Air Superiority Update New Tanks Overview – War Thunder

With the release of the Air Superiority update it is time for us to have a quick rundown of all the various tanks added, from the German Leopard 2A7V to the Israeli Rochev and the previously unseen Hungarian Tiger Tank!

Intro: 00:00
Tigris (Hungarian Tiger Tank): 00:12
M1A2 SEP V2: 01:41
M1A1 HC “Click-Bait”: 02:46
Leopard 2A7V: 03:23
T-90M: 04:48
Challenger 3 Tank Demonstrator: 05:30
Challenger 2 OES: 07:01
Type 99: 07:45
VT-4A1: 08:25
ACMAT TPK 6.41 VMC: 09:40
STRV 122B+: 10:31
Rochev: 11:31
Giraf: 12:05
Final thoughts: 12:27

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Hello everybody Toreno here and today we  are looking at the release version of the   Air Superiority update and so we’re going  to take a look at the various tanks and   other armored vehicles that were added  in the update and we’re going to start  

Off with a new addition that wasn’t on  the dev server and that is the Hungarian   Tigris and this is coming into the Italian  tech tree at batter rating 6.0, rank four. Now Hungary did use Tiger tanks during the war,  

They had about 10 transferred to them from  a German unit that was converting to King   Tiger tanks and so this is a historical  vehicle, it was used by the Hungarians. They also used Panther tanks so maybe we’ll see  that added in the future as well and this makes  

More sense than the Japanese premium Tiger  Tank because Japan never actually got its   Tiger tank and this seems to be a bit of  a mismatch between the H and E in stats,   so it’s got the roof armor of the  E but it seems to have the slower  

Turret traverse of the H variant so it  only does about 8.3 degrees a second. It doesn’t come with any smoke  grenades or APCR round unfortunately,   but it does have some additional armor at  the front here in the form of these tracks.

I believe once you take the multipliers into  effect this is about 22 mm extra armor so   about a 20% increase compared to what its armor  already is and this track here is not attached   to the armor itself that’s kind of spaced armor  in a way and you’ve also got these tracks here  

To provide additional protection and so this is  a very welcome addition to the Italian Tech Tree. Kind of a shame it wasn’t added as a regular  vehicle but I’m still hoping the 44M Tas could  

Be added at some point in the future and like I  say we still got the option of the Panther tanks   being added but I think they would probably  be added as premiums as well to be honest. Then going back to America we’re going  from left to right America got the M1A2  

SEP V2 and to be honest this isn’t really  all that difference from the other SEP,   I mean when the devblog came out and it was  touting how this had a remote weapon station,   which you know is how all roof  mounted machine guns work in game  

You know you could probably tell they  were kind of stretching a little bit. I know there has been a flurry of bug reports  with regards to the depleted uranium armor,   we’ll have to see what Gaijin does with that  but I’m not holding my breath unfortunately,  

So basically the only major change between  this and the previous variant is the extra   weight and this ERA armor on the side which  helps against HEATFS shells, so if you fire   a HEATFS shell it won’t be able to go through,  but if you fire at it with an ATGM with a tandem  

Warhead that will still go straight through and  while many other tanks in this update have got   a spall liner unfortunately the Abrams Tanks  aren’t one of them which again doesn’t seem to   make all that much sense because I’m pretty sure  Abram tanks do have some form of spall liner but  

Again we’ll have to see if that might change in  the future and then of course the other American   Edition was the M1A1 HC “Clickbait”, which is  basically an M1A1 HC with a few very, very,   minor modifications, so various bit straps to the  side of it you unique decals on the turret itself,  

You’ve got this chair at the top here but I  don’t think all these things attached to the   side are going to make all that much difference  to be honest so you know this is a nice premium  

If you’re looking to research the new tier eight  vehicles but for the most part it’s just an M1A1   HC, so if you’re looking for something very unique  uh you’re not going to find it here I don’t think.

Then moving on to Germany at 11.7 we’ve got the  leopard 2A7V and this does have a spall liner. Now so this is more well protected against  shots that actually penetrate the vehicle and   of course I did tout that it had this new L/55  A1 gun the Leopard 2A6 also has this gun it’s  

Just not called the A1 so it kind of threw  me off a little bit and so while the extra   penetration is welcome it’s not exactly going to  be a massive game changer like I thought it would. It doesn’t have the composite screens around the  sides here and especially around this weak spot  

So you know that’s going to be a bit of a minor  weakness in battle and also interestingly since   my last video gun seems to have nerfed this  area of the hole so the equivalent protection   here is now about 630 odd mm however if we  go over to the Stridsvagn 122B+ and aim at  

