War Thunder - Patch 1.51 "Cold Steel" Dev server - Planes!
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00:00Hello everybody, Torono here, and welcome back to the War Thunder dev server.
00:04As you can see up here, it's patch 1.51, which sort of came out of nowhere.
00:09They just started announcing random vehicles on War Thunder's social media sites, and then
00:15they dropped the dev server on us.
00:17Again it was a bit of a low-key affair, so I've only noticed it at the last second, only
00:21just downloaded it, so I haven't got much time to look at the vehicles.
00:25We're just going to be looking at the new vehicles in the hangar, not really going to
00:29be test flying them or looking at the new maps, unfortunately.
00:32There isn't actually much in this new patch.
00:35In this dev server version, it's basically new vehicles and a few new sound effects.
00:41That's pretty much it, and a few new decals, I think.
00:45But we're going to look at the new vehicles in the hangar, and we're going to start off
00:48with the Hurricane Mark IV.
00:51So you can see here the Hurricane Mark IV, and you can see the stat card up here.
00:56Now a quick disclaimer, these do tend to change between the dev server and the live release.
01:01These are preliminary stats and battle ratings, and they can and probably will change between
01:07now and the release date, but we'll go with them for the moment.
01:10You can see it's a battle rating 2.3, you need 7,900 RP to unlock it, 307 miles per
01:17hour max speed, turn time 23.7 seconds, rate of climb 13.3, and it's armed with two 40mm
01:24cannons, with 72 rounds altogether.
01:31And you can see it's a nice looking little aircraft, and we're going to go to modifications
01:35because there is a bit of a bad side.
01:39Only armour-piercing tracer shells, which kind of makes sense, Britain never really
01:44produced high explosive shells for its tank guns, or its large calibre weapons for some
01:50reason.
01:51So I think this is actually historically accurate, which is good for historical accuracy, not
01:57very good for us who want to blow stuff up, we're just going to be stuck with armour-piercing
02:02rounds unfortunately, but it's a nice looking little aircraft, and it doesn't come with
02:07any other armament unfortunately, so this is going to play a bit like the new Stukas,
02:12or the Stuka Ju-87Gs, they're not new, I don't know why I said they were new.
02:17You can also see that this seems to have more armour than the regular Hurricanes, especially
02:21around the engine areas and below the pilot, which should protect the engines from ground
02:32fire, or that's how it probably would have been intended when it was designed.
02:36In game it's not going to be of much use because it's mainly aircraft we're going to be dealing
02:40with, but this should hopefully improve survivability of the Hurricane Mark IV.
02:47But we're going to look at the other British aircraft, what other aircraft are there?
02:51You can see that the Hurricane Mark IV and the Mark IIB have been folded, so that's made
02:55that a bit neater.
02:58The other new change is to do with the Firebrand TF Mark IV, they've actually listed it twice
03:03in the patch notes, so it's pretty important.
03:05I don't know if this is a new aircraft, I don't remember it, but I honestly don't remember
03:12if this is a new aircraft or not.
03:14I think it is, because they've got these weird designations for the armour, Armour 20, instead
03:20of just armour.
03:21I believe this is a new aircraft, but I could be totally wrong.
03:26It doesn't look like anything I've flown before.
03:29You can see it's just an ordinary pilot, a fuel tank in front.
03:33It's pretty big, battle rating 4.7, required RP is 50,000, where else have we got, max
03:42speed 450mph, turn time 21 seconds, rate of climb 22 seconds.
03:47We're going to check the modifications.
03:50It takes a lot of bombs and rockets, I seriously don't think I have flown this aircraft, because
03:55I don't remember any aircraft in the fleet air arm that I've played so far with torpedoes,
04:00and I've got pretty far in the regular server, on the dev server I'm not that far.
04:05But I'll have to check the regular server and post an annotation saying if it is a new
04:10aircraft or not.
04:11I'm pretty sure it is, it could explain why it's listed twice, in the patch notes they've
04:16got Firebrand new model, and then after that they've got Firebrand, so possibly they've
04:20added the plane and then since updated the model.
04:23But that's pretty much everything for the UK air forces, of course there's still no
04:28British tanks.
04:29So we move on to Japan quickly, who have got three new planes, the J2M-5 and the J2M-5
04:37Premium.
04:38Where's J2M-5?
04:40Again it's been folded with the J2M-3, so just J2Ms now.
04:44We'll look at that first, 75,000 RP to get, battle rating of 5.3, max speed 416mph, turn
04:54time 19 seconds, rate of climb 12.8, armed with four 20mm cannons, two are Mk1s, two
05:02are Mk2s of the type 99 type.
05:05It does look like a pretty good model, I think this was, I think it was meant to be better
05:09at high altitude interception, I could be wrong.
