Q: Will the Tornado, F-16, and MiG-29 receive more flight model updates to increase their maneuverability and stability at certain speeds? The problem with the Tornado, in particular, is the weird flight model. In realistic and Full-real controls, the plane does wacky things that other jets do not, and in mouse-aim or simplified, the instructor restricts the maneuverability so much, that the plane struggles to do anything other than roll and try to force reversals when defending itself.
@@chiefturion7134 I don’t have the clearance xd. One other change that I’d like to be made to the F-16, and inverse for the MiG-29 is the low-speed handling. The F-16 should be worse at those speeds than the 29, and be able to be rated with by the swing-wings, while the MiG-29 is supposed to be the one that locks up more at high speeds and gets one-circled easily. Gaijin did the reverse with the flight models lol
@@flyingtiger0506 The Su-25 and A-10s are both supposed to be survivable. The A-10 is the only one that isn’t currently, but all Gaijin can really do is make the health of the tail and wings better because all of the flight control wires are considered as one unit for disabling, and that’s how it is on every aircraft.
Q. Why do you not allow players to change their game account emails? The game is over ten years old and bearing in mind that it has a 12 rating means that people will have changed or lost their emails or even used their parents emails to sign up for it.
You can, I don’t removed exactly how I did it, but I made an account with a school email and I changed it to a personal one. You just have not looked hard enough I guess?
This is exactly what happened to me. I had lost my accoutn for about a year because of this. However, if you contact support, they can add an email to your account.
there's an option for that if you check you account in gaijin's website, if you lost access or forgot the email you can contact support and describe your problem
By what definition is the Tornado a third gen fighter? Both the Air Power Development Centre and Aerospaceweb (by far the most common definition schemes) consider it a gen 4, though perhaps not a great one
Excellent episode. Loving the Tornadoes in-game, too. ❤ Regarding strike aircraft (and this is something myself and others have asked many times before), when are you going to correct the Ki-102 Otsu's combat designation as "Strike Aircraft" as well as give it it's missing armament? It's currently designated as "Interceptor". The Ko model is the interceptor variant (which we're still waiting for to be added to War Thunder).
In all truth, some Cold War vehicles fit in with the World War Two asthenic and work well with it, for example the early IS series tanks or the M41 in the American tech tree Aside from those examples I wholeheartedly agree
BTR-ZD. PT-76B. M42. M103. Kugelblitz. BTR-152A. ASU-85. ASU-57. G6. Type 75. Sub-I-II. ZSD63, M26A1, pretty much every French post-war tank for about a decade. ZSU-57-2, pretty much every Swiss TD below 7.0 that’s post-war. Would you like me to add some more?
The Tornado IDS variants in the tech tree are 11.3, but the event IDS is still 10.7 because it has no GBUs. Gaijin, GBUs do not affect air battles, so why is my Tornado IDS still 11.3 in air battles?
@@milkelangelo1 And that's stupid. Why would I want to play an 11.3 plane which is 10.7 somewhere else? Why is it 11.3 due to purely air-to-ground ordnance? Why does that also apply to air battles? It makes no sense.
What are you gonna do about it? I also think mixed battles should have a separate br from air, but it's not like we can make the change. Besides, the 10.7 one is from an event, meaning you either got it by playing enough during the event, or you gotta pay it (as well as find as seller), and we all know that paid stuff is designed to generally do better
Personal opinion on the Tornado: Having worked on it irl im pretty pleased, yes, genuenly surpised on how well its outer appearance and cockpit is modeled. In game, i only own the Naval Tornado, wich btw. carried the same armaments as the ASSTA 1, so GBU bombs should be available. It only differed in the ability to carry AS.34 Kormoran missiles. Those are my biggest thing i have to be picky about, the missiles would need a fair bit of work. Their flight path is unlike described by the german military in their videos about the tornado on their official YT channel, also they always aim for the super structure so the only way to hit components is shooting them from top down, instead of shooting them flying low from kilometers away, casue they would fly over the ship. Besides that, im pleased with the imroved flight perfrmance with the latest patch, well done, it doesnt rip as fast anymore. Im kinda missing the terain following autopilot feature, but besides tat, it does what i needs to do wonderfdully, and that is being a bomber and bomb things. Spaded it in a few days doing base bombing and ground pounding in WT. To kep it short, it needs some work still, with armament and flight perfromance/characteristics, but it has been wonderfully implimented and im very happy and would like to thank the developers for giving germany a plane type that was needed. Thank you
Gotta say, I love the Tornado, and the idea of it being present in the game, along the F-16, always hyped me. And now it's here! Can't wait to (maybe?) see the ADV variant as well: some define it as the "Tomcat with no Phoenix".
