Planned Battle Rating Changes (October 2026) — Aircraft and Ground Vehicle Decompression

Now we need much more top tier light tanks for those nations

Honestly, J-15T and the F-15C don’t belong at 15.0. They’re a whole BR step below the top dogs, so 14.7 is where they actually make sense. Gaijin, please.

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when it became real

Decompression huh? Peak, though too bad 12.0 won’t enjoy it

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Vehicle: F3H-2
Gamemode: Air Realistic Battles
BR Change: 9.0/9.3 → 9.7
Reason: After the AIM-7 Sparrow missile remodels this plane significantly benefitted from this change and is now overperforming in its current battle rating. The missile becomes difficult to evade (and difficult to spot as most planes have no RWRs at brs around this plane and the missile has a short burn period making it incredibly difficult to spot outside spotting system ranges) at higher altitude and that discourages people from climbing up in Air RB matches which offers less variety in gameplay and less room for positioning around a team.

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Kfir and MiG-29N still being the same br as the prem flankers is goofy lmao

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Why were the A-10A Late, F-4E, and F-111F moved up to such high BRs? Is it simply because they have Mavericks? The balance seems really strange. Ground pounding in these aircraft is going to be extremely unpleasant, and I don’t understand the point of changing their BRs.

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Finally! BR decompression! … Looks inside … Air is increasing by a whole 0.3 BR… Why even bother? You need more room for granular changes, Gaijin, please understand going up by a single bracket, and moving everything up at the same time, will only marginally fix the balancing issues. Now compression exists at a different point, and many of the vehicles moving up now, are already suffering at their current BR, and don’t need moving.

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Vehicle: M1A1 Clickbait
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 12.0 —> 12.3/12.7
Reason: The M1A1 Clickbait has access to the M829A2 round which is the second best round at top tier, coupled with the 5 second reload this arguably gives the M1A2 the best fire power at top tier, and yet it is only at 12.3. Coupled with its excellent mobility and perfectly capable survivability, this MBT stands well ahead of anything else at 12.0 currently and could even be considered the equal to several MBTs currently located at 12.7. An increase to 12.7 is the bare minimum required. I am unaware of any meaningful differences between the M1A1 HC Clickbait and the M1A2 SepV1 which is currently a 12.7 MBT. The only difference I can see is the M1A1 HC Clickbait has APS and a slightly weaker thermal gen. The APS is a minimal advantage, which only really leaves the thermal sight difference. Whilst this could warrant them being at different BRs, this was not enough to justify the Leopard 2A6 and the Leopard 2A7 to be separate BRs and there are greater differences in performance between those MBTs as far as I am aware.

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Vehicle: M1A1 HC
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 12.3 —> 13.0
Reason: The M1A1 HC has access to the M829A2 round which is the second best round at top tier, coupled with the 5 second reload this arguably gives the M1A2 the best fire power at top tier, and yet it is only at 12.3. Coupled with its excellent mobility and perfectly capable survivability, this MBT stands well ahead of anything else at 12.3 currently and could even be considered the equal to several MBTs currently located at 13.0. An increase to 12.3 is the bare minimum required. I am unaware of any meaningful differences between the M1A1 HC and the M1A2 SepV1 which is currently a 13.3 MBT. The only difference I can see is the M1A1 HC has APS and a slightly weaker thermal gen. The APS is a minimal advantage, which only really leaves the thermal sight difference. Whilst this could warrant them being at different BRs, this was not enough to justify the Leopard 2A6 and the Leopard 2A7 to be separate BRs and there are greater differences in performance between those MBTs as far as I am aware.

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Mode: GRB
Vehicle: M1A1 SA, M1A1 HC, M1A1 Click-Bait, M1A1 HC (SM), M1A2 Abrams
Rating: 12.3-12.7
Reason: especially with the recent changest to the Abrams those 5 tanks are just way more capable than their competition at 12.3, they can easily hold their own against 12.7 tanks and are arguably as good as some of the 13.0 MBTs.

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Vehicle: M1A2
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 12.3 —> 13.0
Reason: The M1A2 has access to the M829A2 round which is the second best round at top tier, coupled with the 5 second reload this arguably gives the M1A2 the best fire power at top tier, and yet it is only at 12.3. Coupled with its excellent mobility and perfectly capable survivability, this MBT stands well ahead of anything else at 12.3 currently and could even be considered the equal to several MBTs currently located at 12.7. An increase to 12.7 is the bare minimum required. However, when directly compared to the other M1A2s currently at 13.0, the only difference of significance I can observe is Gen 1 vs Gen 2 Thermals. Whilst this may warrant a 0.3 lower BR, it did not for the Leopard 2A6, which has a Gen 1 thermal compared directly to the 2A7 which has a Gen 3 Thermal at the exact same BR.

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Clickbait and friends should have moved up AGES ago

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they’ve seen us ask for decompression and did it the most horrible way possible

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Vehicle: t72b(1989)
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 10.3 —> 11.0

Vehicle: t72ud
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 10.7 —> 11.3

Vehicle: t72m2 moderna
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 10.7 —> 11.3

Vehicle: object 292
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 10.7 —> 11.3

Vehicle: t90a
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 11.0 —> 11.3

Vehicle: t72b3 arena
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 11.0 —> 11.7

Vehicle: t72b3
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 11.3 —> 12.0

Vehicle: t72b3a
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 12.0 —> 12.3

Vehicle: t90m
Gamemode: Ground Realistic
BR Change: 13.0 —> 13.3

Reason : These vehicles are gaining too much advantage at the expense of reversing at 4 km/h.

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I have been 25km sniping SPAAs in their spawn for the last week with immense ease and zero risks.

It deserves the uptiering.

Now its a full uptier for them to meet the top MBTs. Thats gonna be fun…

And no top tier CAS…

why are ah56 and yah64 and su34 going up

Vehicle: CA-27 Mk32
Mode: ARB
Change: BR 9.0 → BR 9.0 (no change)

It’s the same plane as CL-13B. It’s completely obvious that the reason it did so well was due to all Sabre enthusiasts rushing to unlock and play it ASAP out of proportion to the regular players. At least let it sit till next BR changes to gather actual accurate data, not post-release biased mess.

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It’s not decompression if you just move everything up without any strategy

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