User:U3032832

Greetings, and this is the user page of godzilla5549. I have been playing War Thunder off and on since 2013.

I primarily play Realistic Battles in Ground and Air as well as Arcade Naval Battles. Recently, my focus has been on Naval due to my interests. I typically play American and German trees, although I have some progress in the Soviet tech tree as well.

I am a student of history and have a large interest in 20th century warfare, primarily naval warfare. While I am new to the War Thunder Wiki, I am not new to creating historical and factual write-ups of warships.

This page will mainly serve as a collection for things that I like to have on hand.

Repository of Tables

Here will be a series of empty tables to use.

Aircraft Armament Table
Capacity	Fire Rate (shots/minute)	Reload Time (seconds)
		Stock	Prior + Full Crew	Prior + Expert Crew	Prior + Ace Crew
X rpg	X	X	X	X	X

Aircraft Armament Ammunition Table
Shell Type	Mass (kg)	Explosive Mass (kg)	Filler Type	Muzzle Velocity (meters/second)	Tracer	Penetration in mm @ 90°
						10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X

Table Testing Area

Browning M2 (Early) Ammunition
Name	Type	Mass (grams)	Explosive Mass (TNT Equivalent) (grams)	Muzzle Velocity (meters/second)	Tracer	Penetration in mm @ 90°
						10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
M1	Tracer	43.8	N/A	823	Yes	10	8	7	6	0.1	0
M2	Ball (Omni-purpose)	45.2	N/A	867	No	10	8	7	6	0.1	0
M1	I	41	N/A	944	No	5	4	4	3	1	0
M2	AP	46	N/A	865	No	26	25	19	12	6	0

Browning M2 Ammunition
Name	Type	Mass (grams)	Explosive Mass (TNT Equivalent) (grams)	Muzzle Velocity (meters/second)	Tracer	Penetration in mm @ 90°
						10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
M1	Tracer	43.8	N/A	832	Yes	10	8	7	6	0.1	0
M2	Ball (Omni-purpose)	45.2	N/A	867	No	10	8	7	6	0.1	0
M1	I	41	N/A	944	No	5	4	4	3	1	0
M2	AP	46	N/A	865	No	26	25	19	12	6	0
M8	AP-I	40.3	N/A	887	No	23	22	16	10	1	0

Browning M2 (Late) Ammunition
Name	Type	Mass (grams)	Explosive Mass (TNT Equivalent) (grams)	Muzzle Velocity (meters/second)	Tracer	Penetration in mm @ 90°
						10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
M20	API-T	40.3	N/A	899	Yes	23	22	16	10	5	0
M2	Ball (Omni-purpose)	46	N/A	865	No	26	25	19	12	6	0
M1	I	41	N/A	944	No	5	4	4	3	1	0
M2	AP	46	N/A	865	No	26	25	19	12	6	0
M8	AP-I	40.3	N/A	887	No	23	22	16	10	1	0
M23	I	35	N/A	1040	No	2	2	2	2	0.1	0

ShVAK / ShVAKs Ammunition
Type	Mass (grams)	Explosive Mass (TNT Equivalent) (grams)	Muzzle Velocity (meters/second)	Tracer	Penetration in mm @ 90°
					10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
FI-T	96	6.31	800	Yes	2	2	1.5	1	0.5	0
AP-I	96	N/A	800	No	27	25	19	15	9	6
HEF	91	5.8	800	No	2	2	1.5	1	0.5	0
FI	96	8.62	No	2	2	1.5	0.5	0

ShVAK (Early) Ammunition
Type	Mass (grams)	Explosive Mass (TNT Equivalent) (grams)	Muzzle Velocity (meters/second)	Tracer	Penetration in mm @ 90°
					10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
Tracer	96	N/A	800	Yes	10	8	7	6	0.1	0
HEF-I	91	4.35	800	No	2	2	1.5	1	0.5	0
HEF	91	5.8	800	No	2	2	1.5	1	0.5	0

Naval Forces Progression Rework

This is an idea that I have come up with as a way to rework the progression in naval so as to alleviate balance issues and allow for correction of some battle ratings. While ground and air forces currently have a purely vertical progression system (progress down each line, with different lines for different vehicle roles), naval forces has a combined vertical and horizontal aspect to it. You must traverse the tech tree to unlock the sufficient number of vehicles to move down the tech tree.

Through this, you begin with horribly weak torpedo boats with a handful of machine guns but soon unlock torpedo boats that are much more armed. After, you can unlock motor gun boats that give up their torpedoes but have much more firepower. Then you move on to unlock submarine chasers and minesweepers, beginning with some of the weaker examples but eventually unlocking much more powerful ones with multiple auto-cannons and even heavy artillery (3" guns, automatic 6-pdr guns). These often lead in to large corvettes or frigates which dwarf the small torpedo boats they can face, but are armed with an array of guns to wipe the seas clean. You then move to research the finest examples of motor boats there are, some with very high powered torpedoes, others that are bristling with guns, some that have heavy armor and even a few with modern automatic cannons.

And then you unlock the first destroyer. And this whole cycle repeats again, with terribly weak destroyers giving way to far better examples. But then it all repeats again after unlocking the first light cruiser, which is also a weak ship in comparison to other cruisers. All the while, the battle ratings are compressed so as to keep a large portion of these ships fighting each other with massive gaps in relative power.

So instead of having this continue, I have decided to come up with a way to reorganize the progression of naval forces tech trees that would more closely resemble the progression model of ground and air forces. This will be a continual work in progress that will take some time, but I will hopefully keep it updated and will likely add on theoretical extensions of the tech tress with additional ships fitted in.

American Naval Forces Tech Tree following my progression rework proposal

Update 5 October 2019: I have made a bit of progress on my idea, with a tentative tech tree for all of the nations that have a naval tree in the game as of current. I have also began to make an index of sorts to reference all of the relevant information for any ship that I have included (as well as any that is already in the tree). As an example, I will include a screenshot of the American tech tree that I have as of now.