Potential 8.7 tech tree tanks for USA

Machinery of War Discussion Ground Vehicle
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Still not the best medium tank. Idk why the Sherman II is higher than the M4A1, but the Cromwell V is leagues better than the M4.

Again, America doesn’t have the best vehicle in even one of the categories. The F-80A-5 is extremely powerful, but it’s still not as good as Russia’s early jets.

The Tomcat is sad, and F-15, F-16, and F-18 aren’t U.S exclusive.

Tomcat was only OP when it was first added cuz it was a topgun cash grab, and those days are long gone.

Imo, most of the problematic CAS (e.g Yak-9K) isn’t even American.

If it’s given a grenade launcher instead of autocannon, then I think it will be just fine. Also, the armed variants will be considerably heavier although it will still likely be Warthunder’s fastest ground vehicle.

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Yeah, having the 0-60 time of a relatively high performance car already makes it the fastest ground vehicle in game by far

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actually very good point, a lot of revenge bombers arent that great at object permanence if you move a little bit. Ive unfortunately met a lot of SU9 mains to ruin matches as of late.

Cromwell V id say is on par as its lacking in armour and has the same (kinda) gun without APHE and trash armour, cromwell 1 however is absolutely that

the yak should be a lot higher but American fighters with huge bombs are a lot more braindead to play and get free case kills.
Ive probably had a better experience of yak9k than most as I’m a spitfire cas player and gain total air superiority pretty quick. I don’t think I’ve been killed by one either actually but I may be misremembering

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xm800T never got tows (that would have been a different designation), the T95 is already in the game at 8.3 lol

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There was a variant of the XM800T platform with TOW launchers built for testing and it still exists
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Its more real than a lot of vehicles in WT so is game for addition

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how would unmanned vehicles work thematically? If you get damaged you can’t repair unless by a manned teammate?

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Its not the T though

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yes it is. the “T” refers to the “Tracked” variant of the XM800 ARSV series of vehicles, hence why the wheeled ARSV is called XM800W
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That’s only because it was a test vehicle; it would have had a different designation in actual service.

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correct. the ARSV vehicles were never in service so more specific designations were not so important.

Its still an XM800 T variant no matter

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looks scuffed

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yea theres a reason why neither were adopted, they sucked and served no doctrinal purpose that Sheridan was doing better or a bradley was necessary

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Warthunder has the T95E1. What I want is the T95E3, E4, E6, or the T95 with the starship turret.
These all have upgraded firepower and/or FCS.

How I imagine it, you cannot repair unless you’re in a capture point or a teammate is nearby. If your mobility AND firepower are both destroyed, then you’re booted from the tank.

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that thing has no armor. It has armor packages but 20 mm will still destroy it.

In what configuration was the ripsaw when that measurement was taken?

UGV will be a whole thing for WT maybe in 5 years at the min. but who knows how gaijin plans on making them play.

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I imagine that if it is controlled remotely, then it’d have components that’d replace crew. EG Power Sources, if whatever receives the signal is destroyed, etc. Similar to FCS

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That was unarmed. It will obviously be heavier with armament, but will still be the fastest tank in the game.

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LAV-AT, M60A3 (P), and M551A1 TTS would be especially good options. Between these and the M60A1 RISE (P) you would have an actual lineup that could be paired with UH-1C, F-86F-2, A-4B, and FJ-4B.

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Potential way to make unmanned vehicles viable: If it’s unmanned that means some guy is sitting in an operating room/truck somewhere. To talk with it he is using some sort of communications system. If the coms module on the vehicle was destroyed it could be considered “dead” because IRL you couldn’t talk to it or tell it to do anything. To repair parts other than your coms might require assistance or making it to a cap point.

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there is a manned version of it. maximum 2 crew members. just add that variant and its all good