Would you want HELICOPTERS in future expansions?

[sorak]

I would love being able to fly and shoot down helicopters also in this sim. How wonderful it would be to integrate helicopters models in this game it would be. A dream come true if you will. Helicopters could have all sorts of missions for air to ground combat, carrying useful payloads over respectable ranges, or bunches of other different types of mission and just blowing a Heli out the sky would feel real satisfying! Just need a Expansion set in the perfect year when some of the first combat helicopters were starting to be used. And plus I love flying a Helicopter.. Requires so much more mind power and would love to feel how real it could feel in this SIM.


The French Army was one of the first military forces to modify and use helicopters in combat in a ground attack role during the Algerian War of 1954-62. In 1955, French field commanders placed infantry machine gunners in the stretcher panniers of their Bell 47 (Sioux H-13) casualty evacuation helicopters.


In 1956, the French Air Force experimented with arming the Sikorsky S-55, then being superseded in service by the more capable Piasecki H-21 and Sikorsky CH-34 helicopters.


The H-19 was originally fitted with two rocket launchers and an ex-Luftwaffe MG151/20 20-mm cannon, both mounted axially on the outside of the aircraft.


And of course Vietnam. First the U.S. Army modified UH-1B 'Huey' helicopters, mounting machine guns and Folding Fin Aerial Rockets (FFAR) on struts parallel with the fuselage.


During the 1960s, the Soviet Union, saw the same need for an armed helicopter and equipped Mil Mi-8 helicopters with rocket pods. This armed helicopter was eventually developed into the Mil Mi-24, which saw extensive action in Afghanistan during the 80s.