@@sayhellotoyou9271Yesterday I ran out of ammo in my alpha jet and shot down a swift F.7 with a mighty mouse lol, but I didn't get any achievement sadly
I'm sure if I unloaded a bunch of S-8K rockets at a plane in the Su-7BKL, I *might* be able to get a kill. But getting a kill with unguided rockets, even purpose-built A2A ones is fiendishly difficult.
@@paint4rthat’s honestly super impressive, the only time I ever shot someone down with rockets is when I was against a bomber in GRB, after I already damaged it, I was at a super low BR so my guns didn’t do that much, it was leaking oil but I didn’t want to wait for the engine to give out so I fired one and it was my best kill so far, even if they weren’t really maneuvering
I had a rough time with the A-4B at the beginning, but after surrendering the bomber role & accepting being a support rather than mainline fighter, it started to shine. always fun putting on the anti-submarine carrier livery and roleplaying as a historical ersatz fighter screen for the tiny converted USS Kearsarge with two 9Bs
The first jet I actually started having fun with. Massive improvement over F80 and F84s, and you start getting a taste of missiles with the 9B's too Cannon pods are ridiculous. Centre line one always wins head ons. Or have one on each wing and use for strafing - easy way to get antimech medals
"With loadout, this thing is seriously underpowered" "Without weapon load, it's a totally different aircraft" That's what happened when an aircraft can carry payload almost as heavy as the entire plane's empty weight itself.
The A-4 even without load is a bit of a bus. It not having afterburner makes it painful to face jets that can maintain their energy well unless you can shoot them down within 1 or 2 turns.
@@RedTail1-1 Even though they could implement them. There's sometimes where another player messes up and it gives credit to the nearest person. Don't know why sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't
Gaijin seriously needs to take another look at air spawns. They should be based on loadout, not aircraft, especially in this BR range. Putting an A-4 on the runway forces you to either mop up what's left on the ground, and hope no fighters decide to ruin your day, or play as a fighter yourself. I really wish Gaijin didn't hate attackers and bombers, because playing those roles in Air RB could be so much better and more fun if they gave a shit. Look at the poor Buccaneer. Literally no air-to-air weapons, still no air spawn.
An easy fix would be to have 6 enemy bases or have them respawn in 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes. It was even worse spading the A-7E, A-7D, and A-7K flying a subsonic with full payload against jets from the 1970's and 1980's. I had to stay low and go to the side of the map and hope that there's still a base left and if not, then I'd have to loiter for 5 minutes until the respawn
One of my favorite jets in game. The bullpups are great for ground RB, always being a guaranteed kill if aim correctly. Also, the Brazilian livery, IMO, is the best one in game.
G'day Tim, The original video was one of the first I remember watching for your glorious channel (look at how much it has grown). Niche tit bit but the airframes all still have their pre 1962 tri service designations on the tail section, as the A-4B is also the A4D-2 as seen on the aircraft. Say, will you ever do a video on the A-4H?
I’ve said it before on your other Skyhawk videos, but I hope that the snail will add the A-4M as an American analogue to the Israeli A-4N “Ayit” (hope against hope at this point).
@@TimsVariety The AIM-9B locked onto the Sun in that clip. According to the game files, the AIM-9B's minimum angle to the Sun has to be at least 20 degrees to not lock the Sun.
The un-upgraded guns on this thing are so inaccurate it’s mind blowing. Only aircraft in the game where shells seemingly fly off 30° from the point of aim. On top of that record breaking inaccuracy, you can only sustain fire for about 1 second before they jam. Using this aircraft stock is actual torture
Can't wait for the A-4B to get an entirely different flight model and weaponry loadout over night, instantly nullifying this review! Jokes aside, good video as always.
