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- 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
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- Hard Drive: 95 GB
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- 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
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- 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 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’!
Briefly: An experimental Swedish armored car, armed with two deadly anti-tank rocket launchers.
U-SH 405, tank destroyer, Sweden, IV rank.
Pros
- Devastating AT rocket launchers
- Small profile
Cons
- Only anti-shrapnel armor protection
- Limited ammo count
Development of the U-SH 405 began in the late 1950’s, after Landsverk and Daimler-Benz formed a cooperation to further develop the Unimog 404 truck into a family of different military vehicles, ranging from APCs to dedicated tank hunters. Development was initially headed by the Germans, but in 1958, Landsverk took over the lead role in its development.
As part of the ongoing development, Landsverk came up with a dedicated tank hunter variant of the vehicle in 1960, fitted with a pair of Oerlikon 81mm rocket launchers, originally developed for aircraft and helicopter use. A single prototype of the machine was built and trialed, but no production orders were issued.
However, the APC version of the U-SH 405 saw more success, being ordered by the Belgian armed forces in limited numbers. Despite placing an order for around two dozen vehicles, due to various geopolitical reasons, Belgium only received fewer than half of the machines initially ordered. The remainder of the machines built, but not shipped to Belgium were later on sold to the Irish military in the early 1970’s, which used the vehicle until 1978 before retiring it.
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.
Fun Fact: The Oerlikon 81 mm rocket launcher found on the U-SH 405 was initially developed for use on aircraft and helicopters.
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!
We remind players that the owners of the early access packs will have access to the Swedish Ground Forces research tree when update 1.97 “Viking Fury” is released.
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Comments (104)
i think the update will be relased 13:00 CET , just like any other update
and where is the server maintance announcment, that would have been shown yesterday?
But what day?!
That's a good looking vehicle. I hope to not lose the ww2 feeling with this vehicle like the Italian R3 T20 FA-HS at 3.7 BR. It needs to be on higher BR not for balance but for more realism.
It's 6.3, but from the videos I've seen, it needs to be higher...
Soooo.... The hamsters did escape?
Now that the 81mm Oerlikons are modeled in-game, would it be possible that the German tree gets the Austrian Saurer 4K 4FA with same armament? As apparently the vehicle was tested for the weapon system.
That would be really neat!
These fantasy vehicles are becoming more and more ridiculous.
fantasy? :)
I've seen Phlydaily's video on this thing. It is ridiculously op and needs to be up tiered. Don't release it as is like you did with the R3 T20 in the Italian tree and then just move it to a higher br later. Fix it now.
ignore this man, release it as it is, It will be very fun playing!
Specs on Dev server are not final. Most likely it's going to have at least some reload between shots, so not a crazy rocket machine gun like in the video. Plus like all other wheeliebois, it can be MG'd to death. It also has lower HP/ton ratio, so slower than the Italian ones.
Please Gaijin tell us when is the update. :(( Looking foward to lots of fun in 1.97.
SoonTM......ALSO, gaijin this thing needs to be like 6.7 or 7.0 its going to nuke everything
All these armored vehicles just make me long for the Sd.kfz 222. I heard some whispers it was going to be introduced in the China update, but that turned out false. Does anyone know anything?
What was with the random day and a half of radio silence? I thought the patch might drop then things went quiet ;w;
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