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After much delay, I have finally finished my (rather long) analysis of the new British tech tree, as well as my opinion on some of the aircraft.  Planes in this episode: Attacker FB MK 2 (Added in Ixwa Strike) Barracuda MK II Blenhiem MK IF Blenhiem MK IVF  Canberra B MK 2 (Added in Patch 1.43) Firebrand TF MK IV (Added in Patch 1.51 "Cold Steel") Firefly F MK V (Added in Patch 1.49 "Weapons of Victory") Fulmar MK II Halifax MK III (Added in Patch 1.59 "Flaming Arrows") Hampden MK I (Added in Patch 1.65 "Way of the Samurai") Hornet F3 (Added in Patch 1.71 "New E.R.A") Hurricane MK IIC Hurricane MK IV (Added in Patch 1.51 "Cold Steel") Hunter F1 (Added in Patch 1.53 "Firestorm") Lancaster MK I (Added in Patch 1.43) Lancaster MK II Manchester MK I Mosquito B MK IV Mosquito F MK II Seafire MK IB Seafire MK IC Seafire MK XVII (Aded in Patch 1.49 "Weapons of Victory") Seafire F MK 45 Seafury F MK X Seafury MK FB MK XI (Added in Patch 1.49 "Weapons of Victory") Sea Gladiator (Added in Patch 1.49 "Weapons of Victory") Sea Hawk F1 Sea Hurricane MK IB (Added in Patch 1.49 "Weapons of Victory") Sea Hurricane MK IC (Added in Patch 1.49 "Weapons of Victory") Sea Venom FAW 20 Stirling MK III (Added in Patch 1.55 "Royal Armour") Sunderland MK III (Added in Patch 1.57 "Battle March") Venom FB.4 (Added in Patch 1.43) Welkin F MK I Whirlwind MK I (Added in Patch 1.75 ""La Résistance") Wyvern S MK 4 (Added in Patch 1.59 "Flaming Arrows")  Future British tech tree: http://warthunder.com/en/devblog/current/615  Link to devblog: http://devblog.warthunder.com/  Sources Wikipedia. WWII: The Directory of Weapons. Author: Chris Bishop Weapons of World War II http://www.fleetairarmarchive.net/aircraft/seahurricane.htm Rickard, J (29 January 2010), Supermarine Seafire: Development and Service Record , http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_supermarine_seafire.html  Please note that I will likely be doing specs only for the Royal Navy aircraft, I severely underestimated the amount of planes that would be added and have been unable to even start on the other nations tech tree analysis due to the still looking for information on these aircraft, future videos of this type will likely be toned down in this regard, perhaps focusing on major changes such as new aircraft, or new variants with massive changes e.g ME 262 with 50mm being added counting as major while BF 109 E1 not being counted as major.  Social Media ⬇️ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/toreno.bsky.social Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Toreno4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toreno170 Mastodon: Toreno17@mastodon.social Threads: https://www.threads.net/@toreno170 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Toreno17 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/toreno5/videos   Game: War Thunder  ⬅️  #warthunder #uk #britain #england #techtree #royalairforce #toreno

Transcript

00:00Hello everybody and welcome to this new episode of War Thunder.

00:03A little bit different this time, we're going to be looking at the new tech

00:06trees that have been released by Gaijin on the

00:10dev blog. It's only dealing with aircraft at the moment so no

00:16no tanks at the moment. I'll be going through these quite,

00:19I'll try not too much in depth because there's quite a lot of aircraft here but

00:23you know just give you a rough sort of idea of what's being added. Now

00:28the first plane we'll be looking at is the Sea Gladiator. I won't go into too

00:31much depth into it. I believe it is just basically a

00:34normal Gladiator but with well the rest of the hooks and other

00:38modifications. I don't think there is too much difference. I may be wrong but

00:42I haven't been able to find out any differences between it and the

00:45normal land-based Gladiator. Second aircraft on here, the Fulmer Mark

00:502. Now this was a plane, it would be quite a

00:54low-tier plane I believe. It was a monoplane that was

00:58sort of not like the Swordfish at the moment.

01:01It had eight 303 machine guns, could carry two 100 pound bombs or two

01:07250 pound bombs and occasionally had a tail gunner.

01:12Just a standard 303 machine gun again and it had about

01:18top speed of 272 miles I believe. I'm sort of going by wikipedia and books

01:23that I've got but obviously not all of the books have

01:26all of the aircraft. I wasn't able to find the Fulmer Mark 2 in it.

01:30So I'm just sort of going by wikipedia articles for the

01:34Fulmer at the moment. My apologies but it should be

01:37quite accurate for what we're doing. Now the next on the list is the Sea

01:41Hurricane Mark 1B and the Sea Hurricane Mark 1C.

