War Thunder Community Magazine Issue 2 | Page 8

ARTICLE OTHER PLANES AND TANKS Tier V tank combat. At 188 tons and armed with a 128 mm cannon AND a 75 mm co-axial cannon in its turret, could this be the messiah the German The Soviets get an early version of the famous Il- tank players are waiting for? Downsides could be 2, the 1941 variant that sits directly before the first the poor mobility and slow turret rotation, making Il-2 in-game currently. This Il-2 (1941) trades the it vulnerable to flanking attacks. This tank comes armor-shredding VYa-23 cannons for a pair of ShVAK directly after the last Tiger II tank in the tech tree, so cannons, a less potent gun armament against ground prepare yourselves for the largest tank ever built. targets unfortunately. But, based on what we’ve seen so far, it has a better bomb load (2 x 250 kg) SUPER FORTRESS compared to the other Il-2 variants. The Germans get the Fw 200C-1 Condor, a huge beast of a bomber Next, there’s the Boeing B-29 Superfortress,