So judging by the info we’ve got for this year it seems like it would be something like this :
March : Last of the air premiums
June : Indian ground focus update
September : 5th Gen & Rank IX
November : Greece and Cyprus lines for Israel
October & December : Independant Korea tree CBT
I’m guessing Rank 9 in the first or second update of 2026 personally since they did say that:
My additional thinking is that we will be getting rank 9 to add some aircraft with the addition of ARM’s that was said to be coming in the first half of 2026 in the Q&A.
Yeah forgot about that, still can’t wait for TEC to say the leaker is fake even though their credibility is unmatched when there list comes out for that update
Also it’s still very questionable if it even has blowout panels for the turret rack. From what I saw in my limited quick research this morning the Mk.1 definitely doesn’t and there are a lot of contradicting claims for blowouts panels on the Mk.1A.
yeah no the Arjun kinda sucks like it may look like a leopard but it wont play like one, im betting its gonna be more like an arriete where if someone looks at you, you die
im not gonna lie if we absolutely have to get indian tanks can we get the T-90Ms they are meant to be building that way we get something semi decent and not the Arjun
I mean it’s still a unique addition, which are always welcome, that can be used to plug the 9.3-10.3 gap (Mk.1) and be placed behind the Vickers Mk.7 at around 11.0 (Mk.1A, depends on what round it gets and the performance, which is again heavily disputed online).
if its put at 9.7 its useless as their is no line up and if its placed near 10.3 its useless as britain already has an amazing 10.3 line up so idk I think its kinda a terrible edition but thats just me
The Hummel makes me hopeful we’ll see the allied WW2 arty, next year as well, or it could be just a here we added something you where complaining about.
i dont think we will see an update focused on the indian ground forces as at best they are gonna get 3 tanks, there is zero space, the only BR gap I can think of is 9.3 to 10.3, not to mention the “commonwealth” line already has 2 to 3 tanks at every rank the only rank that doesn’t is rank 8 which india would struggle to add a single thing for that rank that isnt just a T-90M
This wouldn’t be the first time for Gaijin to artificially make a vehicle a higher BR than it should be to generate hype (cough F/A-18E at 14.3 cough).
I don’t think the lineup thing is a valid reason for anything, if it was Gaijin might as well not add any more ground vehicles.
Was the Oplot-T also a bad addition for Japan because they have no 12.3 lineup?
I wish they would add the Zorawar, which would be something actually useful for the British tech tree, but the Arjun is probably too iconic for the Indians to skip.