Ka-50 field service and support

[KosPilot]

Currently we can only refuel and rearm at a FARP with relevant services or an airport.

As with FARP services/structures, I would like to have dedicated support vehicles that allow me to rearm and refuel in the field.

Although the primary user allegedly is/was the Russian Air Force, there must have been plans for collaboration between Army and Air Force to allow basic field services without the need for a dedicated landing site. This is a helicopter, and a helicopter can land anywhere, you know!

To my opinion, it is strange that in DCS these basic services cannot be rendered at any location suited for rendezvous between supply vehicles and Ka-50.

Unleash the Ka-50!

Edited August 13, 2012 by KosPilot

[Shein]

I've never heard of such a thing, does that go on in real life?

 

Regardless, the KA-50 was designed by a communist country... air force? army? share and share alike! ;)

[Jona33]

I've never heard of such a thing, does that go on in real life?

 

Regardless, the KA-50 was designed by a communist country... air force? army? share and share alike! ;)

 

Depends how urgent it is. Landing at a improvised base sounds entirely likely. Army and Air force working together, nah. Never happen. :D

[TurboHog]

A FARP is already the field actually. It is as forward as it gets for helicopters, VTOL and STOL afaik.

[Bushmanni]

DCS FARP is ridiculously big and visible. While it may be realistic for the kind of FARP where choppers stay when pilots sleep or plan missions, there's also a need for plain refueling and arming point that has only few guys with fuel and ammo trucks or maybe only pallets and nothing else. You usually have a bigger base farther from the enemy where you keep sleeping quarters, headquarters, field maintenance facilities, etc. Then you may have, depending on the situation, some smaller refueling and arming points with minimum personnel and equipment to provide more ammo and weapons to keep the chopper from flying back to base and waste time, fuel and pilot flying time. In a high intensity conflict you would have these mini FARPs randomly scattered near the front lines and reqularly shifting positions to stay safe from enemy observation and artillery or airstrikes. It could be a patch of road with trucks hiding in a forest beside the road. Chopper lands on the road, trucks move to the chopper, chopper is re-fueled and -armed and takes off and returns back to its mission. In a low intensity conflict (like Afghanistan) you might use these to support some big ops or remote areas where you temporarily need attack helicopter support and can't afford long flight times to and from the main base.

[WildBillKelsoe]

Wish Kamova had an airborne refueling platform. For the KA-50, I mean..

[KosPilot]

A FARP is already the field actually. It is as forward as it gets for helicopters, VTOL and STOL afaik.

 

I do not agree:

"We have a fuel truck full of fuel and a fully operational helicopter standing here side by side, but I cannot refuel the helicopter 'cause the FARP got bombed!" DOH!! :doh: :mad:

[BIGNEWY]

also want to chip in

 

improved FARP in this thread in the wish list area for sometime now http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=86406

 

we need a small less conspicuous FARP that can be deployed behind enemy lines

 

 

 

What about accommodating the Harrier AV-8b when it comes to DCS? with its VTOL and field capabilities.

[KosPilot]

I will have the Harrier, FARP or otherwise! ;)

[msalama]

...at any location suited for rendezvous between supply vehicles and Ka-50.

 

:thumbup:

 

+1