America needs a 6.7 or 7.0 spaa. 6.7 is probobly one of the most iconic and most used/popular brs in game.
Germany has the Kugel
Russia has the ZSU-57 or the M53/59
Sure other countries also lack SPAA in that br range but America is one of the bigger nations in the game along with RU and GER.
Pls list some ideas for America.
My picks would be
T100 Stinger, an SPAA with 4x .60cal (15.2mm) machine guns and tracking radar, based on T37 light tank.
M19 with 75mm T22 autoloaded cannon, fires HE-VT at 45 rpm (once every 1.33 seconds)
I don’t believe there is a suggestion for it
What do you suggest
I guess apollo has you covered, both of those are funny
The duster is good enough.
The U.S. is in desperate need of a new SPAA. Before the Skink, I absolutely hated that the U.S. had no viable SPAA. That was one of the main reason why I quit grinding USA (I was also extremely braindead at the time and messed up grinding).
i think the t52 mgmc could be a good pick too.
it got a 40 mm bofors and 2 12.7 M2 guns
or they could make it so that people could spawn in as stationary Anti air gun emplacements (could give them more content to had into the game thru that)
the German 15.2 and Russian 14.5 SPAAs don’t fill that gap, why should the American one do that?
that Mini OTOMATIC would be funny but probably quite useless
5.7 Material right there
the French have a Premium wirh this exact armarment which has an open turret
Absolutely not. Not at 6.7 or 7.0.
It’s found at 3.7.
TBH the T52 MGMC looks more of a 4.3 - 5.3 depending on the 40mm bofor and its firerate.
If it’s the M42’s / M19’s 40mm bofors then I think 4.3 would be more reasonable, though it could be higher depending on how thick the turret armour is.
Sounds kinda awful ngl.
You would be a sitting duck for bombs and you wouldn’t be able to do anything for the team beyond shooting down bombs (if it’s large and you have good aim), and planes near spawn.
It is still better then bo anti air in my eyes
I do believe the US .60 cal is ballistically superior to both, though not by much. Ultimately you should consider the vehicle as a whole and not just the armament, because a fully enclosed light tank is a vastly superior platform to open top half tracks. You also have the tracking radar, and in combination it would make a fine SPAA IMHO.
Useless? IDK about you but I think HE-VT is quite powerful, especially against props and early jets. Have you tried swatting CAS with 155mm HE-VT in vehicles such as Bkan, VIDAR, and M109? Imagine that but now you’re firing roughly once a second rather than once every 5 or 15 seconds. My concern is actually the opposite: maybe it would be too powerful for 6.7/7.0.
I see you’re of the opposite opinion, and it’s quite understandable, but there are mitigating factors. For one, like @someweirdname pointed out, the armament is relatively weak. We’re talking 15mm MGs that wouldn’t be out of place at 4.0-5.0 BR. And secondly, the radar is a early variant from the 50s, and it can’t be any better than the one found on M163. And speaking of M163, this vehicle is clearly inferior to it in terms of armament, so if the M163 can be 7.3, then IMO it’s entirely fair for T100 to be 7.0 or 6.7 BR.
I’d like something like this, but with an important difference: the Anti air gun should come with a towing vehicle. The mechanics for trailers is already in game (NASAMS, Churchill Crocodile), and top tier SAM systems already allows players to control multiple vehicles/launchers.
I imagine it like you’d spawn in as a gun tractor/truck with the gun in tow, and you can set up the gun wherever you like. After which you can freely change between the two using the multi vehicle mechanic.
I like that a lot. then they can also add iconic millitary vehicles that does not have guns, for towing
Ballistically superior to a Russian 14.5? that gun has Insane Ballistics, even better than a .50cal
the main problem it and the other <20mm AA guns share is just plain damage
you basically need a Direct Pilot snipe to take the aircraft down
yes Imagine that but looking at the Barrel length Im guessing with Mediocre ballistics which will make it quite hard to hit High flying Fast aircraft
yes I know but this is on an open LVT Chassis and the other is on a Closed Sherman chassis like the Skink which is why I’d put it in the same area
Since this is a US thread I’ll name this combination:
M4 High Speed Tractor
With 90mm M2
The gun has 360° traverse and is good against both ground and air targets. Later variants could achieve 24 rpm (a shot every 2.5s) and could fire both AP and HE-VT.
A gun like this should be quite powerful to compensate for it’s inability to move, but not to a game breaking degree either so maybe the numbers would have to change.
Fair enough.
