How do you take down a Little Bird in WARDOGS?

By George In The Meta · 14 Nov 2026 · updated 15 Nov 2026

Short answer: early in WARDOGS Season 3, the only way I've got to take down a Little Bird is the Verba, the Support launcher, and one missile isn't enough because they flare it. So I carry six in a Ural. I drop my supplies at the FOB, park up near it and go after the Little Birds. I've got kills on them now, but the hit rate is not high because of the flares.

How do you take down a Little Bird in WARDOGS?

You take down a Little Bird in WARDOGS with the 9K333 Verba, the anti-air launcher on the Support track, until your team can build anti-air. Here's what I've been doing: driving the supplies out, dropping them off, then turning around and parking near the FOB and taking out the Little Birds that are starting to show up more and more frequently, whilst we still can't build anything to take them down.

The Verba unlocks at Support 8 for $50,000. Each rocket is $800, and you can only carry one on you.

Why can't you build anti-air yet?

You can't build anti-air yet because it needs the Large Hammer, and that moved to Support 14 in Season 3. You have to have the tier 3 hammer. None of us have got it, we've only got the Medium Hammer, and that's why it's unavailable. The Medium Hammer's build menu has no anti-air on either page.

BULKHEAD did this on purpose. The Season 3 patch notes say moving the Large Hammer "delayed anti-air options for dealing with the AH-6M", the Little Bird with miniguns, and that moving the Verba down to Support 8 "gives Support players the option again." The full list of moves is on my Season 3 changes page.

Why does my Verba keep missing?

Your Verba keeps missing because a Little Bird has enough flares to beat one missile. Any Little Bird I could get was flaring me, so I couldn't get a hit. Before I started carrying more, I thought the Verba was completely pointless, to be honest, because they're so easy to flare.

WARDOGS: a missile's smoke trail curving up through rain and pine trees and ending in a burst of flares, with a Little Bird below it dropping a burning flare and a second helicopter higher up — The missile goes into the flares, not the Little Bird. Tap to enlarge.

So you either need to have someone else with a Verba in there with you, or you need to do what I do, where you take more than one with you.

How many Verbas should you carry?

I carry six Verbas, a full Ural. The Ural's vehicle inventory holds six, and the supply pallet still goes in its back slot, so you can do a supply run and bring the anti-air with you. With six, it doesn't matter if I miss the Little Bird.

WARDOGS Garage Vendor: the Ural's vehicle inventory full at 6/6 with six Verba launchers, a supply pallet in the back slot and the message Logistics slots full — Six Verbas and a pallet in one Ural. Tap to enlarge.

My plan is that dumping two pallets covers the cost of all six. Six rockets at $800 is $4,800. Pallet pay goes up $250 with each delivery in a match: $1,250 for the first, then $1,500, $1,750 and so on, from my Season 3 supply runs. So the first two pallets of a match pay $2,750, and it's the fifth and sixth that get you to $4,750. It's also a good way to level Driver in a Ural at the same time.

Do you get the kill when you hit a Little Bird?

You get the kill when your Verba brings a Little Bird down, but not always. The first one I hit, I didn't get the kill because, as far as I can tell, the pilot jumped out or crashed after my hit. I did hit one, and I saw it go down in front of me. The kill feed just showed his name, then the helicopter, then his name again. So I don't know how he killed himself with the helicopter I'd hit. Maybe he just crashed into the ground.

I've killed others since, and on 15 November I finally got a screenshot of one: a Little Bird at 276 m, credited as a kill confirmed for 250 XP and a vehicle destroyed for 150 XP, and the kill paid $2,750.