I stare at the planes in the hangar to much and this time I wanted to list all the planes with cannons bigger than 40mm. I hope I got all of them. 3% off Gaijin Store and you get my decal too store.gaijin.net/catalog.php?category=WarThunder&partner=IronArmenian&partner_val=u5g16ff2
Under the 40mm cannon requirement (by half), an honorary mention of:.. The He 112 A-O! It does not have a very large cannon, however, for its Battle Rating of 1.7, and armour piercing of around 30-35mm where you would actually be fighting things, it hits hard. It also has great maneuvre-ability and speed, making it quite fun for Ground Realistic Mode.
@@angelapolinar5343 Ik. My comment wsa unrelated to the P.108, and was just an interjection. Also I glanced through the original comment somewhat briefly, so I apologize if my response feels out of place.
I miss an old game called heroes in the sky. It’s a WW2 air combat MMO and you can choose which weapons/upgrade you want to use, even had a public lobby you can move around, interact and trade weapon drops with people. Kinda sad there’s not a bigger audience
One of the most versatile planes around tbh. I just wish you could swap them out while in a match. Before they added AP to the Yak-9 45mms, the 37mm was the best for ground pounding but now the 45mm is king.
The P 108 is the only plane that can be ammo racked. Its ammo stowage for the 102mm can be destroyed. It doesnt detonate however. Just removes all your remaining ammo.
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs yeah, besides, those gun sizes aren’t abnormally large, just large. The bare minimum gun size for planes before it’s just way too much you could say.
The P.108 A NEEDS it’s ballistics computer. Although none of the specs remain, the plane itself is useless in game in air, ground, or naval as a whole. Giving the gun the ability to use its range and velocity with relative accuracy via ballistics computer would make it choice for precision strikes.
I wanted to love the P.108 but it is a sheer meme even in coastal navy battles, barely able to hit slow moving targets from distance that is safe from AAA MGs, which are enough to cripple the plane quickly with the BS AI aiming that is still present in the naval mode. Any hits scored were devastating though, and could often one-shot a naval craft.
For destroying ground targets in Air EC it's quite alright. Has enough ammo and punch to make up for the chonky flight characteristics. Also has capable defensive armament. But yeah in other gamemodes I wouldn't play it.
6:58 That’s probably mostly thanks to the size of yak engines. The m-105s are absolute beasts of engines and their shafts must be absolutely ginormous too.
It should be a strike aircraft. The T18s were torpedo attackers but the standard one fits better as a bomber in terms of its ordnance. But the 57mm one should in no way be considered a bomber, especially since they made it a separate variant (irl the gun was just an ordnance option that could be installed in like an hour).
It's crazy how quickly aircraft armaments scaled up. In WWI there were a handful of planes that had a 20mm cannon and they used them much like these WWII aircraft use their 50mm+ guns.
Fun fact about the p.108a If you bring this baby into naval and load HE shells then target destroyer torpedoes, guns and superstructures you can take out large ships by setting them on fire, ive actually managed to sink a sendai light cruiser with this strategy
The Duck is honestly better with HE for ground pounding at 2.0. Just search for open tops and armored cars. Probably apply to the other big gun planes that are at a br with a lot of open tops.
Always wondered: 1)how good would be a hybrid of Grizzly and "Duck"? At least it'll have real engines. And some explosive filler. 2)NS-45 loaded with minengeshoss rounds; 3)what if ShKAS was chambered in german 13x81mm as both it and MG-131 were designed to maximise firepower in dimensions of normal rifle caliber machinegun.
The P.108A's reload might be slow, but it's fast for the caliber, and even faster than it used to be (went from 5sec down to 3sec reload). It's also great at not killing what you hit :D I have a love hate relationship with that plane
You forgot the Tu-1s. It has 2 45mm Cannons with full APHE Belts and can carry additional 3 1000kg bombs. I'm so glad that I bought it in the last 50% sale.