This and all other A4s in-game use to have a unmatched roll rate of 720 deg a sec from a bug report I submitted but it was reversed a month later. When I asked Stona about it he said it was because the engine and mouse controls couldn't handle the fast inputs. ( why the wings would snap so easily despite historically being very structurally strong wings )
Dunno if you've played it much but I'd like a video on either thr MIG-17 or La-200 from the Soviet tech tree. Might be some of my favourite jets I've played so far lol
The A-4B, like its squadron vehicle relative the A-4E Early, works very well with a mixed loadout in air battles. I typically take the gunpod on the centerline, the side winders, and some Zuni Rockets. This does make the aircraft more sluggish, but it gives you huge potential for farming AI air and ground targets without ruining the handling and acceleration. Plus, if you use the weapon selector, you can use the gunpod for the early portions of the match and then retain all or most of the Colt MK12 ammunition for the trip back to rearm. In this way, you can always have at least a last ditch weapon as you return or have extra ammo for mopping up that last ground target or two to change the outcome of a match.
Hey Tim, just a quick suggestion for any future Helicopter reviews you do, try and include the cockpit like you do for aircraft, and maybe even what the MFDs can display if it comes with any.
I don't fly the helis in VR, so I don't have as much to say about heli cockpits as I do aircraft. Compounded when the heli has double-stations, one for the pilot and one for the gunner, that it can cycle through.
Still bums me out the US only gets 2 versions of the Skyhawk, one of them being objectively bad, and the other one no longer as strong as it used to be, all while Israel not only gets the same aircraft, but gets better munitions for them and straight up better versions as well.
More comments for the algorithm.. anyways ive done some research, at least for the F4E you think they should be able to research the 9M and 7M and the missiles before it at a cost of a higher BR once you hit a certain point like 9M cranks it up to 12.0 7M cranks it to 11.7 ETC this would in theory solve the A10 problem by locking the IRCCM and 9Ls behind a massive BR jump thats optional
Cant wait to see all the videos you are gonna make from the devServer that launched 1 hour ago. I need to see the performance of the f117. We did not know it was supposed to be invisible 😏
8:50, why is the cockpit camera in the pilots chest, it's the same issue on the A-10, why is camera placement such an issue for the snail to comprehend.
Funny I was litterally playing this yesterday to finish spading it and you would think you would get constant uptiers in War Thunder seeing how the Gaijin ADs say there are tens of millions of players than why is EVER game an uptier? Such a sad game these days the player base has gotten worse and I remember when this game had quite a few numbers of really good players. I would say this game really went down hill when they started adding premiums at high tier and and Squadron high tier vehicles. Cant wait till this new simulator tank game becomes a lil more popular because its gonna blow WT out the water when it does. Great Video like always Tims Variety I use to luv the FJ and the Ayit is great for Israel but again its just always uptiered so it cant compete fully with other 9.3s but its still great.
Going to make an effort to get it out before the December update, but can't promise a specific ETA - dayjob sometimes gets swamped at the end of the year.
i remember when this cameout i thought it was going to be a jet that would go toe to toe with the MiG-21. (which was top dog back then) oh how naive i was back then
The way this plane looks and moves just screams hotrod! It's a pity the performance isn't quite up to par, but i guess that's what Super Foxes are all about.
I hate this aircraft more than ANY other in the game... You start with just the guns of course. Problem is the guns SUCK. They spray all over the place and do no damage. So you struggle to even pop ground targets. Everyone else is a fighter of course and they all have missiles so... Just absolutely painful.
I'm waiting for the current situation in the middle east to cool off a bit before reviewing any more Israeli vehicles. ...I just don't want to deal with the comment section...
Complete guide for air to ground weapons, which covers MCLOS missiles like the bullpups:
th-cam.com/video/iaDMyKEW5Vc/w-d-xo.html
"the landing gear is a little tall..." Oh c'mon tim it cant be that ba- JESUS CHRIST WHAT IS THIS THING? A NBA ALL-STAR??!?!?
An air to air jet kill with unguided rocket is actually wildly impressive
Guy got the "Unguided" achievement
@@Topo842 Pretty sure its called fire arrows.
@@sayhellotoyou9271Yesterday I ran out of ammo in my alpha jet and shot down a swift F.7 with a mighty mouse lol, but I didn't get any achievement sadly
I'm sure if I unloaded a bunch of S-8K rockets at a plane in the Su-7BKL, I *might* be able to get a kill. But getting a kill with unguided rockets, even purpose-built A2A ones is fiendishly difficult.
