The Dev Server is Opening with Major Update “Ninth Wave”! — 02.03.2026

Go and look at the internals of those tanks. You’ll get why.

War Thunder devs have been known to add fictional stuff to vehicles for the sake of balance, like double R-77 racks on the SU-27SM, Flares for the American F-5C. I don’t really see a point in gatekeeping this from the Block 52 and making it the worst 14.3 plane in the game by far for the sake of trying to keep “realism” when this motto has been ignored in the past multiple times.

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Another update without Bosvark’s steering radius being fixed

NATO MBT’s are far superior to Soviet/Chinese ones in this game, it doesn’t really matter.

Except the autoloaders on t series act as spall absorber, so unless its a direct hit to ammo you just make them unable to retaliate after they have a chance to take a shot at you. You shoot NATO mbt anywhere and they are crippled cus its gonna be engine+horizontal

They asked about turret basket. T tanks lack one outside of T90.

Hey, why is there no source listed or bug-report linked for this change?
Now, not to be confused in my intention, I was able to find a brochure for 2C6M1 myself listing the 34t figure, however I am not sure if it is identical to 2C6.

And i also believe this to appear as rather intransparent for a lot of people.

Spoiler: Related Brochure on 2C6M1


Sometimes the reloader will absorb the fragments and prevent the ammo from exploding, and it’s still able to fire back if it has a single round in its barrel.

Both of these things exist as real modifications either on the variant in question or on a compatible variant.

The triple AMRAAM racks however do not currently exist for any variant.

You literally questioned why it doesn’t have a turret basket modeled. IRL, they don’t have turret baskets, with the exception of the T90. Just because the majority of western tanks do, does not mean that Russia followed that prescription.

L2A7s is like so,but what about others?
Even the BMPT hasn’t gotten a lift basket, don’t you think that’s funny?

Still no GBU-53 for 'Murica

Are devs considering adding GBU-53 to US in this update?

Then the only option to make this plane not get eaten alive by other 14.3/14.7’s is to lower its BR rating to either match that of the F-2A which is pretty much a sidegrade with tradeoffs, or turn it into a POBIT and give it the upgrades it recieved. I hope the first option is the one that gets implemented. Thanks for the answers i guess.

I bet it will be in next major with F-15EX, although GBU-53 should been added 2-3 updates ago lol

P sure the BMPT doesn’t even have a basket IRL brah.

@Smin1080p_WT is it possible to get any info on this at all? It’s a bit strange that it only affects naval maps.

They’re saving the 15EX for the SU-35, but the funny thing is that the SU-35 is pretty much already in the game with the 30SM2. It’s so weird and i really don’t understand the logic behind their decisions.

They used to said the basket’s broken and deformation will cause horizontal drive unable to work,but why doesnt russan’s reloader do like so?

Not a single harrier fix

I cry