Warrior

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Warrior
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Warrior
AB RB SB
8.3 8.3 8.3
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Description

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The Combat Vehicle, Personnel, Tracked, 30mm Gun, Warrior FV510 (or just the Warrior) is a Rank VI British light tank with a battle rating of 8.3 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.81 "The Valkyries".

Warrior is basically a box with a round turret, that has little gun in middle, "ears" (ATGM cameras), and the ATGM launcher itself on right side. Front of the hull is sloped, but it doesn't really help. On its right, there is an exhaust port, which may prevent gunner from firing precisely in Realistic Battles, but usually it's not a problem.

If the vehicle has Add-on armour, it's easily identified for its riveted plates on sides of vehicle. Usually, after being shot with a high velocity round, they break off. Plates do not protect the rear of vehicle.

Mobility is adequate on its BR, both forward and backwards, but don't expect to be climbing mountains like with the Vickers MBT in Arcade Battles.

In Arcade Battles, it's generally driving at 46-54 km/h offroad in either direction without engine upgrades, regardless of additional armour. With mobility upgrades it may drive up to 60 km/h, but not very often. Speed of 81-83 km/h can be reached if the Warrior drove off the hill and keep driving forward, or on completely flat terrains, like roads in American desert, though sometimes it just doesn't work again at same spot. Accidentally hitting something on max speed, especially explosive decorations, launches the Warrior up to 5 meters in air, which is very entertaining, but almost never fazes the enemy.

Practically, the Warrior is the only proper light tank the British faction has. It's mostly played as an aggressive ATGM tank or ambush scout tank, though it can fulfill any role that doesn't involve it being constantly shot at.

Its weapons are best described as a hybrid between a slowed down SPAA gun and upgraded assault ATGM launcher, while armour is either nonexistent, or installed via modification to partially protect from hazards that normally annihilate light tanks. The weapon combo is potent enough to destroy even modern MBT's, and with add-on armour the Warrior can bully even heavy tanks in close range, though the turret is still very vulnerable.

It's also very easy to play the vehicle while stock, as it has most essentials at stock or unlocked early on, and every upgrade make it even stronger.

Warrior can be played defensively (mostly around hills and mountains), or aggressively (on flat terrains and in towns), given that there is enough cover for the Warrior. In Realistic Battles, Warrior can also hide relatively well and use either of its weapons to punish unsuspecting people, or just scout them.

General info

Survivability and armour

Describe armour protection. Note the most well protected and key weak areas. Appreciate the layout of modules as well as the number and location of crew members. Is the level of armour protection sufficient, is the placement of modules helpfull for survival in combat?

If necessary use a visual template to indicate the most secure and weak zones of the armour.

Mobility

Mobility characteristic
Weight (tons) Add-on Armour
weight (tons)
Max speed (km/h)
22.5 1.0 83 (AB)
75 (RB/SB)
Engine power (horsepower)
Mode Stock Upgraded
Arcade 852 ___
Realistic/Simulator 486 ___
Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
Mode Stock Upgraded
Arcade 37.87 __.__
Realistic/Simulator 21.60 __.__

