Your SPAA Wishlist for the Next War Thunder Update!

[warhead_beast]

I for one want that gajin finally introduced what they showed way back then in the SA trailer

ZA-HVM - Technical data and Discussion

V.I.P. [image] History The development of ZA-HVM, along with ZA-35, started in 1983. The main SPAAs of South Africa then were Ystervark and Cactus. While these systems were doing their jobs just fine, they were starting to show their age in comparison with systems used by other countries and the aircraft they were supposed to counter. That resulted in a competition where multiple foreign systems were studied, but South Africa decided not to buy someone else’s system and decided to make its ow…

[Tea_And_Country]

Gaijin asking for the impossible as per usual, apparently pictures are now worth more than worded sources…

[Jean_Ahmed]

I feel sorry for those who want to get to the M247…
2x20mm

1x40/56

2x12.7


4x14.5mm

Germany
Opel Blitz c/30 (1x20mm)

not sure. probably Canada

not sure.4x14.5mm

[warner7]

WZ-554

SPAA 301

[BSpiel8-live]

I don’t think the ZPU-4 was ever used by U.S. forces, much less so mounted on vehicles. This is likely just a creation by reenactors to represent the M45 quadmount commonly fit on these kind of trucks and shouldn’t be taken as a real combination.

[Sea_Harrier_FRS1]

@aDSD

This weird fella.

Next Strongest SPAA in the Game

[Jean_Ahmed]

U.S.A,Allemagne(deleted) and I’m not sure.

[petwe_romcak]

@Jean_Ahmed

Hello there

Is this a Soviet mod, or a captured T-34 turned AA?

[Arctic-Fox]

@Jean_Ahmed

Now this is exactly what the people want

[Jean_Ahmed]

Allemagne (Germany).3x15mm.

[petwe_romcak]

So it’s different from Flakpanzer T-34(r) - Tank Encyclopedia (tanks-encyclopedia.com), like another variant?

[Jean_Ahmed]

this is some kind of ersatz. I haven’t found any other angles yet.

[BSpiel8-live]

There is actually a suggestion on the old forum for this vehicle, but upon further investigation it appears to be a photoshop of these two images.

@Ghostmaxi This image appears to be a fake, but the history you provided in your suggestion implies that this vehicle did at least exist in some form no?

[Ghostmaxi]

Idk. Such things certainly happened, example the Flakvierling 38 on Bergepanzer T-34(r).

[Kingtiez-live]

Rapira-3

[SinisterIsRandom]

Another goldie would be the Bergepanzer 38t

Mounted with a 2cm Flak gun. Shown off at Tankfest 2024.

[AspandaIV]

The second to last pic is of the rare Marenco M114, a rare conversion of the M114 into a FSV done by the El-Salvadoran Army during the El-Salvadoran Civil war

Interestingly enough it uses the Zastava M55A2 20mm AA autocannon

[BatjeMB]

50 mm FlaK 41 on the Daimler-Benz Lastkraftwagen 4500A
It has ~118 mm of penetration

[Ghostmaxi]

DB L 4500 A with 5 cm Flak 41 L/67

poll I would like to suggest the DB L 4500 A with 5 cm Flak 41 L/67, one of three mounted gunsystems. What is it? Its just an big Truck with an Armor kit (like the Flakbus in game) and a Flak put on the loadingspace. The vehicle is the DB L 4500 A, that stands for DB - Deimler Benz; L - Lastkraftwagen (Truck); 4500 - The loading capacity 4500 kg (well its 4685 for street useage and offroad 4085kg but anyway); A - Allrad (full wheel drive). I am suggesting the DB variant, as the vehicle was al…

[Delta_Furey]

I’m sure this has been suggested before, but the T249 Vigilante would be an excellent addition to the US Tech Tree.

3 times as many T249s were built as ZSU-37-2s, yet the latter is already in the game. I wondered if part of the reason is due to lack of easily-available information on the T249’s gun and ammunition, so I took it upon myself to use the data that is publicly available to try and rectify this:
This source gives the muzzle velocity and the approximate dimensions of the round. The 37mm M1 gun uses ammunition with an almost identical case, and the bullet itself looks similar in shape to a 6.5 Creedmoor bullet, so using the mass of the M54A1 shot and the 6.5 Creedmoor ballistic coefficient we can get a ballistics table using this calculator. This gives us a muzzle energy of 255 kilojoules, and an energy at 2000 meters of 44.887 kJ. Plus a suggestion for this particular vehicle has already been submitted on the forums.

I’d also like to see the T77 multiple gun motor carriage in the game, because more .50-cals = more gooder.

The T77 has also been suggested on the forums before.

Both of these vehicles use existing in-game chassis (T249 on the M113, and T77 on the M24), and neither feature sophisticated elements like radar, so they should be fairly simple to implement.