AH-64 Lethality vs. Infantry

[thatguy96]

Pazam said:
I agree that the lethality needs to be increased. Even when shooting from a hover 50m away from an infantry target [ie. on the adjacent hex] I have never managed to hit more than two people at a time. This doesn't seem realistic to me.

I would challenge this from what I've seen of gunship camera footage. One from Iraq which involved an AH-64 engaging a vehicle and personnel behind cover showed it using multiple bursts to kill less than 10 people. I would think that if spaced tactically, with a lack of airburst ammunition, that defeating whole squads of infantry in one burst is unrealistic. The tactics from what I've seen are not to spray the entire target area, but direct fire at specific targets, ie individual people.

I think what might need to be addressed is just how many rounds per burst the basic formulas are based off of, and then seeing if the ammunition capacity matches that and whether helos should have more gun ammunition.

As to rockets, they're notoriously inaccurate, though I do think they could use with a lethality boost.

Conclusion, guns seem to be relatively realistic for me, but rockets seem like they could use a little boost.

Video in question: http://www.militaryvideos.net/videos.php?videonum=3