WoT: T95/Chieftain – The Tier X That Time Forgot on EU, but Returned on RU

A few vehicles become legends simply because they vanish. The T95/Chieftain firmly belongs to the last category.

While the tank has recently appeared on the RU server, on EU it is still staring at an empty garage slot nearly ten years later.

From Myth to Matchmaking

In-game, the T95/Chieftain is a Tier X British heavy tank, infamous for its combination of:
• Strong turret armor
• Excellent gun handling
• Competitive mobility
• Brutal ridge-line dominance

It was never sold normally and was only obtainable through extremely limited testing.

And then it disappeared.

The EU Server Mystery

The last confirmed sighting of the T95/Chieftain on the EU server dates back to 2016.

An old EU article from that year summed it up perfectly:
“Remember this tank? No, not the Tier VIII one. The Tier X no one heard about in a long time.”

At the time, a single player from the EU clan EFE-X was spotted playing it, sparking confusion, screenshots, and endless forum speculation. After that? Silence.

No events.
No announcements.
No return.

For almost a decade, the tank effectively became a ghost vehicle on EU.

Meanwhile, on the RU Server…

Fast-forward to recently, and the situation couldn’t be more different. The RU server has reintroduced the T95/Chieftain as a reward tank for the Onslaught game mode, bringing it back into active battles and reminding everyone that the vehicle still exists, just not on every server.

The Vandal [🇬🇧 United Kingdom, Tier X Heavy Tank] is set to become available for purchase for players who reach Onslaught (Champion rank) on March 11, 2026, for 25,000 bonds.

This has reignited an old question:

Why does one of the most iconic and controversial Tier X heavies remain unavailable on EU after ten years?

A Legend Still Locked Away

The T95/Chieftain sits in a strange place because:
• Too powerful to ignore
• Too rare to balance easily
• Too iconic to forget

On RU, it’s back in action.
On EU, it remains a relic remembered only through old replays, screenshots, and stories from 2016.

Whether it will ever return to the EU server is still unknown. Until then, the T95/Chieftain remains one of the game’s greatest “what-ifs,” a Tier X legend frozen in time.

Historical Reference

In the early 1950s, work began in the United States on the T95 medium tank project, which was intended to eventually replace the M48. A number of experimental chassis were developed and built, armed with 90 mm and 105 mm guns. However, the armament of the experimental T95 series was considered insufficient by some American military officials. There was no completed turret available for mounting a more powerful 120 mm gun, so within the framework of allied technical cooperation, a variant was developed that involved installing the turret from the British FV4201 “Chieftain” tank. It was planned to send one experimental chassis to Britain, where local specialists would carry out the full range of work. However, numerous development failures led to the cancellation of the entire project on July 7, 1960, and the chassis was never sent to Britain.

Crew Layout

The T95/Chieftain uses a classic British-American hybrid crew setup:
• Commander
• Driver
• Gunner
• Loader (who also serves as Radio Operator)