Armaments

Main armament

Main article: L21A1 (30 mm)
30 mm L21A1
Capacity (Belt capacity) Fire rate
(shots/minute)
Vertical
guidance
Horizontal
guidance
Stabilizer
222 (6) 81 -10°/+45° ±180° N/A
Turret rotation speed (°/s)
Mode Stock Upgraded Prior + Full crew Prior + Expert qualif. Prior + Ace qualif.
Arcade 57.1 __.__ __.__ __.__ __.__
Realistic 35.7 __.__ __.__ __.__ __.__
Reloading rate (seconds)
Stock Prior + Full crew Prior + Expert qualif. Prior + Ace qualif.
1.30 __.__ __.__ __.__
Ammunition
Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Penetration in mm @ 90°
10m 100m 500m 1000m 1500m 2000m
Default AP-I/HEI-T* 60 53 40 33 28 19
30x170 APDS-T APDS 110 101 95 69 52 41
Belt types
Belts Shell composition Combat usage
Default APHE / FI-T
(Armour Piercing High Explosive –Fragmentation Incendiary tracer) shell
This belt is useful against lightly armoured open-topped tank destroyers, or bombers. Against other SPAA this belt can reliably take out crew, armament, ammo and engine.
Sprgr. 18 FI-T
(Fragmentation Incendiary Tracer) shell
Versus planes and open combat compartment vehicles. Lighter aircraft will often go down by a single hit.
PzGr APHE
(Armour Piercing High Explosive) shell
Ammo against tanks. It has comparable power to regular Rank I tanks, but combined with the Insane RoF, can be very deadly. It even has the HE filler, 3-4 well aimed penetrating hits can disable any tank.
M.Gr.18 FI-T
(Fragmentation Incendiary Tracer) shell
Versus planes and open combat compartment vehicles. Lighter aircraft will often go down by a single hit.
Ammo racks
Full
ammo
1st
rack empty
2nd
rack empty
3rd
rack empty
4th
rack empty
Visual
discrepancy
XX XX (+XX) XX (+XX) XX (+XX) XX (+XX)

Turret empty: 62 (+3)
Front empty: 33 (+32)


Additional armament

103 mm MILAN ATGM
Capacity Vertical
guidance
Flight
speed (m/s)
Range (m)
8 N/A 200 2,000
115 mm MILAN 2 ATGM
Capacity Vertical
guidance
Flight
speed (m/s)
Range (m)
8 N/A 200 2,000
Ammunition
Penetration statistics
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Penetration in mm @ 90°
10m 100m 500m 1000m 1500m 2000m
MILAN ATGM 580 580 580 580 580 580
MILAN 2 ATGM 730 730 730 730 730 730
Shell details
Ammunition Type of
warhead
Velocity
in m/s
Projectile
Mass in kg
Fuse delay

in m:

Fuse sensitivity

in mm:

Explosive Mass in g
(TNT equivalent):
Normalization At 30°
from horizontal:
Ricochet:
0% 50% 100%
MILAN ATGM 200 6.6 0.0 0.1 1,400 +0° 80° 82° 90°
MILAN ATGM 200 7.0 0.0 0.1 1,800 +0° 80° 82° 90°
Ammo racks
Full
ammo
1st
rack empty
2nd
rack empty
3rd
rack empty
Visual
discrepancy
8 XX (+XX) XX (+XX) XX (+XX)

Machine guns

Main article: L94A1 (7.62 mm)
7.62 mm L94A1
Coaxial mount
Capacity (Belt capacity) Fire rate
(shots/minute)
Vertical
guidance
Horizontal
guidance
2,000 (2,00) 600 N/A N/A


Usage in the battles

First of all, one needs to understand that both of the guns on the Warrior are useful.

The gun is very slow firing, but with AP belt it can penetrate the sides of most medium tanks and SPGs. Basically it's effective against medium tanks, but lackluster against fast vehicles that have spaced armour. It can be used to hurt crew from over 1 km distance, but it's not very good at damaging enemy ammo racks, so it's best used to destroy engines, tracks and crew, unless it's easier to hit. Proper heavy tanks are normally not fazed by its fire at all, but for them there is the powerful MILAN launcher, which can penetrate them even from front with its 580 mm penetration power. In a perfect world, even in worst situation the Warrior can still use its 30 mm gun to de-track charging enemy tank and instantly destroy it with side shot or ATGM, but it's not very likely that the Warrior will live that long. Also, in a worst case scenario, the 30 mm autocannon can be used to try and shoot down planes with it, but it will require skill with slow-firing SPAA (like the Crusader AA MK I), and any plane coming down at a high angle can't be engaged.

Not convinced? The main gun can remove trees at any range, which is normally a nightmare for any other British ATGM vehicle.

Machine gun is kind of useless, but it can still destroy fences, which normally slows any tank down if they hit them, and it makes much less noise.

