Cannot Kill Aircraft

Could also add different real world stinger missile variants-proximity to get SOME damage when getting close enough. 

mewmewwm Those are not AA weapons, they're anti-armor weapons. You shouldn't have to be "creative", the tools designed to do a single job should simply be sufficient at that single job. A TOW missile is an AA weapon in the same way a tank is a sniper. Sure, technically it can be used for that. I've landed tank shots on snipers at 700 meters before. That shouldn't be the expectation. Would it not be a problem if that was the only realistic way to combat snipers? That is the situation AA is facing now. AA is worse at its job than literally anything else. The .50cal tank turret is just as good an AA turret as the AA vehicle's main gun. That's not someone being "creative", that's the builder's hammer not being able to drive in the proverbial nail and forcing them to turn to a rock they found outside. 

Good points. I feel like stingers were more effective during beta as well. 

LordRaiden008​ Sure they aren't AA weapons, but they're still anti-vehicle weapons. I didn't think it should matter what the name, label, or category weapon it is if it does a job just as or more effectively for the situation, then why not make use of it? I recognize this is not the case for jets, so I'm speaking purely with regards to helicopters.

Handheld AAs are still fairly effective in a sense that a single shot often disables, if not kills, an attack helicopter. Lock-ons are enough to deter loitering by even a seasoned heli crew, while alternatively, forcing them to fly lower exposes them to more counter-platforms. There is nothing stopping an entire squad/multiple players from grabbing stingers and shutting out a helicopter. Both teams also typically have the same exact vehicle to counter the other's. Hence personally, this really seems like a skill/team issue.

I think the AA platform just seem like poor performers since its alternatives are relatively more effective at killing vehicles in general, that doesn't mean AAs suck that bad. I mean, it literally takes no skill to point, lock, and shoot. If you can force a chopper to fly away despite not killing it, I'd say that's still good use of AA since you've still forced them out of the fight.

Most players can hardly fly and survive in the choppers as is, it hardly makes sense to punish heli players in general by raising the skill ceiling through buffing their direct counters - you're effectively just trying to make things harder for average players in pursuit of punishing the 1%. 

13 KD and still not able to figure out how to take out 2 jets and 1 heli. Okay mate.

Stingers are still one shot kill.