Vehicles

0:52 Battlefield 6 has 17 vehicles as of Nov 8, 2026: eight on the ground, three helicopters, four jets and two boats, nearly all of them a NATO model and a Pax Armata model that mirror each other, according to EA's vehicles page (updated Jul 21, 2026) and the season notes since. Six arrived after launch: the golf cart, the AH-6 Little Bird, the dirt bike, both boats and both two-seat jets. The M142 MRAS artillery truck is next, on Nov 10, 2026. In the clip, Battlefield's own Season 4 deep dive shows all of it together on Tsuru Reef: tanks, IFVs, boats, jets and helicopters on one map.

Quick facts

Every vehicle in Battlefield 6

We assembled this table from EA's vehicles page and the roadmaps of Season 1, Season 2 and Season 4; no single EA page lists every vehicle with its date. Each family has its own page: Tanks and Ground Vehicles, Helicopters, Jets and Naval Warfare and Boats. The aircraft carriers on Tsuru Reef and Wake Island are part of those maps, not vehicles you drive.

How vehicles spawn

You pick a free vehicle on the deploy screen, and a destroyed one comes back for its team after a cooldown. Which vehicles a match has depends on the map and the mode. Conquest on the big maps carries the most, the infantry-only maps (Empire State, Saints Quarter, Hagental Base and the coming European Casino) carry none, and Breakthrough sets its own list per sector: update 1.1.3.0 of Dec 2025 rebalanced Breakthrough vehicles on Mirak Valley, Liberation Peak, Operation Firestorm and Siege of Cairo, for example adding an attacking tank in Siege of Cairo's first and third sectors.

Several vehicles are also spawn points: your squad can deploy straight into a tank, an IFV, an Armored Transport, a Transport or Attack Helicopter, or an RCB-90 with its ramp down on a beach. "Hitch a Ride", from Battlefield 101, lets more soldiers cling to a vehicle than it has seats. The golf cart is the exception to all of this: it is found parked in a match, not spawned.

8:54 Keep count of the enemy's vehicles too. EclipseFPS's Aug 5, 2026 guide makes the point that knowing which vehicles the enemy has, and when a destroyed one is about to come off cooldown, tells you how far and how long you can push. More of his advice is on Tanks and Ground Vehicles.

Which maps have which vehicles

Each map page has the detail; Maps lists them all.

Vehicle progression and customization

Every vehicle has its own Hardware XP, and its ranks unlock equipment, skins and camos; EA's progression page adds that sitting in a vehicle earns passive XP, and since update 1.2.3.0 vehicle XP also comes from active use. The Main Battle Tank and the Attack Helicopter take custom loadouts; the launch jets do not, which EA plans to change in Season 6. See Progression and Unlocks.

1:44 What a loadout changes is shown in Strider's Oct 18, 2025 vehicle guide: on the tank he picks high-explosive secondary shells against infantry, or aim-guided missiles on big maps because they hit helicopters hard, and the heavy machine gun over the light one for its damage and range.

Tips for every vehicle

6:57 Switch to third person. IGN's Oct 21, 2025 guide finds it easier to correct a helicopter's position when you see the whole airframe, and to keep an enemy jet in view in a dogfight; the same goes for a tank's blind sides.

7:35 Use free look. Holding it freezes your steering while you swing the camera, which leaves you exposed for a moment but finds lost targets and shows who is behind you. On a mouse, put it on a side button.

14:17 Leave before you burn. EclipseFPS pops smoke and backs off after two rockets in an IFV or three in a tank, and treats half health as the danger line. The full ground guide is on Tanks and Ground Vehicles, the flying on Jets and Helicopters.

How vehicle balance changed, patch by patch

No EA page collects these, so we did, from the official notes:

Sources: EA's notes for 1.1.3.0, 1.1.3.5, 1.2.2.0, 1.2.3.0, 1.3.1.0, 1.3.2.0, 1.3.3.0, 1.4.1.0, 1.4.3.0 and 2.1.1.0.

Read in order, the year has a pattern: aircraft were reined in over the winter, ground armor was rebuilt in May, and Season 5 handed anti-air a big buff. On Oct 21, 2026 EA said the 2.1.1.0 vehicle changes are under review with "no quick knee-jerk adjustments".

Countering vehicles

EA's new player guide names the Engineer and the Recon as the anti-vehicle classes: the Engineer's launchers and mines do the damage, the Recon's Laser Designator and Tracer Dart speed up the locks, and hits on the side, rear, top or bottom do the most. The detail is on Engineer and Recon.

4:47 Where you hit matters most. Fallout Plays measured rocket damage by angle in Oct 2025 and found the sides and the lower rear of a tank take far more, before the Season 3 and Season 5 multipliers made the rear even weaker.

What is coming

The M142 MRAS, fast mobile artillery, arrives with Casino Heist on Nov 10, 2026. The B-81 Cavalry, announced for Frozen Aces on Dec 8, was delayed to 2027 with Platoons. Without dates, EA has promised new Scout and Attack Helicopter abilities, weapon customization for the launch jets in Season 6, and for 2027 "vehicle gameplay improvements" and a review of gadget and vehicle explosives (EA, Oct 1, 2026). See Roadmap and Season 6.

We think 17 vehicles is a thin roster for a Battlefield in its second year: every class of vehicle is there, but most have one model per side and no variants, where Battlefield 4 had several tanks and transports. We expect the 2027 roadmap to answer with variants (a second tank or a light tank, an amphibious transport for the naval maps) rather than with more vehicle types, and we think the B-81 Cavalry will be the first of them.

Frequently asked questions

How many vehicles are in Battlefield 6?

17 as of Nov 8, 2026: eight ground vehicles, three helicopters, four jets and two boats. The M142 MRAS makes 18 from Nov 10, 2026.

What vehicles were added after launch?

The golf cart (Season 1), the AH-6 Little Bird (Feb 17, 2026), the dirt bike (Mar 17, 2026), the RHIB and RCB-90 boats (Jul 21, 2026) and the F/A-81F and Seacat jets (Aug 18, 2026).

Can your squad spawn on a vehicle?

Yes, on the Main Battle Tank, the IFV, the Armored Transport, the Transport and Attack Helicopters, and the RCB-90 when its ramp is down on shore.

Which maps have no vehicles?

Empire State, Saints Quarter and Hagental Base are infantry only, and European Casino (from Nov 10, 2026) has no vehicles.

What is the B-81 Cavalry?

A new vehicle EA announced for Season 5's Frozen Aces phase, delayed to 2027 on Nov 6, 2026. EA has not shown it in detail.

Sources

• Electronic Arts, Oct 10, 2025: Battlefield 101
• Electronic Arts, Oct 10, 2025: New player guide to Battlefield 6
• Electronic Arts, Oct 28, 2025: Season 1 full roadmap
• Electronic Arts, Feb 12, 2026: Season 2 roadmap
• Electronic Arts, Apr 14, 2026: Progression in Battlefield 6
• Electronic Arts, Jul 17, 2026: Season 4 roadmap
• Electronic Arts, Jul 21, 2026: Battlefield 6 vehicles
• Electronic Arts, Oct 1, 2026: Season 5 and beyond
• Electronic Arts, Oct 21, 2026: community update, more to Season 5
• Electronic Arts, Nov 2, 2026: community update, high stakes in the casino
• Kotaku, Nov 6, 2026: Platoons and the B-81 Cavalry delayed