05:13And again you can tell it's new because it's got this weird designation for the armour,
05:16GLAS-12, armour 8.
05:21It looks like a nice little aircraft, not really much else to say about it.
05:25Project modifications, can carry two 60kg bombs, but they're not really useful.
05:32And you can see here it's got all of it's air belts ready, universal ground targets
05:38tracers.
05:39It seems to be pretty much the same for both guns, both 20mm cannons, so yeah it looks
05:47pretty good.
05:48You know, got your standard high explosive, armour piercing, armour piercing sentry, yeah
05:54I think this will do pretty good this plane.
05:57We'll compare it to the battle rating of the J2M-3, so the same battle rating, they both
06:04have identical stats, so it's possible it's just a placeholder, and they're going to add
06:09the proper stats later, although generally I don't look at the stats and rely on them
06:14that much, but with regards to the dev server we haven't got much choice unfortunately.
06:20The J2M-5 premium seems to have the same stats, so I'm guessing it's going to be pretty much
06:25the same.
06:26Oh it's actually, this one has different armament, it's got two 30mm cannons, ah I didn't realise
06:31that, and again two 60kg bombs, it doesn't have any different ammo outloads, it's got
06:40practice shell, high explosive fragmentation, high explosive fragmentation and high explosive
06:47fragmentation tracer, and you can see the cannons are pretty big, there's two of them,
06:5584 shells all together, I think this could do well, especially against bombers, but I
07:05don't know, I have very bad experiences with the Japanese cannons unfortunately, I don't
07:10know they're just so low velocity, you aim at the little aiming recital in arcade and
07:15all your shots miss, your bullets from your regular machine guns hit, but all the cannon
07:19shells just completely miss.
07:22Now one of the other new aircraft we've got is the Ki-44, I almost completely missed it,
07:27I don't know why, I just completely forgot it was on here, I don't think there's an information,
07:31no there's no information, no armour that I can see, it looks a pretty sleek aircraft,
07:39as far as I'm aware this was less manoeuvrable than the Ki-43's but had better speed, on
07:44here it's battle rating 2.7, RP 9200, max speed 347mph, turn time 16.5 seconds, and
07:55rate of climb 21.6 seconds, so pretty good rate of climb, and it seems like a pretty
08:00nice aircraft, we'll check the armaments, we'll check the modifications, oh nice looking
08:06engine sort of from the front, it's armed with 4 machine guns, two 7.7mm and two 12.7mm,
08:15and you've got your standard loadouts, except for the 7.7mm which doesn't show, apparently
08:22it can carry bombs, but they aren't showing up in the top corner where they usually are,
08:29up to 250kg of bombs, I don't know if that's 1 or 2, usually they carry 2 but I don't know
08:37for sure because I can't actually see it, it's actually below the Ki-43 Otsu, which
08:47seems a bit odd but there we go, so hopefully this will be a nice little addition for the
08:52Japanese lower tiers, a good little army counterpart, it's battle rating 2.7, I don't know if they've
08:58got any other army at 2.7, no, oh they've got the Ki-61, so maybe they could move them
09:07about, so again it's a nice little addition, they've both got the same armaments, probably
09:13just different manoeuvrability, so good to see that being added in, and again that's
09:18pretty much it for the Japanese, so that's the J2M5 Raiden Premium with the 13mm cannons,
09:25they're the same type 5 cannons as used on the other Japanese planes, so if you've used
09:31them you'll probably know what you're getting out of the J2M5 basically.
09:37So we'll move on to the Russians, and they've got a few new aircraft, one really interesting
09:43addition is the Hurricane Mk2B, it's a premium, so you're probably thinking Torano what's
09:49so different about that, it's a lend-lease aircraft, but it's got Russian weapons, it's
09:55got 20mm Chevak cannons, and 12.7mm Berezin UB machine guns, I believe LASAR actually
10:02confirmed last year, or a good few months ago, that they were going to be adding these
10:06sorts of vehicles, you know, lend-lease vehicles which were sent to Russia and modified by
10:11the Russians, and again it's got the standard armour, 20mm, I think it's actually got the
10:17same stats as the normal Hurricane Mk2B, we're going to go back to it in a sec, 307mph, rate
10:23of climb 13.3, and regular Mk2B is 307mph, rate of climb 13.3, so again either a placeholder
10:34or it just has the same stats, but we'll go back to the Hurricane Mk2B, check its modifications,
10:42says it's armed with 6 rockets, and you can't choose to get rid of these, and it's got just
10:48default ammunition, I assume this will change, we did have this with the last dev server
10:53for patch 1.49, you just couldn't change the ammo loadouts for some reason, but I'm assuming
11:01that's going to change in the future, you know, future dev servers, and it does look
11:05very nice, nice camouflage, nice model, it looks, you know, detailed, so yeah, it looks
11:10very nice, what other aircraft has Russia got?
