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Ranger

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U.S.A. · Tier V · Aircraft Carrier · Tech Tree: Bomber Carriers
Strike carrierRepeated squadron strikes; manage planes and positioning.
Playstyle
  • Use aircraft to reveal destroyer lanes first, then attack isolated ships or targets already under surfa…
  • Avoid: Do not tunnel on damage and ignore vision or aircraft economy
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Playstyle

Overview

Ranger is a Tier V American carrier that has swung between weak damage output and carrier-wide tuning, with official buffs to torpedo aircraft and broader changes to bomb accuracy, aircraft HP, speed, and restoration. Play her as a balanced fundamentals carrier that uses spotting and clean torpedo/bomb setups rather than brute force.

Positioning

Use aircraft to reveal destroyer lanes first, then attack isolated ships or targets already under surface pressure. Ranger benefits from improved strike consistency, but she still needs safe approaches and preserved planes to matter late.

Potato Avoidance

Tunnel on damage and ignore vision or aircraft economy

Ranger’s balance history shows she depends on getting efficient value from each squadron; repeated bad drops leave her unable to spot or finish key ships.

Acquisition

How to get Ranger

Ranger is available in the Bomber Carriers branch of the U.S. Tech Tree for 6,000,000 credits after researching it in the branch. Known module upgrades cost up to 1,290,000 credits.

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U.S. Tech Tree

Ranger sits in the Bomber Carriers branch. The highlighted path shows the local branch context inside the full U.S. tree.

U.S. aircraft carriers are all-rounders, effective with both dive bombers and torpedo bombers. However, they have a bias toward their powerful high-explosive bombs over torpedoes.
Advantages
Powerful HE dive bombers, Large hangars
Disadvantages
Poor torpedo performance
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Builds Beta

Build for aircraft restoration, survivability, speed, and torpedo/bomb consistency. Current advice should reflect post-balance torpedo damage, aircraft speed, bomber accuracy, aircraft HP, and detectability changes.

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Stats and specs

Ranger stats

Detailed specs are not available for this ship. This ship is not in our current spec dataset. It may be a limited or legacy variant, a recent release we have not added yet, or a special edition that runs separately from the standard roster. In the meantime, you can look up Ranger on the Wargaming wiki. If you own this ship and would like us to add full specs, let us know.

Balance History

Balance updates affecting Ranger. Cards are condensed; use each source link for full context.

Nerf ×11Buff ×15Rework ×3Airstrike ×3Torpedo ×12
2024-06-27

Ministry of Balance: Aerial Adjustments

  • Torpedo.
  • Stock torpedo bomber restoration time increased from 30 to 39 s.
  • Stock torpedo bomber base speed reduced from 111 to 105 kts.
  • Upgraded torpedo bomber restoration time increased from 30 to 39 s.
  • Upgraded torpedo bomber base speed reduced from 123 to 112 kts.
  • Stock dive bomber restoration time increased from 26 to 36 s.
  • Stock dive bomber base speed reduced from 128 to 116 kts.
  • Upgraded dive bomber restoration time increased from 24 to 32 s.
  • Upgraded dive bomber base speed reduced from 128 to 116 kts.
Read the full official post
2024-05-24

Ministry of Balance: Carriers 2.0 – First Wave

  • Aiming speed increased (aiming circle shrinks faster).
  • Aiming time reduced from 8 to 7 seconds.
  • Dive bomber accuracy (likelihood of an individual bomb hitting the inner circle) increased from 25 to 50%.
  • Bombs per aircraft increased from 1 to 3.
  • Number of aircraft in squadron increased from 6 to 8.
  • Maximum HP per aircraft reduced from 2,500 to 1,700 (squadron HP reduced from 15,000 to 13,600).
  • Base speed increased from 97 to 128 knots.
  • Maximum flight range set to 33 kilometers.
  • Maximum hangar aircraft increased from 10 to 16.
  • Starting hangar aircraft increased from 10 to 12.
  • +4 more official change lines in the source post.
Read the full official post
2022-12-09

Ministry of Balance Reports: Carrier Changes

  • This ship has had her ups and downs, and right now, she’s at the bottom of the damage board for Tier V carriers. We’ve decided to help her out with improvements to her torpedo aircraft:
  • Stock torpedo damage increased from 6,033 to 6,367.
  • Upgraded torpedo damage increased from 6,400 to 6,600.
  • Upgraded torpedo arming time decreased from 3.66 to 3 seconds.
  • Upgraded torpedo speed increased from 47 to 49 knots.
Read the full official post
2022-09-29

Halloween Update: New Friends, Old Foes

  • Surface detectability range changed from 12 to 13 km; air detectability range changed from 8.4 to 9.1 km.
  • Stock dive bomber HP changed from 2,450 to 2,500; stock torpedo bomber HP changed from 2,350 to 2,420.
  • Upgraded dive bomber HP changed from 2,600 to 2,650; upgraded torpedo bomber HP changed from 2,450 to 2,525.
Read the full official post
2021-09-30

Halloween Update: Double the Fun, Double the Trouble

  • Detectability range by sea increased from 10 to 12 km.
  • Detectability range by air increased from 7.7 to 8.4 km.
Read the full official post
Exteriors

Skins & permanent camouflages

Every custom exterior Ranger can equip, from in-game data.

  • Ranger default exterior
    DefaultThe ship’s standard exterior

Primary official WG sources

Filtered to official World of Warships: Legends pages where this ship is a focus, reward, line member, or high-context variant mention.

2021-01-28 · Patch notes Update: February 2021 Patch notes 2021-09-30 · Patch notes Halloween Update: Double the Fun, Double the Trouble Patch notes 2022-09-29 · Patch notes Halloween Update: New Friends, Old Foes Patch notes 2025-06-26 · Patch notes July Update: Of Stars and Freedom Patch notes