SuperTimo wrote:true Aircraft do have an OTT endurence time, howeve aircraft are not overpowerd agaisnt infantry infantry are just stupid. Often when im flying infantry sit on top of the bunkers in attempt to shot other infantry i presume, infantry on top of a largeflat roof are easy to hit. get your arses into cover. Also on ridges and stuff hit prone and try and bunker down behind the ridge, infantry are hard to spot from jets, the long distance and high speed makes this so, stay prone and you will be harder to spot. If an aircraft is called in to do a strafing run with an accurate marker peg it. yes infantry are vunerable to aircraft but this is a reality mod. IRL infantry arnt the super human ultra 1337 soldiers they think they should be in PR. Getting harresed by an A-10 call an AAV in or a mig. Its shot down? you should have told him about that F-16 on his tail.
Before more aircraft fans get riled from misunderstanding my posts. Please read a few pages back. I am not suggesting anything wrong with their offensive power. I am not suggesting they get shot down.
Yes planes have survived remarkably well. 747's can fly on just one engine, A10's with only one engine, F15's with one wing. Yes. I am not denying that. Please try to understand that.
The point of the wing missing from that F15 is that it RTB'd. Thats the objective I am trying to convey. IT RTB'd. THe Law of Murphy isnt quite persistent enough to flyers imho. Yes there is lag. Yes shit happens. But not infantry related as yet.
Flyers today dont get shot down by infantry only because Aircraft operate at a much higher altitude. Way beyond small arms. But when the F15 flies NOE do you really think they are immune to ground fire? Are you saying that pilots ignore small arms threats?
During Operation Anaconda Apache Pilots were being hit with 12.7mm dshk's and one even had its glass cockpit shattered (that cockpit is supposed to be immune to 20mm calibre) AH-64 Apache
I'm not saying that the apache's vulnerable. I'm saying. Shit happens. Especially in a fight. I say its not enough.
Try reading "Not a good day to Die" by Sean Naylor. Pg 218. Apache Team 1. They got severely damaged by Kalashnikovs,RPG bursts and machine gun fire.
Quote from the book "a single bullet entered the electronics bay and sliced neatly through sixty wires ziptied together in a bundle as thick as a mans wrist, knocking out the weapons and target acquisition systems. The pilots could still fly the aircraft but were unable to shoot back at the enemy." .