Deathrun drown strat guide

The strat itself:
The drown start uses water and the drown mechanic to kill yourself without the need of an enemy or friend to shoot you.

Theoretical best time:
It's not possible to get the best times with it as it takes 5 seconds from the entry of the tank into the water to even start the drowning process which by itself takes about a second more, so an absolute maximum time is about 6 seconds and a bit (to drive to the water), however, that is good enough to surpass the current WR in both modified and stock sub-categories (as of 21.6.2022).

Best map and vehicle:
Berlin is the best map for this specifically if you get the northern spawn, as with it you can spawn on the edge of the river and just jump in and start the drowning count down (5 seconds) almost immediately.

As for a vehicle, any relatively fast and somewhat short vehicle would work,
the reason we want a short vehicle is so we can tip the tank over and fall into the river faster.

NOTE: The R3 may be a tempting pick, however, it won't work as the R3 is amphibious, meaning it cannot drown.

Happy drowning!
-with love, Minus.

Minus1945

War Thunder

WallayMain

flyingtrader

duck_thunder

beotng

GreatGamer171

Light Tank

Medium Tank

Heavy Tank

SPAAG

Tank Destroyer

Alaska

Abandoned Factory

Advance to the Rhine

American Desert

Ardennes

Ash River

Berlin

Cargo Port

Carpathians

Eastern Europe

Second battle of El Alamein

European Province

Fields of Normandy

Fields of Poland

Finland

Frozen Pass

Fulda

Battle of Hurtgen Forest

Italy

Emperors Garden(Japan)

Jungle

Karelia

Korea

Kuban

Kursk

Maginot Line

Middle  East

Mozdok

Normandy

Poland

Port Novorossiysk

Sands of Sinai

Sands of Tunisia

Sinai

Stalingrad

Surroundings of Volokolamsk

Sweden

Tunisia

Vietnam Hills

Volokolamsk

Wallonia

White Rock Fortress

Stock Arcade

Modified Realistic

Realistic Stock Helicopter

Realistic Modified Helicopter

Helicopter

Seversk 13

Space Port

Aral Sea

South-Eastern City

Abandoned Town

Stock Realistic

Modified Arcade

Arcade Helicopter

Stock Simulator

Modified Simulator

Died from suicide

Died to a player

Red Desert

tutorial missions

Tutorial missions

golden quarry

Aircraft

Ground targets

Air targets

Ground + Air targets

Pradesh Race

Test Drive

Pradesh

Test Flight

Test drive/flight

Bomb

Rocket

Guns

Plane

Main Airfield

Auxillary Airfield

Main Airfield Surrender

Auxillary Airfield Surrender

Vehicle

Category flair

Died from

tutorial

Targets type

Drive/Flight

Ammo type

Airfield Surrender

Now there are subcategories in Death% for surrendering on different airfields. Landing on an enemy Airfield gets you a unique countdown 'You will be captured in [time]' and a death message of 'Crew surrendered'. 