Strange question but is the Torpedo Boat Luchs know as the Iltis internally for the devs?

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As the title states and is in reference to the Type 1924 Raubtier (Carnivore) class Torpedo Boat (annoying misclassified as a destroyer in game yet naval classifications are just a mess in game).

In game we’ve the Leopard as the reverse nowadays then Jaguar as an old event ship and lastly Luchs (Lynx) as a starter premium.

In the recent dev blog & this one poxy 2.01 dev blog [Development] Fleet research changes and the first battleships! (8 - Page) ) - News - War Thunder the Luchs is referred to Iltis (Polecat). (heh brought up similar back then heh).

So this begs the question are Iltis & Luchs one in the same? Why not rename Luchs if they keep referring it as Iltis or will Iltis come as another event or TT ship?

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Seems like it, all it 's textures name it as being Luchs
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but it 's vehicle reference file calls it Iltis ( War-Thunder-Datamine/aces.vromfs.bin_u/gamedata/units/ships/germ_destroyer_class1924_iltis.blkx at master · gszabi99/War-Thunder-Datamine · GitHub )

It 's not the only destroyer to have a mismatch between it 's internal name and the ship it 's represented as, IJN Ayanami comes to mind as a similar situation - she 's named Fubuki in the files( or on a more minor note, USS Arizona is indicated to be in an earlier refit by her filename than the form she 's represented ingame as being ).

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