During my first time playing WT, I was surprised to see that there weren’t any aircraft-carriers in this game…at least, none that could be acquired. Personally, I dismiss the one in Enduring Conflicts and the light-cruisers that can launch planes, but that’s just me being nit-picky.
I don’t know if I’ll ever get far in WT, but I can imagine how they would operate, and I think it would be interesting. Might require a map bigger than what I experience in Enduring Conflict, but I think it can be done.
Those barges are already ingame for german coastal with the same 88’s or bigger guns. But warthunder mobiles damage model for ships is like world of warships from what I have seen so that they work on mobiles.
Ah yes, the jet thats too fat to properly take off from a ski jump carrier, and the ski jump carrier thats perpetually on fire.
Jokes aside, more carriers are nice, tho unforrunately, I think this’ll just be for a test drive and we wont be getting any air gameplay with proper modern naval maps for another long time…
Kuznetsov might be able to replace Ark Royal(R09) in Air SB and the remaining ARB carrier maps, or atleast I hope it could - it would be nice if both teams’ takeoff point had AA guns, rather than just one side.
We’ve seen from Mobile that gjn has models for other carriers, maybe some of those will appear this time too.
The AK-630 single turrets are named as the primary calibre, while the 3M87 Kortik combined gun-missile defense systems are marked as secondary calibre. Ammo storage for the 9M311 missiles are modelled, but they are not currently usable - only the gun component of the turret is able to fire at the moment.
This is the first carrier to have Xray modules for radar systems present in the model !
Though, some of the WW2 carriers added in update " Apex Predators " did have their optical rangefinders modelled already.
Here 's some additional images showing some of the VLS cells for 3K95 Kinzhal SAM ( aka 9M330 ) and defensive chaff screen projectors:
These are not currently part of the DM for the ship. These images are not comprehensive, there are more of both types of equipment present than shown above.