11:14They've got another, well it's all premiums actually, it's all premiums or new models,
11:19the Yak-3 VK-107, so Yak-3 VK-107 armed with two 20mm cannons, both for different types,
11:29Yak-3P has something similar, and it's armed with 3 cannons, max speed 403, rate of climb
11:3718.5, again same stats, or it's a placeholder, but we'll look at it, it's got one less cannon,
11:44so maybe it's going to be more manoeuvrable if these are placeholders, and this model
11:49looks very nice, this definitely looks very well detailed, this is probably one of the
11:54better looking models I've seen so far, we'll look at modifications first, and this does
11:58have all it's ammunition loadouts, so we've got that, again universal, you've got your
12:05high explosives and your fragmentation incendiary, armour piercing incendiary, can't see much
12:12else other than that, you've got your armour, again it just seems to be, they've got these
12:17weird names for it, other than that I can't see anything different really, you've got
12:24one of your guns firing out through there, and another firing above, again it's a nice
12:30little premium, again I don't really fly Russian that much, so for me it's not that big a deal,
12:36but it does look very nice as a model, and I think it'll probably be an OK premium, battle
12:41rating 5.7 by the way, turn time 17.2 seconds, we've already looked at the max speed and
12:48rate of climb, and the other change to the Russia was the R2M type 3 new model, customisation,
12:59don't think there's any differences to it, and this looks like, this looks a very good
13:04model, forget what I said about the Atcom 3, this is probably the next best model I've
13:09seen, although it's a bit blurry around the stars, so maybe not the best, but again it
13:14looks very good, I don't know if this camouflage is new, I haven't actually flown the type
13:193 since they added it, or changed the name, or I can't remember what they did to it, again
13:25armour seems to, ah they've changed the armour, because they did say the armour was being
13:29changed on one of the new R2s, it was like the most detailed yet, I'm guessing they've
13:34done the same here, I don't know if the actual armour itself is any different, but they've
13:41got new names on it, so I'm guessing either that's happened to all armour in the game,
13:45or they've specifically changed this one, but I don't think there's any other differences,
13:49go to x-ray, it doesn't seem to be any differences, so that's all of Russia's vehicles changes,
13:57so we're just going to move on to the Germans quickly and see what they've got, they've
14:01got an R2 new model, so they've got a premium R2, we'll look at that first, they've also
14:07got a few new other models and one new aircraft which we'll look at, so we're just waiting
14:11for the R2 to load up, so here's the R2, and this does look a very good model, but I do
14:18have to ask why this was needed, I don't mind premiums or capture premiums being added,
14:26you know, if it's needed, but I'm not sure this particularly was needed, this has much
14:32thinner armour than the R2 type 3, other than that it just seems to have a German camouflage,
14:42I don't know, I don't think this was actually needed, it's about rating a 3, I assume it's
14:47the same stats as the regular R2, I'll quickly check, 263mph top speed, 8.3 rate of climb,
14:56yeah, the same stats pretty much, we'll check the modifications, it doesn't carry any rockets,
15:03just bombs, you can change the ammunition loadout, which is good, but it doesn't carry
15:08any rockets, just bombs, I don't know if that's like that on the 1942 variant, or on the Russian
15:14tech tree, okay, so it doesn't have as much of a loadout, I suppose that's one good thing,
15:19I suppose you can get, I don't mind this so much if you can get the premium version, but
15:24it isn't as good as the regular version, again I'm not sure this was particularly needed, but
15:30I suppose I can live with it, I mean at the end of the day you don't have to actually
15:34go out and buy it, if you don't want it. Now, this new aircraft, the Dornier 17E1,
15:41I've been looking forward to new German bombers, I was hoping it was going to be the
15:45177, but this is a good bomber as well, it's a very long bomber, it's got a very unusual shape,
15:54I was actually off, I was actually on the coast of England, and you know, you could see the barge
15:58where they were actually pulling one of these up, because they found one off the coast of
16:02southeast coast, I can't remember where it was now, but you know, you could see the barge,
16:07and it was a few days before they actually brought it up, we'll check the armour on this,
16:12it doesn't say there's no armour present, but it doesn't show any, so I'm guessing there's no
16:17armour, it's got two gunners, got a rear gunner at the top and a rear gunner at the bottom,
16:24and you've got a pilot, who does seem to have his own machine gun, so that's pretty good,
16:29although it's a low calibre machine gun, stats 1.7, need 4000 RP, max speed 217 miles per hour,
16:38turn time 33 seconds, rate of climb 4.0 meters a second, so this is an early variant,
16:46it does seem pretty slow, I don't know, it's a good addition for the low tiers,
16:53you know, it does shake things up a bit, because we had the Junkers 88 and the
