Miniguns... more 'mini' than 'guns'

[JDFryer]

Can I just point out that BH are not used to kill people. They are a utility chopper designed for transport. The M240 is there as a suppression weapon to secure the landing field and fire support for infantry on the ground but lets face it they dont just hang around doing orbits for the hell of it.

Note that there is an attack variant of the BH, the AH-60 to do this job, not to mention the cobra gunship

[youm0nt]

Originally Posted by Battlepudel

Here you go.........would be really strange if the M240 would be more effective....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf9bCebm4aE

That'd be pretty cool if we can replicate those results in PR.

[El_Vikingo]

Remember the times the BH was a flying fortress?

4 engies
2 gunners
1 pilot

capping flags without even getting out of hte chopper!

[G.Drew]

ah those were the days.....
now that was a mutha of a gunship!

[Battlepudel]

Originally Posted by El_Vikingo

Remember the times the BH was a flying fortress?

4 engies
2 gunners
1 pilot

capping flags without even getting out of hte chopper!

Remember the old vBF2 days

1 pilot

capping flags without even having any other skill than being able to hover

[G.Drew]

Originally Posted by Battlepudel

Here you go.........would be really strange if the M240 would be more effective....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf9bCebm4aE

Originally Posted by youm0nt

That'd be pretty cool if we can replicate those results in PR.

yes, if we could get that EXACT sound of the M134 + the double ROF then....we can only imagine the fun/pwnage/satisfaction of killing people with it

[[R-DEV]Eddie Baker]

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]eggman

Afaik there is only one air unit that uses miniguns on Blackhawks, SOAR which is a special operations unit.

In the Army the miniguns are most common in the 160th SOAR, but the USAF Pave Hawks (rescue squadrons, no longer AFSOC) use them too, as do Navy HH-60H and MH-60S CSAR/SWS helicopters.

Originally Posted by JDFryer1

. Marine Corp Blackhawks don't use miniguns. Period. The end.

2. The other transport choppers can't hit sh*t in a cess pit. Giving the BH uber l337 miniguns seriously unbalances the game. Yes I know this is a reality mod and it should be close to life but I think maybe we should give the miniguns the firing ability of an M240. Yes it wouldn't be modelled but it would be realistic. It also would balance out the transport choppers.

Marine Corps Blackhawks don't use miniguns because Marine Corps Blackhawks are painted in a funny green color and only used to transport members of the US executive branch and special guests.

Marine UH-1s use miniguns quite frequently, though. As for the other transport helicopters, consider yourself lucky that EA/DICE had the "arm everything" mentality and armed the Z-8, which I have never seen with a door gun and cannot carry rockets.

Increasing the rate of fire to a realistic level would not be possible, as the max ROF in the game engine is 1800 rpm, and the game f*cks up the least when rates of fire are set to factors of that number (200, 300, 600, 900).

[Apheirox]

Somebody needs to know what they are talking about before posting... http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Tv9831kOxc

[Apheirox]

Stop moving at full speed, dude. You would not do that in any other vehicle, why try it in the Blackhawk?

[El_Vikingo]

Originally Posted by Strategist

Somebody needs to know what they are talking about before posting... http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Tv9831kOxc

When an Rdev talks about these things, I'd think their info is more accurate, because they are the ones researching all this to get it right in their mod, not someone who's just seen BHD with Josh Harnett.