Hence why the seniority argument is complete bull
0.7s - 1.1s*
Reload rate is also more important than penetration.
Besides, the difference in pen between M900 and 3BM-42-2 is 3%, the difference in reload speed is 13% or 21% for 3BM-60.
25mm is nothing, especially because sloped penetration (APFSDS) not being important in War Thunder.
Flat penetration is taken into account when dealing with composite armour, not angled penetration. Thus the higher the flat penetration, the better it’s performance against armour that actually matters (composites).
Hp/t ratio is a terrible way of measuring mobility in War Thunder.
The way the gears are laid out has a much greater effect on the mobility of a vehicle in War Thunder than it’s p/w ratio does.
And yes, the Merkava Mk.4 does indeed have superior mobility.
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Which are a necessity.
No.
42-2 was a nice addition, it is the better shell to use.
Rather small difference.
I have never seen someone on the forums praise smoke shells, when in reality they can be super nice. Just like how ATGM can be nice in some scenarios.
You can’t judge a vehicle just by looking at them like that, not with your inexperience in top tier vehicles.
Merkava in testing is 2+s faster to 60 km/h, and has a faster top speed. But you wouldn’t know this.
Yes, it does make it quite a bit better. But you wouldn’t know this as you haven’t played them.
Merkava’s ESS is more useful due to frontal mounted engine and much, much higher reverse speed. Merkava also possesses more smokes, and while its .50 doesnt traverse, it also doesnt get disabled if you lose a crew member. On top of this, Merkava’s HE is SAP so it can be used to idler/roadwheel someone in a corner 1v1.
It is a signifcant pro over the T-90M.
The rack back there is rarely hit, and if you take 28 rounds the loader side is empty and allows you to bait with that side. I will reply with a clip if I find it.
Thats BEEN fixed. You have to take 44 rounds before that rack is filled.
While Merkava’s armor is worse, armor isn’t the meta at top tier, and is why T-90M is among the bottom 3 12.7s in the game.
Yes. L2p.
I make more use out of smoke shells than barrel-launched ATGMs (Which I use never)
They’re a really nice gimmick to have occasionally if you want to push past an area or just piss off someone
My mistake I did not immediately catch onto you making a strawman argument.
For T series tanks, lol no since they have actual effective armor.
There are very few hills / ridgelines that cant be used by T series tanks that are as usable with -10 degrees of gun depression, sinai and a few other maps are the only ones with such features, gaijin has had a great time increasing most hills to the point that you have to expose yourself or be a Type 90 / 10 to actually use them.
Cool, that is a fine opinion to have.
Still waiting on a answer to the question.
I’ve seen such a few times here and on reddit, mainly back around when the smoking kills memes were going around as smoke could overpressure for a bit and a few other times, I personally find it niche as you have to clear the tube to use it unlike smoke mortars and other options, but you can say the same about GLATMs too.
I regret to inform you being a unskilled or skilled player does not change the PWTR of a tank.
My 4M can reach 60km/h in 17.24 seconds while the myT-90M with the ERA kit onboard reached 60km/h in 16.58 seconds, I can happily provide videos of such if you are interested since I’m guessing you forgot user missions exist which allow the use of all vehicles in game.
Oh please, do find me a location that the 4M can use that the T series cannot, Oh and also my mistake as well, the T-90M and Arena have -6 degrees gun depression, not -5 like the BVM so the difference is actually only 1 degree of gun depression, -6 vs -7.
For someone who seems to be so knowledgeable of both vehicles I am very surprised you did not call me out on such.
That changes functionally nothing, especially given the fact that ESS is largely a non-factor at top tier as it does not block thermals.
Not a utility feature.
It does not, both vehicles only have 12 smoke dischargers, the smoke mortar on the 4M is a gimmick and not a viable system compared to the actual dischargers.
Does not matter, it is a coax not a commander’s mount and thus cannot be used in the same way, they are not comparable.
Pre-HE tweaks maybe but currently you need to actually hit the underbelly of most tanks or get it fully side on to actually get the entire crew with overpressure. By comparison you can just toss 3OF26 into the front pike of a M1A2 and nuke it without issue, along with the same side shots that M339 can pull off.
