I'm working on a project to represent the entire Polish military aviation structure in FSX. The Land Forces have had quite the restructuring in the last few years, so I'm trying to see the best way to represent unit movement in my project.
Right now, Polish Army Aviation looks like this (with some nomenclature changed to better represent unit size for U.S. eyes):
1st Aviation Brigade
- 49th Air Base, Inowroclaw (Mi-24s, Mi-2s)
- 56th Air Base, Pruszcz Gdanski (Mi-24s)
- Reconnaissance Battalion, Miroslaviec (UAVs)
25th Air Cavalry Brigade
- 1st Battalion, Leczyca (Mi-8/17s)
- 7th Battalion, Nowy Glinnik (W-3s)
FlightGlobal's World Air Forces 2014 shows the Polish Army operating:
- 43 Mi-2 Hops
- 26 Mi-8/17 Hips
- 29 Mi-24/35 Hinds
- 39 W-3 Sokols
Polish Army bases host a specific type of helicopter (with the exception of a couple of special-purpose aircraft at each base, only Inowroclaw hosts two types of helicopter). With the Polish Army returning from Afghanistan, I'm trying to find something for these helicopters to do in FSX, and, once I find that out, how to deploy them.
In contrast, the U.S. Army organizes its active-duty helicopters into nine Full Spectrum Combat Aviation Brigades at each base (except for four of heavy CABs that remain). For the sake of this thread, to equate this to U.S. Army Aviation, Mi-2s correspond to Hueys, Mi-17s to Chinooks, Mi-24s to Apaches, and W-3s to Blackhawks. Here's how a Full Spectrum Combat Aviation Brigade looks:
- An attack reconnaissance battalion of 24 AH-64 Apaches
- An attack reconnaissance battalion of 21 OH-58 Kiowas (National Guard units use the UH-72 Lakota)
- An assault battalion of 30 UH-60 Black Hawks
- A general support battalion of four UH-60s, 4 EUH-60s, 12 CH-47 Chinooks, and 12 HH-60 Black Hawk MEDEVACs
- An unmanned aerial systems company of 12 MQ-1 Gray Eagles
Each expeditionary battalion would consist of the following:
- An attack reconnaissance company of six Mi-24s
- An assault company of eight W-3s
- A support company of six Mi-17s
- A medevac company of eight Mi-2s
What say you? Is this on par with how NATO army aviation branches move? Any suggestions or feedback?