Helicopters

Wardogs has six helicopters in Season 2: the MH-6 Little Bird transport every pilot starts with ($6,250), the 13-seat Z20 Lakota ($7,400, Pilot 10), the Lakota with miniguns, the AH-6M and AH-6R attack Little Birds, and the Havoc attack helicopter ($28,000, Pilot 35 for $650,000). Season 2 raised the attack helicopters' prices.

50:12 Wardogs has six helicopters in Season 2, all on the Pilot track: the MH-6 Little Bird, the Z20 Lakota and the Z20 Lakota [Miniguns] for carrying players, and the Little Bird AH-6M [Miniguns], Little Bird AH-6R [Rockets] and Havoc for attacking, as Dexerto's vehicle database and Bulkhead's Season 2 patch notes list them. Every pilot starts in the MH-6, which GamesRadar+ calls starting "as a taxi"; the others need Pilot levels and a one-time cash unlock. Season 2 (Oct 15, 2026) raised the price of every armed helicopter and moved the minigun Little Bird later in the track. How to fly them is on Helicopter Flying Guide.

A light helicopter with orange skids banks toward the camera, two armed soldiers seated on each side outside the cabin; snowy peaks and a tower on a far hilltop sit under a pale evening sky. — A small black helicopter carries soldiers on its outside benches over pine-covered mountains at dusk in an official Steam store screenshot of Wardogs Bulkhead and Team17

Quick facts

Helicopters	6
Starting helicopter	MH-6 Little Bird, $6,250
Biggest	Z20 Lakota, 13 seats
Fastest	Z20 Lakota, 445 km/h
Strongest	Havoc, rockets and a 30mm autocannon
Last unlock	Havoc, Pilot 35 for $650,000
Countermeasures	Flares, $750 for three bursts
Jets	Planned, not in the game

Sources: Dexerto's helicopter pages, Bulkhead's Season 2 patch notes, Dexerto's Flares page.

Every helicopter

Helicopter	Role	Price	Seats	Weapons	Top speed	Unlock	Destroy reward
MH-6	Small transport	$6,250	6	None	350 km/h	Starting helicopter	$1,250
Z20 Lakota	Large transport	$7,400	13	None	445 km/h	Pilot 10, $35,000	$1,500
Little Bird AH-6M [Miniguns]	Light attack	$12,000	2	Two M134D miniguns	350 km/h	Pilot 8, $125,000	$6,000
Z20 Lakota [Miniguns]	Armed transport	$15,000	13	Two miniguns	445 km/h	Pilot 25, $85,000	$7,500
Little Bird AH-6R [Rockets]	Light attack	$18,800	2	Two B-13 rocket pods	350 km/h	Pilot 20, $250,000	$9,400
Havoc	Heavy attack	$28,000	2	B-13 rocket pods, 2A42 autocannon	400 km/h	Pilot 35, $650,000	$14,000

Sources: prices, unlocks and destroy rewards from Bulkhead's Season 2 patch notes and Dexerto's Pilot page; seats, weapons and speeds from Dexerto's pages for the MH-6, Z20 Lakota, Lakota Miniguns, AH-6M, AH-6R and Havoc. The minigun Lakota's passengers are 11, as on the plain Lakota.

MH-6 Little Bird

The MH-6 is the small black transport helicopter with outside benches that every player can fly from the start: six seats, $6,250 a life, 350 km/h and 105 liters of fuel at 4.4 liters per kilometer, per Dexerto. It can also carry two small supply crates on its sides, which Shacknews notes leaves no room for four squadmates. The Supporter Pack includes a Little Bird "Taxi" camo, and Season 2's Gold Market added a Black & Gold Little Bird camo, a Season 2 exclusive (Season 2 notes); see Gold Bars and the Gold Market.

Z20 Lakota

The Z20 Lakota is the big transport: 13 seats, which GameSpot splits into two crew and 11 passengers, a top speed of 445 km/h, the fastest of any vehicle in Dexerto's database, and $7,400 a life. It unlocks at Pilot 10 for $35,000, cut from $50,000 for launch in the Season 1 changelog, which also gave it a balance pass and fixed its sluggish pitch. It can carry whole supply pallets, as can the Ural truck (Shacknews). Destructoid called it the most efficient passenger vehicle, and KeenGamer put it in S tier in Season 1. The Z20 Lakota [Miniguns] adds two door miniguns for $15,000 a life (it was $8,000) and unlocks at Pilot 25 for $85,000 in Season 2.

