Possible MEC/China Chopper

00SoldierofFortune00 · Post by **00SoldierofFortune00** » 2006-05-06 17:59

This is a screenshot of a vehicle from Armored Fury. I don't know what the vehicle is called exactly, but how about this as a way of the MEC or China combating the little bird without having to use their bulky transport chopper or the attack chopper?

Dark Ewok · Post by **Dark Ewok** » 2006-05-06 18:04

French design called the Dauphin. License built by China I think.

trogdor1289 · Post by **trogdor1289** » 2006-05-06 18:43

Or you could use the PLA one.

00SoldierofFortune00 · Post by **00SoldierofFortune00** » 2006-05-06 18:50

Link doesn't work?

Eddie Baker · Post by **Eddie Baker** » 2006-05-06 19:10

Dark Ewok wrote:French design called the Dauphin. License built by China I think.

Nope, that's not the Dauphin 365/Panther 565 (Chinese Z-9/WZ-9 Haitun), that looks a bit different.

It looks like a Eurocopter EC 635, which was intended to replace the BO 105, but I haven't heard much about how that is going. So far I think Jordan has been the only buyer

The PLA one Trogdor shows is a Eurocopter Squirrel/Fennec, produced by China as the Z-11/WZ-11

Dark Ewok · Post by **Dark Ewok** » 2006-05-06 19:17

I stand corrected. But they do look a bit similar

six7 · Post by **six7** » 2006-05-06 19:19

since jordan bought the Eurocopeter, maybe we could give it to the MEC? EJOD fanboys want new toys! (the tournament is starting to become unfair) Such a beautiful chopper...

Eddie Baker · Post by **Eddie Baker** » 2006-05-06 19:20

Dark Ewok wrote:I stand corrected. But they do look a bit similar

Yeah, the "fenestron" tail-rotor is a signature of Aerospatiale / Eurocopter products.

SoldierofFortune, not every weapon is going to have an exact equivalent on every team. We are including the Z-9/WZ-9 for China, though.

http://realitymod.com/forum/t4813-chine ... opter.html

six7 wrote:since jordan bought the Eurocopeter, maybe we could give it to the MEC? EJOD fanboys want new toys! (the tournament is starting to become unfair) Such a beautiful chopper...

The MEC and PLA are getting new toys, rest assured. We have been considering the Gazelle and/or BO 105 for the MEC, since both airframes are popular in the Middle East (and widely proliferated elsewhere). And since the UK also uses the Gazelle it means we can use the base model for two factions.

Top_Cat_AxJnAt · Post by **Top_Cat_AxJnAt** » 2006-05-06 19:34

why dont they make the average chopper hit 200 mph, and really small ones hit 250 mph plus. Is it becoase it would be fairly difficult to design and there really is no purpose. But if you could get the average medium sized transport heli to do 250 you could ignor these dangerous and sily orprays almost, cos you would have a far safer and high load carring heli, the orsprays max speed is only 300 any way! and with helis being able to fly further these days than they could 20 years ago, why not up the speed by 50 or so, would make for much capable aircraft mabey?!?!?!?!?!

six7 · Post by **six7** » 2006-05-06 19:43

Dice did a very poor job on that Eurocopter.....

Eddie Baker · Post by **Eddie Baker** » 2006-05-06 19:48

Top _Cat the great wrote:why dont they make the average chopper hit 200 mph, and really small ones hit 250 mph plus. Is it becoase it would be fairly difficult to design and there really is no purpose. But if you could get the average medium sized transport heli to do 250 you could ignor these dangerous and sily orprays almost, cos you would have a far safer and high load carring heli, the orsprays max speed is only 300 any way! and with helis being able to fly further these days than they could 20 years ago, why not up the speed by 50 or so, would make for much capable aircraft mabey?!?!?!?!?!

Well, the really small ones are limited by how large of an engine they can carry, Top_Cat; that's why they aren't as fast as the larger helicopters. They can sure as Hell maneuver, though. I'm not an aeronautical engineer, so I couldn't tell you for sure, but until we develop new materials it probably would be very difficult to engineer such aircraft.

At 305 knots (about 351 mph) max speed, the Osprey still has about 100 knots over the fastest helicopters in service at the moment.

Eddie Baker · Post by **Eddie Baker** » 2006-05-06 19:49

six7 wrote:Dice did a very poor job on that Eurocopter.....

Which one? Both the PLA and MEC scout helicopters are based on Eurocopter products.

six7 · Post by **six7** » 2006-05-06 19:58

'[R-DEV wrote:Eddie Baker']Which one? Both the PLA and MEC scout helicopters are based on Eurocopter products.

Both-but the MEC is the worse of 2 evils

Garton 22ndMEU · Post by **Garton 22ndMEU** » 2006-05-06 20:02

that thing looks hella weird

00SoldierofFortune00 · Post by **00SoldierofFortune00** » 2006-05-06 21:18

'[R-DEV wrote:Eddie Baker']Yeah, the "fenestron" tail-rotor is a signature of Aerospatiale / Eurocopter products.

SoldierofFortune, not every weapon is going to have an exact equivalent on every team. We are including the Z-9/WZ-9 for China, though.

http://realitymod.com/forum/t4813-chine ... opter.html

The MEC and PLA are getting new toys, rest assured. We have been considering the Gazelle and/or BO 105 for the MEC, since both airframes are popular in the Middle East (and widely proliferated elsewhere). And since the UK also uses the Gazelle it means we can use the base model for two factions.

Just putting this up because it is about time that the MEC and China got some new gear and something similar to the US toys to keep everyone from switching and everything at least somewhat balanced.