Kind of understand 40mm is not on the list. But there's one plane that's so odd I have to mention. British event vehicle Beaufighter Mk I/40, which is the Beaufighter but have and only have 40mm cannons. It has 2x 40mm cannons, but they are different cannons. Each cannon have different clip size, different firing rate, even different shell speeds.
Another plane that is under the 40mm but fits this vid is the FC.20 Bis in the Italian tree. It's only a 37mm, but it is at 2.0, so it is just insane at ground pounding.
very nice! About the 129, i read the recoil was so great, it caused flights to be unstable, needing the gun to be jettisoned. but the Tempest, if i may say/ask, can the Ju 87 G-1 be counted as this, considering its cannons were of a similar design?
Sadly the Ju 87 G-1 uses twin 37mm guns so I didn't include it on this list. I find it interesting that IRL the G-1 only had 4 shots from each cannon but the WT Devs where generous and gave it more. Off the top of my head I think it's 12 per cannon.
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs The major difference between the G-1 and G-2 was the increased ammo capacity to 12 rounds per gun, but in War Thunder they both have the same capacity
Damn no mention of the 37mm Gunpods Stuka? One of the few planes on this list that would have actually seen somewhat widespread use in WW2, as opposed to prototypes or rarer planes...
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You couldnt have went 3mm lower and included 37s? I suppose that would probably double the length of the list but still, would have been funny seeing the double 37 stuka, thats got quite a bit of kick
On purpose I made the choice to exclude 37mm and 40mm. If I include them the video would be very long :) I am thinking about doing a dedicated video just for that size maybe
Also, not technically guns as they're pretty much just grenade launchers, but one of the premium Ki-44s has two 40mm "guns". Also Britain has the Hurricane with the 40mm gun pods.
I think the BIGE GUN planes are pretty neat, but playing them is kinda.... ehhhh.... since half of them just don't have tracer ammunition -- the worst ones are the japanese interceptors, they feel IMPOSSIBLE to aim.
You appear to have missed the cannon stuka's and Bf 110 G-2 for Germany, the Beaufighter mk.1 with twin 40s or Britain and the Tu-1 and Tis Ma for USSR
I stare at the planes in the hangar to much and this time I wanted to list all the planes with cannons bigger than 40mm. I hope I got all of them. 3% off Gaijin Store and you get my decal too store.gaijin.net/catalog.php?category=WarThunder&partner=IronArmenian&partner_val=u5g16ff2
You missed the premium japanese Ki-84 with the 2 40mms at 3.0
Where Chinese KI-43 Hei-Tei w/ 75mm as well as the interesting Schräge Musik?
Under the 40mm cannon requirement (by half), an honorary mention of:.. The He 112 A-O! It does not have a very large cannon, however, for its Battle Rating of 1.7, and armour piercing of around 30-35mm where you would actually be fighting things, it hits hard. It also has great maneuvre-ability and speed, making it quite fun for Ground Realistic Mode.
"Oh you served in ww2? What did you do?"
"I loaded the 102mm Canon"
"Oh cool, so the army?"
"Nope we shot at ships"
"So the navy?"
"Still no..."
I mean the PBJ-1H was a Navy aircraft, so it does still kind of work to say Navy lol
@@Dumbrarere That's the P.108
@@angelapolinar5343 Ik. My comment wsa unrelated to the P.108, and was just an interjection. Also I glanced through the original comment somewhat briefly, so I apologize if my response feels out of place.
The Yak-9UT can switch between 2 20mm guns and a 23mm to a 37mm with a 20mm and than a 45mm gun with a 20mm I just thought I’d like to point that out
Oh dang, I missed that one. Thank you for sharing 😀
@ yeah np, I’m glad I’ve been with this channel since 2017 lol
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs best Yak imo too very good even when stock
I miss an old game called heroes in the sky. It’s a WW2 air combat MMO and you can choose which weapons/upgrade you want to use, even had a public lobby you can move around, interact and trade weapon drops with people. Kinda sad there’s not a bigger audience
One of the most versatile planes around tbh. I just wish you could swap them out while in a match. Before they added AP to the Yak-9 45mms, the 37mm was the best for ground pounding but now the 45mm is king.
