Comments on: Swedish Tanks – Part XV: Strv A, Strv T & Strv K

By: LaterTimeLord

LaterTimeLord — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 15:56:37 +0000

Reminds me the Autoloader upgrade for Chinese “Battlemaster” tanks in CnC Generals.

“Autoloaders are ready, General!”

By: nixxxie

nixxxie — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 12:05:34 +0000

Moar autoloadah!

By: Meneldil

Meneldil — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 06:55:07 +0000

Cause, after an paper T57H that blows out of the water the actually produced AMX 50B, we totally need another paper project that totally blows out of the water, the actually prototyped Batchat.

Oh wait. We don’t.

By: havoc313

havoc313 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:53:10 +0000

The k tank looks like a comet

By: sp15

sp15 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:38:55 +0000

honestly the armor of the S tank isnt exactly impressive, but ill get to that in the next part, lets just say that it basicly completely relies on ricochet and not armor thickness

By: affie

affie — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:23:32 +0000

That frontal armor of the S tank looks amazing with 480-600 mm of effectivr armor. The sad thing is that they did a test of the HEAT protection in the front with a russian T-72 fireing and the result was that the shell ended upp in the rear pf the S tank, it went rigth thru it like if it was butter.

I look forward to a Swedish tree due to their unique designes that translates into new gameplay and tactics.

By: Guardian54

Guardian54 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:35:36 +0000

Sounds like fun, a souped-up AMX 50B with less armor and a bigger clip… 4 minute reload time for 20 rounds of 105mm lolz would result in more hunting in the first 4 minutes than ever seen before in WoT… and probably 10 of these with 5 other tanks to stall until they’re loaded per team… until it’s realized the stallers are making more XP/creds/WN8 than the 20-round clip guys and people start switching back. It WOULD accelerate batle pace by a GREAT deal though… and make most heavies totally obsolete as 20x Tier 10 105mm HEAT would make their armor totally useless (Maus/E-100 UFP aside).

No, I am not dumb enough to think they’d actually do this. Best we can hope for is a slower, less agile, more armored Bat, much as the T57 is a slower, less agile, more armored (turret-wise) 50B.

By: sp15

sp15 — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:20:28 +0000

Yes that is correct. The S-tank also has a 20 rpm rate of fire and it has a 50 round magazine. Althogh you need to keep in mind that this is a balance factor and that all autoloaders in the game have nerfed magazine capacity

Also you are correct about the effective frontal armor comparison

By: Atomic_Emu

Atomic_Emu — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:10:10 +0000

Great article as always. Just two questions:

I assume the fourth line in the comparison table is the effective frontal armour of the respective tanks, correct?

“The armament was the same 105mm gun as on Strv T, but with an autoloader fed from two 20 round magazines, located in the hull. Initially, it was planned to use two piece ammunition with a rate of fire of 8 rounds per minute, but in 1959, the ammunition was changed to one-piece ammo and the rate of fire was increased to 20 rounds per minute.”

Do I understand it correctly that the RoF of 20 RpM could be sustained until all 40 rounds were fired?

By: Daigensui

Daigensui — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 07:44:11 +0000

I suppose those autoloaders would weight quite a bit….. and the hull height at 1.75 m is pretty high considering it is only 2.53m in total.