The tornados thrust revers should work in the air as it is connected to the ground safety switch. Moreover shouldn’t the thrust revers and airbreaks work at the same time as the reverser would blow into the now open air breaks and damage it, so there is a safety switch as well or better said the airbreak retreats automatically
Flying the IL-2? NO WAY! I have standards (+there was only 2 of them in the game when I started to play so I never unlocked the rest). And for the Tornado ... I'd say it arrived too late, and it makes DoA. Germany and the British already had a plane for its role, and I rarely see Italian things in top tier, and all are easy targets in air RB. I like the plane it self tough, I even had a British one as a toy as a kid.
Q: Why does the leopard 1a5no launch four of its eight smoke grenades at a time and not two like the leopard 2s or the leopard a1a1 L/44 could you please fix it just for the sake of saving the few smoke grenades you have
I've grinded the entire British tech tree on another account but had to get ride of it because of hacking reasons, but anyway how can I get back up to British top tier quickly on my Spino7095 on my new account and I have the Sea Harrier. If I can get the Harrier GR7(I already had the Harrier GR7 on my other account before it got hacked) that would be helpful. Thank you Gaijin and see next week.
Q: now when there has been a lot of new vehicles for all nations, are you planning on remaking/updating the "climbing the ranks" series to include the new machines
¿Will Italy receive in the near future the Oto Melara Draco 76mm spaa? It's almost equal to the OTOMATIC since both have the same gun but i think it would be nice to have something merely better for the italians even if it's only better in movility.
@@izanagisburden1080 haven't had any issues with the MiG-23Maf yet, but I guess that is down to the high wing loading on the Tornado, though the rolling overload is still annoying.
What do we think of the tornado? Really cool but DOA and terribly implemented. It was nerfed 3 times before release and the flight model is abysmal. The ADV can rectify some issues but should already have been in game. She is such a cool jet it's sad
Q: for tanks with 2 loaders, if 1 of them dies, how does it affect the reload rate? And tanks without a loader, do they simply never lose any loading time even if some crews die?
If it's an auto loader they don't lose any loading time even if you lose some crew. If 1 loader dies loading time is reset and loading is increased by a lot. If no loader can be replaced by let's say the commander then I believe it is doubled and if there is a replacement there is a smaller but still noticeable penalty.
hello war thunder we are a community where our pc ran war thunder but due to the constant updates war thunder no longer works on our pc so we ask you if you can make a war thunder lite or optimize it. thank you
Tornado have not the correct CM dispensing system holds its back. 56 big caliber flares together with its minutes of continuous chaff deployment would be perfect. I think we should get a mechanic switch to start continuous chaff release.
@@ChengLegend almost all of Czechia's indigenous designs are APCs, and their actual tanks are all soviet modernizations. during the cold war they used soviet tanks, and in WW2 they used german ones. they have very little in terms of tanks designed and made in Czevhoslovakia/Czechia worth adding. it would basically be a german tech tree until rank 3 and a soviet one to top tier with some custom modernizations.
you can watch Oxy's american tech tree series and the episode with your preferred tier to find out what vehicles are worth using. he does a very good job at explaining the use of each tank.
Yes it is, there is no impossible to evade missile in game, as much as you are aware of the missile and you know how to do it you can without problems, there are many tutorials on TH-cam about it.
@@MCP2002 they did change the german tornado engines, but i think it's more for accuracy then balance, since britain has even worse engines, and the difference is just a couple kilonewtons anyways
Gaijin I would like to ask a question. How come some times tanks with little armor bounce massive caliber shells? I had a game where a t 50 bounced my shell when I was using a Emil at close range (128mm gun)
War thunder can you add a training mod like the test viecel where we can play againts ai tank or aircraft or ship to train to get better whith no rewords...pls
Q: Will the Tornado, F-16, and MiG-29 receive more flight model updates to increase their maneuverability and stability at certain speeds?