The same area with the same gun it’s now about  700 to 720 mm protection and so where this area   is a vulnerability on the 2A7V, against the  Swedish vehicle it is an invulnerable area. I’m not entirely sure why this is the case I mean  they used the same hull you would have thought  

They’ have the same protection, I’m not entirely  sure why Gaijin has decided to do it that way,   I mean maybe they’ll change it again in  the future but I’m pretty sure this has   been nerfed since the dev server so it  seems like this was a deliberate change,  

So we’ll just have to see what  happens with that in the future. Then moving on we come to the Russian  top tier vehicle the T-90M and again   that has spall liner but again  that’s not such a big deal now,  

Well it’s still a big deal but it’s not as a big  a deal when as when it was the only tank with it. You’ve got various ERA blocks and slat armor  around the sides and rear of the tank and of  

Course it is extremely well protected from  the front so with the German top tier APFSDS   round you’re probably going to have a lot of  trouble penetrating this upper hull front plate,   again it says penetration possibility is low  but it also says it’s nowhere near penetrating  

640 versus about 700 plus so this is going to  be very well protected from the front so this   is definitely a tank you’re going to want  to flank if you want to easily destroy it   and then moving on to Britain we have the  Challenger 3 Technology Demonstrator (TD).

It was called prototype in the dev server,  but this is a more accurate name because the   Challenger 3 is not going to look anything  like this I think this was just a test bed   for the 120 mm length 55 gun and to be honest  this is probably one of the additions I’m most  

Looking forward to actually using because this  is a massive game changer for British tanks. So, it’s top tier apfsds round  does 640 mm penetration now the   Challenger 2E only did about 557  mm with its top tier apfsds round,   so a little short of 100 mm extra penetration.

I mean you do lose access to the  HESH shell but how useful that   was actually going to be I in the  top tiers I’m not entirely sure. I know some of the armor was slightly  reduced a little bit but this was never  

Particularly the most well protected tank  in the world anyway, although now the turret   cheeks look to be a lot more vulnerable than  they previously were but again like with the   German Leopard tanks it does come with a spall  liner but only seems to be fitted mostly around  

The front hull so if I can find it, yeah  so there’s the spall liner at the front. You have got some RHA around the sides I can’t  remember if that was there on the dev server and  

That’s 20 to 50 mm so not the worst in the world  but whether it will actually you know help at   catching spalling I’m not entirely sure you see  how spalling looks like when firing through the   front there, yeah so it seems to catch a fair  bit of spalling so hopefully this will help  

Provide additional survivability for this tank  and of course the other major British change   was the Challenger 2 OES, so that’s for sale  for 9,620 golden eagles basically the same as   the Challenger 2 (TES) except you have a 50 cal  machine gun on the roof here instead of the 7.62  

Mm machine gun and you’ve got some structural  steel over these external armor blocks and this   isn’t even 20 mm I think it’s more like 9 to 10  mm extra protection so this is basically nothing,  

So again it’s a another premium tank like with the  M1A1 HC Click Bait which is you know not exactly   going to be a massive change compared to the  vehicle it’s based off of useful if you’re wanting  

To research the top tiers of Britain but if you’re  looking for a unique tank this isn’t going to give   you anything like that unfortunately and in Japan  at rank five battle rating 7.0 you’ve got the Type  

99 and this is basically a Japanese self-propelled  howitzer but it fires its shells at a much higher   velocity, 940 m/s instead of about 680 odd  for the American M109 and it comes with this   additional shell which has a little bit more  penetration so 64 mm versus 61 mm and comes  

With about 5 kg extra TNT equivalent explosives  so yeah this would be a very welcome addition to   the Japanese Tech Tree and you got this machine  gun on the roof here for anti-air work as well   and yeah it’s nice to see Japan getting a very  useful self-propelled howitzer (SPH) vehicle.

Then moving on to the Chinese you got the  VT-4A1 at 11.7 and there’s been some changes to,   this so the composite armor has been changed  from 5 mm to what you can see on screen here,   not the most well protected composite armor  plate um if you go to protection analysis  

And shoot it with the Leopard 2 A7V’s top tier  APFSDS round it will go straight through still,   so definitely not the most well protected tank  in the world and even the turret cheeks are a   little bit vulnerable to be honest and the gun  reload rate is now the same as the previous tank,  

I think it was a little bit slower before  but the targeting speed for the horizontal   and vertical is still a little bit slower  and this ERA armor has been fixed as well,   it’s now actually attached to the armor proper  which is now RHA instead of structural steel  