01:45Now like with the Sea Gladiator, the Sea Hurricane Mark

01:481B is I believe a Hurricane Mark 1 with the rest of the hooks and other

01:52modifications. So not too different to the

01:58not too different to the Hurricane Mark 1. The Sea Hurricane Mark 1C I believe

02:02is again has the standard modifications but

02:05also has four cannons. I haven't really been able to find too

02:08much information about it so I'm going to assume they're 20

02:11millimeter cannons but these were mainly to be used in the

02:16armed merchant carriers. They were basically aircraft carriers

02:20to help escort the convoys mainly to deal with the

02:24condors that the Germans would send out I'm assuming or the other aircraft

02:29because I don't think aircraft are too much of a threat compared to the

02:33U-boats but obviously it must have been quite a bit

02:36of a problem hence they wouldn't have gone to the bother of producing Sea

02:40Hurricanes. So again I'm guessing these

02:44will be fairly low tier at least the Hurricane Mark 1B.

02:48So hopefully I'm not at the moment it seems like

02:54Gaijina, with these three aircraft it seems like Gaijina maybe

02:58thinking of putting more carrier maps in so

03:01to make these aircraft to allow the British to

03:04sort of take part in them. I don't think Britain really has any aircraft carrier

03:08maps at the moment so I'm hoping based on

03:12these few aircraft here it will change. So now the next

03:15plane on our list is the Barracuda Mark 2 which if my

03:18sources are correct was the first all-metal plane for the

03:22fleet air arm built to replace the Fairy Swordfish and the Fairy Albacore

03:28which are obviously getting a bit long in the tooth by the time.

03:31I believe it was armed with two 303 machine guns in the rear of the

03:37cockpit and could carry one aerial torpedo or six 250 pound bombs.

03:43So quite a bit of firepower bomb wise.

03:47It seems more similar to a Japanese B5N2 but

03:51with a lot more bomb load. So that'll be quite interesting to play

03:56I suppose. I think it would be one of the first

04:00torpedo aircraft other than the B5N2 to really

04:04not have any armament along with some of the other

04:08planes on here. So that'll be quite interesting to see

04:11when it comes. Now next on our list is the C5 Mark 1B and the C5 Mark 2B.

04:18Now these were Spitfires that were sort of converted to

04:22be well naval aircraft carriers. I think the C5 Mark 1B was converted from

04:28Spitfire VBs. So two 20 millimeter cannons and four

04:337.7 millimeter machine guns. Now their original

04:38Spitfire VB had a speed of about 370 miles per hour

04:43or maximum speed. Now I don't know if the C5 Mark 1B will have that

04:48because obviously it's been converted. It's got

04:50arrester hooks and all the other sort of things you need for

04:54carrier operations. So it may be a bit similar, maybe

04:58handled a bit different. Not entirely sure. You could probably tell right

05:02that naval air arm aircraft aren't exactly my

05:06speciality. I only really started looking into them when this

05:10tech tree was released. So next the C5 Mark 2B.

05:15Now I wasn't really able to find any

05:18information on the C5 Mark 2B. I don't think it would be too much

05:23different to the C5 Mark 1B. My apologies, I just could not

05:28find anything about the Mark 2B. I found lots of other variants of the

05:31C5, just not that particular variant. So my apologies for that. But I'm

05:36guessing it's not going to be too much different to the C5 Mark 1B.

05:40Maybe it will have better armament. Maybe it was

05:43been slightly upgraded with better for carrier operations.

05:47I honestly have no idea. But I'll try and

05:50get back to you with more information on that if I can at some point.

05:54Now the next on our list is the Firebrand TF Mark 4.

05:58I believe this is the Blackburn Firebrand.

06:01It was armed with four 20mm Hispano cannons,

06:05could carry 16 RP-3 rockets, two 2,000 pound bombs

06:09or one torpedo, and had a max speed of about 342 miles an hour.

06:13Now its first flight was in 1942, but because of slow development, I believe it

06:18was intended as a fighter and it didn't work out. And it didn't get

06:22introduced until after the war. So sometime late 1945.

06:27Only a few hundred were built and it ended up being

06:30withdrawn in 1953. I don't think it was ever used in combat. Like I said,

06:35it was meant to be a fighter, but it ended up used as a strike

06:38aircraft instead. So I'm not entirely sure how it would work

06:43out. I suppose it'd be good for taking out

06:45quite large ships. It's got 20mm cannons, so it can easily

06:50fend for itself if attacked. So I'm not entirely sure how it'll be

06:56used. I mean, like I said, it'll be just for

06:59taking down large targets, I suppose. So it'll probably need an

07:03escort, but it could look after itself if needed to. Probably a higher tier

07:07aircraft. But, well, we'll have to wait and see

07:11when it comes out. But I'm betting it'll be a

07:13high tier aircraft. Especially since it wasn't introduced until after the war.