The P 108 is the only plane that can be ammo racked. Its ammo stowage for the 102mm can be destroyed. It doesnt detonate however. Just removes all your remaining ammo.
That's a pretty niche fact :)
Nice to see planes getting preferential treatment
I know it's technically only 40mm so it doesn't count but the british hurrcane mark IV with his recoil kinda fits the niche
I was worried that adding planes with 40mm would blow up the list 😆.
Loads of 40mm and 37mm planes
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs yeah, besides, those gun sizes aren’t abnormally large, just large. The bare minimum gun size for planes before it’s just way too much you could say.
that thing is unholy when used against planes, if you know where to aim you can one shot anything with high explosive rounds
@@Rorywizz The Hurricane MK IV is a hidden nightmare at low BR, absolutely dominates everything it lands its aim at with its 37mm cannons
@thesaul9484 Definitely, I used it all the time when I was still new in Air Arcade and it was by far the most fun plane to use
Where's the Tu-1 and TIS-MA, they both can equip the 45mm guns
The P.108 A NEEDS it’s ballistics computer. Although none of the specs remain, the plane itself is useless in game in air, ground, or naval as a whole. Giving the gun the ability to use its range and velocity with relative accuracy via ballistics computer would make it choice for precision strikes.
I wanted to love the P.108 but it is a sheer meme even in coastal navy battles, barely able to hit slow moving targets from distance that is safe from AAA MGs, which are enough to cripple the plane quickly with the BS AI aiming that is still present in the naval mode. Any hits scored were devastating though, and could often one-shot a naval craft.
Tried that thing in all gamemodes and can't agree more it feels useless, is awkwark to move and aim EVEN in arcade
@@tezbertzero1915 yeah - my experience is only from AB.
For destroying ground targets in Air EC it's quite alright. Has enough ammo and punch to make up for the chonky flight characteristics. Also has capable defensive armament. But yeah in other gamemodes I wouldn't play it.
"Underpowered" is a massive understatement for the duck. You'd think it was powered by an outboard motor with how sluggish it is
6:58 That’s probably mostly thanks to the size of yak engines. The m-105s are absolute beasts of engines and their shafts must be absolutely ginormous too.
Ahhh yes the T18B my beloved ̶𝙞̶𝙣̶𝙩̶𝙚̶𝙧̶𝙘̶𝙚̶𝙥̶𝙩̶𝙤̶𝙧̶ bomber
So much Daka, shame the 20mm and the 57 both fire at the same time.
It should be a strike aircraft.
The T18s were torpedo attackers but the standard one fits better as a bomber in terms of its ordnance.
But the 57mm one should in no way be considered a bomber, especially since they made it a separate variant (irl the gun was just an ordnance option that could be installed in like an hour).
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs you can fix that if you want to have 3 fire buttons...
I thought you could only have 2 fire buttons. Light and heavy. Didn't know you can bind a 3rd button. 😁
Ah yes, B18/T18, my favourite *-dogfighter-* bomber series
I love the XA-38, it looks so good.
I also didn't know there were any planes with a gun larger than it.
The cockpit of the XA-38 is so cool too
It's crazy how quickly aircraft armaments scaled up. In WWI there were a handful of planes that had a 20mm cannon and they used them much like these WWII aircraft use their 50mm+ guns.
Big gun go thump!
Bigger gun go thunk!
Biggest gun make your soul go boom!
TIS-MA is the most OP CAS at the moment.
Iron doesn’t play the game he just looks at planes in the hangar
For real, you know when your hanging out in Voice Chat and your just vibing. Thats a great time to stare at planes without playing :D
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs FR, that and test driving random planes. It would be great if we could test drive any vehicle in the game...
In 10 years I have more hours out of matches than in them.
@@larxxral and it would be similarly great if we could test drive on more maps, and if he could add more enemies
Fun fact about the p.108a
If you bring this baby into naval and load HE shells then target destroyer torpedoes, guns and superstructures you can take out large ships by setting them on fire, ive actually managed to sink a sendai light cruiser with this strategy
Fun HS 129 fact, it has essentially the same engines as the French Br.693AB2
The Duck is honestly better with HE for ground pounding at 2.0.
