This literally happens to every helicopter, I even got DL+IOG by an AIM120ER as I was landing.
Nah clickbait is just sad can be penned from near enough anywhere and the turret basket kills it. That’s the difference with Russian tanks, penetrating shots that do not kill do not disable the tank.
I have duelled Russian tanks behind cover they are on fire but can still outshoot my empty ready rack because of the autoloader. Cannot be understated how much of an advantage that is in a prolonged fight.
Leopard 2A7V is just OP, it’s trolly and the shells ricochet 50% of the time when firing on the front on the “”“weak”“” spot
b-but you’re not supposed to shoot at at the front s-skill issue!!!1!!!
I want to say this is a wild thing to say, but skill issue claims like those are pretty standard from you.
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No, it’s actually not. It has decent tanks with artificial nerfs. That’s pretty much it. IRIS-T SLM is situationally awesome. But it’s completely overshadowed by the new Pantsir and hard countered by magic DIRCM. Turning it into fodder as soon as Russia or the US are on the other side and someone gets one of those Helis up in the air.
And their CAS is basically non existant. The Tiger is criminally overtiered, has no gun pod and zero DIRCM. Making it incredibly easy to shoot down. And PARS has a lofting value so low even if the Tiger actualy survives long enough to get some shots off it usually does nothing.
So what they do have is good tanks whom Gaijin keeps nerfing in various ways. And who with an ACED crew have reload rates Russian tanks get as stock.
I said top tier, that means 13.0
And those tanks are still better than what Russia has
So, what great CAS do they have? If you say the EF then I know you’re off your rocker. EF is good at fighting other planes. It is NOT good at fighting ground targets. It does not have FAF missiles or anything remotely approaching KH38MT. In fact they need to actually guide their armament in. Which can be intercepted by the new Pantsir while the EF itself becomes an easy target.
And the crying about the supposed “horrible Russian tanks” has gotten old and tired. Nobody but Russia mains buys it anymore. The available stats show Russian tanks are NOT suffering in any way shape or form, at least in War Thunder, now if things were remotely realistic…
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It has SPICE 250s.
Brimstones are also good for overwhelming SACLOS SPAA in flybys as well as nuking LDIRCM Helis.
With the best CAS loadout you get 12 brimstones.
You can use that to completely overwhelm SACLOS AA in a supersonic flyby at close range.
You can also do the “James strat” and be directly above a pantsir very easily where it can’t see you or shoot at you
The vehicles with highest KS at rank 8 (tanks only, March 2026) are all NATO until #10 (SM-SV is inflated due to scout drone kills most likely) and T-80BVM at #13. T-90 is #29
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An oversimplification, the only top tier T-series that have the same reload as an aced Leo 2 are the 11.7-12.0 T-80Us and the T-80BVM if it takes 3BM42 instead of 3BM60.
the so dreaded BMPT doesn’t even match some of the top dogs in its bracket and people cry for it to be nerfed, lol
No, it does need ammo rack nerfs at least.
Either make it damage more electronics/turret drives when racked or make it internal.
Then it should be fine
M1A2 is a great tank, it has excellent mobility, great fire power and excellent rate of fire.
It cannot take a hit though any shot below the turret and the tank is completely disabled. It is not a hot a take
Leopard 2A7V is the superior tank because it’s armour has the chance to save it, it has the same weakness as the M1A2 but has stronger overall armour.
T-90M and T-80BVM as stated are not as good but a penetrating round that does not destroy the tank will not prevent it from shooting back.
When we reduce map sizes this and the smaller weak spots make these tanks very good.
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Brimstones need to be guided in War Thunder because GJN decided to screw NATO.
And Spice is super slow glide bombs, that also require you to semi stay up there and can be easily intercepted by any SPAA that pays attention. Especially the new Pantsir Variant.
Also, 43% win rate vs 57%. These stats aren’t helping your case.
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Brimstones are pretty poor and really best for shooting down helis. Since the nerf of the JAGM right when it was added Brimstones nearly never kill in one hit now. The risk reward factor is not worth using Brimstones as your first choice.
SPICE are good and yes if you can spawn your jet quickly you can abuse the top down attack method and net loads of kills. However if you cannot do that the Kh-38 and ASSM are better options and can be used more flexibly.
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Germany WR has been in the gutter way before the BMPT was even a thing, blame the playerbase (and mostly 1DL premiums), it’s the clickbait effect.
F&F brimstones would be significantly more broken than KH38 ever was.
I do not consider wr that important in grb.
Literally look at Germany 6.7, one of the best lineups there but they have a terrible wr.
Kills per Spawn (KS) is more important
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