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

Doesn’t change that you could open the WT website every once in a while and read a dev blog, like the one about LDIRCM that released yesterday.

AA’s and non communist plane CAS fest TBH on this.
Prem SU’s on ground to 13.3/13.0 from 12.3 was another wild move. 12.7 would be spot on , and raising em on air was right, but that ground change is seriously intressting.

do u know how many targets it can track is same time? that is your answer!

It is likely that the low stats come from many new players using the complimentary Pantsir-S1, which creates a false impression that this vehicle is underpowered.

Yeah, LDIRCM is quite shitty atm, but try throwing those IRIS missiles on planes and they do connect, and they connect hard. Best IR AA on game by far.
And best part straight up launching, so you can actually hide launchers behind buildings

Vehicle: MiG-29KR

Mode: Air RB

BR Change: 13.7 → 13.7

Su-27SM moving up is justifiable as N001 have buffed recently and its offensive capabilities are very strong. However, same thing does not apply to 29KR.

64 vs 96 CM.
8 ARH + 2 IR vs 6 ARH + 2 IR.

Plus, Flanker has ability to carry R27ER and better high altitude acceleration. Only thing KR does better is essentially turnrate and being a smaller target. Having spaded both i can say that they are definitely not equal. Improved radar on the KR does not make up for the shortcomings, especially after the buff aforementioned above. One can say it is even worse than the Squadron MiG-29M which can carry more ARH missiles and has R27 compatibility while having exact same avionics. KR isn’t worthy of 14.0 considering there is MiG-35 at 14.3 which isn’t moving up to 14.7 at all.

The F3H needs to go to 9.7

It has amazing handling, great speed and can take out 4 SARH missiles. It completely out classes current 9.3s in many cases.

The G.91 YS only has 2 AIM-9Bs for example.

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Seriously, is that your answer lol??? You must be joking. Unless they changed the LDIRCM system, I’m going to take this as a joke. Not long ago, you could launch all your missiles simultaneously from the IRIS-T, and hitting a heli was a total lottery

This BR change is really disappointing. Does the Leopard 2A4 belong at the same BR as the T-90A? Does the MSC deserve to be rated higher than the T-90A? And is the F-15C Golden Eagle supposed to be a top-tier jet?

It’s completely useless being good against aircraft when a fully loaded heli spawn is way cheaper and much more common. I’m going to test a few matches later to see your point since I haven’t touched this a while, but for now I’m sticking to my opinion

@Stona_WT
I get the impression there are mistakes in the table. How is it possible that the Kfir Canard, instead of receiving a lower BR (10.7) because it only has two AIM-9Gs and DEFA cannons, is supposed to receive a higher BR of 11.3? That doesn’t make sense.

Meanwhile, the J-7D is supposed to keep its BR of 10.7? Even though it has 4x PL-5Bs and 2x better stats from recent months?

The following have a BR of 11.3:
F-5E FCU, which has 4x all-aspect missiles + EEGS
the JA37C—with phenomenal PD radar, 2x AIM-7E2 DF, and 4x AIM-9P
the J-7E—with 4x PL-5B and phenomenal FM
the J-8B—with 2x ASPIDE and 2x PL-5B

etc.

The Kfir Canard was already struggling at BR 11.0; at BR 11.3, it will be marked as EOL, just like the F-104S/TAF.

That’s ridiculous…

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Overall a very positive ground RB decompression, but WHY on earth does XM803, ZA-35 and American Stingray (unlike Japanese) stay at their BRs? I hope it is just an unintantional overlook mistake.
Generally I see logic with most vehicles 8.0-9.7 that got moved up, while those tanks that lack stabilizers stay at their present br (Leopard 1, AMX-30, M60, etc.), and also slower tanks retain their br (Chieftain mk.10, M60 TTS, Centurion mk.10, etc).
But I strongly disagree with U-Sh405 being moved up (unlike Raketenautomat), and moving Strv103-0/A up is also quite strange as they have no stabilizers and are very situational: sometimes strong at distance, sometimes too vulnerable. Do not turn them into sadmobiles which are easily flanked and destroyed through thin side armor or transmisson breakdown/tracks destroyed and face more and more fast firing light tanks, and are the only 8.0 MBTs that can’t peek corners and have to be on receiving end of attack mostly on small maps. Treat them like MBTs, not long-range camping tank destroyers. Or improve their stabilization and aiming speed.
Also moving M41D up the br is outrageous.

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  • Air Sim – MiG-25PD – 11.0 → ̶1̶0̶.̶7̶ 11.3

An airframe that requires a unique and very specific playstyle, but is in no way struggling at its current BR. The people who struggle with it will struggle with it at 10.7 all the same.

They rised the br bracket to 15.0 so they can’t rise the su30 above 13.7 becouse ”we dont sell top tier aircraft”

I think it ha s a weird breech or something. Still no reason to be so mucb longer

Vehicle: Rooivalk Mk1F CSH
Gamemode: Ground Realistic Battles
BR Change: 11.7 → 12.0 instead of 11.7 → 12.3
Reason: While decompression is good the Rooivalk does not possess capabilities similar to Helis such as the Ka-52. It is comparatively easy to defeat in 12.3 SPAA like the CS/SA5.

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Man, the golden eagle going to 15.0 or max TT with the others makes sense, I was wondering how long that was gonna last.

However it does have me concerned because, (this is my educated guess based off remaining updates,) If the F15EX comes this update it will be likely 15.0 as well and not 15.3.

So while it will be perfectly competitive if not better than other 15.0s it will literally be a better f15c GE in everyway at the same BR.

Armats incapable of destroying simple Gepards. You will only damage the radars of the spaas 80% of the time.

So exactly the same as the J-15T and J-16 situation then?

We’ll likely see a 12 missile max F-15EX anyway, and the GE being the same BR as that won’t be the end of the world.

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I would be concerned this pushes the f15ex into the far future or it gets dumbed down alot