I was the guy who said F-104s are singlehandedly ruining the 8.3 experience at 10:40! I was so salty that match I just instantly left after, now on a whim I see this and see I didn't run into a F-104 abuser, but a chad who knows it's flat out broken. I salute you sir.
The german F104G actually had AIM9Ls at the end of its service. The reason it has AIM9Js is because it carried AIM9Js during Training in the US, the same reason the german F-4F has them
@thorluis226 definitely! ... if we give countries in WT what they ordered in real life. I mean in a WW3 scenario all those NATO stocks would be used interchangeably anyways. Otherwise we also would need to think about how many missiles of each kind each country had. 😅
tbh 104G with 4 9Ls would either be extremely over BRed or completley under BRed regarding the br compression. same with the F-4F (if it doesn't get a new ICE varient with AMRAAMs added)
> Balance is dead > Blood is fuel > Top tier match maker is full “May god forgive these downtiered MiG 29s cuz I won’t, while forgiving them is up to god, sending them to him is UP TO ME” Bro dropped the coldest lines ever uttered and thought we wouldn’t notice 🥶🗿.
The most interesting thing in regards to the F-104's gun is that it was technically always meant to have one (the XF-104 had it), but the Vulcan had feeding issues in its earliest incarnation. When the Vulcan was brought to a useable state, that's when it was re-implemented on the F-104A.
Absolutely true. Those korean war F86 Aces that Lockheed interviewed asked for THREE things. 1. Superior speed (Both acceleration and top end airspeed) 2. Superior rate of climb 3. Armament that allowed the pilot to use the afore mentioned attributes effectively. Specifically- a 20mm cannon with a radar ranging gunsight, and most importantly, a low on target dwell time. (Meaning an extremely high rate of fire) in the skies above Korea- all of them had learned that having to manuver into an advantageous position on an enemy and then spending time pummeling it with a pair of slow rate of fire cannon or a less destructive array of heavy machine gun fire was NOT the best way to ensure a kill. And many had seen squadron mates get jumped by a Mig from on high while locked onto the tail of a target, for far too long while trying to get enough .50 API into it it to set it alight, or tear a big enough chunk off of it to ensure it wouldn't limp home. They wanted something that would ensure enough rounds struck home to do the job - even if the piper was on target for a fraction of a second. The Vulcan had been part of the starfighter package from day 1.
1:44 another fun fact in Germany it has the nickname Erdnagel and Witwenmacher which translate to Dirtnail and Widowmaker because of its high crash rate
no one tell this man that we made an upgrade to the upgrade of the upgrade of the upgrade of the 104 aka the f-104s-asa-M with better avionics and other upgrades to the cockpit like gps. also side note the asa and asa-m could carry the aim-9LI aka a m seeker on a L body and that the asa could carry 6 missiles and not the 4 gaijin gave the asa, they knew it would have been way too powerful otherwise *huffs personal copium tank*, the asa-m lost the belly pylons and was only fitted with air to air missiles and no other ordinance so it explains why gaijin thinks the asa should have the 4 missiles only. anyway gaijin where asa-m with aim-9LI?
Considering around HALF of the world's supercars (likely more) come from Italy, is it really that surprising they would fall head over heels in love with the Starfighter?@@jamesbuckner4791
8:00 When I heard the Ace Combat 7 music kick in, I genuinely got chills. You had some excellent shots with all of those F-104s, and it brings me such joy.
Germany: We need new CAS plane Lockheed: We offer F-104 for CAS Germany: Surely nothing bad will happen with using the F-104G to conduct CAS :clueless:
@@ozan1234561 So turns out money is pretty powerful in swaying opinions, and if your higher ups tell you to shut up while they enjoy their new yachts you do it or risk getting forced into the crappiest positions your branch has to offer while technically still being "your job", making you miserable until your contract expires.
