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Why should everything be 100% real?
That's not what I said Deadeye.
I feel he's wasting his time on some of these addons (although I understand everyone has to start somewhere, look at Rebl Man and Vilas!)
I just think he could better spend his time using his skills (which I lack completely) making addons that are either realistic or otherwise useful/missing.
The Ka-50 fills the role of an attack chopper nicely, so seeing as BigMike likes to edit existing models, why not create what is needed but doesn't exist in game yet?
Such as:
Mi-17-IVA Flying Hospital - Allow it to heal units in the config otherwise aide/transport the wounded and away you go!
Mi-17PG Electronic Jamming - Could work with a scripter to add some funky radar jamming abilities. Would make a tasty and important target for AA teams. Has 6 X shaped antennas on the aft fuselage.
Mi-19 Command Post Version - Mission makers could make this a primary objective amongst other Mi-17s. Not sure if this is realistic but you could perhaps add smoke marker rounds or rockets for marking targets/directing ground forces.
Mi-8AMT Unarmed Civilian Version.
Or
Mi-8TVK CAS - 12.7 mm nose mounted machinegun, along with 57mm S-5 rockets, bombs, or AT-2/SWATTER ATGMs. Now that's CAS.