Isnt the AH-6 protected from heat seeking by infrared suppresors?

[unrealalex]

I've read that it's a "survivability option" for the AH-6 to have infrared suppressors that protect it against heat seeking missiles. Do we know how many of them actually have it? Is it more realistic to have the AH-6 without these infrared suppressors or with them?

[unrealalex]

Wait, it was actually realistic to have SAMs not lock onto them? Who'd have thought...

Are you talking about armed assault or something? Because in PR they do get locked on

[master of the templars]

in an earlier version of PR you couldn't lock onto them i believe.

[Waaah_Wah]

From what i understand, not all AA's in PR are heat seeking...

[unrealalex]

bump can any devs weigh in on this?

[PeterLorre]

It will throw off the balance.

[Hotrod525]

Little Bird, like any other helicopter, produce alot of heat. You're sure you're "infrared suppressor" is not in fact a Disco ball that distract heat seaking missile ? Cause from Little Bird to Super Stalion, most of the military aircraft carry one.

[Alex6714]

That exhaust also reduces heat signature, but I am not sure how much.

[Drav]

Pirate X should know.....

[xatu miller]

Little Bird, like any other helicopter, produce alot of heat. You're sure you're "infrared suppressor" is not in fact a Disco ball that distract heat seaking missile ? Cause from Little Bird to Super Stalion, most of the military aircraft carry one.

oh no thats not the infared supressor... what this picture shows is like a "lock on detector" it just alarms you when a aa is locking you...

the thing with ah-6 is that its not fully protected from heat seeking... you still can get a lock on it but it would just take u longer because there is less heat around it. The thing that does that has a skull painted on it(on the pic)


a good change that could be made to the ah-6 would be just to take longer for aa's to lock it

[Hotrod525]

oh no thats not the infared supressor... what this picture shows is like a "lock on detector" it just alarms you when a aa is locking you...

the thing with ah-6 is that its not fully protected from heat seeking... you still can get a lock on it but it would just take u longer because there is less heat around it. The thing that does that has a skull painted on it(on the pic)

A Disco Ball is an active electronic counter measure that blind infrared seeking head. The exhaust cooler you seen is on Apache only, Little Bird does not have it. They can have one, but i think U.S.Army decide against it.

[Eddie Baker]

They can have one, but i think U.S.Army decide against it.

Doubt it. It's something they need and it's in the budget estimate for 2009.

http://www.defenselink.mil/comptroller/ ... SSOCOM.pdf