A Warzone player tried to run from fate, but it eventually caught up with them. And by fate, we mean a surface-to-air missile.
We’ve discussed choppers in Warzone at length and established that they can be great mobility, but also a great liability. Helicopters are loud, obvious targets that are extremely vulnerable to SAMs, or surface-to-air missiles, and so their use should be done with the utmost caution.
It takes a skilled pilot to avoid a missile once it’s fired, and there are precious few of those in Call of Duty: Warzone. Reddit user DustyCupcakes spotted an ambitious pilot in this hilarious video while wandering around downtown Verdansk, but unfortunately for the pilot, their ambition was great than their skill.
Hearing the unmistakable sound of a chopper’s blades, DustyCupcakes looks up to spot a helicopter flying around a building. Thinking that they might be able to put an RPG into it, DustyCupcakes then runs for a better firing position, only to find out that someone had already beaten them to the punch.
A missile then comes into focus hot on the chopper’s tail. The enemy pilot starts to circle the building in an attempt to break the missile’s lock, but it keeps homing in like a terrier on a rabbit. The pilot manages to get a full rotation around the building before the missile finally slams home and sends them to the gulag, but not before another chopper notices the threat and drops off its human cargo.
In reality, no missile is so slow that it struggles to keep up with a helicopter. Most shoulder-launched missiles reach a flight speed of Mach 2.5 (that’s nearly 2,000 mph) a few moments after leaving the launch tube, and even the fastest chopper in the world can barely reach 200 mph, meaning that a pilot would have barely a second to maneuver before the missile strikes.
But that wouldn’t be fun or produce hilarious Warzone videos like this one. So we’ll forgive Infinity Ward for the lack of realism here.
Source: Reddit