07:17Even though it was developed about midway through the war.

07:20Now, the next on our list is the Firefly F Mark V,

07:23or the Fairy Firefly. Now this was a carrier aircraft, again, used

07:28during the war this time. Unlike the Blackburn

07:32Firebrand. It wasn't actually retired until the 1960s, I believe,

07:36by some aircraft, some nations. The Netherlands, I believe, used them

07:41in Indonesia. It was armed with four 20mm Hispano cannons,

07:45could carry eight RP-3 rockets or two 2,000 pound bombs, and had a maximum

07:49speed of 316 miles an hour. It's quite similar

07:54to the Firebrand, Blackburn Firebrand. I'm guessing

07:58it'll be a lower tier, because it actually

08:00flew during the war. Although, like I said, they're quite

08:04similar. So I suppose it could be higher up in the tiers, but then you don't

08:08want two aircraft quite similar to each other

08:11in armament. So I'm guessing it'll be a lower tier, but

08:14again, we'll have to sort of wait and see. Now the next on our list is the

08:18Wyvern, I'm probably going to pronounce this wrong, the Wyvern, or Wyvern

08:22S Mark IV. Now this was a turboprop aircraft,

08:26so after the war. It was armed with four 20mm Hispano cannons,

08:32like the other aircraft, and could carry 16 RP-3 rockets,

08:36one torpedo, or up to 3,000 pound worth of bombs and

08:39mines. Now I doubt we'll be seeing the mines in the game unfortunately,

08:44but quite a large payload, quite a multi-purpose

08:49aircraft really, because it could carry, well, rockets,

08:56bombs, torpedoes, there aren't too many aircrafts that can do

08:59all three of those, or if any, assuming they

09:03add all of those weapons into the game. I remember the

09:06Barry Swordfisher only recently could actually start carrying bombs, which was

09:11something it could do right at the beginning of the war. Now

09:14these aircraft served in the Suez Crisis, if I remember correctly, I'm

09:18not entirely sure how well they did. I think they were withdrawn during the

09:221950s, not long after, so I'm guessing they were replaced by

09:26jet aircraft. Quite surprising they were kept by the

09:30Fleet Air Arm for so long. Oh, before I forget, it has a

09:34top speed of 383 miles an hour. Sorry, I forgot to mention that earlier at

09:38the beginning of this bit of explaining this aircraft. I'm guessing

09:43this would be a high tier plane, I'm not sure whether it would be

09:47tier 4 or tier 5, I mean, it was introduced in 1946.

09:53Actually, that was about the same time as the Bearcats, so probably a tier 4

09:57aircraft actually. Tier 5, I'm not sure when it would

10:00compete against jets, so yeah, I'm assuming it'll be tier 4,

10:04don't hold me to that. Let's move on to the next

10:08aircraft. Now the next aircraft on our list is the C5 Mark 17, the C5

10:12F Mark 45. They've gone from Roman numerals to normal numerals, I'm

10:17perfectly okay with that. Couldn't find an awful lot of information on the C5

10:21Mark 17. It was based on a previous model, the

10:27Spitfire Mark 15. I believe this is

10:32a late war aircraft, so it uses the Griffin engines, not entirely sure on

10:37armament. I think it has a teardrop canopy.

10:40The C5 F Mark 45, I believe it's quite similar but has

10:46extra fuel tanks. My apologies for not getting too much in

10:49depth, I haven't been able to find much information on the C5s.

10:52They've got lots of information on the internet about it, but

10:56not on particular variants, so my apologies there. I'll try and find out

11:00more if I can, but at the moment I'm afraid I can't

11:04really add much to these two aircraft or the other C5s.

11:08Now the next aircraft on our list is the C Fury F Mark 10, the C Fury FB

11:13Mark 11. I'm guessing the FB stands for fighter bomber and F for fighter.

11:18Now these were introduced after the war and were used in the Korean War. I

11:22believe the C Fury was able to shoot down a North Korean jet, so

11:26pretty successful aircraft I'm guessing. Obviously replaced by jets again,

11:32like every aircraft. This was actually I think the last propeller aircraft

11:36in the Royal Navy and one of the fastest propeller driven aircraft in the

11:41world, I believe. Although I'm guessing the two

11:44Polov-95 Russian bombers are probably quite a

11:49bit faster than them. Before I get sidetracked, I'd better

11:52carry on with this bit. I found specifications of the

11:56C Fury FB Mark 11. I didn't find the specifications for the Mark 10.

