QF 3.7 Ram

QF 3.7 Ram

QF 3.7 Ram

Britain

III Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
5.3	5.3	5.3

Class:

PREMIUM

Tank destroyer

Purchase:Bundle or Gift

Description

The OQF 3.7-inch AA on Ram Mounting (QF 3.7 Ram) is a gift rank III British/Canadian tank destroyer with a battle rating of 5.3 (AB/RB/SB). It was introduced during Update 1.95 "Northern Wind" in the Operation F.R.O.S.T. event. It features a heavily modified Ram chassis with a powerful 94 mm AA cannon that serve the purpose of Tank Destroyer in WarThunder.

It serves as a British counterpart of the German VFW and often face themselves in the battlefield at 5.0.

General information

Survivability and armour

Light armor, Good crew count and a powerful gun.

Armor

• Rolled Homogeneous armor
• Structural steel

File:ARMOR RAM.jpg

Frontal armor of the Ram SPG

The QF 3.7 Ram posses light armor in the upper area of the turret (10 mm thickness), that might only cover your crew for small caliber machine guns.

Lying hidden in the back of the turret, its heavy 94 mm cannon it's protected by 20 mm of structural steel located lower the cannon gun. Inside it the vertical aim drive its located. If a shot goes through, it detonates inside this boxy structure causing damage to your crew and the vertical aiming. This is the most common damage ones will get, as the enemy often shots abit lower the cannon gun.

The stronger part of the armor is located on the cannon upper structure, visible in the centre of the turret (60 mm thickness). But its armor remains insignificant for the heavy shells it can face, making cannon mechanism damage routine situation as the shells with explosive filler detonate with the structure

More armor its located in the lower central area of the transmission. There, its Ram mounting provides 50.8 mm of armor thickness. Making possible to stop awkwardly angled shots or HE shots, but wont save you from a frontal encounter. Transmission damage it's also regular as that area highlights from the rest of the hull.

Cannon structure armor

Overall it gets tricky to kill you in one shot due to crew survivability, but often one smart shot will completely cripple your ability to retaliate.

Frontal hull aiming works the best as it provides cover to both loaders in the back. With a measure of luck its possible to survive the first enemy shot unharmed.

Crew

The vehicle is managed by a 7 man crew.

• 1 Gunner
• 2 Loaders
• 2 Machine gunners
• 1 Commander
• 1 Driver

This allows to decent survivability. Both loaders are the most vulnerable targets as they stand back uncovered. The driver and a machine gunner remain in the safest spot, within the vehicle chassis. The gunner its well placed but often gets knocked out. High crew skills its a must to ensure higher chance of resisting explosive filler or shrapnel (Most of the enemy of the BR have it), gun reload and field repairs even faster.

Mobility

Mobility its decent for a SPG with such gun, thanks to its light armor. 43 km/h in AB, 40 km/h in RB/SB

it's able to reach its maximum speed of 40 km/h (RB) in off road terrain quiet easily. Making possible good positioning in early match. Not enough to a flanking maneuver but to get a good sniping location.

Its reverse speed its poor, 5.7 km/h in arcade and 5.2 km/h in RB/SB. Despite this, is enough for retreating a sniping position effectively.

Close quarters should be avoided as they just make it vulnerable to enemy MG, spotting the crew easily and flanking.

Armaments

Main armament

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Ammunition

Penetration statistics
Ammunition	Type of warhead	Penetration in mm @ 0° Angle of Attack
		10m	100m	500m	1000m	1500m	2000m
Shot Mk.1	APCBC	204	202	192	180	169	159
Shell Mk.1	HE	13	13	13	13	13	13

Left side ammo racks only : 23 shells

Additional armament

None.

Machine guns

It carries none, making it a vulnerable target for low strafing planes.

Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

Pros:

• Powerful gun
• Capable of penetrating every enemy it can face from the front
• Decent survivability due to high crew amount of seven
• Decent mobility for its powerful gun

Cons:

• Horizontal gun traverse limited to 90° on each side
• Not very fast
• Slow gun traverse
• Weak armour, only protected against light machine guns
• Long reload compared to its German counterpart VFW
• Poor gun depression of -5°

History

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Britain tank destroyers
Infantry tank derivatives	Archer · Gun Carrier (3-in)
Light tank derivatives	Alecto I
M10 Achilles	Achilles · Achilles (65 Rg.)
Centurion derivatives	FV4005 · Conway
ATGM	Swingfire · Striker
Other	Tortoise · ▄M109A1
Canada	QF 3.7 Ram
South Africa	G6 · ZT3A2