@@paint4rthat’s honestly super impressive, the only time I ever shot someone down with rockets is when I was against a bomber in GRB, after I already damaged it, I was at a super low BR so my guns didn’t do that much, it was leaking oil but I didn’t want to wait for the engine to give out so I fired one and it was my best kill so far, even if they weren’t really maneuvering
I had a rough time with the A-4B at the beginning, but after surrendering the bomber role & accepting being a support rather than mainline fighter, it started to shine.
always fun putting on the anti-submarine carrier livery and roleplaying as a historical ersatz fighter screen for the tiny converted USS Kearsarge with two 9Bs
The first jet I actually started having fun with. Massive improvement over F80 and F84s, and you start getting a taste of missiles with the 9B's too
Cannon pods are ridiculous. Centre line one always wins head ons. Or have one on each wing and use for strafing - easy way to get antimech medals
I didn't have time to go into it in this vid, but the cannon pods can really dominate in arcade battles (thanks to the reload).
Yeah. Loved the A4B’s uniqueness and spaded it quickly!
"With loadout, this thing is seriously underpowered"
"Without weapon load, it's a totally different aircraft"
That's what happened when an aircraft can carry payload almost as heavy as the entire plane's empty weight itself.
For real. The A-4 is a fkn truck.
The A-4 even without load is a bit of a bus. It not having afterburner makes it painful to face jets that can maintain their energy well unless you can shoot them down within 1 or 2 turns.
@@mayonotes9849 That br is hit or miss when it comes to afterburners. Most of them get downtiers and I try to avoid a jet that I know has afterburners
Love the a-4 so much! Always gave me "the little naval strike aircraft that could" vibes
i love this little triangle so much
I still remember the original video
I'd like to think my quality/format has improved a bit since the bronze age ;-)
70 years of A-4 in 2024. Present in Ace Combat 2. Ideal fighter to Ace Combat 8.
Still waiting for my Marine A-4M variant, that would be sick
Cheeky lil comment for the algorithm
I’ll join
If you like A-4, and CAS, Israeli A-4E has both Walleyes and GBU-8. At 8.7.
The walleyes really are amazing in that BR range.
Starting my day with a tim vid is 🗿🔥
4:00 great maneuver kill
Too bad maneuver kills are worth exactly 0 RP/SL...
@@RedTail1-1 Even though they could implement them. There's sometimes where another player messes up and it gives credit to the nearest person. Don't know why sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't
@@RedTail1-1 I love how if you J out near someone, they get full kill credit, but if you eat the ground, they get nothing.....
I really love that plane, with him I learned how to use the manual guided ATGMS.
Gaijin seriously needs to take another look at air spawns. They should be based on loadout, not aircraft, especially in this BR range.
Putting an A-4 on the runway forces you to either mop up what's left on the ground, and hope no fighters decide to ruin your day, or play as a fighter yourself.
I really wish Gaijin didn't hate attackers and bombers, because playing those roles in Air RB could be so much better and more fun if they gave a shit.
Look at the poor Buccaneer. Literally no air-to-air weapons, still no air spawn.
An easy fix would be to have 6 enemy bases or have them respawn in 30 seconds instead of 5 minutes. It was even worse spading the A-7E, A-7D, and A-7K flying a subsonic with full payload against jets from the 1970's and 1980's. I had to stay low and go to the side of the map and hope that there's still a base left and if not, then I'd have to loiter for 5 minutes until the respawn
Just bring back during confrontation for RB.
absolute goober of a plane i love it
I believe your original review of this was the first video of yours that I watched and the one that got me to sub :)
Back in the bronze age! :-) o7
In arcade mode, you can pull some crazy maneuvers (kvochur bell, anyone?) and even sustain 20+ G forces. Crazy little thing.
the gunpod reload in arcade is ... a significant buff .... ;-)
One of my favorite jets in game. The bullpups are great for ground RB, always being a guaranteed kill if aim correctly. Also, the Brazilian livery, IMO, is the best one in game.
