Has a chopper ever been decked by a tank shell?

[Mekstizzle]

In real life? You know how easy it is in PR, what with the fast and flat trajectorys of the SABOT rounds, sometimes i find myself in a tank, hunting for helicopters. Seeing as they're even faster in real life, surely it's happened alot of times?

P.S: I'm talking about Choppers as in Helicopters not those slow-ass motorbikes.

[eddie]

I doubt it..... maybe (but again I doubt it) it could be downed by a cannon on an APC, but I don't think the modern Western world fights countries with modern tech

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

Thats because the choppers in PR move so dam slow.
I swear, look how fat the side of the Cobra is, your bound to get shot down by any half decent pilot. Without speed your just a moving target on a practice range.

...mongol...

[$kelet0r]

it has far more to do with range of engagement than anything else - blame the engine and its fog
at the moment in PRM everything depends on line of sight which varies from 100m to a max of 400 depending on the map
IRL tanks can engage targets between 2000-4000m and hunter choppers twice that - there is no comparison

[SiN|ScarFace]

I think I saw something about tanks that said some can engage a helicopter, would be interesting to know if it's ever happened.

[[R-MOD]Mongolian_dude]

I think every level shoud have its view distance at max then.

This donest mean i want the mistyness or sandyness effect from PR removed. Like the humidity of Shonua stalemate or the sand storm of Al fallujah.

...mongol...

[Wraith]

The Military channel does an "inside look" at the M1A1 and they specifically state that it has rounds designed to take down air targets. Essentially they are rounds filled with 1 inch ball bearings.

[JellyBelly]

Yeah, ive heard that before. Wouldnt be very hard to hit a slow moving aircraft flying at low altitude. That's assuming it hasn't spotted and engaed you first though.

[[R-CON]MrD]

We once considered whether milan crew operated anti tank wire guided missiles would be capable of hitting a chopper.

The situation was facing a 20k x 200k armoured attack by the soviets across europe and whether under the circumstances any support choppers would find themselves hovering to fire, spot, etc and whether we could take that opportunity to take them down.

We were facing 14 second flight times over 1200m (or was it 12 second over 1400m? i forget now) and the slow turning of the missile to follow any chopper movement.

We came to the conclusion that it could be done in certain circumstances, but that we'd probably be better off hitting the tanks below it as they were more likely to wipe us out before a chopper could

Any fire that's fast enough in flight can take down choppers, even rifles do. No reason why a tank couldn't do it, although the expense of a shell, the ability to carry a certain amount of shells and tactical usage of tanks means you wouldn't want to use one to go following a chopper round the sky or you'd get yourself wasted by other enemy forces you weren't looking at.

[Wraith]

remember that the round is flying at almost 1 mile a second so you wouldn't need to lead much, lol.