, reduced-load S-8, L-166 (even as just a 3D model). I'd also include the Mi-24D here.
• Ka-29TB - while a naval helicopter, it's designed for assault and so is less affected by the issues of naval warfare.

[Jetguy06]

I voted for the Mi-26, but I would love to see the Mi-10 as well. I just think it would be interesting.

[Fear-Factor]

No one of the menitioned ones... maybe Mi-26 Halo but i dont see attm no use for it.

I would like to see/have the Mi-28 Havoc....

[Xeemix]

I love the MI-26 but the idea of having the Ka-27 with potentially the Moskva class helo carrier is just too much! 

 

[D4n]

Thanks for all the votes so far! Hoping that ED notices it.

Edited May 4, 2024 by D4n