G'day Tim, The original video was one of the first I remember watching for your glorious channel (look at how much it has grown).
Niche tit bit but the airframes all still have their pre 1962 tri service designations on the tail section, as the A-4B is also the A4D-2 as seen on the aircraft.
Say, will you ever do a video on the A-4H?
I don't think I've covered the H yet.
Killed a Mig-17 with a zuni rocket? Crazy skill by that pilot
Personally I like using the A-4 as a mini F-4 so I always take one gun pod in the middle for extra ammo along with two AIM-9Bs
I’ve said it before on your other Skyhawk videos, but I hope that the snail will add the A-4M as an American analogue to the Israeli A-4N “Ayit” (hope against hope at this point).
7:29 I love this part with the mad man vixen shooting missiles at everything that moves 😂
Man I really love your videos. Keep up the great work man!!
A-4B, my beloved! ❤️
My problem with the a4 and a lot of navy jets is the guns are so inaccurate without the new cannon mod. Pain to grind
That's my problem atm
Yipee this weekend just got better
I'm amused that the 9B at the start couldn't even reach the 28 from that distance in a straight line.
Yeah, thats mostly why I included that clip - really showed the limitations of the 9B even in fairly good situations.
Really gotta use those puppies at 1.8km or less unless you got an alt advantage imo
@@TimsVariety The AIM-9B locked onto the Sun in that clip. According to the game files, the AIM-9B's minimum angle to the Sun has to be at least 20 degrees to not lock the Sun.
this is perfect i was just looking for a video on this plane
As always great job
Great video. Love the Scooter with its 720°/s roll rate.
No carrier landing shown. Literally unwatchable :)
Another incredible video!
Arrestor hook is the carriers on Normandy ground map, you can repair and rear there. I landed there with a sabre
Scooter!!!! :D
The un-upgraded guns on this thing are so inaccurate it’s mind blowing. Only aircraft in the game where shells seemingly fly off 30° from the point of aim. On top of that record breaking inaccuracy, you can only sustain fire for about 1 second before they jam. Using this aircraft stock is actual torture
Can't wait for the A-4B to get an entirely different flight model and weaponry loadout over night, instantly nullifying this review! Jokes aside, good video as always.
This is the best thing I ever saw.
Beautiful little aircraft, great video as always
This and all other A4s in-game use to have a unmatched roll rate of 720 deg a sec from a bug report I submitted but it was reversed a month later. When I asked Stona about it he said it was because the engine and mouse controls couldn't handle the fast inputs. ( why the wings would snap so easily despite historically being very structurally strong wings )
Dunno if you've played it much but I'd like a video on either thr MIG-17 or La-200 from the Soviet tech tree. Might be some of my favourite jets I've played so far lol
I've been stewing on both of those for a couple of months now. Not sure which, but one of them will be in the medium-term.
The A-4B, like its squadron vehicle relative the A-4E Early, works very well with a mixed loadout in air battles. I typically take the gunpod on the centerline, the side winders, and some Zuni Rockets. This does make the aircraft more sluggish, but it gives you huge potential for farming AI air and ground targets without ruining the handling and acceleration. Plus, if you use the weapon selector, you can use the gunpod for the early portions of the match and then retain all or most of the Colt MK12 ammunition for the trip back to rearm. In this way, you can always have at least a last ditch weapon as you return or have extra ammo for mopping up that last ground target or two to change the outcome of a match.
I have a suggestion in forums about giving Strikers and Bombers an airspawn back. So far alot of people voted yes.
*Tom Cruise impression*
Goose! There’s Viper, 3 o’clock low.
Hey Tim, just a quick suggestion for any future Helicopter reviews you do, try and include the cockpit like you do for aircraft, and maybe even what the MFDs can display if it comes with any.
I don't fly the helis in VR, so I don't have as much to say about heli cockpits as I do aircraft. Compounded when the heli has double-stations, one for the pilot and one for the gunner, that it can cycle through.
Great video tim ❤
I sense your bias
One world flying this plane: pain.