But again only 20 mm so still not particularly  great once that ERA is gone you’re there’s not   going to be much armor for you to punch through  to get straight into the turret although you may   hit this composite armor behind here as well  depending on the angle and other than that  

You got some slat armor around the turret and of  course you do have the APS system, so you’ve got   four them around the tank, well you got four of  these ones around the tank and these two on the  

Top here so we have to see how useful that APS  system is for the tank when it’s used in battle. Then moving on to France you’ve just got the ACMAT  TPK 6.41 VPC between the AMX13 and the AMX 10P,  

Which kind of fills a gap although it’s the  same battle rating as the AMX 10p so also   kind of doesn’t, would have been preferred to  see the gap at tier 2 between the CCKW and the   AMX 13 40 but this will still be a useful  vehicle and it is basically just a truck  

With a 20 mm Oerlikon cannon, so nothing  groundbreaking unfortunately although it’s   at 5.3 so that’s a fairly low battle rating I  think and it is also pretty fast so top speed   of 56 mph so quickly able to get around the  battlefield and with your large crew of six  

You might be able to survive reasonably well if  an enemy doesn’t know where to target properly   or if you’re just taking some lucky shots  so yeah definitely a welcome addition to   the French tech tree but not exactly a game  changer by any stretch of the imagination.

Then Sweden got the STRV 122B+ at the end of its  Leopard line and this has the shorter 120 mm gun   so not quite as powerful as on the German variant  and again this is what the armor looks like from  

The front, reasonably well protected but still  fairly vulnerable to the top tier APFSDS rounds   and this also comes with a spall liner, so if we  look inside, yeah so you got some spall liner on  

The side here and as I sort of forgot to mention  in my previous video it does also come with these   composite screens which do help to cover up some  weak spots especially around the back of the  

Turret so this area is now a bit more protected  but it’s only really useful against HEATFS rounds,   it has a 0.16 multiplier against kinetic rounds  so 100 mm only actually provides about 16 mm   of protection against kinetic rounds so again  while this is a welcome edition these composite  

Screens aren’t going to be a massive game changer  unfortunately but the spall liner is also going to   make this tank a lot more well protected and then  lastly we’ve got the Israeli Rochev and Giraf. So, the Rochev is basically a long barrelled M109,  of course the previous Israeli version was a short  

Barrel variant and it’s got a 7.62 mm machine gun  on the turret roof and a 50. on the barrel itself   so a little bit worse against enemy aircraft  but more protected against lightly armored   ground vehicles and so again a welcome edition at  6.3 because this helps to bridge the gap between  

The M109 and the Zachlam Tager and then lastly  we’ve got the Giraf which is an M113A1 with a   TOW anti-tank guided missile launcher, so lightly  protected though decently speedy with a top speed   of 40 mph this will be a very decent addition to  the Israeli Tech Tree and I hope this means that  

We’ll start seeing more anti-tank guided missile  vehicles added to the Israeli Tech Tree at the   higher tiers and so that is all of the various  tanks that have been added in the Air Superiority   update and to be honest none of them are a  particularly massive standout to me, I mean the  

T90M is pretty well protected the leopard 2A7V has  decent enough armor but none of these are exactly   a paradigm change, I’d say the Challenger 3 is  a bit of a paradigm change because it does add a   massively more powerful gun to the British Tech  Tree but none of these are particular standout.

To be honest I’m more enrolled by the Hungarian,  Israeli and Japanese additions to the game like I   mean the top tier has never been my favorite  sort of area for vehicles anyway and to be   honest I’m not really sure where Gaijin can go  from here, because the Americans can get the  

SEP V3 and SEP V4, I’m not really sure what the  Germans can get for the Leopards (Leopard A8) the   Russians can get some various modifications  that have been introduced in recent years   but again getting information on these new  vehicles is going to be a massive problem,  

Like we’re already running into problems with  the depleted uranium for the American tanks   and spall liners and there’s murmurings that the  German Leopards possibly got the wrong composite   armor. I just hope they maybe move away from the  more modern stuff and maybe go back to focusing  

On the earlier vehicles for which we actually  have information on, I mean like I say there’s   not really anywhere else we can go unless we’re  going to start adding vehicles that have just not   been introduced or in Prototype testing, I mean  like I say the Americans have got the SEP V3 and  

V4 which could be added although the V4 has been  cancelled you could still add it as a prototype   but again like I say we’re not going to have much  information on these various tanks so yeah I’m  

Hoping we’ll maybe see a bit of a step back and  focus in on the lower tier vehicles in the future. Anyway, just a quick video for  today hopefully you’ve enjoyed   it hopefully you’ll join me for the next one. I’ve been Toreno and I’ll see you next time!