Scout Helicopter (AH-6 Little Bird / MH-350) changes in Battlefield 6
- 5documented changes
- 4patches
- 1fix
Every documented change to Scout Helicopter (AH-6 Little Bird / MH-350)
5 changes across 4 patches, newest first
Season 3: Warlords / Supremacy (Phase 1) Tuesday, 12 May 2026
- FIXScout HelicopterREDSEC · Vehiclesverified
Corrected an issue where the Scout Helicopter’s AA missiles would sometimes fail to spawn or track their target correctly
Corrected an issue where the Scout Helicopter’s AA missiles would sometimes fail to spawn or track their target correctly.
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Season 2: Hunter/Prey (Phase 3) Tuesday, 14 April 2026
- CHANGEScout HelicopterVehiclesverified
Scout Helicopter: Adjusted Heavy Rotary Cannon overheat mechanic to compensate for reduced rate of fire
The Scout Helicopter's rotary cannon fires slower with an overheat adjusted to match, its rockets recharge slower with smaller blasts, and its grenade launcher gets faster shells and unlimited reserve ammo.
- Adjusted Heavy Rotary Cannon overheat mechanic to compensate for reduced rate of fire.
- Extended Scout Helicopter light rocket ammo regeneration time from 21 to 27 seconds.
- Extended Scout Helicopter smart rocket ammo regeneration time from 16 to 20 seconds.
- Grenade Launcher Muzzle Velocity Increased.
- Grenade Launcher now has infinite reserve ammo.
- Heavy Rotary Cannon falloff range shortened to 45m.
- Heavy Rotary Cannon rate of fire from 1000 to 800 RPM.
- Reduced lethal range of Attack Helicopter Heavy Rocket explosion from 2m to 1m
- Reduced lethal range of Upgraded Attack Helicopter Heavy Rocket explosion from 2.8m to 2m.
- Reduced the inner explosive radius of all scout helicopter rockets from 1m to 0m.
- Reduced the radius of Attack Helicopter Heavy Rocket explosion from 7m to 5.5m
- Seismic Detector Radius increased from 16 to 36 meters.
Season 2: Nightfall (Phase 2) Tuesday, 17 March 2026
- CHANGEScout HelicopterBotsverified
Bot pilots now effectively drive and manoeuvre the MH-350
Bot pilots can now properly fly and manoeuvre the MH-350 scout helicopter.
Bot pilots now effectively drive and manoeuvre the MH-350.
Official source - CHANGEScout HelicopterVehiclesverified
Restricted scout helicopter passengers from using Engineer rocket launchers
Passengers in the scout helicopter can no longer fire Engineer rocket launchers.
Restricted scout helicopter passengers from using Engineer rocket launchers.
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Season 2: Extreme Measures (Phase 1) Tuesday, 17 February 2026
- CHANGEScout Helicopter (AH-6 Little Bird / MH-350)verified
Scout helicopter returns
The scout helicopter is back as the AH-6 Little Bird for NATO and the MH-350 for Pax Armata.
The light scout heli (AH-6 Little Bird for NATO) is back.
- Added in Extreme Measures (Feb 17, 2026). NATO: AH-6 Little Bird; Pax Armata: MH-350.
TipLittle Birds are fast troop-transport gunships; a good pilot plus passenger gunners can pressure objectives from angles ground vehicles cannot reach, which raises the value of carrying AA again.
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