The problem with the Tornado, in particular, is the weird flight model. In realistic and Full-real controls, the plane does wacky things that other jets do not, and in mouse-aim or simplified, the instructor restricts the maneuverability so much, that the plane struggles to do anything other than roll and try to force reversals when defending itself.
If you want that you gotta leak some documents
@@chiefturion7134 ill get to it
@@chiefturion7134 I don’t have the clearance xd. One other change that I’d like to be made to the F-16, and inverse for the MiG-29 is the low-speed handling. The F-16 should be worse at those speeds than the 29, and be able to be rated with by the swing-wings, while the MiG-29 is supposed to be the one that locks up more at high speeds and gets one-circled easily. Gaijin did the reverse with the flight models lol
@@kommandantkillcode just like how they shaped the damage model shot for the su-25 and the a10
@@flyingtiger0506 The Su-25 and A-10s are both supposed to be survivable. The A-10 is the only one that isn’t currently, but all Gaijin can really do is make the health of the tail and wings better because all of the flight control wires are considered as one unit for disabling, and that’s how it is on every aircraft.
Q: Will wing vapor effects be added to jets?
the closest thing we have is the supersonic vapor cone
I hope this will be added soon
minus 10fps lol (doesnt matter when already 100+)
@@karantikoo9302 ?
Me to I want it so bad just make it optional if players complain
Q. Why do you not allow players to change their game account emails? The game is over ten years old and bearing in mind that it has a 12 rating means that people will have changed or lost their emails or even used their parents emails to sign up for it.
As somebody who did that when they were twelve I can confirm it is frustrating
You can, I don’t removed exactly how I did it, but I made an account with a school email and I changed it to a personal one. You just have not looked hard enough I guess?
its under settings within your account, its relatively easy to find online as well.
This is exactly what happened to me. I had lost my accoutn for about a year because of this. However, if you contact support, they can add an email to your account.
there's an option for that if you check you account in gaijin's website, if you lost access or forgot the email you can contact support and describe your problem
Fun fact: the first new steam locomotive in the United Kingdom since 1960, the Peppercorn A1 class no. 60163, is named Tornado, after the plane.
Will we see electronic countermeasures in the future?
By what definition is the Tornado a third gen fighter? Both the Air Power Development Centre and Aerospaceweb (by far the most common definition schemes) consider it a gen 4, though perhaps not a great one
Excellent episode. Loving the Tornadoes in-game, too. ❤
Regarding strike aircraft (and this is something myself and others have asked many times before), when are you going to correct the Ki-102 Otsu's combat designation as "Strike Aircraft" as well as give it it's missing armament? It's currently designated as "Interceptor". The Ko model is the interceptor variant (which we're still waiting for to be added to War Thunder).
Q: When will we get our F-111 Ardvark or the F-102?
Q: Will the M4A3 be receiving a dozerblade mod? (I's historical accurate)
1:57... wow I dont know if Tornado in game can do that sharp turn :v
whoever made the intro for the shooting range should get a massive raise
Cold war tanks should never face ww2 tanks change my mind.
In all truth, some Cold War vehicles fit in with the World War Two asthenic and work well with it, for example the early IS series tanks or the M41 in the American tech tree
Aside from those examples I wholeheartedly agree
Tiger 2 vs tanks with stabilizers is broken
Bro your telling me USA 7.0-8.0 is a fuckin nightmare when it gets up tiered.
Well, T55s faced of M4 Shermans in Israel and India. So, meh.
BTR-ZD. PT-76B. M42. M103. Kugelblitz. BTR-152A. ASU-85. ASU-57. G6. Type 75. Sub-I-II. ZSD63, M26A1, pretty much every French post-war tank for about a decade. ZSU-57-2, pretty much every Swiss TD below 7.0 that’s post-war. Would you like me to add some more?
The Tornado IDS variants in the tech tree are 11.3, but the event IDS is still 10.7 because it has no GBUs. Gaijin, GBUs do not affect air battles, so why is my Tornado IDS still 11.3 in air battles?
because the br is unified for air and mixed battles
@@milkelangelo1 And that's stupid. Why would I want to play an 11.3 plane which is 10.7 somewhere else? Why is it 11.3 due to purely air-to-ground ordnance? Why does that also apply to air battles? It makes no sense.
What are you gonna do about it? I also think mixed battles should have a separate br from air, but it's not like we can make the change.