As is the T-90M not having the ability of loosing a loader, its almost like its a give and take. No, 1 second is not costing you your life in a majority of battles unless you are in a reload duel with another tank.
Its 80% of the rear vehicle and how I’ve killed most 4Ms I’ve come across besides the twinned rounds sitting up against the engine bulkhead.
This fascination with 28 rounds, you are aware that half the 4M’s load is 30 rounds right?
Its good we agree on this.
Correct, Spall liners and the ability to negate incoming damage is due to it heavily reducing the skill floor and punishing people who score penetrating shots, or are you forgetting why gaijin has started adding all this garbage to the interiors of tanks.
Man I would love to hear that other 3 you think are the worst 12.7s.
Get better material hoss, especially given the fact you have a hidden profile.
Sometimes overpressuring a AA with them is quite funny.
Who tried what? Answer me this: who first tried to flex with account age and hours of playing first?
Once again, my shown numbers were bigger(learn to count, please) therefore were better stats than ones you did show. You tried to flip flop making me like I tried use your worse stats but you failed. Even going for number of battles just for number to be bigger when for any sane person number of battles not equal to quality of these battles
No, you used insult in order to mock certain group players. It is insult by any means. You just trying flip flop situation once again
And the most funny thing it’s how used every hole to make you right but failed and now search for others threads to accuse me of something else. What a pathetic behavior
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Get a load of this guy
“No you don’t understand. I didn’t try deliberately mock big chunk of players with clearly offensive insult of being low skill playing certain nation”. When other people use ru mains, russian mains etc, when people have no intention to insult someone. But all of this about dude double standards
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I would know.
Cbf to boot up customs rn, will do it tomorrow though.
So you don’t know how useful ESS baiting is?
90M takes ages to reverse into its ESS, meanwhile Merkava can go -64 and it doesnt even need to move, as the ESS is up front.
With over a thousand matches in the Merkavas, I can tell you its not a gimmick lol.
The main instance where the commander mount is more useful is when you need to track someone behind cover, which is useful. While 90M’s .50 is more useful, both atleast have one, and their own drawbacks compared to each other.
While post nerf M339 is much worse, you can still do it to some tanks, it just takes some more fiddling around.
That still isn’t the meta. Take the qualities of the Abrams, and you get the perfect example of a meta tank.
My mistake, I was including 12.3s, its actually bottom 2 12.7s.
VT4A1
T-90M
T-90M is better than VT4 in some cases but due to VT4s workable reverse and .3s faster reload!!!, its better overall.
T-72B3A (was 12.3, isn’t now, w/e, disregard it)
I dont see what you’re getting at here.
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This is such a lmao its not even funny. If the T-90M loses 2 crew, it dies. And its 1.7-2s of reload difference btw, which is huge in top tier, where people hold W like no tomorrow. So yes, 7s reload will and has gotten me killed multiple times. This, coupled with the complete lack of reverse, means you have to hope the enemies push in perfect intervals.
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My mistake, it is 1+s.
Not true lmao.
Go play some T-XX tanks and see how much the armor saves you. Most people can actually aim, it doesnt make up for their many flaws.
Dont really get what the question was. But 6s 42-2 <<< 5.3s M900.
I once saw somebody complaining ont gaijin bug report site about bad teammates
He legit had 5000 hours ingame with 0.1k/s
You need that much ammo only if you camp the spawns
As you can see, I am very much in the middle of the map.
well with Gaijin’s map design in 2026 that may as well be spawncamping 
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And what the problem with camping spawns?
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You were as a guess 3rd person peeking and killing anything that left the southerly spawn.
Your first 3 - 5 kills were legit after that though…farmlng that spawn. Which the game allows
No, I was sitting near B as their entire team was holding W into our spawn, and fought them off until the horde was gone. I then sat on B and dueled/killed some people coming back for revenge.
Team eventually retook C, and I capped both A and B.
kills are kills, unless they’re the “plane/heli/ucav crashed” handouts
Nothing if winning in this dumb game means that much to you.
It used to take half the game before the spawn was locked down and now its minutes.
Farming players from the spawn is not some kind of skill play.
Depsite insufferable youtubers telliing you it is