I think it should be added eventually but there’s much more priority for higher ranked vehicles for the USA tree specifically (note, some of these are for historical purposes but many offer new gameplay and are in “Bold”):
Main Battle Tanks:
XM1202 MCS (Quick-Kill Hard-Kill APS)
M1A1 FEP (Trophy Hard-Kill APS)
M1A1 HA
M1A1 AIM (American Version, TUSK-I)
M1A1 SA (TUSK-I)
M1A2 SEPv3 (Trophy Hard-Kill APS)
Light Tanks/IFV’s:
M10 Booker
M551A1 TTS Sheridan
M1296 Dragoon
ICVAA1
LAV-25/LAV-25A2
ACV-30
M2A4E1 Bradley (Iron-Fist Hard-Kill APS)
M2A2 ODS Bradley (AN/VLQ-6 Soft-Kill APS, BUSK-I)
M2A2 ODS-SA Bradley (BUSK-I)
M2A3 Bradley (BUSK-I)
M2A2/M3A2 Bradley
ATGM Vehicles/SPH:
M901A1/M901A3
M1045A2 TOW
M1134 ATGM Vehicle
LAV-AT/LAV-ATM
M109A6 Paladin
M109A7
SHORAD/Anti-Air:
M6 Linebacker (BUSK-I)
Sgt. Stout SHORAD
M163A2 PIVADS
M1097 Avenger
and more…
Not to mention, other nations should get the equivalent like the E-MBT and KF51 Panther but we’re no where near that yet. Eventually it should definitely come.
Edit: Yes I didn’t need to post all of those vehicles but they’re some of my favorite and I want them in-game so why not lol. I do think its important to work our way up to other advanced vehicles by fleshing out the BR’s/Ranks we already have.
I see the design still has that turret ring weak spot like the rest of the obrooms so you bet many will still complaint about “ma turret ring penned by autocannons bro” when they failed to maintain a 1.0 kdr, and the big ass machine gun on top reveals your position when you are trying to peek over the hill with the binocular, and this also sends an invitation to ussr vehicles to toss an HE to the turret dome. See, USA seems to never know how to build a mbt suits for war thunder meta
TIL that it “Commi propaganda” is then it a video game and American is not Numbuh 1 while it cant just bomb whole game map and call that a day
Oh and OP, why not make a threat in Suggestions? Dont think it will come even remotely to “Next update”, but me personally dont mind more modern and shiny stuff to play with (even if Im not grinding/maining US)
Most of its armor would just be an estimate. And we would barely find any official information to make bug report about it.
Those aside. 30mm turret with proximity fuse round would be very useful against CAS. plus with No crew in the turret HE round hitting them would have a hard time killing crew on the hull. And also make it very hard to kill if hull down
Where is the storage of the ammos for the autocannons? if it’s up there then I could imagine it gets the same treatment as the Leo 2K, one hit to the machinegun turret then all ammo gone, that thing get hits a lot because that thing shows up first when you peek over the hill with binoculars.