12:02I'm guessing they're not going to be too much different. The C Fury had a...

12:06Mark 11 had a top speed of about 460 miles an hour, so

12:11pretty fast. I think most of the other aircraft on here only go about

12:14300 or so miles an hour or even less. And it had four 20 millimeter Hispano

12:19cannons to carry 12 rockets or £2,000 worth of

12:23bombs. So pretty good aircraft. This will probably

12:26be a higher tier aircraft again. Whether it will go against jets?

12:31Possibly. I mean like I said they were used in the Korean War. They did shoot

12:35down a MiG-15. So that's possible but

12:40again we'll have to see what Gaijin do with that.

12:45What battle rating it gets. It'd probably be the C Fury F Mark 10 that would

12:50be dealing with in the higher tiers. Although

12:53I suppose they could both go in the same tier with one providing

12:57bombing support and one doing fighter support. But again we'll have to

13:01see what Gaijin decide. Now the next aircraft on our list is the Seahawk

13:05F1. This was I believe Hawker

13:09Hawker company's first jet that they produced.

13:13Had its first flight in 1947 but didn't actually fly till

13:161953. So I'm guessing it was sort of brought in because it had actually

13:22flown in 1947. I'm guessing the F1 means it's

13:26going to be an early production unit. So may not be as good as it was

13:33when fully introduced. Like many other aircraft at the time it was retired

13:38not that long after being introduced. It served in the Suez crisis

13:41if I remember and was phased out not long after.

13:44Obviously a time of large technological change.

13:49Planes becoming obsolete relatively quickly.

13:52So yeah let's get on to the specifications. It was armed with four

13:5620 millimeter Hispano cannons and was powered by the Rolls-Royce

14:01I'm probably going to mispronounce this Nene or Nini

14:04jet engine which gave it a top speed of about 600 miles an hour.

14:08Well 599 but we'll just round it up for easiness.

14:13Slight fact the Nene engine was actually used to power the

14:18F9F Panther and well even worse for Britain.

14:23They actually gave it to the Soviet Union as a sort of goodwill gesture

14:27before the Cold War got going too much. More embarrassingly

14:31the Soviets reverse engineered it and quickly developed engines which they

14:35used in their MiG-15s. I was watching a documentary the other

14:39day and there was a bit of a joke about how the

14:42biggest British contribution in Korea was with the MiG-15 so

14:46just a little historical fact while there.

14:50I'm guessing this will be obviously tier 5 aircraft.

14:53I haven't unlocked yet so I don't know what the

14:58what sort of speeds and armament are used in those sort of tiers. I believe

15:04the Americans mainly use the machine guns

15:08and Russians use quite heavy caliber weapons

15:11so I'm guessing the 20 millimeters will sort of be a

15:16best of both worlds. High power but accurate. I'm guessing it'll be quite

15:20fast as well compared to those aircraft. Might need to be able to

15:24keep up like sort of be about the same but like I

15:28said I haven't really unlocked yet so I'm just sort of speculating here.

15:32So let's move on to the next aircraft the Sea Venom F.A.W.20.

15:36Now the Sea Venom F.A.W.20 was first introduced

15:40well it's first flight, well Sea Venom's first flight in general was

15:43in 1951 so it just scrapes in through the deadline of

15:471953. I believe that's the cutoff point. It was used in the Suez Crisis like

15:53other aircraft on the air at the time and

15:56was also involved in the Cyprus Emergency bombing Ioka

15:59at the time in 1958 I believe. The specifications it could go about

16:06575 miles an hour so a bit slower than the

16:09Sea Corp Kef-1. It's armed with four 20 millimeter cannons,

16:13Hispano cannons. It could carry two 1,000 pound bomb

16:18and eight 60 pound RP-3 rockets. One thing I did know is he

16:24apparently has a crew of two. I don't know if one's meant to be a navigator or

16:27something but I'm not sure how they'll fit

16:33into the aircraft. I doubt there'll be much

16:36effect but just sort of an interesting fact I noticed. Now the next

16:40the last aircraft on the Royal Navy list is the attacker F.B. Mark II

16:44or otherwise known as the Supermarine Attacker.

16:47This was the Fleet Air Arms first jet fighter

16:51introduced in 1951. It had its first flight in 1946.

16:56It never actually saw any service. I'm assuming it was introduced too late for

17:01Korea and was actually phased out in 1946. Sorry 1954.

17:05The first flight was in 1946 so like I said earlier

17:08huge technological change. Only three years of service.

