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# Stock

A vehicle in its starting configuration, before any module has been researched, which is usually much weaker than its final form.

Also known as stock grind, unupgraded.

A stock vehicle carries the previous [tier](/glossary/tier.md)'s gun on a [chassis](/glossary/tracks.md) that cannot support anything better, and it [fights](/glossary/battles.md) vehicles two tiers above it. The gap between stock and fully upgraded is large enough that the two configurations are effectively different vehicles.

The usual remedies are [free experience](/glossary/free-experience.md) to skip the worst [module](/glossary/module.md), keeping a well trained crew, or accepting a difficult stretch of battles. Players call it the stock grind.

## Related terms

[ModuleOne of a vehicle's five researchable components: suspension, engine, turret, gun and radio.](/glossary/module.md)[ResearchSpending a vehicle's experience to unlock its modules and the vehicles that follow it in the tree.](/glossary/research.md)[Free experienceExperience that can be spent on any vehicle or module, accumulated as a small share of everything earned and convertible from elite vehicles with gold.](/glossary/free-experience.md)[Elite statusThe state of a vehicle whose modules and successors are all researched, which unlocks crew training and experience conversion.](/glossary/elite-status.md)

[Every World of Tanks term](/glossary.md)

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