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1)Attack Helicopter has got no flares
2)Harrier has got no flares
3)Pave Low has got 1 flare
4)Chopper Gunner has got 1 flare
5)AC130 has got 2 flares

But I see on a regular basis harriers and attack helicopters shoot flares. Sometimes even more than one.
Unfortunately I don't have a capture card, so I never bothered to record matches, but I swear I've personally tried to take down a Harrier with my stinger only to have it fly up to 3 (three!) flares, so I had to reload with scavenger to take it down.

I believe that only happened once though, but most often the attack heli and the harrier do fire 1 flare, sometimes 2 (I think harrier only).

So what is the deal with flares? Are those killstreak rewards supposed to release flares, or not?

This pisses me off, because in most matches your team (when you play with strangers) will never switch to an AA class to take them down, so not only I have to kill myself to switch because the team is getting butchered, but then I also have to waste precious time to take them down because they will release those stupid flares even though they are not supposed to (and in some maps you will get killed a couple times in the process, because it can be hard to acquire lock on them).


Edit: I just noticed my rep went from 10 to 0 because of this thread. Looks like we have some really mature people around here..

The Stinger and w/e are lock on, pretty sure like 'heat seeking' so when the flares are let off the missle finds a new target or something along those lines.. I think..

With the stinger missing I'm pretty sure if you do it from an angle that makes you and the harrier more horizontally then vertically it'll miss, that's what always happens to me. I mean if you're standing towards it's side, not below it

when air-crafts shoot flairs they are popping out something hotter than there primary heat source which guides the projectile away from the vehicle

It's called the Angel of Death

that's the title but I'm talking bout the emblem if you look at the picture its a black AC130 with flares in the design of an angel I'm not saying it isn't its just the title is called angel of death

When it pops the flares they are called the angel of death.