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HMS Hood is one of the most powerful buttlecruisers ever built. Originally designed as fast battleship it was reclassified by order of the First Sea Lord, Admiral John Jellicoe. The design was repeatedly modified based on combat experience, making the Hood the most powerful capital ship at the time she was comissioned in 1920. Being the top battlecruiser of the Royal Navy tech tree, HMS Hood, is characterized by a very powerful primary armament and a fairly numerous, though not particularly strong, secondary armament. It boasts good mobility but suffers from rather average armor by battleship standards, as well as a weak air defense battery. More details below.

The South African Reconnaissance Car (SARC) MkVI (6pdr) is a Rank II armored car in the British tech tree. Its lightweight design, powerful engines, and high-penetration 6-pounder gun make it ideal for flanking and ambushing enemy tanks. With excellent speed and agility, it can quickly reposition to catch opponents off guard.

The Sherman Firefly was a British modification of the American M4 Sherman. By fitting it with a powerful anti-tank gun, the Firefly could effectively take on heavily armored German tanks like the Panther and Tiger. This upgrade made the Firefly a crucial asset for the Allies, helping to take on the strong German armour.

With a distinctive engine sound that players either love or hate, the Wyvern S4 has made a name for itself as a formidable aircraft. Aside from its sea-level speed, it is capable of carrying up to 3×1000 lb bombs, rockets of various types, and even its excellent Hispanos Mk.V cannons with ample ammunition capacity. In addition to its firepower for ground attacks, it is perfectly capable of performing boom-and-zoom, features that undoubtedly give it the tools to tip any matchmaker in its favor for victory.

The Eurofighter 2000 Typhoon (Block 10 Tranche 2), Typhoon FGR.4, and F-2000A are 4.5th generation fighter jets with exceptional versatility and advanced technology, found in the German, British, and Italian tech trees. Equipped with AIM-120B AMRAAMs and AIM-9M Sidewinders, they excel in both long-range and close-quarters air combat. On the ground attack side, the Typhoons boast an impressive arsenal, including advanced guided bombs and missiles, making them equally devastating against ground targets.

The FV721 Fox Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Wheeled), or simply Fox, was a light armoured car/reconnaissance vehicle produced by ROF Leeds and used by the British Army from the early 1970s up until 1994.

The Battle of the River Plate was the earliest major naval battle of the Second World War. It saw the sinking of German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and is often touted as an early success for the Royal Navy, though the actual facts of the battle somewhat muddle that case. The story of this famous battle actually starts a few months before the day it took place on December 13, 1939.

The Churchill Crocodile is a variant of the Churchill Mk.VII with a hull-mounted flamethrower instead of the hull-mounted machine gun. Apart from the flamethrower, it is almost identical to the tech-tree variant, with the only exception being its weight, which is 45.2 tons compared to 41 tons. The gun is still the same mediocre 75mm OQF Mk.V, and mobility is even worse because of the extra weight.

During the Berlin Victory Parade, the IS-3 was first observed by the western allies. Among the British, fear grew about its armour and the fact that only the 17-pounder, firing the scarce APDS (Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot) stood a chance at penetrating it. As a result, a British program began to develop a gun capable of accomplishing the feat of penetrating the IS-3 frontally. When doubts arose about the planned vehicle, FV215, coming into service before cold war hostilities in sufficient numbers, a stopgap order was issued in 1950. This utilised the Centurion MK3 hull and mounted a 183mm anti-tank gun. This was named the FV4005.

The Scimitar light tank is one of those machines that never get the limelight. When someone says ‘British tanks’, you instantly think of their famous MBTs like the Centurion or the Chieftain, but they weren’t really used much in actual combat. The small Scimitar, however, has been a British army staple in conflicts all over the world.