Rooikat 105

Rooikat 105

Rooikat 105

Britain

VI Rank

Battle rating:

AB	RB	SB
9.3	9.7	9.7

Class:

PREMIUM

Light tank

Purchase:9 090

Description

The Rooikat 105 is a gift rank VI British tank destroyer with a battle rating of 9.3 (AB) and 9.7 (RB/SB). It was introduced in Update 1.97 "Viking Fury". It is one of the only wheeled premium vehicles, the only others beeing the Sd.Kfz 234 variants and the AUBL/74 HVG.

General info

Survivability and armour

Survivability is extremely poor.

The armorthickness ranges from 15mm on the sides of the lower front plate to 30mm near the gun breach of rolled homogenous armor. This will protect the crew from small arms fire only, most 20mm guns and almost everything bigger can penetrate the armor from almost all angles. HEAT shells will almost always hullbreak the vehicle.

Wheels and suspension arms are made from 10mm of structural steel.

The internal modules are relatively far apart and create a rather big empty space in the center of the vehicle. This gives it a small chance to survive APDS shells from the side when the turret is turned 90 degrees to either side, when the turret is pointed forward or backward, it fills this space with the ready ammo rack. Ammunition is also stored in the upper sides of the hull, as well as the rear of the turret.

The driver sits alone in the front of the vehicle whle the commander, gunner and loader are placed rather high in the vehicle. This gives the turret crew a decent chance to survive side hits to the hull. A hit on the lower plate's left side (viewed from the front) will most likely kill the gunner, commander and driver and therefore destroy the vehicle.

It is possible to block some APDS shells with the gun breach or the engine and transmission, but most higher caliber shells will hullbreak the vehicle instead.

Mobility

Mobility is extremely good. The engine will propel the vehicle to 131kph (AB) / 120kph (RB/SB) maximum on roads, though the average speed is around 40 to 65 kph in light terrain, but acceleration is relativly poor. The wheeled chassis willl allow to turn the vehicle without losing too much speed, though turning on the spot is not possible. When crossing deep snow or sand the driver sometimes cant decide which gear to use and the vehicle will be stuck at the speed of that specific gearchange even if it potentially has the power to go faster.

Game Mode	Max Speed (km/h)		Weight (tons)	Engine power (horsepower)		Power-to-weight ratio (hp/ton)
	Forward	Reverse		Stock	Upgraded	Stock	Upgraded
Arcade	134	41	28.5	805	1,082	28.25	37.96
Realistic	121	37		501	567	17.58	19.89

Armaments

Main armament

The vehicle is armed with the south african GT-7 105mm rilfed cannon, which is almost identical to the L7A3 used on the german Leopard and Leopard A1A1. It gets the same ammunition choices of DM12 HEATFS, DM502 HESH and DM23 APDSFS as well as the same reload speed. The HEATFS and APDSFS can easily deal with most enemies presented at its BR, exceptions are some late heavy tanks like the Object 279 or uparmored tanks like the T-55AM-1. The HESH is very situational, but might be good for light-skinned vehicles or helicopters. It is usually best to mostly take APDSFS shells, since it can easily handle every vehicle type, but unlike HEATFS doesnt detonate on bushes or fences and isnt stopped by ERA.

Additional armament

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Machine guns

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Usage in battles

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Pros and cons

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History

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See also

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External links

• [Devblog] Rooikat 105: The Cat With Bigger Claws

Britain tank destroyers
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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