User blog comment:Bovell/Lots of new Battlefield 3 details via Twitter, DreamHack festival, PSM3, and interview/@comment-71.239.231.154-20110623231738/@comment-24476373-20110625182219

I think that the perfectly balanced helicopter would be BC2:V's Huey Chopper with faster repair time (Seriously, it can take about as much fire as a Patrol boat or 4WD but it takes just as long to repair it as it takes to repair a tank?) and a little more armor, so it can be downed by small arms fire, but not as easily as it is currently.

And Dragonfly18 clearly had the right idea with the last statement.