The MILAN missile itself is absurdly fast in contrast to Swingfire missiles, while retaining good control. This make it very hard to dodge up to 700 m range, but harder to turn it into enemy cover, especially horizontally. The Warrior also cannot be flanked unlike normal ATGM launcher, since its turret based. It can be used in general melee range, but cannot be fired point-blank (10 m or so), and if not careful it can overshoot (look at launcher itself in Third-person view to avoid this). MILAN launcher can be upgraded to the MILAN 2, which has an absolutely insane 730 mm of armour penetration. Needless to say, it simply disintegrates or cripples the target tank that doesn't have chemical armour, unless the missile somehow hits the enemy gun barrel.

In AB, it's best to fire the missile at tank's gunner, so in case if it didn't destroy the tank on its own, the Warrior can just circle around the enemy and use the main gun to destroy the engine, then proceed to incapacitate the crew.

In any mode, but especially in AB, mark the enemy with the "scout" ability, so they can be found whenever smoke is deployed. Since the MILAN ATGM can instantly destroy or cripple anyone, even seeing just the name of enemy and type of tank through smoke is good enough for the Warrior to have a chance for a hit. For light tanks, the 30 mm autocannon can work just fine (just don't do that against BMP; unless it already spotted and scouted the Warrior, it's not worth it).

Since MILAN has relatively good controls and there are 8 missiles total, the Warrior can try and fire it above hills and guide it down on people, much like Swingfire and Striker. It's harder to aim on enemy without a straight visual firing line, but if it hits anywhere important, they could be knocked out anyways. Since the Warrior is considered a scout vehicle, mark them and ping them on map, even if a shot lands a hit.

As with all light tanks play style, be very wary of people that have any kind of explosive ammo, as the Warrior has the Hull Break mechanism on it and can be easily engaged.

Usually MBT's will carry AP ammo as their first shot, which will just over penetrate and maybe do almost nothing. So if there is an absolute must directly attack someone, attack them, SPGs or other non-Soviet light tanks.

There is also a trick related to the Warrior- if baiting an enemy that is looking towards the Warrior, pull the Warrior's rear end out of cover first. Since the rear has very little critical components outside of the MILAN missile stowage, usually being shot there doesn't do anything too drastic for the overall tank health. After being fired at, drive out of cover and fire back at them. This trick probably won't work twice, so make the most out of the opportunity. Nobody likes to be shot with ATGMs and the second shot coming will most certainly be HE of some kind.

Protection analysis might get all weird with protection and damage values, but essentially frontal panel gives a 45% chance to not die to frontal HESH shot by just being there. Side armour does the same thing for entirety of the sides, but is weaker. Any stronger shells will likely obliterate Warrior from sides, unless it was a graze shot.

With Add-on armour, the Warrior can survive machine gun fire, misplaced cannon fire, close artillery miss, low-caliber SPAA fire and all the other things that normally cause hull break or annihilate light tanks, so the Warrior can play boldly and bully lonely players. It defends the sides and half of the front, with the frontal plate covering the driver. In case if it somehow saved the vehicle from frontal shot, the Warrior will be very likely set on fire and have the engine broken, which may mean an impending knock-out if unable to retaliate, so keep that in mind. The plates aren't immortal, so after being hit too hard they will break off, much like explosive reaction armour. The protection quality of these armour plates are most notable when compared to facing the BMP-2 (when it doesn't help at all) and the Begleitpanzer (when it actually saves the vehicle from graze shots).

Side armour plates can block HESH and some weaker forms of chemical ammunition with about 130-160 mm of penetration power, frontal plate can save from about 220 mm of chemical penetration power, saving the light tank from hull break. APHE shot at 100m range at the plate will go right through, but may be stopped at greater ranges. If shell is stopped, hull break is prevented at the cost of protection panel.

Here is the most unlikely and ridiculous example of armour saving the Warrior's life. IT-1 ATGM has about 500 penetration power, which should destroy side armour of warrior at any angle, and even frontal plate with ease, however:

Since this particular edge of Armour plates is invulnerable, ATGM destroyed entirety of Warrior Armour, but Warrior survived. As could be seen here, armour on warrior is extremely random. The sharper the angle of attack, the bigger the chance of miraculous survival.