Besides, the 10.7 one is from an event, meaning you either got it by playing enough during the event, or you gotta pay it (as well as find as seller), and we all know that paid stuff is designed to generally do better
Personal opinion on the Tornado:
Having worked on it irl im pretty pleased, yes, genuenly surpised on how well its outer appearance and cockpit is modeled.
In game, i only own the Naval Tornado, wich btw. carried the same armaments as the ASSTA 1, so GBU bombs should be available.
It only differed in the ability to carry AS.34 Kormoran missiles.
Those are my biggest thing i have to be picky about, the missiles would need a fair bit of work.
Their flight path is unlike described by the german military in their videos about the tornado on their official YT channel, also they always aim for the super structure so the only way to hit components is shooting them from top down, instead of shooting them flying low from kilometers away, casue they would fly over the ship.
Besides that, im pleased with the imroved flight perfrmance with the latest patch, well done, it doesnt rip as fast anymore.
Im kinda missing the terain following autopilot feature, but besides tat, it does what i needs to do wonderfdully, and that is being a bomber and bomb things.
Spaded it in a few days doing base bombing and ground pounding in WT.
To kep it short, it needs some work still, with armament and flight perfromance/characteristics, but it has been wonderfully implimented and im very happy and would like to thank the developers for giving germany a plane type that was needed.
Thank you
The Komorans can also do limited ground attack with the radar, right?
Gotta say, I love the Tornado, and the idea of it being present in the game, along the F-16, always hyped me. And now it's here! Can't wait to (maybe?) see the ADV variant as well: some define it as the "Tomcat with no Phoenix".
The ADV was confirmed by gaijin when the IDS was announced, it was in the discussion on the page of the ids.
@@ace_fighter8850 is that so? Interesting...
When can we have some balancing for planes in ground battles? Something like limiting the amout of planes per team so its not 1 tank with 8 aircraft?
Have you done a P-51 triathlon?
The tornados thrust revers should work in the air as it is connected to the ground safety switch. Moreover shouldn’t the thrust revers and airbreaks work at the same time as the reverser would blow into the now open air breaks and damage it, so there is a safety switch as well or better said the airbreak retreats automatically
As an italian i appriciate to be here
Flying the IL-2? NO WAY! I have standards (+there was only 2 of them in the game when I started to play so I never unlocked the rest).
And for the Tornado ... I'd say it arrived too late, and it makes DoA. Germany and the British already had a plane for its role, and I rarely see Italian things in top tier, and all are easy targets in air RB. I like the plane it self tough, I even had a British one as a toy as a kid.
Loooool what a lie, the amount of amazing replays I’ve had and not 1
Question: when will we get the modern hungarian army's insignia?
Q: Are we going to get an SP option for custom battles? So players could use the attack drones and the nuke plane.
tornado suffers at 11.3
Q: Why does the leopard 1a5no launch four of its eight smoke grenades at a time and not two like the leopard 2s or the leopard a1a1 L/44 could you please fix it just for the sake of saving the few smoke grenades you have
What about the event tornado?
I've grinded the entire British tech tree on another account but had to get ride of it because of hacking reasons, but anyway how can I get back up to British top tier quickly on my Spino7095 on my new account and I have the Sea Harrier. If I can get the Harrier GR7(I already had the Harrier GR7 on my other account before it got hacked) that would be helpful. Thank you Gaijin and see next week.
Hey Gaijin will you guys ever add nukes to custom games (like and option to enable/disable)
Looking forward to unlocking jets!
Q: now when there has been a lot of new vehicles for all nations, are you planning on remaking/updating the "climbing the ranks" series to include the new machines
Q: when ar.34 kormoran will work like it should?
When will the World war Event make it return? It was a ton of fun last time.
¿Will Italy receive in the near future the Oto Melara Draco 76mm spaa? It's almost equal to the OTOMATIC since both have the same gun but i think it would be nice to have something merely better for the italians even if it's only better in movility.
