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Reverse Speed Logic

The T-90M is a modern main battle tank, yet it gets a pathetic -3 km/h reverse speed that gets you killed instantly if you overextend. Meanwhile, Russian SPAAs like the Pantsir-SM-SV and BUK-M3 can back out of danger at a blazing -70 km/h. Apparently, the truck drivers need Formula One tactical retreats while frontline tank crews are forced to commit to every bad push.

The Smoke Paradox

The T-90M comes fully equipped with smoke grenades but lacks any specialized vision to see through them, forcing you to blind yourself for safety. Then you look at the Khrizantema-S, which features a literal ground radar designed to track and kill targets right through thick smoke screens. Naturally, someone decided the one vehicle that can actually see through smoke shouldn't get any smoke grenades of its own.

Depressive Launcher Physics

The Shturm-S mounts its launcher arm at the back, folding sideways, and suffers from terrible gun depression because the missile would hit its own MTLB chassis. You would think putting the launcher on the front would fix this, but look at the Khrizantema-S. Its arm hangs right over the BMP-3 chassis edge and literally folds in half at a 90-degree angle just to reload, yet it somehow still manages only -5 degrees of depression.

AA Tracking Confusions

The Shturm-S gets access to a specialized ATGM with a proximity fuse designed specifically to swat down helicopters and low-flying planes, but it completely lacks any automatic target tracking system. On the flip side, the Khrizantema-S is blessed with a radar system that perfectly tracks aerial targets for you. But it doesn't get a single proximity-fused missile to actually hit them reliably.

Why.

Reverse Speed Logic

The T-90M is a modern main battle tank, yet it gets a pathetic -3 km/h reverse speed that gets you killed instantly if you overextend. Meanwhile, Russian SPAAs like the Pantsir-SM-SV and BUK-M3 can back out of danger at a blazing -70 km/h. Apparently, the truck drivers need Formula One tactical retreats while frontline tank crews are forced to commit to every bad push.

The Smoke Paradox

The T-90M comes fully equipped with smoke grenades but lacks any specialized vision to see through them, forcing you to blind yourself for safety. Then you look at the Khrizantema-S, which features a literal ground radar designed to track and kill targets right through thick smoke screens. Naturally, someone decided the one vehicle that can actually see through smoke shouldn't get any smoke grenades of its own.

Depressive Launcher Physics

The Shturm-S mounts its launcher arm at the back, folding sideways, and suffers from terrible gun depression because the missile would hit its own MTLB chassis. You would think putting the launcher on the front would fix this, but look at the Khrizantema-S. Its arm hangs right over the BMP-3 chassis edge and literally folds in half at a 90-degree angle just to reload, yet it somehow still manages only -5 degrees of depression.

AA Tracking Confusions

The Shturm-S gets access to a specialized ATGM with a proximity fuse designed specifically to swat down helicopters and low-flying planes, but it completely lacks any automatic target tracking system. On the flip side, the Khrizantema-S is blessed with a radar system that perfectly tracks aerial targets for you. But it doesn't get a single proximity-fused missile to actually hit them reliably.

Why.

With the US/NATO trees dominating top-tier BVR engagements and the MiG-29 being neglected for what feels like forever, it is only a matter of time before Gaijin gives the USSR its ultimate long-range response.

We all know the MiG-31 Foxhound is inevitable, MiG enjoyers rejoice!

The Su-34 feels completely overshadowed by the Su-30SM in War Thunder right now, despite the Su-34 being purpose-built as a strike aircraft IRL. The whole point of the Su-34 is that it’s the heavier, more dedicated ground-attack variant of the Flanker family — with greater payload capacity, improved strike capability, and optimized for carrying precision A2G weapons on long missions.

But in-game, the Su-30SM can carry more KAB-250s and generally more useful smart air-to-ground weapons in a single loadout. That basically removes the Su-34’s intended niche, because the multirole fighter ends up outperforming the dedicated strike aircraft at strike missions. There’s very little reason to use the Su-34 when the Su-30SM does the same thing with a better overall payload setup.

And that brings up the weirdest part: the Su-34 already has no problem carrying dual-racked laser-guided S-25LDs on this exact pylon, yet KAB-250s are limited to single mounts only. Meanwhile, the Su-30SM can dual-rack KAB-250s just fine. If both weapons are laser-guided and the Su-34 already supports dual ejector racks on that pylon, what exactly is preventing the KAB-250 setup? Is this a balancing decision, missing loadout implementation, or just an inconsistency?

a couple long killstreaks = nato bias??