AA Tanks in WoT? Not quite.

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Hello everyone,

yesterday, a piece of news appeared on some WoT webpages (including the Wotleaks) about Yuri Pasholok “confirming the appearance of AA tanks in the game”.

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Basically, the person asking was referring to various AA vehicles for low tiers, specifically those with automatic guns, that would play the role of “Waffenträgers” on low tiers. Yuri Pasholok replied with “when it’s done it’s done” and some folks interpreted that in the way that we’ll be getting new vehicle class – AA tanks.

Well, not quite. First of all, I asked – and there are no such plans for now. Yuri can have access to this kind of information as well (he’s WG’s main historical consultant), but he’s also known as a troll on forums (by the way, if you run into a commenter “yuripasholok” in FTR comments, yes, that’s him), so I guess he was just trolling, OR he was referring to more multi-purpose tank destroyers such as the Sfl IVc, which, in real life, was a dual purpose vehicle. So don’t expect Wirbelwind or quad 50 cals or anything.

There is a core of truth in the reply though, as Wargaming was at one point actually considering treating LT-based AA vehicles as LT’s and MT-based AA vehicles as MT’s, but as far as I know, this never went anywhere.

23 thoughts on “AA Tanks in WoT? Not quite.”

  4. ZSU-57-2. Tier 5
    ZSU-23-4- Probably the deadliest AAA gun of all time, due to low caliber, prob tier 3-4.
    ZSU-37. Tier 3
    ZSU-23-2. Tier 2.

      • You noticed the T-54 hull? This thing would be definitely OP on tier 6, too. It has to be at least tier 8, better tier 9 to work.
        The vehicle is more than 2t lighter than the T-54 lightweight and 8t lighter than the normal T-54, which means that it would be very fast.
        That would be 18,5hp/t with the original engine (520hp) and 24,9hp/t with the top engine of the current ingame T-54. The T-54 itself has 20hp/t and we all know how mobile this thing is (T-54 lw has 22,6hp/t)
        Those guns fired 100-120 rounds per minute. Having 2 of these means 200-240 rpm with a 85 dmg per round, if you take the normal dmg of a 57mm gun (ZiS-4)….17000-20400 dmg/min
        The guns were able to fire special rounds against tanks + the HE rounds against planes. This would be absolutely devastating even with a penetration of ~160mm or if you just spam HE to detrack or just cripple some WTs.

        Everything below tier 8 would be definitely OP as hell!

  5. A AMX 13 with a twin-barreled 90mm V0 1000 gun and a 80 round autoloader, firing at 120 rpm, that counts ? :)

  7. Probably he also reffered to ‘tanks’ like the Finnish L-62 Anti-II or the Hungarian 40M Nimród or other self propelled AA guns which were used as AT units sometimes.

  11. 40mm Pom-pom was used as an AA gun
    News flash it was OP as shit when WG decided to turn it into a single shot, 4 round autoloader. (can’t remember which patch exactly it was but they reversed that quite quickly)