Planned Battle Rating Changes (January 2026)

Vampire F.B.5

8.0 → 7.7 Air RB

This is by far the worst Vampire in game, it has significantly less thrust than the exported Vampires, i would suggest to 7.3 but 0.7 changes are very unlikely to be passed

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Realistically the BMPT shouldn’t get apfsds. Russia does not use the 30mm apfsds because they don’t make it. Irl the 30mm already has poor accuracy when installed on things like the bmp, but apfsds made that problem even worse.

Also banger name

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Right, and?

WIth the double the normal shell spread, hitting smaller ships is actually really hard in the TIger. Id consider something like HMS York at 5.3 a way bigger threat to them

Can you not do Falcon early and Falcon late as has been suggested?

Also as it stands:
Falcon 8.3 - > 7.3 considering the removal of APDS, it has no lead indicator or anything, it is closest in AA perforance to M53/59

Chieftain 900 / Chieftain Mk 10 should stay at 9.0, I mean Khalid is 9.3 and is far better than the 900 objectively, the Mk 10 is OK where it is.

T-80UD 10.3 → 10.7: The Reload buff made this very strong, this tank recieves far more complaints than 2S38 nowdays.

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No, Falcon should remain at 8.3 for the time being to see how good will it perform.
With APDS belts it was already too strong at 8.3.

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Better just add the late variant just for the armor.

GRB M26 6.7>6.3 it is worse than Tiger 2 Serienturm, T26E5 and other US heavies.

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Vehicle: PT16/T14 Mod
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 11.0 → 10.7
Reason: while it has great Mobility and a great firepower, it has no Thermal and only DM23 which is truely lacking when you have to fight against 12.0 tanks, or maybe think about adding DM33 to it

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9.0 is dangerously high to russian T tank bias

Mosquito B.Mk.XVI

Air RB: 3.7 → 3.3

This mosquito has no Air to air armament, it needs at least a chance to outrun its opponents, It should NOT be the same BR as the Gun Armed Mozzies

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Also needs its max speed increase to realistic levels

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And even those shell spread, it will be disaster for 4.3s.
Most of those 4.3 doesn’t even have pen to penetrate main belt of HMS Tiger at 0 km

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vehicle: BMPT (tt)
gamemode: GRB
br change: 11,3>12,3
rank change: VII>VIII
reason: very annoying vehicle to kill even with top tier ammunition, ruins the entire 11,7-10,3 bracket, very competitive at top tier, has no reason to be placed at the same br as the puma vjtf/namers, has 8 very potent atgms and a good gun

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and how does that differ to any other 5.3 cruiser?

What makes Tiger so OP and something like Dido not an issue?

Heck even Atlanta is 5.7

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F-15A vs MiG-23 F-5 tornado Gr

What is gaijin smoking

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Suggestion:
Vehicle: Buccaneer S.2B
Mode: Air Realistic
Current BR: 10.7
New BR: 10.3

Background: The Buccaneer S.2B in real life relied on its ability to run at high subsonic speeds at low level for extended periods of time, in order to enhance its survivability, while making detection difficult.

Reason for BR Change: In War Thunder, the Buccaneer S.2B is fairly vulnerable to fighters, with just 2 AIM-9Ls to defend itself. Acknowledging that 9Ls are powerful missiles, this offset by the cases of the Su-25K and A-10A Early, both at 10.3, both wielding all aspect IR missiles, and both have guns, a signficant advantage for them.

It is also hampered by the fact that in Air Realistic, all the targets are generally in a small area of the map (standfast EC), and so enemy pilots can easily locate the Buccaneer early on in the match.

Additionally, in the BR bracket the Buccaneer occupies, there are many faster and better amred aircraft that will destroy bases and ground targets before a Buccaneer may get to the target.

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“Marne and Aisne will only spawn in destroyer spawns”

YEEEAAAHH PRAISE BE THE AUSPICES, 3.3 COASTAL WILL FINALLY BE PLAYABLE (it still needs some level of decompression among other things)

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Softstat change suggestions:

Give the He grenades to Rank I and II, with Overpressure and many unarmored or thinnly armored vehicles, especially if your tank doesnt have a coax (P.204 (f) for example) and most can be effective. Especially the Pz III Ausf.F and J which have the 5 cm KwK 38 L/42, the Sprgr.38 has 200g Fp.02 and Np.10 with an TnT aquivalent of 256g thats more than enough to Overpressure enemys.

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I’ve never saids they are not issue.
They are all issue.

Just don’t need to add another issue by moving Tiger down.

Falcon

8.3 → 7.7

Continue with the removal of APDS

The APDS is what made this thing so strong, and Britain needs a 7.7 SPAA desperately, it will still be strong alone, but it would have to use the much inferior APHE which will struggle much more against targets

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