First-person view inside a helicopter's cabin, holding a rifle with a red-dot sight; a seated soldier in a blue armband mans a rotary gun at the open door, another soldier sits at right, and chimneys and snowy hills show outside. — From inside a transport helicopter, a soldier with a blue armband fires a door-mounted minigun over an industrial town in an official Steam store screenshot of Wardogs Bulkhead and Team17

Attack Little Birds

The Little Bird AH-6M [Miniguns] carries two M134D miniguns and two seats. Season 2 moved it from Pilot 4 to Pilot 8 and raised its unlock from $50,000 to $125,000 because it "was too strong for how early it unlocked", and its price from $7,000 to $12,000; its miniguns also took the Season 2 caliber damage cuts. The Little Bird AH-6R [Rockets] swaps the guns for two B-13 rocket pods at $18,800 a life (was $12,500), unlocking at Pilot 20 for $250,000. KeenGamer ranked the minigun version A tier and the rocket version C tier in Season 1.

Havoc

1:02:43 The Havoc is the heavily armored attack helicopter at the top of the Pilot track: two seats, B-13 rocket pods and a 2A42 autocannon, 400 km/h, $28,000 a life since Season 2 (it was $18,000) and an unlock at Pilot 35 for $650,000 (was $500,000), per Bulkhead's notes. KeenGamer listed it with 800 HP, 122mm rockets, a 30mm cannon and two flares in Season 1. It is the endgame vehicle players complain about most: Bulkhead CEO Joe Brammer said, as PCGamesN reported on Oct 25, 2026, that "you finally shoot down a Havoc, one minute later a Havoc appears," because a rich pilot simply rebuys it. Bulkhead has no fix yet, and Lead Game Designer Pete Harries floated fuel as part of an answer. A Two-Tone Desert Havoc camo is in the Season 2 Gold Market.

Anti-air threats

Helicopters have four ground threats in Season 2, with prices from Bulkhead's notes and Dexerto:

9K333 Verba: a single-use infrared-homing missile that "exclusively targets locked-on aerial vehicles", $800, effective range 1,000 m, unlocked at Support 14 for $50,000. See Launchers and Explosives.
Talon 9K-SAM: a heat-seeking missile station built at an FOB for 650 build supplies; Season 2 slowed its reload from 2 to 5 seconds.
Vanguard CIWS: a manned 20x102mm anti-air gun for 1,200 build supplies. After an overcorrection, Bulkhead's Oct 2 hotfix made it kill a Havoc in about 6 seconds instead of 12. Both stations are on Building and Fortifications.
Flakpanzer Gepard: the anti-air tank with twin 35mm cannons added in Season 2 (Tanks and Artillery).

12:22 Flares are the defense: $750 for three bursts, fired with V and bought, like helicopter ammo, from the shop opened by holding B at HQ (GamesRadar+). Since Season 2, shooting out through the cockpit glass damages your own helicopter the same as incoming fire, and since update 0.1.2 grenades and C4 cannot be thrown from enclosed seats (0.1.2 notes). Update 0.1.2 also fixed a bug that made the Havoc take extra damage from 20mm and 30mm cannons.

Making money as a pilot

5:36 Transport flying is one of the steadiest incomes in Wardogs. In the beta, PC Gamer watched a pilot make over $35,000 in about 40 minutes with zero kills, ranking in the top five. Dexerto's early Season 1 figure was $450 a drop-off plus $500 if the passenger survives; pilots also earn assist cash when passengers go on to get kills, and tips (PC Gamer). Season 2 cut the base rate for a player delivered from $150 to $100, but added a streak of +$25 and +5 XP for each player in a row, up to 25, and pays crate and pallet deliveries ($250 and $500 for crates, $1,250 for a pallet) with their own streaks. Pilot XP comes from passengers who jump out, more if they land alive (GamesRadar+). Repairs, fuel and ammo at HQ come out of your cash, so a lost helicopter is a real cost. More on Money Making Guide.

Frequently asked questions

How many helicopters are in Wardogs? Wardogs has six helicopters in Season 2: the MH-6, the Z20 Lakota and Z20 Lakota [Miniguns], the Little Bird AH-6M [Miniguns] and AH-6R [Rockets], and the Havoc.

How do you unlock the Havoc in Wardogs? The Havoc unlocks at Pilot level 35 for $650,000 in Season 2 and then costs $28,000 each time you buy it.

How do you get the minigun Little Bird in Wardogs? The Little Bird AH-6M [Miniguns] unlocks at Pilot level 8 for $125,000 since Season 2 (Oct 15, 2026); it was Pilot 4 for $50,000 in Season 1, and it costs $12,000 a life.

What helicopter do you start with in Wardogs? Every Wardogs pilot starts with the MH-6 Little Bird, a six-seat transport that costs $6,250 a life; the Z20 Lakota follows at Pilot level 10.

Which Wardogs helicopter carries the most players? The Z20 Lakota carries the most, with 13 seats (two crew and 11 passengers), and is also the fastest vehicle in Wardogs at 445 km/h in Dexerto's figures.

How do you shoot down helicopters in Wardogs? Wardogs players shoot down helicopters with the 9K333 Verba missile, the Talon 9K-SAM and Vanguard CIWS built at an FOB, and the Flakpanzer Gepard anti-air tank; the CIWS kills a Havoc in about 6 seconds since the Oct 2, 2026 hotfix.