Questions about modern campaigns game

[Volcano Man]

NO! Emphatically NO!

Wow, calm down, I made a mistake. ;)

Bu yes, you are right, ignore my post - I just verified in a test too that it is using the AA rating.

This must of been changed at some point -- I was speaking from what I remembered when I made the "Jihad 2004" mod for Middle East '67, but that was a long time ago (~10 years?) back when helicopters were relatively new to the whole game, and probably broken somewhat as I suspect they were being treated as soft targets and not air units.

So, I guess the answer to this thread's question is that you have to put ADA with your forces if you want to shoot down helos. Sure tanks IRL can engage helicopters with main gun, but the problem is (according to how it works here) you cannot boost tank AA ratings because then they would shoot down fixed wing planes from airstrikes better too, which doesn't make any sense. Some things just have to be abstract like that.