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Today we take a look at the first devblog for the September 2025 update, covering the Ram I, a Canadian tank from the early World War 2 period that will be coming to the British tech tree!  September 2025 update devblogs ⬇️ Ram I devblog➡️https://warthunder.com/en/news/9641-development-ram-i-the-black-sheep-en  Support me at ⬇️ ☕Buy me a Coffee➡️ buymeacoffee.com/Toreno  Social Media ⬇️ 🦋Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social 🌍Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 📸Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 🐘Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social 🧵Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170  🎮 Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #warthundertanks #ram #canada #canadian

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00:00Hello everybody and welcome to the first dev blog of the September 2025 update,

00:05and interestingly it's about a Canadian World War 2 tank, the Ram 1, which is going to be coming to

00:10the British tech tree at rank 2. Now it's successor the Ram 2 is already in game, and

00:16well I say successor, basically it was always intended to have a 57mm gun like on the Ram 2,

00:21but there weren't enough available at first so the first 50 or so were fitted with the 40mm 2

00:27pounder gun, and that's the gun that this tank is going to have. So obviously this is going to be

00:32less powerful than the 57mm gun, but it does fire a variety of shells, including an APHE shell with

00:3949mm penetration at 500m, or an APCBC shell with 77mm penetration. So this should do decently well

00:48at the lower tiers, though it will struggle against more armoured enemies, especially in the later tiers.

00:54It's also said to have better gun depression compared to the Ram 2, so the Ram 2 has minus

00:597 degrees depression, so I'm expecting something like minus 10 to minus 15, somewhere along that

01:04ballpark, and you can also see that the turret, or more specifically the mantlet, is a bit different

01:10on the Ram 1. So I did find a data sheet that says the turret face is 76mm thick, but it doesn't

01:17give a figure for the mantlet. Now on the Ram 2 it is 69.8mm thick, but there is a sort of inner

01:25mantlet that is 38mm thick behind that, so we're going to get at least 38mm, possibly up to 69mm,

01:33we'll have to see how it's implemented in the game, but I suspect it might be a bit of a weak spot,

01:37especially when compared to the later Ram 2. Other than that, the stats should be about the same as the

01:43Ram 2, so a top speed of 25mph and 5 crew, 3 in the turret and 2 in the hull, including the machine

01:51gunner with his own auxiliary machine gun turret. Now only 50 of these were actually built in real

01:56life, and interestingly the Ram 1 did show up in a leak list from last year, so it does seem like

02:02this has been in the works for a little while now, and of course it does mean we could potentially get

02:07other Ram variants. So there was a later production variant of the Ram 2, which removed the auxiliary

02:13machine gun turret and was fitted with a better performing Mk5 6 pounder gun, versus the Mk3 6

02:20pounder gun of the already in game Ram 2. And we could also potentially get the Ram as part of the

02:25Benelux sub-tree, because the Ram was used by the Netherlands, though fitted with a 75mm gun. So I think

02:33this will be a very good addition to the game, and hopefully we'll get some more Ram variants in the

02:37future, and hopefully just some more World War 2 tanks in general. At the moment I am currently

02:42going through the various nations and listing all of the World War 2 tanks that they could get,

02:47and I've also covered the Interwar and World War 1 tanks in previous episodes, so feel free to check

02:52them out as well. Anyway, just a quick video looking at the Ram 1, hopefully you've enjoyed it,

02:57I've been Torano, and I'll see you next time.

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