Serious Balance Issues with Russian Vehicles in War Thunder

It makes sense, as the earlier FIM-43 Redeye works exactly as they have described, and the FIM-92 Stinger began life as the “Redeye II”.

It’s just that the Stinger made some key changes to it’s mechanisms, allowing it to effectively preemptively account to it’s roll state, instead of using an open loop, and reacting after the fact. Allow for it to always produce G’s in the commanded direction irrespective of it’s current position in the roll cycle instead of a two instants per rotation

And so without proof of those changes it makes some sense, though expecting it to not have overcome somehow at this point is somewhat concerning especially in the face of multiple primary sources that quote the actual limits.

Question, both regarding TOR-M1 and Pantsir:

How the HELL do I make the radar stop jerking around and switching targets to missiles on its own every time a locked-on plane launches one? I have missed like 15 missiles since I got TOR-M1 yesterday because of this, and it is a persistent issue with Pantsir too.

This is insufferable!

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skill issue

maybe you have a serious skill issue? ka50 and ka52 are garbage compared with the tiger and with the apache, and the Pansir only creates a massive skill issue for you, I guess is too hard for you to fly ur troll plane at tree level and say thanks to gajin the su34 cant bomb shit with the FABS from +70km away like in real life.

The ka-52/50 is just better than the apaches.

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good try, those russian helicopters does not have fire and forget missles and good luck playing ka50 on fogy/cloudy/night maps

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Apaches don’t have them either.

That is why it is a lower br than the tiger and apaches. Vihkr’s are also miles better than hellfires.

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Leo 2a7V is better than the Leo 2a7HU

How? Leopard 2A7HU is the same thing as Leopard 2A7V, except also with a very handy .50 cal RWCS and a 150mm thick composite block on the roof that makes it significantly more resistant against heli rushes and strafing.

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HE, and the roof. The commanders sight is risen, the .50 cal is pretty big, and both of those will be HE’d easier than the other Leo 2a7

It also hardly stops strafes, unless it’s under a 20mm, but most things have 23mm and bigger at that br.

I don’t know… I always see people talk about “HE and roofs” and “HE magnets”, but, honestly… how often do you come across someone sporting HE instead of simply just APFSDS? Do people really go around slinging HE in hopes at achieving a trickshot instead of using the much simpler, effective and more reliable APFSDS shells…?

I can’t even recall the last time I was killed by HE in Top Tier, in any tank.

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WZ1001 and ZTZ-99A are fun because they can reverse, and you get stuff like the TY-90 - but I wouldn’t recommend anyone try skip the whole line just to face continuous hoards of Leopard 2s at top-tier. Heck, the WZ and ZTZ are still missing their spall liner, despite evidence and plenty of bug reports. I think China is most diverse and strongest around 9.0:

Spoiler

Give that line-up a go and thank me later.

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Yeah china 9.0 is insane and very fun. A lot of downtiers too.

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It used to be my go to method for killing Leo2a7s before their hull armor nerf. But generally in any tank I carry 2-4 HE shells just in case they’re necessary

Not all nations get he rounds, or good he though. This only really works for china and russia.

You can take multiple shell types. I personally run 20 APFSDS + 2 HE for my Russian tanks. HE is useful when your enemy has optics/turret roof exposed over a hill they’re hiding behind.

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Thats because those two nations were smart and knew that HE was important, able to be used against infantry and light-skinned vehicles. Nations, like the USA, do not have HE rounds in service for their MBT’s so as such it is a disadvantage, due to the lack of foresight of the US Army and they’re stuck with HEAT-FS.

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M1147?

"The Army completed Live Fire testing. The low-rate initial production round did not fully pass the
First Article Acceptance Test. The Army is conducting an investigation to determine the cause of
the failure. The Full-Rate Production decision has been delayed. "

Key word.

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Read the 2nd article as of Dec 20, '24. Full Rate production has been approved, so it’s going to be rolled out to the wider force at some point in near the future.

Notice how it’s M1147, not XM1147. The round has been Type Classified so is in effect; It’s going to be being worked up to units for clearing the Initial Operating Capability milestone so you would find it in a M1A2 somewhere in the world.

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