17:12This was more of a traditional fighter only aircraft only being armed with the

17:17four 20 millimeter hispano cannons and could do about 590

17:23miles an hour so quite not almost as fast as a

17:26Seahawk which was 599. I'm guessing this would be again tier

17:32five. Seems like a quite nice aircraft.

17:36I'm sure it'd be well used by the British players or

17:40those going up the British tree. Can't wait to

17:44see some of these Royal Navy aircraft in general.

17:48They'll be a huge addition to the game. Something

17:51they've been sorely lacking. Like I said Britain hasn't really got

17:55carrier maps but hopefully Gaijin is hoping to change this.

18:01Many of these are just because many of these are not much different to their

18:04land counterparts so I'm hoping they'll be doing maybe some

18:08sort of like convoy protection type missions like

18:11protect the convoy from German attackers something like that just to

18:16sort of add a bit of flavor to the game so I'm

18:19definitely looking forward to them. Now we move on to the Royal Air Force.

18:24Only two planes being added I believe. Both

18:27Hurricanes. The Mark 2C and the Mark 4. Now the

18:31Mark 2C is quite interesting because this is I

18:33believe the point when it was more decided to be more of a

18:37it was decided it was going to be more of a ground attack aircraft.

18:41Becoming quite inferior to German fighters.

18:44It had four 20 millimeter cannons and could carry

18:48a 500 pound or 250 pound bomb so that'll hopefully spice up the

18:54ground attack aircraft for Britain. The Hurricane Mark 4

18:57now again carrying off the ground attack

19:01new ground attack role it was given could carry

19:04two bombs. I'm not entirely sure what size bomb.

19:07Now I'm guessing there'll be the 250 pound or 500 pound bombs

19:11two 40 millimeter cannons or eight RP-3 rockets. Now interestingly I've

19:18while looking at the wiki page apparently with the rockets they could

19:21they were limited to about 205 miles an hour which is

19:25well ridiculously slow. It did have armor plating as well which would also

19:29explain the loss of speed but so I'm guessing I'm guessing these

19:34aren't going to be able to really protect themselves. I'm not sure what

19:37other armament they have I'm guessing it's going to be similar to the Marks

19:402C with 20 millimeter cannons but if

19:44if they're being 205 miles per hour is true that's going to be

19:49yeah they're going to need a lot of escorting. They're going to be

19:52basically the British version of the Ju-87Gs

19:56if they have the 40 millimeter cannons. With the other armament we'll make

20:00them more deadly but if they're that slow then

20:02not particularly looking forward to them that much if I'm honest unless they

20:07quite low tier which I doubt they will be. Now

20:11gone away from the single-seat fighters and going to the twin

20:15engine fighters. Let's start with the Blenheim Mark 1F.

20:19Now this is actually one of my favorite bombers probably my

20:23along with the Beaufort my favorite bomber.

20:27It was my first aircraft that I actually maxed out all of the attachments

20:30that you could buy for it. I don't know why I've always just liked

20:34the aircraft. I remember in one of

20:39the R2 series I think it was Birds of Prey on the Xbox I was actually banned

20:43from using it because the tail guns were just too effective.

20:47So aside from that let's get back to the

20:51main point. This is our night fighter variant with four

20:57303 machine guns in a sort of little gun pod underneath I believe.

21:01Now it could carry radar but like other radar carrying aircraft I

21:05doubt this is going to make much of a difference.

21:07Now I'm not sure if there was any speed changes from the Mark 1F.

21:11I mean I can't find any listed. All the specifications for the

21:17Mark 4 which I believe is already in the game.

21:20We've also got the Blenheim Mark 4F. Again similar to this four 303

21:27machine guns underneath the fuselage so

21:30not that much difference between them. Maybe this one will be faster and this

21:33one slower. I'm not sure why they've put them in if

21:36they... I mean they seem quite similar. I don't know if

21:39they keep their turrets either. I can't really find much mention of it.

21:42I'm assuming they'll lose them if they were fighter aircraft but

21:46again we'll have to sort of wait and see. The next on our list is the Mosquito

21:50F Mark 2. I believe this is similar to the

21:53FB Mark 6 with four 20mm cannons and four

21:587.7mm machine guns. However if the Wikipedia article

22:04on it is correct which it may well not be.

22:08Again I haven't been able to find much information in my books about it.

22:11It should be a bit faster about 360 miles an hour.

22:14The one in game does about 331. Other than that I'm not sure what

22:18differences there are. Maybe it'll be lower tier.

22:21Although if it does have better performance that would suggest it

22:24wouldn't. I'm not really sure where what to make

22:27of this. So again we'll have to take a wait and

22:30see attitude with it while we move on to the next aircraft.

