The Dev Server is Opening with Major Update “Heavy Cavalry”! — 05.06.2026

dev was supposed to be closed few hours ago, but no notification from the CMs

Was having connection issues but was just able to get in.

I thought it was extended, but that may have just been that they forgot to close it on time. (╥‸╥)

Now it’s ok, they replaced the hamster for new one

extended, no notification, bugs still present, fixes to be made
second dev coming?

Changelog updated.

New items:

Location and mission updates

  • Volokolamsk, Surroundings of Volokolamsk — gameplay changes have been made to the map. The asymmetry of the railway embankment has been adjusted, the intersection crossing it has been moved closer to the natural center of the map, and the village near the middle of the map has been moved closer to the center. A minor overall change to the road curvature has been made; the roads now fit more naturally into the curvature of the landscape.
  • [Domination] Surroundings of Volokolamsk — the spawn points of the eastern team have been moved.|

Ground Vehicle model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes

  • M1A2 SEP v2 — tank weight has been increased from 63,000 to 64,300 kg. (Report).
  • Leopard 2A4M CAN, Leopard 2A4M (Senrai) — the IM HE high-explosive fragmentation projectile has been added to the ammunition loadout. (Report).
  • Bosvark — turning radius has been reduced. The steering angle has been increased from 20 to 35 degrees. (Report).
  • BTR-3E1 — the gunner’s thermal imager has been replaced with a night vision device (NVD). The vehicle is equipped with the Trek-M fire control system. Sources: БРОНЕТРАНСПОРТЕРЫ БТР-3Е РУКОВОДСТВО ПО ЭКСПЛУАТАЦИИ БТР-Е РЭ. Спецификация боевого модуля “SHTURM”.
  • 30 mm 2A42, 2А72 — the dispersion parameters have been clarified (increased). For example, the 2A42, MK-30-2/ABM, and Bushmaster Mk.44 guns had identical dispersion parameters previously.
  • Effects of fabric/tarpaulin and net fluttering from the wind and shots have been added to the following vehicles:
    IS-1 (‘45), Sd.Kfz.234/2 Biene, Pz.Sfl.Ic, Tiger Ost, Tiger West, Ostwind Ost, Leopard 2A4M CAN, Leopard 2A4 (PzBtl 123), Sherman (Hell), Hellcat (Hell), M1 KVT, Firefly (Overlord), Avenger (Overlord), Crusader AA (Overlord), Challenger 2 TES, Challenger 2 OES, Type 16 (FPS), Type 90(B) Fuji, M41A3, PzH2000HU, Ariete Certezza, Vextra 105, Leopard 2 (OTCo), Bkan 1C, Christian II, Merkava Mk.1B, Merkava Mk.2D, Merkava Mk.2B, Ra’am Segol, Merkava Mk.3B.

Aircraft and helicopter model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes

Anti-radiation missiles

  • J-11B, J-15T, J-10A, J-10C — the CM-102 anti-radar missile has been added along with a corresponding modification.
  • Su-25T, Su-39, Su-24M, Su-17M4, Su-22M4, Su-22M4 WTD6 — Kh-58U anti-radiation missiles have been added along with a corresponding modification.
  • Su-17M4, Su-22M4, Su-22M4 WTD61, MiG-27M, MiG-27K — the Kh-27PS anti-radar missile has been added along with a corresponding modification.
  • MiG-29M (9-15), MiG-29SMT (9-19), Su-30MK2 AMV, Su-39, MiG-27M, MiG-27K — Kh-31P anti-radiation missiles have been added along with a corresponding modification.

Weaponry

  • F-14B — AIM-9L missiles have been replaced with AIM-9M missiles.
    F-16AM (France), F-16AM (Sweden) — the ability to mount guided weapons on the internal wing pylons has been added.
  • F-16A MLU (China) — the LANTIRN pod, GBU-12 and GBU-10 guided bombs and AGM-65G guided missiles have been added along with corresponding modifications. The ability to mount AGM-65B guided missiles on the inner wing pylons has been added.
  • AB 205 A-1 — additional blocks with unguided FFAR rockets have been added.

Other

  • AH-1F, AH-1S — countermeasures have been added. Sources: TM 55-1520-236-10 - 1990 - Operator’s Manual Army Model AH-1S (PROD), AS-1S (ECAS), AS-1S (Modernized Cobra) Helicopters; TM 1-1520-236-10 - 2001 - Operator’s Manual for Army Model AH-1F Attack Helicopter.|
  • AH-1S, AH-1S Kisarazu — an optical-electronic jamming station has been added. Source: TM 55-1520-236-10 - 1990 - Operator’s Manual Army Model AH-1S (PROD), AS-1S (ECAS), AS-1S (Modernized Cobra) Helicopters.|

Naval fleet model, damage model, characteristic and weaponry changes

Naval weaponry

  • Emile Bertin, Gloire, La Galissonnière — 152-mm shell with a fuze delay has been added.
  • HMS Warspite, Arkhangelsk — 102-mm HE-TF shell for Mark XVI cannons has been added. (Report, Report).