Finally, the Warrior can also repair any allies, so if in cover and not busy - do help them.

Specific enemies worth noting

Any Soviet light tanks: Destroy it with ATGM, use scout ability to see when they are trying to leave their cover, use gun adjustment to never miss, generally never play around with them. BMP-1 will just hull break the Warrior, BMP-2 will just turn on full auto mode and unload half of its magazine into its target, even if it misses its ATGM, just to get rid of a threat and even add-on armour wont save the Warrior at that point. Oddly enough, the infamous Object 906 is probably the least dangerous of them, but it will still destroy the Warrior with proper shot placements. If the Warrior is spaded in modifications, just call artillery strike on them.

IS-7: Do not ever engage this thing frontally without MILAN 2 and add-on armour. It is also extremely risky to attack it on a narrow street. Fire at the right (their left) side, to disable its turret. The main goal in engaging this tank is to disable its engine with the 30 mm gun and then blow it up by destroying its ammo in back of a turret or just blowing it up by firing ATGM in the middle of it or into ammo rack, if there is a spare ATGM (the IS-7, as a threat to any BR below 8.0, should be prioritized with every missile in the Warrior's capacaity). Even the many machine guns on the IS-7 can shred the Warrior apart.

Any tank with heavy machine guns: If possessing the add-on armour modification, simply avoid turning the rear towards them, otherwise the weak rear armour would be easily penetrated. Weaker machine guns of around 7.62 mm calibre can't penetrate the Warrior front armour, so just destroy them by returning cannon fire. They'll never see it coming.

Counter-tactics

Just fire at its turret, preferably with explosives or high fire rate guns.

If it tries to spook away a threat by being ominous and peeking over hills, disable its ATGM camera (on "ears") with concentrated fire if a direct hit to the crew and modules is not possible. Keep in mind that must damage whole IFV really hard for ATGM repairs to take long (otherwise it may take less than rearm time, which is not good). If the missile is already homing towards a vehicle with no way to break visual, try to get outside of direct missile control range (which will make missile spiral crazily and possibly missing by a centimeter) or face it with the gun barrel in hopes that it would absorb the damage and not cripple any critical modules.

Never fire AP rounds to the back of this tank, since unless it hits one of the missile ammo racks there, it will just do nothing to it.

If the Warrior has the add-on armour package, do not underestimate it and use anything possible when engaging it, not just HMG. Warrior repairs and reloads fast enough to disable its adversaries, if it must, just setting it on fire is not going to stop it. Low caliber machine guns are useless against hull from front, despite it having incomplete add-on armor protection.

Warrior can be destroyed by fighter jet. However, do not just strafe it directly, as it actually can fire back and may have armour. It's best to attack it from the top.

Pros and cons

Pros:

  • Extremely powerful ATGM with 8 missiles.
  • Can stop pushes if manages to get to good cover.
  • Can survive direct hit by a miracle and even brawl with MBT's if armour mod is installed.
  • The only British light tank beyond rank 1.

Cons:

  • Can be destroyed by other light tanks easily, especially if you don't pay attention.
  • Any properly landed turret shot will end you, no way to survive, if it also was HE.
  • Many will be disheartened by main gun's performance, especially in a duel with other light tanks.
  • Add-on armour does less than you may expect from it, it's not clear when you survived by sheer luck or because of armour plates.

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Britain light tanks
A13  A13 Mk I · A13 Mk I (3rd R.T.R.) · A13 Mk II · A13 Mk II 1939
A15  Crusader II · Crusader "The Saint" · Crusader III
A17  Tetrarch I
IFV  Warrior
Wheeled  Daimler Mk II · AEC Mk II · Fox · Vickers Mk.11
Other  VFM5
South Africa 
SARC  SARC MkIVa · SARC MkVI (2pdr) · SARC MkVI (6pdr)
Ratel  Ratel 90 · Ratel 20
Rooikat  Rooikat Mk.1D · Rooikat 105 · Rooikat MTTD
Other  Concept 3 · Eland 90 Mk.7
USA  Stuart I · Stuart III