ExeTick wrote:I found a picture of a MTLB AA (attachment) I thought that one would be a good editon to MEC AA vehicles. and for some reason I think they have more versions of these then Gopher Rocket AA.
second thing I saw was half of this AA is already done. all that have to be is AA cannon with shields and where its placed. MTLB with 7.62 machinegun is already ingame.
If you re-read the sticky-threads up top, you will see that we do not take suggestions for equipment on factions for which we have advisers. But since the MEC is fictitious, I'll let this slide.
The MT-LB with deck-mounted ZU-23-2 was a jury-rigged conversion by the Saddam era Iraqi Army. It's not something that was built by the manufacturer, so I doubt there are that many of them still around, much less ones
outside of Iraq in battle-ready condition (war trophies). The gunner sits on top of it, pretty much fully exposed, even on the version with the roof (which limits the elevation). The Iraqis had a couple of unique variants of the MT-LB that never got out of prototype stage; this might have been one of them.
"For some reason" isn't reason enough.
Again, the MEC are a fictional faction, anyway. What they have or have more of is completely arbitrary on our part.
ExeTick wrote:second thought was if it would be possible to have a second version of Cas huey. now it have 14 rockets but I think a second version of it would be sweeet
second version would be like the kiowa on karbala. 7 rockets and a machinegun. but instead of having a 50cal machinegun it would have minigun from blackhawk. (dont know how realistic that is) but I have seen UH1 helicopters with miniguns on its side.
Miniguns (and other guns) on the UH-1N are operated by the crew chiefs/door gunners. They do not get mounted in place of rocket pod; the weapons mount system has positions for rocket pods or other weapons and two pintles for guns. Theoretically, the miniguns are able to fired by one of the pilots from the fixed, forward position, but this information comes from a Marine Huey crew-chief who used to frequent the forum.
The range of motion was full foreward and 90degrees aft. The guns were never fired in the fixed foreward position. The gun mounts were handled roughly and the electrical attachments were always broken.
The reason we never fired the GAU-17 in the fixed fwd position is that the cannon plug on the DAS mount was ALWAYS broken by someone stepping on it. I think my pilots only fired it once fwd, but it was cause the other crewchief held the gun fwd.
