Helicopters transporting repair kits

[*Hawk*]

Equipping those repair kits on helicopters would make APC, Tank and Trans squads even more dynamic and enjoyable. Not to mention, infantry could also request them for vehicle repairs

[axytho]

Originally Posted by *Hawk*

Equipping those repair kits on helicopters would make APC, Tank and Trans squads even more dynamic and enjoyable. Not to mention, infantry could also request them for vehicle repairs

Not really a thing that can be done IRL (the repair kit on the logi simulates a recovery vehicle. There are AFAIK no helicopter recovery vehicles)

It would also reduce teamwork. Right now, losing tracks on a tank/apc is the only realistic reason people bother with repair kits. Recovering a tank from being tracked requires excellent teamwork, with great SL's who have control over the logis being used in the team and who think it's worth risking these logis for their asset squads. If helicopters can drop repairs, then it's just a thing trans can do in 5 seconds, which will speed up the game.

Losing a track is meant to be a "certain death" state if you have bad team and a "recoverable catastrophe" if you have a good team. Not a "minor inconvenience".

[dcm1]

There has to be a better option to initiate field repairs. Because there are some places where a logi cant go, that a tracked vehicle can. Like hills. And no logi truck is amphibious. It's nigh impossible to repair a tracked vehicle in the water. I know it can still move, but if the main gun is down, it cant shoot to defend itself from primary armored threats.

Personally I believe that we need either dedicated repair vehicles that are amphibious; like the shitbox logis; m113 and mt-lb. But that require any field repairs to be dropped. Because the mere presence of these repair vehicles alone, can repair vehicles in the field(almost like in bf2, where if you had an engy in your car, the car itself turned into a repair vehicle, that fixed other vehicles next to it). that Or some way to deploy field repairs from the armored vehicle itself.

[axytho]

I mean, PR has sort of organically arrived at the real-life problem of engineering vehicles: they're sometimes too big and too heavy to go to all the stupid places other armored vehicles can get themselves stuck.

I think that's the trade-off if you decide to put your APC on a hard-to-reach hill or have him swim in the water to use as a boat.

I think the joke goes:

"Sergeant: Anything is amphibious if you can get it back out of the water"

"Engineer: That usually results in a recovery team deciding the materiel is not amphibious"

[robert357]

That why repair kit exist FYI.

[Grump/Gump.45]

Yes, repair kits please on choppers. This will lead to more chopper deaths in dire situations though unless area secured/not active combat. Its great for giving a FOB repair stations too. Which should be unlimited for choppers upon resupply. Not like a logi truck that carries its tools with it.

But if you are tracked and can't move. Lets say you are in a 1 on 1 engagement with the enemy, you get tracked, can move just slightly behind bushes.

The enemy could shoot your chopper down if it doesn't or while its on its way to finish you off. Could mutually track each other in some chances. Ok that is one on one situation.

Lets in scenario 2 say you are going up against a full brigade of 4 tanks, 4 APCs, 2 anti-air vehicles, 2 CAS jets, 2 CAS choppers, 2 super FOBs on each defensive flag cap edge with everything spread so wide CAS and artillery remove only a portion of defenses.

Lets say somehow, you end up only tracked from that and you call a chopper. What is going to happen to the chopper? The pilot is not going to be very happy with you.

It will be like a lot of the players who call for medic, but for choppers repairing armor, instead of warning the medic about the enemy they just spam call for medic.

Dangerous rescue missions are flown fast and low for choppers.

Sometimes without even checking if a medic is close to highlight them, creating impatient repeated noise or literally start a conversation right when they die while the last few guys are still fighting.

If the medic survives the calls for medic without warning of enemy to start fighting to make it safe to revive for 30 seconds without getting caught and killed.

He has to survive fighting while still being spammed with impatient calls for medic over local while trying to make the area safe to revive, telling those people to be quiet while he is obviously shooting, getting shot at, running around, so he can fight and survive to focus while mostly if not completely alone. Cause its all about them.

Yeah, a lot of choppers are going to die. Repairs on choppers though please.

Once we allow everybody to drag bodies, we can possibly regain tickets if we collect a lot of dead dead bodies within the 5 minutes before they disappear then drag them to chopper too as medivac.

[Jacksonez__]

Originally Posted by robert357

That why repair kit exist FYI.

Engineer cannot repair heavy vehicles anymore, afaik.