Battlefield 4
67 Achievements
1,600
59-73h
Fly Swatter
Kill an enemy with the AA Mine
30
1.04%
How to unlock the Fly Swatter achievement in Battlefield 4 - Definitive Guide
To get the AA Mine you must first complete the "Death From Below" Assignment. You can check your progress in Battlelog by checking your Silver Assignments. You must:
- Reach Rank 10
- Obtain 3 PDW Ribbons (6 kills with a PDW in a round)
- Destroy 5 attack air vehicles with Rocket Launchers
**Please note that you can accomplish these tasks and unlock the achievement itself outside of Naval Strike Maps. You can obtain PDW Ribbons easily on Conquest Large maps such as Operation Locker OR Operation Metro 2014. I destroyed Air Vehicles on a mix of Naval Strike maps and Conquest Large Golmud Railway due to the large amounts of Air Vehicles. Use an IGLA to take down Attack Aircraft** Several people have reported the Stinger does not give you progress towards the assignment, be warned.
Legit method: Once you unlock the AA Mine, equip the Engineer class and deploy them on a high vantage point. You get two of them and they will attack enemy Aircraft within their proximity. It will take 3 hits to take down a vehicle and you only get 2 shots, so find a Support guy or get lucky with an already damaged air vehicle.
Boosting method: Grab 1 friend and have him join the opposite team and hop in a helicopter by himself. Make sure you are an Engineer with the AA Mine and repair torch equipped. Find a quiet part of the map on a Carrier Assault Large or Conquest Large. Have your boosting partner land his helicopter next to you. Equip your repair torch and inflict massive damage. Have your partner take off and then deploy your AA Mines, easily destroying the helicopter and getting the achievement.
FIRST THING: You are only given 1 AA Mine Launcher instead of 2.
SECOND THING: Many things are 2 or 3 shots, but what got me the achievement is the ONE thing I've noticed is one hit with the AA Mine EVERYTIME. This thing being the launch pods in Hangar 21, they might be in other maps... I'm not sure, I never seen them anywhere else. These launch pods are basically "escape pods" that can be shot out of cannons. I recommend playing "Conquest Large" on Hangar 21, and capturing Objective B. Once that is captured, run outside to the deck. When you look over the deck, you should see 2 Launch Pod "cannons". Just place the AA mine cannon in between the two cannons above them on the deck, facing outwards towards the rest of the map.
THIRD THING: Wait, then profit, it took me a few games, but eventually I got it while messing around with the snowmobiles, going for the 10 roadkills for one of the Final Stand Assignments.
NOTE: PEOPLE DO LIKE TO DESTROY YOUR AA MINE LAUNCHER!!! Do check up on it every once in a while.
For an example of the tactic:
In order to get a kill with the AA mine, first you need to unlock it. To unlock the AA mine you will need to complete a number of prerequisites.
- You will need to be Level 10, which is self-explanatory.
- Own Naval Strike
- Obtain 3 PDW ribbon. For this you will need to get 6 kills with a PDW in a round, 3 times.
- Destroy 5 attack air vehicles with Rocket Launchers. The best way to accomplish this if you are skilled is to either use an RPG/SMAW or an FGM-172 SRAW, when an enemy helicopter is hovering, as they will destroy attack helicopters in one rocket. Or you could ask a kind friend to help boost this with you.
Once you have unlocked the AA Mine, it is deployed in the same way as an AT mine. Simply place it on the ground underneath the air space you want to mine. When an enemy helicopter passes into the target zone, a missile will lock and fire, hopefully hitting the helicopter. The missile does 30 damage, and thus will take up to 4 separate hits to destroy a helicopter, depending on its health.
This one can also be boosted with partners by finding 3 like-minded individuals and finding an empty NS server. Simply have a Support supply the Engineer going for the achievement with an ammo box to refill the AA mines, then have an enemy member fly over deployed AA mines. Rinse and repeat for each member of the group.
In order to unlock AA mines, you first have to complete assignment “Death From Below”.
To access the assignment you must be at least rank 10. For the assignment you have to get 3 PDW ribbons and hit down 5 attack air vehicles (jets, attack and scout helicopters - basically all air vehicles except transport helicopters) with rocket launchers. For the PDW ribbon you have to use engineer class specific weapons PDWs and get 5 kills in a round with them. For hitting down the attack air vehicles you can use rocket launchers such as RPGs, SRAWs, Stingers, Iglas, etc. Note that you don’t have to complete these requirements in a single round so it can be done in multiple matches.
After you’ve unlocked the AA mines, comes the tricky part – getting a kill with it. AA mines replace launchers and you can carry and deploy up to 2 of them at the same time. AA mines do about 30% of damage so there’s no way to instantly destroy an aircraft with full health. You have to deploy the AA mines on the ground and once an enemy aircraft is in their range they will shoot automatically.
There are multiple ways you can get a kill with them, for example, play on a big, open map and wait on a building’s roof. Have a friend deploy an ammo-box for you and then just spam the AA mines (thanks to NSS13 for the tip). Alternatively, you can wait for your teammates to try shooting down choppers with stingers/iglas/heat-seekers and then deploy your AA mines after the enemy pilot has used up their flares.
If you want to boost the trophy, have a friend in the opposing team get a either an attack or scout helicopter and meet-up on a remote place on the map. Note that since AA mines do such little damage you first have to damage the chopper with other means. For example, you can have your boosting partner land the chopper, damaged it with your repair tool and leave it with 50% health and then deploy your AA mines to get a kill.
1. Three stripes for PDW ownership
2. Destroy 5 units. strike aircraft from grenade launchers (Igla and Stinger also count).
Only after this the air defense mine is opened, and only by the engineer.
- get a stripe 3 times for owning a self-defense weapon (kills with PDW 6 times per round)
- destroy 5 units of attack aircraft (reconnaissance helicopters will not do!) using MANPADS (needle, stinger, etc.)
We equip the engineer with an air defense mine, place it under the place where the helicopter is supposed to fly over (preferably hovering - for example, near a flag while being captured), it is advisable that the helicopter has already had more than half of its life destroyed before using the mine (it works automatically on enemy aircraft).