I miss the old dude voice actor
I am a war thunder player that had to sell my Xbox to buy a Nintendo switch. Will war thunder ever be on Nintendo switch
Q: Is there a place for direct fire capable mortar vehicles (such as Patria AMV with NEMO or AMOS turret) in war thunder?
the Tornado experience: snaps wings instantly at the smallest roll or negative G load
that might be the variable wing that usually rips when fully or semi extended, happends with all planes who uses the variable wing
@@izanagisburden1080 haven't had any issues with the MiG-23Maf yet, but I guess that is down to the high wing loading on the Tornado, though the rolling overload is still annoying.
also the tornado experience: returns home with almost no wings
Q: Why is the Maus a higher BR than the leopard 1 and when will ejection seats be introduced to war thunder?
I think they should both be 7.7, just because most 6.3s can’t do anything to the Maus, and the Leopard honestly is just 7.7 worthy.
Maus is a POS to balance
Lower and nothing can kill it
Higher and it dies instantly
What do we think of the tornado? Really cool but DOA and terribly implemented. It was nerfed 3 times before release and the flight model is abysmal. The ADV can rectify some issues but should already have been in game. She is such a cool jet it's sad
Will we see an expansion of the ground destruction physics, like dynamic craters on both dirt and concrete/road? because we only have it for dirt
Q: for tanks with 2 loaders, if 1 of them dies, how does it affect the reload rate? And tanks without a loader, do they simply never lose any loading time even if some crews die?
If it's an auto loader they don't lose any loading time even if you lose some crew. If 1 loader dies loading time is reset and loading is increased by a lot. If no loader can be replaced by let's say the commander then I believe it is doubled and if there is a replacement there is a smaller but still noticeable penalty.
Q: Have there ever been plans for collab events with other games (ex: Ace Combat or Call of Duty)?
I'm pretty sure te Tornado is a 4th generation jet aircraft, but still, cool insight as always
hello war thunder we are a community where our pc ran war thunder but due to the constant updates war thunder no longer works on our pc so we ask you if you can make a war thunder lite or optimize it. thank you
6:03 mind - blown
Can the British Tornado have the correct Mk103 engines?
No
Will you guys add Mid air Refueling for modern Jets?
Tornado is (not) cool and all but can germany get a real rank 8 plane?
We should’ve gotten the MIG-29 but gaijin said no only USSR
@@mangoiseh2914 the east german mig 21 is good, but east german mig29 is better
@@karantikoo9302 yeah I’m a German main and the BIS can be good
F-4F ICE with AMRAAM
Q: Could you add the Eurofighter Typhoon to the German, British and Italian tech tree?
THEY NEED TO😂❤🎉😅😊
Q: out of all the variable geometry wing designed aircraft what is the best for dogfighting?
the migs.. mig-23 and 27. then its the tomcat. the tornado needs an area as big as texas to make a 360° turn. su-17/22 are also ok
@@carsamba0055 i'd rather say the tomcat goes first given i've seen ot beat mig-29s
also note that the mig-23 is more maneuverable then the mig-27
@@carsamba0055I'll Bet This dude Has never Experienced Top Air battle.
Big boy guns
Q: wich Is the best tactic for tanks like the STRV 121?
Tornado have not the correct CM dispensing system holds its back.
56 big caliber flares together with its minutes of continuous chaff deployment would be perfect.
I think we should get a mechanic switch to start continuous chaff release.
Q: Is there a possibility of adding Czechoslovakia tech tree, it would be awesome.
It would literally be a copy paste tech tree, it would look like the chinese air tree but even the end wouldn't have good tanks lol
@@lexonfors Czechia had many good aircraft and tanks
@@lexonfors If they added Israel, they could add this
You may get a few event or battlepass vehicles, but a whole tech tree is a stretch tbh.
@@ChengLegend almost all of Czechia's indigenous designs are APCs, and their actual tanks are all soviet modernizations.
during the cold war they used soviet tanks, and in WW2 they used german ones.
they have very little in terms of tanks designed and made in Czevhoslovakia/Czechia worth adding.
it would basically be a german tech tree until rank 3 and a soviet one to top tier with some custom modernizations.
I saw the black nose cone and thought we were getting the Foxbat finally.
Someday
nerd: EXCUSE ME THE TOILETS ARE FOR DISPLAY
me: 1:39
i'm obsessed with this but... war thunder edge will be released in this month or not? cant wait to play
Q: when F-111 please I want the aardvark
german mig29 when
Q: Can Naval Radar track the AS.34 Kormoran missiles? Can you shoot them down?
