AH-1Q TOW Cobra
AH-1Q TOW cobra is the first upgrade of AH-1G cobra after vietnam war. (Therefore there is no rise of valkyries and fortunate son radio)
Features :
Telescopic sight unit : AH-1Q introduced Telescopic sight unit and the unique helmet sight system for the first time, which the turret aims where the pilot or gunner is looking at. Initially TSU is turned off. pressing T and mouse wheel will switch TSU mode between pilot and gunner, and the turret and scope will be controlled by the assigned person. letting the gunner to control the turret can be useful for sniping enemies (AI is always better than you when it’s comes to aiming) or firing turret and fly at the same time.
38 FFARs : Aerial rockets fired in salvo. they gets affected by the helicopter’s movement so you must dive before shooting to increase its accuracy.
8 BGM-71 TOW missiles : AH-1Q is capable of guiding TOW missiles to precisely attack the target from long distance. TOW missile is powerful but has many limits – it’s flying speed is quite slow, and since the missile is connected to the launcher with a wire it has quite limited area to guide and you must hold hovering to properly guide it. When you select this weapon, a helmet mounted sight will appear. hold right mouse and move the camera to aim and guide the missile.
M134 minigun : A turret mounted minigun. It basically has no blast radius that killing infantries with it can be hard, but it’s awesome firerate and projectile speed make it a great air-to-air or sniping weapon.
M129 40mm grenade launcher : this weapon is a complete opposite to minigun – it’s useful for killing infantries but the extremely slow projectile speed makes it nearly useless for AA or attacking from long distance. this weapon is best for attacking the swarm of infantries while flying over them.
