yep.
gaijin: “oh, a merkava with no turret but almost the same weight? so it must be way less armored and way worse top speed”
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Lol proved his point
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Yeah, just searched a bit, the Merkava’s gun weighs 2.9 tons (it’s in Wikipedia so not to be trusted that much) but either way, I don’t think a 5 meter long pipe made of steel alloys could weigh much less, so I don’t know where they got the Namer’s weigh. Someone enlighten me.
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11.3 is also where the Fuji is, clearly just as good as that
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2D can easily get M428 SWORD (M900 equivalent) and stay at 10.0
no
spike helis are already insanely oppressive and this one has 16 of them
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Agreed.
That thing can keep multiple AAs busy at the same time, draining their ammo storages extremely quickly.
With an Ace crew it can send dozens of missiles down the range in a very short time period, making it a perfect support for planes going against AAs.
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Yeah, and it can just rearm safely an unlimited amount of times while SPAA are exposed while rearming and can only rearm once
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That Merkava would be higher BR than the Mk.4M.
It’s now nearly an entire BR over the M1A2 lol.
Anyone can have a high KD in top-tier without armor because the Abrams and Leopard are the only ones that can reliably take a hit when positioned properly. The only safe option for any tank that isn’t one of those two is one where you’re not seen at all.
There is one here who has 90% winning on all the top tier vehicles he played, he plays to win and doesn’t give a shit about kd. He actually rated the Merkava MK4M the second best top tier vehicle.
Clearly the US suffers.
Spoiler
These BR changes sucked.
It would be nice to know who that is.
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Doesnt really matter. He already said - this guy plays for the win and dont care about kd. So its probably just a 0.5 kd guy with 5 tanks in his lineup.
Brah, there is no way a 1kd guy having 90% winning rate, this is not possible especially playing with public, you need to play it in a way to create map pressure to compensate for your average lesser teammates. This was asked before the ground was extended to 12.7, ranked based on doing what is required to win
That last statement is questionable.
“Russian Bias is a thing for coping” is an insane statement to say the least. Sure, the MBTs aren’t meta, but the CAS they get is. The LMUR and KH38 are insane weapons I’ve seen demolish entire teams in an instant, hundreds of times over. When I play Russian Top Tier, the only times I lose are when those weapons aren’t present in my team’s lineups. Other nations don’t get that ability in-game. The closest any nation has to that CAS ability is Israel with its SPICE munitions, which aren’t even close to the same threat level.
Even further, placing the M1A2, which arguably has better front armor overall than the Leopard thanks to its Autobounce UFP and insane turret protection while being significantly more mobile, below the Merkava is bizarre. Sure, the Merkava isn’t an outright bad tank when compared to some other top-tier vehicles like the CR2 and the Ariete, but its inability to take a hit anywhere is a major flaw. Anyone who looks at the vehicle, regardless of skill, can left-click without thinking and lolpen any part of it.
The Abrams and Leopard’s ability to take a hit in over half of their front profile means that enemies have to think before they shoot, even if only for a moment. It also means that less skilled players will struggle much more against you. The Merkava and many other minor nation MBTs don’t have that ability.
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Hammers are the closest
Spice are slow glide bombs
Its armour is its engine and i would never play isr techtree strictly due to engine placement , it gets knocked out every 10 seconds
Yes but gaijin undervalue the engine armor value and the armor itself
Checked his stats. Yes, I was wrong, my bad. This guy is actually very good.
But it doesnt change the fact Mk3 is complete garbage at its BR. Its supposed to be at 10.7 and fight only early leo 2s. It loses to every single stat of leo 2a4 except sabot pen:
- worse mobility
- worse survivability
- worse gun depression
- worse turret traverse speed
The only reason you might consider Israeli to be good was 3x MBT spawns, K2K and AH-60 being at this BR, but both of them got uptired in rescent changes.
Speaking of Mk4 - thats a bs. Its got its survivability increased for sure in last updates (so did everyone else), but there is still absolutely no point to bring it instead of abrams, which is again better at every single scenario except shooting backwards. Again, its better at:
- having actual armor in its turret
- better shells
- better turret traverse
- better depression angles
- better mobility
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Huh?
U mean got worse when it got its internal modules