The Savage is a military helicopter gunship featured in Grand Theft Auto Online as part of the Heists update.
The Savage is a military helicopter gunship featured in GTA Online as part of the Heists update.
The Savage is based on the Soviet/Russian Mil Mi-24 "Hind", specifically the older Mi-24D/Mi-35 variants due to its gun configuration. The cockpit appears to be a cross between the earlier angular greenhouse-style cockpit design from the Hind-A and the "double bubble" canopy design from the Hind-D and later versions, while the side exhausts are similar to those found on export Hinds. Some of the characteristic features, such as the circular dust covers, the triangular strike guard on the tail boom, and the Anti-Tank/Anti-Air missiles on the wingtip pylons, are not present. The camouflage scheme is based on the US Military "aggressor" vehicle camouflage scheme.
The aircraft is depicted with a seemingly large fuselage compared to most helicopters, where the front section consists of the large framed cockpit with openable compartments and side steps on the left, while the lower area consists of the gun turret that is always fixed towards the front, a large antenna pod on the left side, and the underside hatches for the nose landing gear. The main section features a set of side steps, black vertical handles and sliding doors that are always open (opposed to the swinging door compartments of the real-life Hind), while the upper compartment houses the dual engines, large exhausts that are angled rearwards, and a five-bladed main rotor. On each side of the fuselage are long stub wings with six pylons, while the lower area houses large compartments for the main landing gear. The rear section consists of the long tail boom with large horizontal stabilizers and a vertical stabilizer with a three-bladed tail rotor on the left. The aircraft is seen with various military-themed decorations, including the U.S. Army star on its sides, the "Zancudo" and registration numbers on the side doors, a badge near the cockpit area with "Enduro Fortes" markings and a similar one on the opposite side reads "Voxusm Delicat", and a yellow line on the tail edge that reads "Zancudo". The Savage is seen in a desert military camouflage pattern covering most of the aircraft's fuselage, stub wings and tail boom.
The interior of the aircraft features two flight control panels, with the frontal one for the pilot and the rear one for the passenger/rocket operator (an inverted layout to the real-life Hind and most gunships, which the pilot sits in the rear and the gunner on the front), while the rear bay only allows passengers sitting on the steps like the Police Maverick and the Annihilator (despite having a bench seat on the interior that is not used). In the enhanced version, it uses the "Lazer" dial set also used on aircraft such as the P-996 LAZER and the Hydra, with a layout that is also similar to the aforementioned jets. Interestingly, the Savage appears to have unused control sticks on the right side of both seats, similar to the control sticks of the P-996 LAZER and the Hydra.
Files list it as having a desert tan primary color on most of the aircraft's body (with various shades of brown due to the camo) and a silver/grey secondary color for the underside, inner pylons of the stub wings and the rocket pods. It uses a set of plain industrial wheels that are similar to the ones from the Titan and the Hydra.
The aircraft is equipped with an explosive six-barrel gatling gun that mostly resembles an M134 Minigun (in contrast with the Hind's four barrel Yak-B 12.7mm machine gun), and four rocket launchers that appear to be based on the M261 rocket pods with extra units (opposed to the UB-32 rocket pods used on the real-life Hind).
