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- Processor: Intel Core i7
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The Object 685 is a Soviet prototype amphibious light tank, developed in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s as a replacement for the obsolete PT-76. Despite it not being ordered into production, tankers in War Thunder may look forward to the highly interesting Object 685 coming to the game as part of the upcoming update 1.91!
Briefly: A ‘70s experimental Soviet amphibious light tank, offering excellent mobility combined with a fast-firing, autoloading 100mm main gun!
Object 685, light tank, USSR, VI rank.
Pros
- A 100mm cannon with a mechanised loading system
- Superb mobility
Cons
- Very light armour
After production of the PT-76 was discontinued, Soviet engineers began work on developing a suitable replacement around a set of requirements provided by the military. The requirements were sent to three different design bureaus, with each bureau developing its own vehicle around the given specifications.
One of the proposed designs, the Object 788, was disqualified early from the competition due to being incomplete and missing several key features mandated by the requirements. The other two designs, the Object 685 and Object 934 were both deemed as sufficient, and work on them continued. By the mid 1970s, both vehicles were built and tested, but neither managed to garner enough interest to warrant a production order being issued. Despite not making it past the prototype stage, design solutions from both vehicles were later applied to other Soviet fighting vehicles.
In War Thunder, the Object 685 will continue the light tank branch at rank VI of the Soviet ground forces tree after its arrival to the game as part of update 1.91. Reminiscent of the Object 906 which precedes it, the Object 685 builds upon the foundation laid by its predecessor and expands on it with the use of a larger, more powerful main gun assisted by a very handy autoloading mechanism.
Unlike the Object 906, the Object 685 is armed with a bigger, 100mm 2A48 cannon. In addition to an increase in gun calibre, the Object 685 also sports an autoloading mechanism, which will substantially increase the fire rate of the vehicle compared to other Soviet tanks armed with 100mm guns. To round off the combination of excellent ballistics and fire rate, the Object 685 will also have access to a wide selection of various ammunition types, ranging from regular armour-piercing rounds with explosive filler, to chemical rounds, and going all the way up to highly potent sub-calibre munitions. Thanks to such firepower, the Object 685 can comfortably punch well above its weight category and be confident to come out on top most of the time.
Fun Fact: Although a failed project, parts of the Object 685, such as its chassis, found their way into subsequent, more successful designs, such as the BMP-3.
While firepower certainly received a significant upgrade, protection and mobility remained virtually identical to that offered by the Object 906. With armour thickness only going up to 50mm, tankers can expect sufficient protection against lighter cannons and machine gun fire, but anything larger than that will virtually ignore the presence of the armour entirely. The 400 horsepower engine found on the Object 685 may be stronger than that of the Object 906, but it effectively only compensates for the weight increase, allowing the Object 685 to reach a similar top speed of 70 km/h forwards, 21 km/h in reverse and up to 10 km/h in water.
The Object 685 is coming to War Thunder as part of the upcoming update 1.91 and will become available to all tankers at rank VI of the Soviet ground forces tree. In the meantime, let us know what you think about the Object 685 in the comments below and stay tuned for more news regarding the next major update. Until then, tankers!
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You should have known people would be upset with this. Removing a beloved prototype vehicle and then adding another prototype vehicle. Yes we can read. Yes we know some vehicles are paper and some are prototypes. However, there is virtually no practical difference between the two. You keep making these arbitrary, artificial distractions between paper and prototype. But the fact is, a vehicle that was designed but not built and a vehicle that had 1 or 2 prototypes, but never saw combat had the...
...exact same impact on warfare: none.
Awesome - yet another paper tank. But hey thats all fine an dandy, you guys already fixed alot of problems by removes the 10.5 and the Panther II... Because they were such a big problem, because they "Didnt exist" much in the same way most of these russian tanks didnt. ...Great.
I'm looking forward to BR decompression. Y'all seem to want add more to the game (which isn't necessarily a bad thing on its own) instead of fixing it. Adding more stuff is great, awesome. Fixing the game in 1.91 would be a dream come true.
T-72AV upgrade! T-72B3 new vehicle! NEXT <3
Make sure you put it at the right BR this time, not like the other OP soviet light tanks/IFV's which are/were undertiered for no reason.
"Fun Fact: Although a failed project, parts of the Object 685, such as its chassis, found their way into subsequent, more successful designs, such as the BMP-3." Why did it fail and why would it be added as they seem they wanted to stop adding paper tanks and or failed prototypes. I understand almost all nations have a few like this shouldn't we want to move away from this?
lol people don't know the difference between ''was never built'' and ''was fully built and tested''
906 isnt a ww2 tank with ww2 tech. therefore its a paper tank.
great a failed prototype that can be researched by anyone and is better than the 906 as if the 906 wasn't game breaking enough, just shows how brain dead gaijin is
Don't listen to all these people complaining about 'muh maus', this thing will be nice to see in game. Panther II and Tiger 105 were not even prototypes like people are complaining. Bunch of wehraboo's
its time to accept the devs are just bad and dont know what theyre doing or dont care about balance. more fake tanks that were never in ww2 time traveling back. get rid of the maus and realistic designs that couldve been made with real ww2 tech to put more time travel post war tanks in the game. this game is dead, nothing but fake post war paper tanks in ever battle when youre trying to play ww2 vehicles. theres your REAL paper tank. post war tanks are all paper time travelers.
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