Naval modifications and crew skills:

  • The display of a maximum spotting distance in the crew training window in the “Observers” tab in a tooltip for a “Surface targets detection distance” option has been fixed. Previously, the values in the “top” column were underestimated and didn’t reflect the true spotting distances. Now, the value calculations are conducted for the target of the same size as the ship in the crew slot. The deprecated parameters related to the target recognition have been removed from the tab.

Naval characteristics, physics and damage model

  • All ships with steam boilers now have a boiler explosion mechanic under certain conditions.

  • The force of the explosion depends on the current pressure in the boiler, which is not constant and depends on the engine telegraph gear. The greater the gear (forward and reverse), the higher the pressure.

  • At full speed, the pressure is maximum. At low speed, the explosion is weakest. And at neutral, it cannot occur at all.

  • The buildup of critical pressure also does not occur immediately and not always after the destruction of any of the boiler room modules. But if this does happen, there is always time to prevent an explosion. The lower the engine telegraph gear, the more time there is to notice the pressure buildup and to shut off the engine, preventing an explosion.

  • The danger can be detected by the effect of steam escaping in the area of ​​the damaged boiler and the characteristic sound of steam escaping from the boiler room. If the engine telegraph gear can be reset to neutral in time, an explosion will not occur. If the ship continues moving, the boiler will explode. This isn’t a fatal explosion; its power can’t compare to the detonation of, say, an ammo rack. But nearby modules could be damaged.

Interface

  • The visual design of the shell drop marker, gun aiming marker, and depth charge drop marker has been changed.
  • Removed the shaking of the weapon marker on the enemy.

Graphical

  • An effect of aircraft tailhooks interacting with arrestor hooks has been added.
  • Visual effects when an aircraft moves on snow or a snow-covered runway have been reworked.
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So where are the rest of the leopard HE shells?

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Is there any news on LJDAMs/GBU53s being fixed with the salvo launch mechanic?

“We believe this is a clear marketing lie”

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As you can see from the attached report, it was just for the 2A4M specifically. There is a separate report for other Leopards under review.

2PL spall liners when

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And Challenger 2 LFP ones too.

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The new F-15E (2026) with AESA radar might be standalone fighter aircraft from USA tech tree ?

But coming to rank 9 ?

Or gajin ready after major update " Heavy Cavalry ! " ?

No they can’t because shooting one missile at a time will just get each missile shot down, even a free 2s6 can easily shoot down up to 3/4 missile salvo let alone top tier SAM and Pantsirs.
I hate how non cas players hop in a test drive and complain about cas when they have no idea how it actually works in game…

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is there any information on if this report will be fixed Community Bug Reporting System

given that Spike ER is lofting more aggressively it clearly isnt a limitation in the game code preventing hellfires from having an accurate flight path

and it seems that if anything this report has been forgotten given it was accepted almost 3 years ago

Its not even anything like that lmao it’s just adding rh31 to all German leopards without HE

F15EX. Smin already said Israel is getting a new top tier aircraft soon, figure it’s likely the F15IA

Gonna be so damn funny when they get it first before the US just because they lack something.

Pretty sure it’ll be a (Greek) Rafale. F-15IA doesn’t exist (yet)

Except what you said only works in the short run and it will be harder to notice as usually as an SPAA you noticed an aircraft popped up and started paying attention to what its launching because there were many “missile” contacts from SPAA (and Fox-3s) as well. The helicopter can launch all 8 (at least for the Mi-28NM which is the last heli that needs a buff) from safety with infinite reload, the only SPAA that can counter if for long enough for the heli to be neutralised is the SMV which as you could guess on the Russian team but even then the SMV needs to be concentrating on the missiles. For all other SPAAs they are very limited in terms of ammo count especially something like the ELDE98 which only has 8 missiles. They have to intercept every single missile now as you can relock them at any point and before you could have ignored some if they werent going for you to prioritize having ammo for the vehicle itself. Being able to launch missiles from cover at the rate the helis can and reload at the same time should not be a thing as it is essentially uncounterable. Only another plane can counter it and Mi-28NM is notoriously difficult to kill (unless you have brimstones) as ARHs miss it and it has magic forcefield around it. The gun on the mi28 is a insta kill laser beam as well.