Just search for open tops and armored cars.
Probably apply to the other big gun planes that are at a br with a lot of open tops.
I mean, the Ki-109 can just aim next to an open top with APHE and kill it, it has enough explosive mass to do so.
You missed the Tu-1 and TIS-MA for the USSR
1:50 "give them a surprise"
the 50mm HVAP-T overpenning my fuselage and doing literally nothing:
The XA-38 is my Fav Cannon plane, Thoes .50cal turrets are in GREAT spots
The hs-129 has no right to be this fun of a plane , literally the experience I'd expect from a premium plane, AT 2.0
Always wondered:
1)how good would be a hybrid of Grizzly and "Duck"? At least it'll have real engines. And some explosive filler.
2)NS-45 loaded with minengeshoss rounds;
3)what if ShKAS was chambered in german 13x81mm as both it and MG-131 were designed to maximise firepower in dimensions of normal rifle caliber machinegun.
The P.108A's reload might be slow, but it's fast for the caliber, and even faster than it used to be (went from 5sec down to 3sec reload). It's also great at not killing what you hit :D I have a love hate relationship with that plane
They have the mosquito with the 57 at cosford? Damn now I really need to go
Brilliant! Loved this tutorial
Also back when I still played WT, I used the cannon duck in sim a lot
The T18B has the 57mm displayed at the Swedish airforce museum similarly to the mosquito
I enjoy these new style vids
You forgot the Tu-1s. It has 2 45mm Cannons with full APHE Belts and can carry additional 3 1000kg bombs. I'm so glad that I bought it in the last 50% sale.
The XA-38 also has the same engines that were used in the B-29 meaning you’ll outspeed most at a br of 3.7
Yak-9K my beloved
1:30
Also fondly known as the...what?
Narwhal animal, I assume because it's got a single Tusk on its head
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs Yeah, was kinda hard to understand that word. But narwhal makes a lot of sense, thanks.
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs we also sometimes called it the "Pulkzerstörer" (gl pronouncing that :P)
@@xYoshiLP. Pulkzerstörer is the historically correct name. Narwhal and Duck are fiction War Thunder community names.
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他国が対艇、対地攻撃用に大口径砲を乗せたのに対して最初から爆撃機をぶち落とすつもりで大砲を乗せたキｰ109くん……。
I didn't know about the PBJ-1H.
I have to try that out.
Kind of understand 40mm is not on the list. But there's one plane that's so odd I have to mention.
British event vehicle Beaufighter Mk I/40, which is the Beaufighter but have and only have 40mm cannons. It has 2x 40mm cannons, but they are different cannons. Each cannon have different clip size, different firing rate, even different shell speeds.
Yeah it's so odd 😆
Another plane that is under the 40mm but fits this vid is the FC.20 Bis in the Italian tree. It's only a 37mm, but it is at 2.0, so it is just insane at ground pounding.
rip the event beaufighter with 2 different 40mm guns
Wow, the mosquito has 57mm cannon yet it has 117mm of pen. That is a lot for that caliber! But sadly only AP; so not a lot of damage.
love these kinds of videos! you could do one for unusual designs in naval like the russian boat with 2 t34 85 turrets
I know it's not technically a large cannon, but I think the A-10 deserves an honorable mention for having a gun assembly the size of a VW Beetle.
very nice! About the 129, i read the recoil was so great, it caused flights to be unstable, needing the gun to be jettisoned. but the Tempest, if i may say/ask, can the Ju 87 G-1 be counted as this, considering its cannons were of a similar design?
Sadly the Ju 87 G-1 uses twin 37mm guns so I didn't include it on this list. I find it interesting that IRL the G-1 only had 4 shots from each cannon but the WT Devs where generous and gave it more. Off the top of my head I think it's 12 per cannon.