16:58HE 111, so it's good to have the Dornier's to join in, but it'll be a nice little aircraft
17:04in the early tiers, I'm hoping we get some of the later models, because I believe this
17:07is an early model, but yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to using this aircraft,
17:12the only other changes, I think they've changed some of the, I thought they'd changed some of
17:17this about, you know, the placement of some of the aircraft, but I could be wrong,
17:24there was three, yeah, yeah, they've unfolded a lot of stuff, the MC 202 and the HE 112 V5,
17:32but the only other major change is the model of the E1 and E3, so we'll check that out quick,
17:38again the E1, it does look like a new model, but it's mainly around the wings and the glass,
17:45the rest of it does look a bit faded, I don't know, it does look pretty good, but
17:51I think the new modelling was more affected from some of the other aircraft, but again,
17:55it's good to see new changes and new models being added, so we did have a lot of old,
18:01not very nice looking models, well they were nice looking, but you could tell they weren't,
18:05you know, as good as they could be, we go to the E3, again pretty much the same as the E1,
18:16looks really good glass and the wings, fuselage looks okay, again a bit of a faded X, but again,
18:23it does look like a pretty good aircraft, and although you can't see the improvements as much
18:29as with some of the other aircraft perhaps, so that's pretty much all the new German aircraft,
18:35so now we just go to America, again we look at the new model aircraft,
18:41the F2A1 and the A3 I believe, customisation, and again you can see there's a new model,
18:49but some of the writing does seem a bit faded, I don't know if this little bottle thing at the
18:54back was there before, that may be a new addition, again it looks very nice and you
18:58could see the detail in the engine here, so again, a welcome change and it is good to see
19:03these models updated, and we'll check the A3 quick before we go on to the new aircraft,
19:12again nice detail around the engine, again a very good improvement, again some of the
19:19insignia seems a bit faded, but you know it's a very good change and I do like it,
19:23it is good that Geiger is going back and updating some of the previous stuff,
19:29and the new aircraft, there's the A36 which is supposed to be a dive bomber, but it is in the
19:35attacker line, but it's labelled as a fighter for some reason, battle rating 3, max speed 392
19:43miles an hour, turned on 20 seconds, rate of climb 13.1, give you a little look at the aircraft,
19:52I think this was meant to be a dive bomber based on the P-51, could be wrong,
19:58but it doesn't carry any bombs and you can't change the
20:02belts, it's just stuck on default ammunition belt,
20:06seems a bit odd, yeah I don't know how to explain that, I assume they just haven't implemented it
20:11all fully, and there's this weird little thing at the top here, I assume that's some sort of air
20:17intake to cool the aircraft engine or something, I'm not a huge expert on aircraft as you can
20:22probably guess, and the other new aircraft is the SB2C1C, which is a dive bomber again,
20:33battle rating 3.3, two 20mm cannons and a 7.62mm Browning in the back,
20:39so stats, yeah battle rating 3.3, need 11,000rp, max speed 273, turn time 25.5 and rate of climb 9.8,
20:51we'll check the armour, again there's a decent amount of armour on it, 20mm but it's not going
20:59to protect you that much, but better than nothing, show the x-ray, again pilot and gunner,
21:09you know just your standard setup, oh before we forget, modifications, again it doesn't seem to
21:15have a bomb load, this is odd, I mean they have actually labelled it as a dive bomber slash naval
21:21bomber but it doesn't have any bombs, again you can't change the loadout for ammunition, I'm going
21:27to assume this is just, you know, they just haven't added it into the dev server yet, so that's pretty
21:33much it with regards to aircraft, and you know it's pretty good that they're going back and updating
21:37the old models, again not as many additions with regards to aircraft as with the previous
21:43patch where we got the British fleet air on, but you know pretty good additions, early tier German
21:47bombers, some later tier Japanese aircraft which you know are sorely needed for Japan,
21:56what additions would I like to have seen, possibly the Hawker Hunter, that's something
22:00that's been called for for a while, I was kind of hoping against hope that the Italian aircraft
22:06tech tree would be added, this was originally meant to be added at the beginning of the year
22:10but it was kind of pushed back and I was hoping it would be, you know, released in this patch,
22:16or at least some information about it in this patch, but so far we haven't really heard anything
22:21unfortunately, now I'm going to split the episode into two parts, this episode was dealing with the
22:26planes, the next episode I'm going to be dealing with the tanks, just to keep a decent length and
22:31so it doesn't get convoluted and time-wise, but yeah thanks for watching this episode,
22:37I hope you'll follow the link to the next episode when that's up, like I said I hope you enjoyed
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