@warriorjoy
In my opinion, helicopters need a buff. As a matter of fact, I feel we need to nerf the AA missiles.
Have you flown the heli on a regular basis? If you did, you'd realise that there are people out there who actually camp in high mountain tops or cranes without even playing the objectives, just so that they can get vehicle destroyed stats.
And that is like always about 5 to 6 of them (at least in Breakthrough). Try playing Breakthrough for 1.5 hours straight and aim to only use the heli , you'd totally see how overpowered this stupid AA missiles are and how frustrating it is to be a heli pilot, who has to constantly wait for flares to be up.
In conquest, I think its managable as the concentration level of players are spread across the map and as a heli pilot you can try to use buildings and surroundings to escape. But in breakthrough, the AA missiles are already facing the spawn direction... the moment you fly into combat zone, you are already locked on and must be prepared to use your flares...