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The Taifun II is a Tier 6 special premium Tank Destroyer under Sophie Wölfli's dealership.

History[ | ]

Class: Tank Destroyer (Prototype)
Developed: 1978-1982
Service: N/A
Vehicles Built: 1
Operators: N/A

From 1978 until the early 80s, a Swiss company called MOWAG ran a development program for an unusual turret-less tank destroyer on the chassis of one of its unsuccessful prototype IFVs. This IFV was called the Tornado and the tank destroyer project received the name “Taifun” (Typhoon).

For the 1980s, Taifun's casemate design was very unusual and was quite a throwback. It was a completely private venture and not a response to any kind of Swiss military requirement. Back then, the Swiss army was operating a fleet of AMX-13 light tanks. In Switzerland, however, these were classified as Tank Destroyers and it was MOWAG’s hope to replace these aging vehicles with a tank destroyer design of its own.

At least one prototype was certainly built between 1980 and 1982. It had a crew of four men and quite thin armor, but a powerful NATO standard 105mm L7 gun with the option to replace it with a NATO standard 120mm smoothbore, possibly with an automatic loading mechanism. The depression and elevation angles of the gun were excellent and it could traverse 15 degrees from the vehicle axis to each side.

The whole vehicle was quite small and extremely low, light and highly mobile. Despite the undisputed originality of this design, the company was never able to attract any customers and the vehicle remained just a prototype with its limited gun traverse being too serious a drawback compared to more conventional designs.

Vehicle Traits[ | ]

  • Marksman: This vehicle can fire advanced ammunition from its accurate weapon, allowing it to destroy enemy armor at long distances.
  • Heavy Weapon: This vehicle carries one of the largest weapons around with significantly increased damage per shot.
  • Turretless: This vehicle's weapon is installed directly into its hull and has limited angles of traverse.
  • Improved Reverse: This vehicle can drive backwards much faster than other vehicles can.

Ammunition[ | ]

# Ammo
Name
Ammo
Type
XP Cost Damage Penetration Velocity Reload
Time
More
Info
1 120mm DM13A1 APFSDS APFSDS Stock 580 690[note 1] mm 1640 m/s 6.60 s
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  • Accuracy (Fully Aimed): 0.12 °
  • Damage Randomization: ± 5 %
  • Penetration Randomization: ± 5 %
  • Ricochet Angle: 67.0 °
2 120mm DM11 HE HE Stock 870[note 2] 70 mm 980 m/s 6.60 s
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  • Accuracy (Fully Aimed): 0.15 °
  • Fire Chance Bonus: 100 %
  • Penetration Randomization: ± 10 %
  • Splash Radius: 1.00 m
  • Splash Penetration: 80 mm
3 120mm DM12 HEAT HEAT-MP Stock 700[note 3] 760 mm 1140 m/s 6.60 s
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  • Accuracy (Fully Aimed): 0.13 °
  • Fire Chance Bonus: 300 %
  • Damage Randomization: ± 10 %
  • Penetration Randomization: ± 10 %
4 7.62mm AP AP Stock 8 18[note 4] mm 855 m/s 5.00 s
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  • Accuracy (Fully Aimed): 0.98 °
  • Magazine Type: Clip
  • Partial Reload: Yes
  • Magazine Size: 800
  • Burst Fire Rate: 400 rd/min
  • Damage Randomization: ± 10 %
  • Penetration Randomization: ± 10 %
  • Ricochet Angle: 67.0 °

Upgrades[ | ]

Armor[ | ]

Taifun Stock Armor
XP Cost Credit Cost Hull
Armor
Hull
Composition
Turret
Armor
Turret
Composition
ERA Name ERA
Penetration
Reduction
Stock Stock 365 mm (vs AP)
485 mm (vs HEAT)
Steel N/A vs AP
N/A vs HEAT
N/A N/A N/A vs AP
N/A vs HEAT
This vehicle's light armor offers basic protection from autocannons and machineguns.

Weapon[ | ]

# Name XP Cost Credit Cost Aim Time Reload Time More Info
Weapon1 120mm Rh 120 L/44 Smoothbore Cannon Stock Stock 2.63 s 6.60 s
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Stats:

  • Depression/Elevation: -12.0° / 18.0°
Ammo:
120mm DM13A1 APFSDS
120mm DM11 HE
120mm DM12 HEAT-MP
7.62mm AP

Engine[ | ]

Name XP Cost Credit Cost Max Speed Reverse Speed Forward
Acceleration
Hull Traverse Fire Chance
Detroit Diesel 8V71TA 575 hp Diesel Engine Stock Stock 70 km/h 70 km/h 4.33 s (0 to 32 km/h)
24.54 s (0 to Max Speed)
33.54° 6 %

Parts[ | ]

Name XP Cost Credit Cost Description Notes
Spallliner
Spall Liner
Stock Stock Hit points are increased by 150
Smokegrenades
DM35A1 Smoke Grenades
Stock Stock Comes with 6 charges in total
Magazine capacity: 2 charges
Takes 3s to recharge
Duration: 10s
Magazine reload time: 25s
Gunnersight
Improved Optic Lenses
Stock Stock Accuracy is improved by 50%
Gunnersight
Improved Optics Stabilizer
Stock Stock Reduces the accuracy penalties for firing and traversing the turret.
Autoloader
Improved Loading Mechanism
Stock Stock Rate of fire is increased by 7%
Treads01
Stock Tracks
Stock Stock Mobility (Light Terrain): 89.3%
Mobility (Heavy Terrain): 75.0%

Abilities[ | ]

# Name XP Cost Stats Activation
Time
Duration Cooldown More
Info
Stealth Ability Stealth
Stealth
Stock Camouflage Factor: +30%
Acceleration: -70.06%
Max Speed: -70.06%
1 s 20 s 60 s
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Description:
This ability temporarily improves your camouflage factor at the cost of acceleration and maximum speed.

Conditions:
Moving at 30 km/h or faster terminates the effect and prevents you from activating the ability.
Being spotted by an enemy terminates the effect and prevents you from activating the ability.
Firing a shot deactivates this ability.

Footnotes[]

  1. 690 mm at 150m;
    587 mm at 700m
  2. 244 for Partial Penetration;
    61 for Non-Penetrating Hits
  3. 245 for Non-Penetrating Hits
  4. 18 mm at 100m;
    9 mm at 1000m
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