A-129 International (p)

A-129 International (p)

A-129 International (p)

Italy

VI Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
9.7	11.0	9.7

Class:

PREMIUM

Attack helicopter

Utility helicopter

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Description

The A-129 International Prototype is a gift rank VI Italian helicopter with a battle rating of 9.7 (AB/SB) and 11.0 (RB). It was introduced in Update 1.93 "Shark Attack".

General info

Flight performance

The A-129 International is a fast, maneuverable helicopter, it's lightweight and it has a good acceleration. It can perform a lot of maneuvers faster than other helis and reaches top speed without having to wait much. The A-129 yaws greatly, without suffering the main rotor influence that many helis have.

Characteristics
Stock
Max Speed (km/h at 1,000 m)		Max altitude (meters)
AB	RB
294	285	54005400
Upgraded
Max Speed (km/h at 1,000 m)		Max altitude (meters)
AB	RB
315	305	54005400

Survivability and armour

The A-129 as lightweight it is, hasn't got great armor or survivability. The only armored parts are the crew compartments, protected by 40 mm of bulletproof grass in the front, and in the rear and below from 20 mm of composite armor (boron carbide). .50 cals hits (from the front) usually don't deal much damage, but anything with a superior caliber will. The helicopter rarely resists SPAA hits without getting critically damaged, but it can happen. All SAMs with a proximity fuse will oneshot or critically damage your controls (so, you're still dead).

Armaments

Offensive armament

The A-129 International (p) is outfitted with the following offensive weapons:

• 1 x 12.7 mm FN M3M machine gun (750 RPG)

Suspended armament

The A-129 International (p) can be outfitted with the following ordnance:

• 76 x 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 rockets
• 2 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns
• 2 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 6 x FFAR Mighty Mouse rockets
• 2 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 38 x 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 rockets
• 2 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 6 x FFAR Mighty Mouse rockets + 38 x 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 rockets
• 8 x BGM-71 TOW-2 missiles
• 8 x AGM-114B Hellfire missiles
• 2 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 8 x BFM-71 TOW-2 missiles
• 2 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 8 x AGM-114B Hellfire missiles
• 2 x 12.7 mm GN M3P machine guns + 6 x FFAR Mighty Mouse rockets + 8 x BFM-71 TOW-2 missiles
• 2 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 6 x FFAR Mighty Mouse rockets + 8 x AGM-114B Hellfire missiles
• 1 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 3 x FFAR Mighty Mouse rockets + 19 x 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 rockets + 8 x BGM-71 TOW-2 missiles
• 1 x 12.7 mm FN M3P machine guns + 3 x FFAR Mighty Mouse rockets + 19 x 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 rockets + 8 x AGM-114B Hellfire missiles
• 8 x BGM-71 TOW-2 missiles + 38 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 rockets
• 8 x AGM-114B Hellfire missiles + 38 x 70 mm Hydra-70 M247 rockets

Usage in battles

As all helis (excluding Ka-50s), you should have a safe playstyle, ensuring that there aren't any SPAAs on the ground and helis/jets in the sky, since you haven't got any AA missiles. The main advice is to stay at ground level to evade SPAAs' radars and keep looking for the enemy air spawns with the great thermal sight (and great zoom) you have installed on the chopper. The main way to protect yourself from helis is to wait for them to hover and using your ATGMs to take them out, but remember, farther you are, worser the accuracy of your missile will be. When you will be attacking ground vehicles, you should stay closer than 6000 meters to the target in open maps, 4000 meters in maps with few natural obstacles, like Ash River and 3000/2000 meters in maps with a lot of objects that occlude your view, for example Berlin or Port Novorossysk.

You will usually meet the ADATS, the Ka-50, radar SPAAs and supersonic jets. For the first vehicle, as said before, stay low and use your radar impulse rilevator on your low right corner. Act in the most unpredictable way, for example, if you brought Hydras, you could try to get as close as you can and strike (you have enough of them to have an ensured kill). In the case of the Ka-50s, that usually hover in the middle of the air or near obstacles, you should try to get as close as you can to strike with ATGMs, there is no other "long range" counter. And for supersonic jets, well, you can only pray for an allied SPAA to take 'em down.

Pros and cons

Pros:

• Its great agility and maneuverabilty
• The ground attack armament and its capabilities
• It can be harder to spot in dark maps

Cons:

• Not that easy to play
• Absence of SRAAMs (Short Range Anti Air Missiles)
• Vulnerable to almost everything.

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See also

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• reference to the series of the helicopter;
• links to approximate analogues of other nations and research trees.

External links

• [Development] A-129 Mangusta

Agusta
Utility	AB 205 A-1* · A.109EOA-2
Attack	A-129 International (p) · A129CBT · AH-129D · T129**
Export	HKP3C
See Also	Bell Aircraft Corporation · TAI
	*Licensed · **Partnership with TAI