It’s also the lowest BR and first M41 to get HEAT-FS, and turret smoke launchers.
The T92 light tank also starts with APCR with APDS being a rank 3 mod.
Copium in this case is neither ignorant nor unwarranted.
Everything he said is categorically and provably false except for the reload rate claim, since that can vary significantly from loader to loader. This was nothing but the unchecked wet dreams of a Russian main.
That’s why I told him to bug report it. It’s also the reason why he did no such bug reports, and why he did not reply further. I used “copium” very, very specifically here.
There’s also a lot of USA, Germany, UK, French, Japanese, and Israel tanks that don’t get the better or best possible reloads.
I don’t even play top tier yet I have heard countless times how the Leclerc autoloader can reload at 4 seconds (albeit at the possibility of damage), how there are videos of the Type 10 doing 3 second reloads, how an Abrams loader did an average of 2 to 3 seconds emptying all rounds. Plus the examples I gave of the M4 Sherman (there is at least one in every tech tree) and Centurion (a lot of those as well). I could go on with examples of the M26E1 (somehow reloads slower than a T-44-100), the T-54/55s (somehow have the same reload as the M47, and the M48 is only 1 second faster).
It’s 9.8 to 7.5 seconds. Same as Russian 100 mm reload rate on the T-54/55s.
I fail to see what the penetration has to do with the reload rate. The M-51’s gun specifically uses smaller casings than that of the French 105 mm cannon, making the complete rounds smaller, weight less and have a lower muzzle velocity than it.
It’s also not HEAT-FS, but that really doesn’t matter.
Edit: I forgot this, but the M-51 also has a ready rack, 8 rounds to be exact. This means it cannot sustain those 9.8 to 7.5 seconds of reload forever. Once it runs out of ready rack that reload rate goes jumps, 12.5 to 9.6 seconds, due to a reload multiplier of 1.28. You’re barely faster reloading with a fully maxed out loader without a ready rack than a level 0 loader with a ready rack.
Blame the American mains who kept demanding new stuff. We had four or five tiers just for WWII alone, and now look. We have like four tiers for the 1950s to the modern era all because of, “when F-16,” “when F-15,” “when F-18,” etc.
Get back to me when you have multiple threads a week demanding various Russian equipment on the same level as Americans. I mean, we had people begging for the F-18 the second the F-16 was announced. I don’t recall seeing Russians demanding the Su-30 the second the Su-17 was put into the game.