Helicopters- WP smoke rockets and Huey gunner positions

[maniac1031]

Okay so I searched threw every one of the suggested threads for these and didn't find any thing so if they have already been suggested I'm sorry. First are we going to see cobras with the ability to deploy long smoke screens to cover the lz for the Hueys, is that even possible? And are we going to see the attack Huey's having a gunner position that controls a m129 grenade launcher?





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[Trognar]

I was going to post that the Cobra wasnt around at that time, but then I got smart and looked it up. And they were around, more in the mid 60's and above in the war. Their first flight was 1965. And the smoke screen should be possible because in Vanilla BF2, Tanks and APC's have the abbility to pop smoke. I dont know if it could be transfered to a helicopter though. And even then I dont know about the smoke ever being deployed like that.

[XXLpeanuts]

a cooler thing to have would be smoke borne artillery or mortars, is this possable in BF2 engine?

[mezlay2]

a cooler thing to have would be smoke borne artillery or mortars, is this possable in BF2 engine?

yes that is possible

[Dev1200]

IIRC mortars will has it.

[Stoickk]

At the risk of reviving an old thread, I think I understand what the OP was talking about, and I like the idea.

I think that the OP was referring to the M156 White Phosphorus Smoke Marker 2.75 in rocket.

This article is an overview of the air launched 2.75 in rocket system. About halfway down the page you will find the listing for the M156.

In game, this could be used for concealment of an LZ by deploying smoke at range. This could also be used as a target designation system, where an observation chopper fires a marker rocket at an area for follow on fire from another weapons platform, either a fixed wing strike, or gunship support for example.

At any rate, while the original post did not seem clear to me, I really like the idea, and think it has some merit. I wanted to add this information to further clarify.

[ytman]

Biggest Issue could be server side lag as a result of calculating all the smoke in an area. If this isn't an issue I do like the idea and it could provide for some interesting strategies.

[Alex6714]

We tried some WP rockets once, didn?t test on a full server with millions of them but they worked really well for marking attacks for other aircraft or could do for smokescreen.

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[Nathanual Nolan]

this could be totaly bogas to this thread but could we possibly shove some speakers on the Trns Hueys in vietnam mod and have a button that plays ride of the valkryies and it can be heard by the vietcong team when we fly in ????????

[Tarranauha200]

This is project reality: Vietnam, not project apocalypse now.

Just use 1 channel mumble and ask permission from admins to play music.

[Nathanual Nolan]

This is project reality: Vietnam, not project apocalypse now.

Just use 1 channel mumble and ask permission from admins to play music.

But it would be so awsome lol BF2 PR has radio chatter in the humvee and a taliban radio in the cars so y cant the huey just have some extra detail and have the speakers lol