The U-SH 405 is an experimental tank destroyer, developed by the Swedish Landsverk company in cooperation with Daimler-Benz in the late 1950’s. Soon, tankers will have the chance to meet this highly interesting machine on the War Thunder battlefields in update 1.97 ‘Viking Fury’!

U-SH 405, tank destroyer, Sweden, IV rank.

Pros

• Devastating AT rocket launchers
• Small profile

Cons

• Only anti-shrapnel armor protection
• Limited ammo count

In War Thunder, the U-SH 405 will be one of the many new vehicles awaiting tankers in the brand new Swedish ground forces tree, coming to the game as part of the upcoming update 1.97 ‘Viking Fury’! Specifically, the U-SH 405 is a highly interesting Swedish Rank IV tank destroyer, packing a sizable punch for its size!

Visually somewhat reminiscent of the familiar Italian R3 T106, the U-SH 405 is also armed with a set of rather unusual weapons. Unlike its Mediterranean counterpart, the U-SH 405 isn’t armed with two recoilless guns, but instead, with two 81mm rocket launchers. Despite it not seeming like it at first glance, the U-SH 405 does indeed fire unguided rockets instead of more conventional munition types.

While not being the first ground vehicle in the game to be armed with unguided rockets, the U-SH 405 is certainly the first of such vehicles to utilize rockets with a shaped charge warhead as its primary means of dealing with its opponents. In fact, thanks to their high penetrating power, the 81mm rockets are powerful enough to pierce the armor of tanks several ranks higher than the U-SH 405’s own rank.

Unlike ATGM’s however, these rockets can’t be precisely guided to their target but will instead have to be aimed more like conventional cannon rounds, albeit with much more favorable ballistic properties.

Despite the fact that the U-SH 405 can reach a maximum top speed of 80 km/h on roads, its overall mobility does leave some things to be desired. Being powered by a 90 horsepower gasoline engine and weighing in at 5.7 tons, the U-SH 405 has a rather lackluster power to weight ratio of just 15.7 hp/t. As a result, its offroad capabilities are limited, being only able to reach speeds of 30 - 35 km/h cross country as well as just 10 km/h in reverse.

Additionally, being based off a small truck chassis meant that engineers were left with little room to play with as far as the vehicle’s armor protection was concerned. As a result, the U-SH 405 features just 10mm of armor plating at most - enough to stop only rifle caliber fire and shrapnel from damaging the vehicle and its crew. For the same reason however, the U-SH 405 also has very small dimensions and as such, offers a very small silhouette for enemies to make out in the heat of combat, thus making it the perfect pick for stealthy surprise attacks!

The U-SH 405 comes to War Thunder as a Rank IV tank destroyer of the brand new Swedish ground forces tree, arriving to the game as part of update 1.97 ‘Viking Fury’. In the meantime, stay sharp and keep a close watch on the news for more information regarding the next major update coming to the game very soon. Until then, happy hunting tankers!

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