How much can a chopper take in damage?

[sanktas 6]

So today me and my friend had the most luck in a week, we found 4 cars, yes. Four. We stashed one in a pretty bad spot, it was a blue van so we didn't really care for it.

We drive away with our 2 white pickups and one military truck. We stash them close to the end of the map. We take everything we don't need right now and put it in the white pickups, then we all get inside the military truck and is about to drive away, then we hear it, helicopter sounds.

I get out and i see it, it's slowing down, it probably just saw our cars not us. It's still in the air, i scroll to get the range but Auto-rangefinder was disabled.

I didn't think i'd have time to use my own rangefinder so i set my zeroing at 400 since that's what it felt like.

I start shooting with my as50 towards the chopper, i got lucky it was exactly at 400M's since i hit it where i aimed it.

I get 10 rounds in the chopper, while reloading it starts flying away, my friends shoot at it aswell but with a m16 and a m4a1. They say they didnt hit much.

I'm 100% certain i got 10 rounds in the chopper tho (using m107 rounds not the as50 nato rounds).

Since i saw that it hit i'm certain i got 10 rounds in it.

My friends got around 4 maybe 5 shots in it.

So while reloading i look at it and it's not even smoking or anything, looks the same it did before. It got away before i had reloaded.

According to this chart

http://i.imgur.com/BuY29.jpg

The as50 with m107 rounds does 37k damage per hit.

Take that x10.

I did 370k damage and my friends got a few shots on it aswell, let's round it up to 400k damage.

So we got around 400.000 damage on the chopper but i still didnt see any smoke or anything?

-Anyone know how much Health a chopper has?

PS: I really gotta get myself some nato rounds.. imagine doing 174k damage with one shot, INSANE!

Peace out.

(before anyone says "aim for the pilot" i couldnt, i was shooting on it from behind, towards the tail of the chopper, all my shots hit the bottom of it tho, under the chopper.

[=FTS= Sgt. Lyrebird 5]

Aim to the Rotors, one well placed shot on either rotor with the AS50 will send them spiraling to their death.

[aksuduud 64]

The hull of a helicopter can take a lot of damage, more than you can reasonably output without a .50 machinegun, but the tailrotor can be taken out with about 2 shots effectively disabling the helicopter.

[sanktas 6]

Damn, never knew this, thanks for the answers, now i know what to aim for.

[[email protected] 44]

Shoot the tailrotor and the helicopter will spin out of control. If they're good pilots they can still manage to land it by playing with throttle, turning and the engine. However if you shoot the main rotor the helicopter will just fall down from the sky, and if you're unlucky the people who fly have been playing the game for a while and eject, and land safely with a parachute. Most people dont do this however lol.

[aksuduud 64]

If the mainrotor is out it will enter autorotation which allows safe landing, or was that just in ACE i cant remember.

[[email protected] 44]

If the mainrotor is out it will enter autorotation which allows safe landing, or was that just in ACE i cant remember.

Last time my main rotor got shot I fell down. Its the part that provides the lift as far as I'm aware.

[aksuduud 64]

Or maybe it was that if the engine is taken out it enters autorotation? I would test in editor but PC is broken.

[[email protected] 44]

Or maybe it was that if the engine is taken out it enters autorotation? I would test in editor but PC is broken.

If the engine fails, shuts down or you are out of fuel or anything like that you can do precise tricks to your heli to keep the blades spinning fast enough to land safely.