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Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Seahawk with Hellfires
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Seahawk72s
SOH-CM-2023
Mathijs Kok is director and was project manager as well when the Seahawk was developed.
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Bjoern
worst developer ever
Wouldn't want to waste a guided missile on them.
assassinezzio
Charter Member
Today my Seahawk seems more dangerous.
Does anybody know how to contact Aerosoft people to ask for permission to share this model (just the .mdl)?
Looks awesome
SkippyBing
Charter Member
But it means you don't have to get close enough for them to shoot back. Certainly Hellfire would cause issues for anything up to a small patrol boat.
Bjoern
worst developer ever
Wouldn't Hydras do as well?
Or at least their low-cost guided variants.
Pretty sure that a M134 would also provide enough area saturation to avoid retaliation.
Victory103
SOH-CM-2026
Outstanding work on the model, I've a got a list of fixes/wants to mirror both F and H models that Aerosoft has no intention of doing. When I left my USN squadron we just started getting Hellfire racks and FLIR for the HH-60Hs. The latest "armed helo" for the MH-60S uses the new laser guided Hydra rockets. Adding the GAU17 (M134) and .50cal would add teeth. I was playing around with MCX to Tacpack all my helos, but have a lot to learn.
SkippyBing
Charter Member
Probably, it really depends what you're trying to blow up, how far away it is, and what's cleared to go on the platform!
jagl04
Charter Member
I have a lot to learn about that too, but I will try.
The model is the one by Aerosoft, modified with added weapons. Now I´m working on Penguin anti-ship missile
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Just for the record, small fast moving boats are blooming difficult to hit and even harder to put sufficient holes in to sink, using MG ball rounds or even 20mm cannon rounds. If you've ever watched footage of the USN or RN, for example, trying to sink captured pirate boats off Somalia or suchlike, you'll watch them putting minigun rounds, Oerlikon/Bofors rounds and occasionally LAWs into them to absolutely no effect - these things are designed to stay afloat with huge damage and often, the materials themselves are bouyant.
The USN eventually disposed of the last one I watched using an entire can of 40mm grenades from an automatic launcher mount and literally blowing it to pieces (most of the grenades just made little plumes of water...) The RN, in true RN fashion, sent the Marine Protection Team aboard from a RIB, with fire axes.
I suspect that, if you only had a helicopter as a platform to work from, or didn't have all day and the target practice, a laser guided Hellfire could well be used. They have, after all, used JDAMs, Hellfires, Mavericks and all sorts of LGBs on single vehicles that they have wanted rid of in all sorts of situations. Not sure how much use a MMW RADAR Hellfire would be against a fibreglass hull, though? What's Brimstone's guidance system? That's after my time.
Ian P.
The USN eventually disposed of the last one I watched using an entire can of 40mm grenades from an automatic launcher mount and literally blowing it to pieces (most of the grenades just made little plumes of water...) The RN, in true RN fashion, sent the Marine Protection Team aboard from a RIB, with fire axes.
I suspect that, if you only had a helicopter as a platform to work from, or didn't have all day and the target practice, a laser guided Hellfire could well be used. They have, after all, used JDAMs, Hellfires, Mavericks and all sorts of LGBs on single vehicles that they have wanted rid of in all sorts of situations. Not sure how much use a MMW RADAR Hellfire would be against a fibreglass hull, though? What's Brimstone's guidance system? That's after my time.
Ian P.
