Banana Aerospace Industries is back in touch!
The company’s top brass has decided to open a separate design bureau division dedicated to helicopters and similar machines. It was named — surprise, surprise — Banana Aerospace Helicopters, or simply BAH. And this team of alternatively gifted folks presents their very first independent project — a light reconnaissance/attack single-seat helicopter, the RAH-6 “SillyShrike”!

BACKGROUND
All in all, nothing too special: when the management learned that their first helicopter, the AH-4 “Banana Hawk”, sold pretty well, it became clear that they weren’t too bad at making helicopters. On top of that, the UA-5 “Bananajackal” project showed that they could also build simple and cheap machines. So the idea came up — why not combine these two approaches? After all, let’s be honest: you don’t always need a massive machine with tons of weapons, complex systems, and insane fuel consumption, like some Ka-52 class beast.
Thus, a group of engineers who preferred rotor blades over wings was quickly assembled and mixed with those who had worked on the UA-5. And of course, they were given the most miserable corner of the assembly hall and a couple of the most useless monkeys to help them put things together — well, their creations had to be built somewhere.

And that’s how this little rascal was born.

SPECIFICATIONS
For its size, its design is rather unusual: twin engines placed like on the “Apache,” coaxial rotors, H-shaped tail… but none of this is accidental. At the very least, all of this greatly increases survivability: if one engine is knocked out, the helicopter won’t just drop like a stone but can at least limp away and land a bit softer. Since there’s no tail rotor — there’s nothing to damage — and even if the tail boom is destroyed, the RAH-6 can continue flying almost without issue, and possibly even finish the mission.
On top of that, the compact coaxial rotors, together with the absence of a tail rotor, significantly reduce overall size, allowing the “SillyShrike” to operate in tighter conditions. Of course, it’s not without flaws: the twin-engine layout increases fuel consumption, which further reduces its already modest range.

Armament:
High-rate-of-fire twin-barrel heavy machine gun (~.512 caliber, with explosive rounds), 400-round ammo supply
Two pods with seven unguided rockets each
Four Inferno missiles