Still have the n829a2 , great mobility, servicable armour.
Though it would be pretty silly, personally Though i believe all the mbts could do with a reload nerf to slow the pace of ghe game down abain.
Or activity make all of them equal in some way.
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The Merkava Mk.4 at that time also had a similar round, similar mobility and when the LIC was added also had servicable armor (added bonus was that it was more survivable than the abrams). Still didn’t save it.
Don’t get me wrong, the Abrams with a 7 second reload wouldn’t be the worst top tier MBT (the T-72B3A and VT-4s still beat it to that title), but why would you ever play it over litterally any other NATO tank except maybe the Ariete and CR2?
But yeah A global reload reduction for MBTs from all nations (that also includes the Russian MBTs to some degree) would be good if that also means that Gaijin will start correcting the inaccuracies of said MBTs. (and they should still add appropriate counterparts to the 2A7s and Strv 122s of course)
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Leopard loader reloading in 3.5 seconds. Abrams has a similar breech, similar ammo placement. Yes it’s also doable by an Abrams loader. Yes blast door stays open during these continuous reload. Yes that’s exactly how it works in War Thunder too since you get ammo racked during reload.
NATO tank reload slower than they should for balance. It should be around 3 seconds stationary, and 5 seconds on the move, for ace crew. Rookie crews should be 7 seconds. You literally need to reload in 7 seconds to pass BASIC loader qualification in NATO, and the units you later join with their own demands will more often than not ask you to do it in around 5 seconds or get some more training.
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Cyclograms are wrong, according to actual tankman, who fights on those tanks.
Wrong. Israel first created ERA and deployed it before USSR in 1979, then used it in battle in 1982 :). K1 was first deployed in 1982. The very basic concept might have originated from the USSR but their own research into it stalled in the 60s, they couldn’t make it work properly and gave up. A German researcher developed modern ERA concept in the 70s and the IDF bought the patent.
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The document he posted is correct, but there’s a specific reason the in-game reload time is set to 6.5 seconds and why crews will give you another number. Gaijin actually addressed this years ago, and the explanation is straightforward: for every shell the autoloader has to skip over, about 0.5 seconds is added to the reload time.
In practice, you’ll almost never see a perfect 6-second reload. That would only happen if the autoloader was cycling through identical rounds in sequence — for example, AP-AP-AP, HEAT-HEAT-HEAT, or HE-HE-HE.
However, loading the carousel this way can create serious problems. Switching from AP to HE would take 15 seconds or more, and then back again to select AP, which is obviously impractical in combat. The standard loading pattern for these tanks is AP-HEAT-HE, then back to AP, to keep an acceptable reload no matter the shell you need which does push the reload to around ~7 seconds or ~8.5RPM
To reflect this, Gaijin added an extra 0.5 seconds to the factory 6-second reload, simulating the time the autoloader spends skipping over one shell.
su34 can use it and there is only 1 pic of kh38mt on the su34. rest are questionable. the only other aircraft that can use kh38 is the su35.
There is a vid of Spookston unloading the new event vehicle into the side of a Russian tank hitting the ammo carousel time and time again. Yet it didn’t cause an ammo explosion, he had to actually take out the crew.
VT4A1? is bad?
Having got the mk3B and C I don’t feel the merkavas to be ^that bad tbh I need to wait and see how 12.0 plays out O.o
Change of scenery? I Mean abrams with a 6 second reload woudl still be one of the top dogs in game.
Though personally some decompression would solve most issues, I don’t think it’s very fair that any 10.7 comes across the likes of the M1A2 or A1 HC slinging M829A2 (I use the 11.7 lineup fairly often)
CR2 rn is in a sorry state of affairs TBH , ariete I’ve not got yet but at rank 6 so not long.
I mean if we got more accurate armours, reduced reloads for what crews sustain not just hte initial 5 round burst or 10 round burst they can do incredibly fast, then it would be idea, as well as that I don’t mean the fact tank crews can’t sustain fast fire rates for prolonged periods, I mean in general they’ll eventually slow down to around as far as I’m aware about 6 seconds!.
That could seriously change the engagement times, match pacing etc.
While irritating to face I don’t find them that bad RN what’s annoying the life out of me is the sub 5 second fire rate that’s been swept across nations, stuff like CR 2, or any russian / chinese auto loaders bar the T80s are absolutely slaughtered in general
Not bad, just offers nothing special.
Still my fav Chinese Tank tho.
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I love the thing tbh man it’s extremely nice to use.
Though the ZTZ 99 II and III are my favourite chinese tanks
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Oh no, rusians lie in their documents? Oh, that one never happened before, ah shucks!
not like lying, but rather just wrong
but yeah, that’s basic
The rusian propaganda/military overestimation/assesment etc. Works on a simple principle of every hardcore authocracy.
BS by a thousand farts. A little overestimation here, a little missed detail there - repeat 500 times and you’ll get yourself an “analogueless” weapon of complete domination wherever you seek to dominate whatever you seek to dominate. Kinda how genie wishes work you know. A fast, tank with a powerful cannon and armor that your enemies doesn’t have, but it dies if a fly sneezes nearby, frying all the crew in the process. A fast firing, cheap autocannon with powerful round, but it never hits the target. A heavily armored helicopter with all the modern systems and sensors, but it can’t sense ATGMs and stingers.
You see what I’m saying.
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Refer to my answer here, the technical document is correct from a mechanical standpoint.
100% the cycle goes
Russia is strong best army best hardware 1
Russian kit is used in a war and found be poor 2
Russians convince everyone, it’s export versions vehicles it’s poor deployment it’s using them incorrectly and Russian equipment is infact the best 3
RUSFED announce new super models T-14, Su-75 and S-500. 4
NATO analysts believe that Russian super weapons are a threat and we need to take Russia seriously! 5
Return to step. 1
In every conflict that has involved Russian hardware and NATO/Western hardware Russian hardware has lost decisively.
The fact we have people who believe the T-72B3 is a superior tank to a CR2 when Russia have lost 1000s of them.
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theyre right, superior single-use rocket
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‘That’s not an ammo explosion - lemme show you what a REAL ammunition explosion looks like!’
T-72 designer, probably.
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I mean mediocre armor, mediocre gun handling, mediocre firepower, mediocre mobility.
I don’t see anything good about it besides it having an APS.
Honestly afther they changed the reload from 6.7 seconds aced to 6 seconds aced and especially after they changed the reload again to 5 seconds ace the Merkava Mk.4s have become quite fun.
Only sad part is their fun strengths keep getting nerfed.
True, but an abrams with 7 seconds reload would have one of the worst firepowers of any NATO MBT while being average at everything else.
IT has good mobility man, arguably better than arbams bar in reverse, which is 17 rather than 36?
The armour is also quite nice , the issue is the surviveability of the damn LFP leaves it open if you over extend.
The Chinese round ain’t that great at all yeah.
Mines are still 6.3 I think, one is expert other is just a level 100 crew.
Looking forward to the MK4 tbh, as well as getting the raam sagol.
Yeah ; but for it to have a 7 second reload others would also need a reduction. So leos 6.5 for example, etc etc
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