They have a slow firerate, cannot pen anything, overheat fast and are singular (no main cannon firing ATGMs like the BMD-4s for example). Because of their slow firerate, they cannot easily destroy low flying CAS either. Coupled with the fact that these IFVs sometimes do not even have ATGMs launchers or have useless spikes missiles instead, is sad.
Compared to them, russian and chinese IFVs look like the perfect killing machines : good pen, low overheating, high firerate, double-barreled for some of them, … they’re the nightmare of both ground and air vehicles. Some even have 4 ATGMs launchers, they can track slow CAS easily, …
Is it documented, NATO IFVs (autocannons) are so bad ?
EDIT : in several cases, NATO IFVs also have wheels, very, very slow off-road for some reason ??
NATO cannons are usually better IRL because the lower fire rate leads to more accuracy and more reliability. (I assume you’ve seen BMPT cannon accuracy before, and it’s not good).
Gaijin doesn’t simulate reliability, so the trade offs just lead to a worse gun, and not a better one.
As for wheeled tanks, gaijin just ruins their traction on most maps. I’ve overtaken a Ratel 20 in a Tiger II H before, and the problem is very much mot unique to nato. China has several wheeled tanks that are severely harmed when off road.
Comparison between a plethora of autocannons. 2A42 (BMP-2M, BMP-2, BMPT’s) heats up the fastest at around 8s.
PUMA’s 30mm: ~17s
BMD-4’s 30mm: ~18s
CV9035’s 35mm: ~13s
Bradley’s 25mm: ~15s
I don’t think the videos below are loading, they might be too large. Test it in game yourself if you want proof.
They are all modelled the exact same way i’m pretty sure. I’ll post the screenshot if I can find it, but in the files the 2AXX and Bushmaster have the exact same accuracy, so not wrong. As to why? I don’t know.
If you’ve used the BTR you’d know that it is slow asf, and absolutely horrible to drive. But since you haven’t used it, you wouldn’t know.
PUMA IFV which has been designed to go WITH MBTs, wheel to wheel. It has very good protection even against 125mm apfsds rounds (but non is in the game for some reason).
Muss irl is working very well irl (doesn’t work at all in game)
Autocannon is the most accurate in the world - trials in 2017 in Czech republic proved that (in game it’s trash)
AHEAD rounds are an ultimate weapon vs air targets (sucks in game)
Clara ERA irl is Era/Nera combination which provides full protection against 35mm apfsds and vs tandem warhead missiles/RPGs
(Useless in game)
I think russian IFVs fire more rounds than NATO ones per % of overheating, thus giving them more chance to pen and kill before overheating, compared to NATO IFVs.
I don’t think this is a worthy argument for the mythical bussian rias. For a good year, XM800T had around 6 plates that did not produce spall at all, like literally none. Nobody complained about it. US bias!