Chinook toughness

[hx.bjoffe]

Is it just me, or does the chinooks take an unusual amount of damage?
Twice the other day chinooks landed right infront of my BRDM, and both flew away with about 1.5 clips of 14.5 inside the cockpit, hardly smoking.
Also they're hard to lock with AA, but that's already known.

I never fly, so i'd like to hear from a pilot's view as well.

[space]

Yeah they do take quite alot of damage, especially compared to the other helis. I was playing around on an empty server the other day with a cannon littlebird, and the chinooks took loads of hits to kill.

[Hotrod525]

Originally Posted by hx.bjoffe

Is it just me, or does the chinooks take an unusual amount of damage?
Twice the other day chinooks landed right infront of my BRDM, and both flew away with about 1.5 clips of 14.5 inside the cockpit, hardly smoking.
Also they're hard to lock with AA, but that's already known.

I never fly, so i'd like to hear from a pilot's view as well.

If the damage in-game is based on real life capabilities... Chinook is extremely strong.

[andylamb]

I was flying the chinook on archer the other day dropping some squad off on a hil, a sniper picked me off in the cockpit and killed me the chinook landed itsself without a scratch.

Luck?

[Rissien]

Landed at the flag with infatry on Yamalia to cap out RUS main and a heavy btr lit me up, I think I took at least 15 or so rounds *unknown if AP or HE* and managed to rtb, was slowly taking damage on the way back and alarms ddnt start going off untill i was in the rocess of landing.

[andylamb]

Originally Posted by =]H[=ElvishKnight

Landed at the flag with infatry on Yamalia to cap out RUS main and a heavy btr lit me up, I think I took at least 15 or so rounds *unknown if AP or HE* and managed to rtb, was slowly taking damage on the way back and alarms ddnt start going off untill i was in the rocess of landing.

And let's face it in reality if you sneeze on the chinook it breaks.

[Alex6714]

The chinook probably takes too much, while the other helis too little. Something in the middle is probably the best solution.

[rampo]

The toughness of the chinook is compencated whit the large hitbox of hitting on that monster

I've propably taken down more chinooks than any other choppers

[Drunkenup]

Originally Posted by rampo93(FIN)

The toughness of the chinook is compencated whit the large hitbox of hitting on that monster

I've propably taken down more chinooks than any other choppers

I'm guessing that the damage that it can absorb is to compensate for its great size and why you've taken down so many chinooks.

I've had countless close encounters while piloting the Chinook. I was transporting a squad from mainbase to the middle objective. A BMP had been camping the area and began to fire upon us. I managed to take in a good amount of rounds and land and go back. I was barely smoking although I took in maybe 15 rounds of HE.

I would have to agree about the large gap between the damages the helicopters can take. I encountered a Littlebird while using the BMP, and 2 rounds of HE finished it off. Sometimes I think its ridiculous about how much damage some of the aircraft can take, like 5 rounds of .50 to the BH, 10 14.5mm on the Huey, and some of the others.

[clueless_noob]

Deployed AA is utterly useless against Chinooks. Two direct hits from point blank range before pilot managed to deploy flares, with no effect what so ever.