22:34Now the next aircraft on our list the Wilkin F Mark 1 was introduced in 1942

22:38in response to Ju-86 reconnaissance flights.

22:41Apparently there was a bit of a worry the Germans were going to start

22:45high altitude bombing of Britain again but as we all know that didn't really

22:50start out... well work out. There were bombing raids

22:54I believe just before not that long before D-Day

22:57the Germans lost most of their bombers but

23:00I don't believe these were high altitude bombing they

23:04expected to happen. It was quite bad for the Germans because

23:08obviously they didn't have those bomber aircraft to oppose the landings of

23:11Normandy so they lost out quite badly there. But like I said

23:17because those bombing raids didn't happen

23:20as they expected only a few of the Wilkins were

23:24actually produced. It was armed with four 20 millimeter Spano cannons and could go

23:29about 385 miles an hour. I'm not sure where this will go I'm

23:34guessing it'll be able to climb quite well. According to the

23:37wiki page about 20 meters a second I'm not sure how that compares to other

23:41fighters. I don't really pay attention to them

23:46statistics specifications while I'm playing War Thunder but

23:50so I'm not sure how that really compares to other fighters.

23:53But again probably a higher tier aircraft quite well armed if it can

23:58climb as well if it is a good climber be good for

24:02dealing with the bombers B-17s, U-2s, Wellingtons, Lancasters

24:08I mean you can deal with those planes quite easily it's just getting

24:11up to their height and so I'm hoping that will help

24:15stop any bomber rushes. So probably quite a useful aircraft to have.

24:20Now the last aircraft on the twin engine fighters is the

24:23Hornet F3. It was a development of the Mosquito with the

24:27wooden construction techniques and presumably

24:30other lessons learned from the Mosquito but wasn't actually introduced until

24:34after the war. As far as I can tell it was only really

24:37used in against in Malaysia against the

24:41communist insurgency there. Not sure what they're going to do

24:45with tiering. It has a maximum speed of about 472 miles an hour

24:50four 20 millimeter Hispano cannons as with all the other aircraft could carry

24:54eight RP-3 rockets or two 1000 pound bombs.

24:58So quite a powerful aircraft pretty fast I'm guessing this would be a higher

25:02tier aircraft. How well it will actually do I'm not

25:06entirely sure. It'll probably be able to hold its own

25:09but it depends if it gets in jet games if

25:13it gets in jet games it'll probably be quite badly defeated.

25:18Have to just sort of see how it goes really and see what guys can

25:22do with it in tiering. Now we get to my more favorite areas with planes.

25:27The bombers and the flying boats. I've always been a bit of a bomber person

25:32when it came to War Thunder. Unlocking all my bombers

25:36maxing them out as much as I can. We'll start with the flying boats first

25:41just to get out of the way. The Sunderland Mark 3. Now this was

25:44introduced in 1938 so before the war it was quite a

25:49heavily armed aircraft from the looks of it. With no less than

25:5216 303 machine guns and two 12.7 millimeter machine guns.

25:57As well as well the Wikipedia article it's got so many it can carry so many

26:02bombs and so many different variations of bombs and

26:05torpedoes and mines. It doesn't even have a specific list for

26:09it. So from reading my book the um well

26:12might as well say the name World War II the Directory of Weapons

26:16um which has finally come in use um by at the end of the video it seems

26:20it can carry about 2250 kilograms worth of bombs

26:25uh mines or depth charges or about 5000 pounds

26:29um so quite heavily armed um well ridiculously heavily armed. I mean

26:3616 303 machine guns and 12 um Browning machine guns and this was

26:41introduced before the war so it may be a low tier aircraft um

26:45this may be what the um H6K used to be um

26:49back in the beginning of the game um or and

26:52Catalina which would be a combination of both they

26:56the H6K was ridiculously heavily armed and the PBY Catalina was ridiculously

27:02hard to shoot down and ridiculously overloaded with bombs um this might be a

27:08um combination of the two so I'm wondering how Gaijin are going to deal

27:11with that. I'm definitely looking forward to the

27:14Sunderland Mark III I believe it was actually called the Flying Porcupine by

27:17the Germans um was it due to how many weapons it

27:21carried um but yeah well oh I haven't mentioned the

27:25top speed which is about 210 miles an hour which

27:29uh not too unexpected considering how much it's carrying um

27:35so yeah I'm looking forward to that aircraft um

27:39but let's move on to the bombs. First of all we'll start off with the Hampden