Q:Will you remake/remaster maps or vehicles? Sorta like the He 111 cockpit update
They remade the jagdpanther in one of the recent updates, if that counts
Q: when will the volumes of ground and air tracks be released
The Tornado is fine. I'd personally just like the Gr 4 to be added. 😉😉🇬🇧🛩️👍🏻
Don’t think they’ll add asraams
Q: does the artillery just spawn above you or does it fire from somewhere
Q. Will germany get their version of the MiG 29 in tye next major update or will it be left lacking in the air to air department?
I’m pretty sure it was shown in the dev stream.
Will high air drag bombs like the snake eye ever be added?
When can we have the su/isu 152 in metal beasts???
Q: how does changing the angle of your wings effect your plane?
low angle=higher drag but higher maneuverability
high angle=lower drag but lower maneuverability
"Laser guided to be precise" (2:15) Eurgh ew
(Week 31 of asking)
Could we get a segment/video on the Soviet SB-2/Ar-2 bomber family?
If I land a helicopter on a captured zone can I replenish rockets/ammo?
Up the F-14 br and Ej Kai doesn't deserve 11.7 while it being a 3rd gen while some 4th gens are 11.3.
Submarine and playable carriers it will implement some day in the game?
G: hey gaijin, can you tell me if the 75mm planes where effective and where they used
Yay
q: what is the best american mid tear tank?
you can watch Oxy's american tech tree series and the episode with your preferred tier to find out what vehicles are worth using.
he does a very good job at explaining the use of each tank.
Did British Tornado has an ALARM anti-radiation missiles with two attack modes implemented in missile?
Q: will there be a million subscriber special of some sort seeing as the channel has quickly grown past 900 thousand subs already?
What would happen if a open top vehicle shot a wall with HE beside it? Would the crew die?
Q : Is it possible to evade guided Air to Air or Land to Air missiles?
Yes it is, there is no impossible to evade missile in game, as much as you are aware of the missile and you know how to do it you can without problems, there are many tutorials on TH-cam about it.
Why is the German IDS being highlighted as the most powerful Tornado when you are reducing the engine power to be inline with the other Tornados?
videos on yt probably refer to the Marineflieger, because it is at 10.7
@@milkelangelo1 No, I saw a note saying the German tt Tornado was getting its eng power reduced to be inline with the other tt tornados.
@@MCP2002 they did change the german tornado engines, but i think it's more for accuracy then balance, since britain has even worse engines, and the difference is just a couple kilonewtons anyways
Q: can you please give a dozer Blade on the Sherman
can you please do an explanation on how to drop bombs so you can hit ground targets becouse im realy bad at that
Q: does the PAPI lights actually works?
Make a short about the Chinese "spy" balloon please
Will you ever add the Iowa class battleships and if you do will there be different skins from BB-61 to BB-64? (Iowa and Wisconsin)
are you planning to add the br of x.5?
Q: hey war thunder have you ever considered adding the CAC-15 kangaroo to game
Gaijin I would like to ask a question. How come some times tanks with little armor bounce massive caliber shells? I had a game where a t 50 bounced my shell when I was using a Emil at close range (128mm gun)
Angling
Or in some cases
Jank
Will britian gain another jet like a fighter or will britain players have to wait until 5th gen fighters
i like the event tornado, the regular ones have a too high BR and always faces the F-16, F-14 and the Mig-29 which makes it horrible
If I keep one bomb on a wing, does rolling is affected?
Do you guy stil read comments from older videos? And will there be any dutch vehicle in the game?
Jas 39 gripen soon?
Does gaijin have a eta on if the F 111 aardvark will come to war thunder
War thunder can you add a training mod like the test viecel where we can play againts ai tank or aircraft or ship to train to get better whith no rewords...pls
Q: I’m pretty sure the Mirage 2000 had a G limiter ingame, but it was removed when it came to the live server, can you do the same for the F-16?
The F-16 in real life does have a G limiter (or more precisely, an AoA limiter)
@@milkelangelo1 so than Ingame it should be an AOA limiter, not a G Force one.
@@mujtam and it is
Q: Are you planning on adding a Balkan/Yugoslavia nation to War Thunder?
When you gonna add cluster bombs on to the Tornado Gaijin?
Q: why didn't you taik about the tornado IDS in the video. Ik its a anti ship fighter but its still part of the family. (even though you show it)
Q: can you add the pbv 501