- For PC
- For MAC
- For Linux
- OS: Windows 7 SP1/8/10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.2 GHz
- Memory: 4GB
- Video Card: DirectX 10.1 level video card: AMD Radeon 77XX / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660. The minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
- OS: Windows 10/11 (64 bit)
- Processor: Intel Core i5 or Ryzen 5 3600 and better
- Memory: 16 GB and more
- Video Card: DirectX 11 level video card or higher and drivers: Nvidia GeForce 1060 and higher, Radeon RX 570 and higher
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0 or newer
- Processor: Core i5, minimum 2.2GHz (Intel Xeon is not supported)
- Memory: 6 GB
- Video Card: Intel Iris Pro 5200 (Mac), or analog from AMD/Nvidia for Mac. Minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p with Metal support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
- OS: Mac OS Big Sur 11.0 or newer
- Processor: Core i7 (Intel Xeon is not supported)
- Memory: 8 GB
- Video Card: Radeon Vega II or higher with Metal support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
- OS: Most modern 64bit Linux distributions
- Processor: Dual-Core 2.4 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA 660 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months; the minimum supported resolution for the game is 720p) with Vulkan support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 17 GB
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7
- Memory: 16 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA 1060 with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) / similar AMD (Radeon RX 570) with latest proprietary drivers (not older than 6 months) with Vulkan support.
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Hard Drive: 95 GB
The CM11 is a mid 1980s main battle tank, developed as a hybrid design from already available individual components of existing US tanks. Coming as part of the upcoming update 1.91 “Night Vision”, the CM11 will soon await all seasoned tank commanders at the top ranks of the brand new Chinese research tree!
Briefly: A unique MBT, developed from components of several existing American tanks, which saw modernization during the ‘90s with the addition of ERA protection.
CM11, main battle tank, China, VI rank.
Pros
- Thermal sight
- Potent sub-caliber rounds
- ERA protection
Cons
- Average mobility
- Large profile
During the 1980s, armed forces in Taiwan were looking for more capable AFVs. However, as some existing agreements with the USA prevented the supply with more advanced US equipment, such as later versions of the M60 and the newer M1 Abrams tanks, military production was forced to develop an indigenous design.
While still retaining access to supplies of older US equipment and components, the decision was made to create a hybrid tank from the available components and outfit it with the latest electronics. As such, Taiwanese engineers took the hull and chassis of the M60A3 and combined it with the turret of the M48, while installing the M68A1 105mm cannon and the latest US fire control systems available.
The result of this undertaking was the CM11. In the late 1980s, two prototypes were sent to the US for comparative tests against the M60A3, where the CM11 outperformed its counterpart in gunnery trials. Shortly after these successful tests, the CM11 officially entered service in 1990.
However, as the protection was seen to be somewhat lacking, the decision was made to upgrade the CM11 with ERA packages obtained from GIAT in the early ‘90s. Due to substantial weight increases and associated upgrade costs however, this modernization effort was only applied to about a dozen vehicles. In total, 450 CM11s were built for the armed forces, still representing the spearhead of the country’s armored units today.
In War Thunder, the CM11 will be one of the vehicles available to players at the top ranks of upcoming Chinese research tree, coming to the game with the release of update 1.91. The CM11 combines familiar aspects of several well-known US tank designs, thus offering a completely different dynamic to what might appear as just a regular M48 or M60 tank at first glance.
Being in essence a hybrid of the M60A3’s hull and M48A1’s turret, the CM11 offers exactly the same levels of protection and mobility which seasoned US tankers in War Thunder have come to expect from these two vehicles, albeit with a little twist. This twist comes in the shape of ERA packages, mounted on the CM11’s turret and hull. Although the ERA will certainly help shield the vehicle from chemical munitions, it does increase the vehicle’s standard weight, thus reducing overall mobility as a result.
However, differences in protection and mobility are negligible when compared to the substantial improvements made to the vehicle’s firepower. As a result of being fitted with the same cannon (the 105mm M68A1) and fire control systems as the early versions of the M1 Abrams MBT, the CM11 offers its aspiring commanders with superb gun handling characteristics, only further complemented by a very high rate of fire. Furthermore, the CM11 also has access to DM63, the most powerful 105mm APFSDS round in the game so far, which will allow it to successfully defeat most opponents that it comes across on the battlefield!
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Comments (193)
Ah, yes. A PRC vehicle.
I bet this will be a mess in sim. ROC will surely be paired with the PRC and the soviets, so NATO teams will be facing western equipment. This will cause a lot of confusion (they will get teamkilled a lot and lots of NATO players wont shoot it because they will think its a US Patton) and also its really annoying to be facing a soviet-bloc team that uses western equipment
Hey comments are on fire again ! Could you guys not come halfway? Just give Taiwanese vehicles their Taiwanese flag and split the nation flag between PRC and ROC in the scoreboard ? Yeah ok ROC isn't recognized as an official state for obvious reasons, but do you really want to go down that way? It's going to be another Streisand effect the more you'll hide and deny. Communicating with the playerbase has never really been your thing but it should really change cause it's becoming worse and worse
I don't often make comment, but putting this vehicle in the Chinese tech tree is just wrong. Taiwan is not China
Its time, for america to get its M60A3 SLEP
okay gaijin soo this tanks get 105mm Dm63 but my abrams 105mm gets m774 and m735(now nerfed),worse rounds that face stronger tanks meanwhile this new tank is 1.0Br lower and that incredible round......why?
Apparently the Abrams is OP as fuck. Yes people do actually say this still.
Why are the mods being silent on the issue of the flag? You're really losing respect at a rate you wouldn't believe the longer you refuse to reply.
Because it's a video game, not a political forum.
Ah yes another 105mm armed tank with even better ammo than the M1s, that sit at lower BRs than the M1 and IP, Noice.
Ugh, M60 hull and M48 turret with ERA and stronkest APFSDS round for 105 mm guns so far? Let me guess, BR 7.7 because power/featurecreep? Well, we'll see the truth on live server (probably) next week...
If you actually looked on the last dev server, it was a 9.0
CM-11 Brave Tiger is not actually chinese tank but Taiwanese and with DM63 it should not go near anything under 8.3
Ah, yes, the 9.0 tank that has a shell that has almost 100mm more penetration than M1 and IPM1's top shell...
105mm M426 (DM63) APFSDS-T cartridge Is not even in use anywhere else than in europe or IDF.... According IMI Systems!
Keijo_Kalmakoura, but the m1 has a round thats more deadly than what we see in game, the one in game is a complete joke and is an insult to the tank
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