27:42Mark I this is a pre-war bomber introduced in 1938

27:46um quite similar to the Blenheim and Beaufort from what I can understand

27:50maybe lower tiered um uh its specifications are maximum speed

27:56247 miles an hour four thousand pounds worth of bomb um

27:59not sure if that's a misprint or because um because the um Blenheim is

28:04only listed as taking one thousand pound of bombs but um now

28:09I'm looking at my book as well that's got the same

28:11listed um bomb um yeah amount of bombs that it can carry

28:16four thousand pounds so well that's quite surprising um it would

28:22explain why it's so slow I suppose compared to the um Blenheim

28:26good um well actually it's quite similar speed to the Blenheim according to my

28:31book I'm reading um I'm not sure how they're gonna deal with that um

28:35they surely can't give you that bomb load that would be

28:38quite that would be um ridiculously overpowered in

28:41lower tiers I'm guessing you can't really put it up in the higher tiers

28:45because um it's only armed with one um nose

28:49mounted um seven millimeter machine gun and

28:53something like three to five um seven millimeter 7.7 millimeter

28:59machine guns um defensive armament depending on what variant you're

29:03looking at um not sure how they're going to deal with that um

29:08we'll have to wait and see what they how they do that um that's going to be

29:11ridiculously overpowered um if um that's in a lower tier um

29:17for um aircraft um yeah I'm quite shocked at that um

29:22if I'm honest um but let's leave it for the moment and move on to the um

29:26next aircraft the next aircraft on our list is the Afro

29:29Manchester which um you can if you look at a picture of it you can quite

29:33easily see um the resemblance to the Lancaster um

29:37it's a twin engine bomber but other than that it does look remarkably

29:41similar which isn't surprising because it I believe the Lancaster it's all

29:45built on the Manchester but it wasn't that successful an aircraft itself its

29:50engines weren't that great and from I understand um was in service

29:54from November 1940 to only 1942 um some of the other aircraft um well the

30:00Hampton which we were talking about earlier was in

30:02service for longer um so obviously wasn't that successful

30:06had a top speed of about 265 miles an hour

30:10had um a 303 machine gun um same as the Lancaster two in the front two

30:15four in the tail two on the dorsal turret and could carry about ten

30:19thousand pounds worth of bombs which um based on the Lancaster I don't think

30:24we're going to get all of those bombs but

30:26you can always hope um not particularly looking forward to that aircraft I mean

30:31it doesn't sound that great I do like bombers but it just seems like a bit of

30:34a cheap man's uh poor man's Lancaster at the

30:38moment so not too much looking forward to it but

30:42any bombers for the British will be welcomed obviously

30:45next on our list is the Halifax Marks Mark 3 this was actually in service the

30:49same time as the Lancaster so that for two four engine bombers um

30:54from what I understand the Halifax was more of a multi-purpose aircraft

30:59unless I'm getting this um mixed up with the Stirling um

31:03able to perform more roles than Lancaster Lancaster was mainly a

31:07night bomber whereas the Halifax could um perform other roles like such as

31:11maritime due um patrols transport um aircraft for um parachute

31:17paratroopers um like I said I might be getting mixed up with the Stirling um

31:21but I'll be dealing with that in a minute so I'll sort of check um

31:25then now this had a top speed of 282 miles an hour so

31:29getting a bit faster like compared to some of the

31:32um bombers from before it's um armament was done a bit

31:35differently it has um 13 000 pound worth of bombs which is

31:39probably not going to get but defensive armament why it had four

31:42303 machine guns in the tail and four in the dorsal turret but only one in the

31:46nose um not sure why they would did that it

31:50seems like they're experimenting a bit maybe um

31:53maybe um not sure why maybe because it was a different company they were

31:57taking a different route to um to um Avro um but yeah quite

32:04seems like an unusual aircraft doesn't seem that special doesn't seem

32:07particularly bad uh we'll have to see how this aircraft

32:10turns out I suppose and while we move on to the next

32:13next aircraft on the list is the Stirling Mark 3

32:16also known as the short Stirling now from what I understand it wasn't

32:20um it was sort of hampered um according to the book I'm reading

32:24um by the fact it wasn't able to really get to an optimum

32:27operating altitude of about 20 000 feet

32:30um due to too short wingspan and bomb bay was too small to carry the larger

32:36bombs but it apart but apart from that it was

32:40able to fulfill a role as a glider tug and resupply aircraft during the war

32:44so it turned out okay in the end had a top speed of 282 miles an hour

32:49standard um defensive armament as the Lancaster two in the

32:53front two in the um dorsal turret um four 303 machine guns in the back and

32:59could carry 14 000 pounds worth of bomb no bombs

33:02so again I doubt we're gonna see them in game or that many in game

33:07based on the Lancaster so like the Halifax not exactly

33:12looking at special doesn't seem but it doesn't seem bad either so

33:16again looking out for it but not particularly

33:20excited about getting it now we move on to the famous Lancaster we've got the