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs The major difference between the G-1 and G-2 was the increased ammo capacity to 12 rounds per gun, but in War Thunder they both have the same capacity
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs of course, i just meant in concept and yes, its 12 shots
Damn no mention of the 37mm Gunpods Stuka? One of the few planes on this list that would have actually seen somewhat widespread use in WW2, as opposed to prototypes or rarer planes...
The list would have been quite long if you start at 37mm 😅
Haha plane go vroom DAK DAK DAK vroom
yes good
i love the cockpit of the XA-38
Yeah it's so cool, visibility isn't too great though
1:02 thats putting it lightly, no?
Plane 👍
47mm Tempest hold my shot range record at 2.57.
He survived too... -.-
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@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs thank you
We like them big guns
You couldnt have went 3mm lower and included 37s? I suppose that would probably double the length of the list but still, would have been funny seeing the double 37 stuka, thats got quite a bit of kick
On purpose I made the choice to exclude 37mm and 40mm. If I include them the video would be very long :)
I am thinking about doing a dedicated video just for that size maybe
Bonk bonk bonk
I thought there was a us ground attacker with 2 75 mm cannons. Maybe it was the pbj with some researched modifications?
Two 37mm on the first A-26 in America’s tech tree. It only has ~76mm penetration at 5.0, and it is a modification.
U missed the Premium Japanese Ki-44 with 2x 40 mm cannons
"all the planes with cannons bigger than 40mm" ... 40 mm isn't bigger than 40 mm
My beloved didn't make it to the list, the Ju-87 G (both variant) I understand why but still. I'm a bit sad
Yeah, I wanted to exclude 37 and 40mm guns otherwise the list would be very very long
Italy has the bis with the 75mm
No, F.C.20 bis uses a 37 mm gun
I'm kinda sad you didn't mention that the Ki-109 has almost twice the explosive mass of a Russian 122mm in a 75mm gun.
Also, not technically guns as they're pretty much just grenade launchers, but one of the premium Ki-44s has two 40mm "guns". Also Britain has the Hurricane with the 40mm gun pods.
They dont make them like they used to...
why would a cannon overheat in 6 rounds ontop of it being cooled by a shiton of air?
Because Gaijin.
Aircraft missing : Yak-9UT, TIS MA, Tu-1
@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs P.108A serie 2 (Italy) has a 102mm gun
Literally in this video.
@@FirstDagger wow am i an idiot now, i watched the entire thing and i missed it XD.
Where Chinese KI-43 Hei-Tei with the 75mm and Schräge Musik?
Ki-45 hei/tei has a 37 mm gun. "all the planes with cannons bigger than 40mm"
@@FirstDagger Did you even look at it in the Chinese Tech Tree?
@@sebastianyoung4188 Did you? Because you have no clue what you are talking about.
@@FirstDagger Ah yeah nvm, just checked - idk why but the gun feels a lot bigger than a 37
I think the BIGE GUN planes are pretty neat, but playing them is kinda.... ehhhh.... since half of them just don't have tracer ammunition -- the worst ones are the japanese interceptors, they feel IMPOSSIBLE to aim.
You forgot to put stuka with double 40-47 mm canonns
I'm pretty sure your thinking of the Ju-87 G-1 and G-2. Which use 37mm guns. I only included larger than 40mm.
The G-1 and G-2 stukas have 37mm cannons
@@TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs my bad
Song name?
A-26B with the options of 1 and/or 2 50mm nose mounted dakkas was forgotten
37s. Didn't meet the criteria. Unless you meant the blueprint brainstorming.
@@bradenhagen7977 Fun fact A-26 with a 75 mm was infact built.
Now we need AC-130 in Warthunder, 105mm Howitzer spitting HE-FRAG with airburst capability.
You appear to have missed the cannon stuka's and Bf 110 G-2 for Germany, the Beaufighter mk.1 with twin 40s or Britain and the Tu-1 and Tis Ma for USSR
It appears you have missed this important part "all the planes with cannons bigger than 40mm"
How do you feel about Azerbaijan
tu1
Yak 9 wins. Sorry for this useless planes. XD
Great video!
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