not the first time some field mod bustle has been made
Also it lacks the CITV/RWS from the T-90M
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It does but wasn’t that part of a T-72 experimental turret strange to see it in actual use in Mali
which experimental turret again?
I think it is time to move the starting heli spawn to the back of the map for top tier matches.
2 reasons it will stop idiotic heli rushes that end up crippling or destroying a few tanks.
It will limit the immediate impact of LMURS (we are all thinking it) make them fly and perhaps get engaged by SAMS instead of spawning them on a helipad let them get their free 5-7 kills land and do it again.
Playing more top tier and the LMUR and even the US JAGM are a problem from the “closest” helipad. Push remove the close pad and that would transform this problematic element of the game.
Who remembers if this is a localised modification it seems strange to have it as part of the parade.
m/42 skpf
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I would also add that it is just 4 missiles per launcher
Ouf, ye I made a suggstion for the RSAF SAMP/T now.
Not like 4 missiles for a launcher is new to warthunder lol
Come one snail, we have 20 working missiles and it’s unique, add it pls
It’s even listed here gib RB72
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I can’t tell if that’s a mouse droid or a shoe…
Wait is that skis in the back of the first one lmao
It’s the terrängbil bil m/42 Estonia has one with a DShk iirc
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Big thanks to @ForeverAloneRage for helping find a better quality version of this one. In the VHS American training film “Infantry Weapons and Their Effects” from 1943, there is a section between 25:40 and 26:07 that demonstrates the use of 105mm ammunition against armored vehicles. However, the vehicle that is chosen for this demonstration is not a retired Sherman, Lee, or even Panzer as you may expect, but rather, a very rare configuration of the T67 GMC.
It may not seem like much, but this is what the T67 originally looked like before modification in late November of 1942. The primary difference here is that instead of the 76mm M1 that all existing photos show the vehicle with, the tank in this training film is armed with a 75mm. When looking at reference materials for the history, Hunnicutt offers a more detailed rundown of the two prototypes than Pasholok, in which he states that the second T67 GMC was upgunned with the 76mm. He does not, however, mention the same happening to the first T67, which is what I believe we’re seeing in this film.
Being that this clearly is a 75mm rather than the 57mm of the T49 or 76mm of the November T67 modification, it’s worth mentioning a small disagreement between the two sources I brought up. Hunnicutt states that the cannon here is a 75mm M3, which is the same gun as the T66 GMC that the turret was taken from, which would make sense. Pasholok, on the other, calls it a “75mm M2A3”; a gun that if real, I am not familiar with.
Either way, it’s a Hellcat predecessor with a 75mm, which is not only a somewhat unique option for the game I’d love to see one day, but also an important hidden piece in the development history of the M18 we all know and love.
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ok, so, i’m looking at the A-4B and A-4E early in the US tech tree and although the A-4E gets 2 more weapon stations it really gets nothing to set it out/apart from the tech tree one, so i decided to go through the skins to see roughly which year of skyhawk this A-4E is based off of due to it being a bit of a mismatch of a few models in one
skin 1: base skin: no squadron markings or tail markings, not enough to find photos for proof
skin 2: VF-43: now this gives us a squadron, however its a aggressor squadron for training, so dating the aircraft wouldn’t be reliable as it was used way past the main attacker groups got upgrades to the newer A-4s, so nothing can be done with this one either
skin 3: bicolor camoflauge: again dosen’t tell us much, as theres no squadron or tail number markings
skin 4: VA-212: gives us the squadron number, as well as nose number but no tail, with no findable images of the exact jet but i did find some of the same squadron
skin 5: VFA-126: this time it does give us a tail number, which allows us to track it down, however as it was used as a aggreser aircraft most photos are 91+ which at the time active combat squadrons had either retired the A-4s or were on the A-4M
irl image
skin 6: VMA-121: no specific markings, so can’t find photo to link to year, marines often had to fly older aircraft way longer than was necessary sometimes, theres even an old photo of a F-4S sitting next to a F/A-18
however one of the marketplace skins does give us everything we need to find a correct year
skin 8: VMA-211 tail number 151045
which leaves us in the 1967-1969 time frame of which the AIM-9D came out in 1964, so why did i do this, i don’t know, but point is the A-4E early in the US tech tree is lacking the AIM-9D which could help it be enough of a difference to set it apart from the A-4B without giving it some non-historical weapons
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Holy wall of post
gotta love the late night autistic driving’s, half way through i forgot what and why i was doing this so i had to reread my post the remember
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia all had them but the only one I think I could find a image of was the Lithuanian one
Please correct if I’m wrong
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No you’re right it was Lithuanian one with the Dshk but all of them used the m/42
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I wonder what br it would be.
Also what country would represent it? (Imagine a triple m/42 dshk pack).