33:24Lancaster mark three in the game at the moment

33:27um I've been looking up on online and in my book and it doesn't really

33:32seem like there's much difference between the

33:34Lancaster mark three or well any of the other areas

33:38with the Lancaster mark um I'm not sure if that's meant to be mark one or just

33:42mark I don't know if that's a typo I will assume it's meant to be mark one

33:46these were apparently the Manchester airframes that were converted on the

33:50production lines to um to well Lancaster mark one

33:54um standard because like I said earlier they were quite similar aircraft

33:58um um standard um uh defensive armament two

34:05707 7.7s at the front two on the top um dorsal turret four at the back

34:11um it seems that the Lancaster mark one was actually in production throughout

34:15the whole war um well it was renamed the B mark one in

34:191945 um but it seems like that was the definitive

34:22version with the you know I'm not sure whether what these

34:26other Lancasters I'm assuming they were to for the

34:29more specialized job um looking at my book it seems there was

34:33only um 301 mark two is actually completed so

34:37I'm not not been able to find much information on it although it seems it

34:41was uh fitted with um different engines and

34:43had an unofficial modification of of a um 20 millimeter or 50 caliber

34:49machine gun on ventral turret I'm not sure if it was

34:53really a turret apparently it was a bit of an unofficial

34:55modification um so I'm not sure if they would have

34:59actually had a turret or whether it was just a

35:02just a sort of ad hoc attempt to try and keep um

35:05some firepower underneath the Lancaster it was um to stop these

35:09oh I'm gonna mispronounce this um scraig music um

35:13the upwards firing guns that you get on the dawnia to um

35:17one of the dawnia bombers uh not bombers night fighters

35:20basically it fires upwards um so you can instead of having to

35:24point your nose at the bomber you just fly underneath

35:28aim up and just fire from underneath and they're not able to really

35:32shoot back um but yeah it doesn't seem like there's much difference between all

35:36of these variants like I said this was more of an

35:38unofficial modification for the mark 2 so I'm not sure how much

35:43um difference is going to be between the two um sorry I couldn't get into more

35:47information but just wasn't able to find much on these

35:50um different variants and last but not least we come to the

35:54Canberra B mark 2 which was a jet bomber um

35:58produced by Britain and was pretty successful with um it was

36:03only retired by the Royal Air Force in 2005 I believe and if I remember

36:08NASA actually still have some for performing tests so this was

36:12produced in well introduced in 1951 so this is one of the most longest lived

36:17aircraft ever probably um so definitely can't

36:21wait for this to be in the game uh let's get to the specification now I

36:25should warn the specification I have been able to find was sort of B mark 6

36:28but doesn't seem much difference between the

36:30bet between the mark 2 and the mark 6 though so

36:33my apologies there are differences but like I said I've been having a bit of

36:37trouble finding different information on the various

36:40well variants it had a top speed of 580 miles an hour

36:44um some of the aircraft up here were barely 590

36:48so almost as fast as the fighters could carry four 20 millimeter hispanos or

36:53two 7.7 millimeter machine gun pods in um

36:57the rear bomb bay I don't know why they still kept those 7.7 millimeter

37:01machine guns they are completely useless but oh well

37:04it could carry two unguided rocket pods with 37 rockets

37:09or or two metro rocket pods with 16 missiles

37:12um rockets I believe these were ground to ground

37:15air to ground rockets um not entirely not an expert on rockets if I'm

37:20honest could also carry air to surface missiles

37:23um that would be seeing them in game uh

37:26probably be too um I'm not sure how they'd work but it might be

37:31bit game breaking for um in ground forces

37:34it could carry two sorry a total of eight thousand pound worth of bombs

37:38and last but not least various different types of nuclear weapons such

37:42the b-57 and b-43 which I'm guessing we're not going to see in game

37:47unfortunately um well that's been a very long video um

37:51thank you for watching the video um I did the video because there wasn't

37:55really much of a guide on these aircraft um you may not

37:58know what's being added sort of thing maybe more interested

38:01um guide and I've put a little summary of three of the aircraft

38:05um which obviously isn't much so I decided to put

38:09more information on about these aircraft myself

38:13um thanks for watching uh please add any information you found that I haven't

38:18found I know I've probably missed off a lot of

38:20information uh thanks um leave feedback like the video if you

38:25enjoyed it subscribe if you enjoy these types of videos

38:28and I'll be doing more videos on the Japanese and Soviet tech trees

38:33and German and American tech trees as well

38:37when they come out so thank you for watching and I'll see you next time

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