Looking kinda cute😁
Still bums me out the US only gets 2 versions of the Skyhawk, one of them being objectively bad, and the other one no longer as strong as it used to be, all while Israel not only gets the same aircraft, but gets better munitions for them and straight up better versions as well.
US foreign policy in a nutshell
@@waynevanhardeveld4707 more like gaijins decisions
Yeah seriously when is gaijin gonna implement aircraft carriers into air rb
They already have, it's only on the Japan maps and low tier.
More comments for the algorithm.. anyways ive done some research, at least for the F4E you think they should be able to research the 9M and 7M and the missiles before it at a cost of a higher BR once you hit a certain point like 9M cranks it up to 12.0 7M cranks it to 11.7 ETC this would in theory solve the A10 problem by locking the IRCCM and 9Ls behind a massive BR jump thats optional
Cant wait to see all the videos you are gonna make from the devServer that launched 1 hour ago. I need to see the performance of the f117. We did not know it was supposed to be invisible 😏
I’m still hoping for the day we get our A-4N
It already is
@@ironpizza5150 I think he means A-4M for the US tree which Israel has as the A-4N in game and reality
8:50, why is the cockpit camera in the pilots chest, it's the same issue on the A-10, why is camera placement such an issue for the snail to comprehend.
Its like that in a number of planes, just an error on the snail's part.
Yaay!
I wish we had the Kahu version.
Literally 2 minutes after it came out
Funny I was litterally playing this yesterday to finish spading it and you would think you would get constant uptiers in War Thunder seeing how the Gaijin ADs say there are tens of millions of players than why is EVER game an uptier? Such a sad game these days the player base has gotten worse and I remember when this game had quite a few numbers of really good players. I would say this game really went down hill when they started adding premiums at high tier and and Squadron high tier vehicles. Cant wait till this new simulator tank game becomes a lil more popular because its gonna blow WT out the water when it does. Great Video like always Tims Variety I use to luv the FJ and the Ayit is great for Israel but again its just always uptiered so it cant compete fully with other 9.3s but its still great.
can you cover the Yak-30D next?
Attack the point!
any news on the a10c vid ? i still dont know how the hmd works on it for ground strike
Going to make an effort to get it out before the December update, but can't promise a specific ETA - dayjob sometimes gets swamped at the end of the year.
This plane is fun in sim
How come when he goes straight up he barely slows down but when I move up with a light fighter at max speed I’m almost about to fall out the sky?
It depends on a lot of factors, can you give me a timestamp in the vid of an example?
i remember when this cameout i thought it was going to be a jet that would go toe to toe with the MiG-21. (which was top dog back then) oh how naive i was back then
I need help surviving in the f105...any tips
I didn’t even know I wasn’t subscribed sorry
The way this plane looks and moves just screams hotrod! It's a pity the performance isn't quite up to par, but i guess that's what Super Foxes are all about.
nice
Comments for the algo Gods
7:31
kills the guy trying to kill his teammate
kills his own teammate half a second later
i love this playerbase 🥰🥰🥰
Yeah, that was a really special moment ....
Denying the enemy SL and RP is such an underrated tactic, the more you do, the more matches the enemy has to spend on before getting another plane.
@@Arkhmar Its incredibly poor sportsmanship. :-\
@@TimsVariety Oh, haha, yeah..
Sorry about that.
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I hate this aircraft more than ANY other in the game... You start with just the guns of course. Problem is the guns SUCK. They spray all over the place and do no damage. So you struggle to even pop ground targets. Everyone else is a fighter of course and they all have missiles so... Just absolutely painful.
The stock grind was fkn miserable back in the day, I can't even imagine how bad it is now.
The A-4B is probably pretty mid. But it's just fun to fly
The only 4B I care about lmao
Hi
o7
A hook. You will never get to use.
i hope u dont review the ayit, dont need it to be known as the most powerful subsonic jet ingame
I'm waiting for the current situation in the middle east to cool off a bit before reviewing any more Israeli vehicles.
...I just don't want to deal with the comment section...
what a godawful aircraft, same with the A4E. Absolutely love the A4H and A4N in sim, though!
A four be
TL;DR: -10/10