As the title suggests, I’d like to bring these up for discussion as how they would fit into the USSR Tech Tree, specifically T-55A Obr. 1974 & T-62 Obr. 1974. These tanks are later modifications of the initial production variants; T-62 (1962 as present without a roof HMG) and T-55A (Obr. 1970 as present with an HMG).
They feature a new KTD-1 laser rangefinder, this can be found also on T-55AM-1, T-55AMD and T-62M-1, new radio equipment which would not be relevant. These tanks also retain the same locomotive performance and engine (V-55) and as the former and do not use the “Tochka” smoke launcher array they also don’t have the applique armor fitted onto them.
Ideally this would be put at 8.7-9.0 when the latter vehicles would receive some decompression as they are pretty evil in frequent down tiers when the major 10.3 MBTs were moved to 10.7.
Rank 6 also currently has a pretty reasonable BR spread for MBTs, 8.3-9.3. Where moving to rank 7 the spread is now 9.3-12.0, or 9.7-12.3 after decompression.
Especially when a lot of the currently missing rank 7 tanks get added, rank 7 will get pretty crowded
Really don’t see that many, the vast majority of encounters are longrod APFSDS which don’t care about K1
Nah, they can add a separate early version without them, the current T-80U is a critical part of the top tier lineup unless you pay $60 USD for the T-80UE-1
It would be interesting to give many Soviet tanks their real ammunition, and thus separate and add several tanks. For example, remove the APDS and HEAT rounds from the T-54 (lowering its BR slightly) and add the T-54A with HEAT instead. Remove the 3BM25 from the T-55A and add the T-55AM (with laser) with the 3BM20, and keep the 3BM25 with its corrected penetration for the T-55AMD and AM1. Leave the T-62 as it is and add the T-62 (1975, which has a laser) with the 3BM21 as its best ammunition. I also would have liked the T-72B to have been given the composite armor of the early models and to leave the T-72B (1989) as it is now in the game.
We’ve still got rank 9 to get to before talking about rank 10. And rank 8 is still pretty empty so I don’t think we’ll be seeing new ranks in ground for a while.
Yes, they can be added to the corresponding model. I mainly mean that, for example, a tank from 1951 can use ammunition from 1947, 1950, or 1952, but not ammunition from 1955 or 1960.
I used all three (four if you count the Titan 4) and I found them to be quite competent tanks, not spectacular but quite good in their Br.
I don’t really know how that armor would work. It would clearly be inferior to the final T-72B models, but it would be interesting to see what kind of protection they would give it in the game, with so many layers of steel and air.
