OH-58 Armament?

Hey all,

What kind of weapon loadouts can we expect from the OH-58D?

I've never seen a Kiowa carrying 4x AGM114s but that would be a fun loadout for use in the sim!

Any confirmation on whether Polychop will aim to simulate the stinger?

1hr 12 minutes or so in.

Looking at the top picture, if my memory serves me well, I believe all of those loadouts will be included in the Polychop product. Now... with 4 hellfires that's apparently quite heavy for a Kiowa, so in Hot and High conditions the Kiowa will struggle, and you may want to reduce your loadout, so maybe one hellfire on each side, while winter at sea level it may well fly just fine with 4. I think the .50cal mg will be the M3P variant, and resemble a typical aircraft .50, rather than the pod 50.

Also, the APKWS will also come with Poly's product. That's the 2.75in rockets that are turned into laser guided missiles using a guidance kit. This is a real product that is not all that well known, but in real world is dramatically increasing in popularity, with great performance and lots of companies doing similar copies, like in the USA, Israel, Turkey and probably other countries too. But they'll look the same as the unguided rockets, and usually are fired from the same or similar pods as the unguided ones too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Precision_Kill_Weapon_System

And for a list of competing systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_70

and scroll down to where it says "Precision guided Hydra 70"

What kind of weapon loadouts can we expect from the OH-58D?

OH-58D (2017)

• AGM-114K Hellfire Missiles

• M3P 12.7mm Machine Gun with 300 or 500 rounds

• 2.75 inch Hydra 70 Unguided Rockets x7 (3+4 mix is possible), M151 HE, M229 HEDP, M257 illumination and M264 smoke (perhaps flechettes later ? if they make sense in DCS).

• APKWS x7 with M151 warheads

• FIM-92 Stinger A2A

• Smoke Grenades (3 max)

Any confirmation on whether Polychop will aim to simulate the stinger?

Yes, Stingers were mentioned in one of the Christmas Twitch streams - IIRC it was said SME feedback was that helicopters were generally weak IR sources, so Hellfires would be the better weapon vs other helicopters with Stingers suited for self-defence vs jets.

Thanks for the info guys!