Regarding Fiat and Mitsubishi, did you forget they were the same companies that used to makes planes back in WW2? Fiat came up with the CR32/42 and G50/55 while Mitsubishi came up with the Zeros. Don't understand why you were surprised when their names came up. It's like having a surprised Pikachu face after learning that BMW was involved in making the 109s. Edit: not the 109, it’s FW190 that used BMW engines.
In Italy it was nicknamed Spillone (hatpin or more generally any big pin). Other firms wich contributed to the S variant were: Piaggio (Vespa rule), SACA, SIAI-Marchetti, Aerfer, Macchi, Officine Aeronavali e Alfa Romeo (the og F1 dominators).
13:30 correction the italian f104 G gets only 2 aim9js unlike the german one which gets 4 aim 9js also the f104 s can only take aim7e's and its the f104 asa that can take the aspide doesnt matter either way since both have to give up the gun to take radar missles
@@lolsadboi1238 until recently the chinese f104g used to be same br as the german one despite being the same plane but with nor flares and now its the same br as the f104j which is the same plane but with more missles Its classic gaijin balancing
as you can see by my pfp i love italian starfighters lol my uncle was a starfighter pilot, and boy oh boy did he love the thing. He loved how difficult it was to land it, and thought that the eurofighter was too easy of a plane to fly when they introduced it in 2004 lmao
The F104S is my most played vehicle and as someone who absolutely adores the starfighter i will say the history section at the start was really damn funny. This is going in my favorites for sure.
The italiens maybe be stupid in many ways, but the moment they building something that is eccentric, has temperament and goes fucking fast, they are giving hearth and soul to go above and beyond. They just have that fire.
I just discovered your channel and its a frickin war crime that you don't even have 10k subs. You should get the Nobel price for peace for your vids. Seriously incredible videos
Every time someone asks me to play [insert BR the F-104A/C/J/G has been incongruously jammed into] I'll always take the pencil jet, it's just so bad, and yet so good. A friend sent me this video, your work is excellent, humor is on point! :)
Also at 7:31 (since this comment is now hearted so editing it will remove that) if you are in a duel with another starfighter (we call this a "draw" - no poor sod that has to fly this plane really wins) slower is the answer! I beat one of my top 100 friends by using the Vulcan as an airbrake to fall behind him and turn his J79 into a bill of sale at a scrap metal dealer.
I will forever love the italians for pushing my favorite plane way past anything it was ever meant to do cause "fuck it we have them why not" 10/10 phenomenal
The actual history behind it is that the US bribed Italian politicians so fucking much that there was no one in the defense sector able to make a logically-sound decision.
Few corrections: - Italian F-104G only get 2 AIM-9Js - German F-104Gs did use AIM-9Js while training in the US (and later the Marineflieger used AIM-9Ls) - German F-104Gs have slightly more powerful J79-MTU-J1K engines
1 minute in and my boy completely mischaracterised the only reason it was a popular jet Bribes, Lots and Lots of bribes. The indisputable best thing about it is that it indirectly lead to the creation of my favorite stealth jet, The F-117 Nighthawk and it single handedly saved Lockheed martin from becoming bankrupt
@@DonutWithMustache could legit be a massive skill issue on my end but that’s not the experience I’ve had. besides, can’t outrun their missiles and can’t turn to evade them either
A little nitpicky detail, Canadian Starfighters did actually carry radar (R-24A NASARR), though only in a dedicated air-to-ground mode. They also carried an inertial navigation system (LN-3-2B) as well as TACAN (AN/ARN-52). I can confirm however that we did indeed fuel them with pure Canadian maple syrup. Cheers, great video✌️
A bit late but THIS IS PROBABLY THE SINGLE BEST WT VIDEO I HAVE EVER WATCHED. like seriously i love it the shitty memes, the cinematography, the actual substance as well! Good job keep it up!
The reason why the F-104 was exported so much was because of Lockheed bribing the government. The plane that should’ve exported was the F-11 Tiger which would’ve have been really cool to see in foreign service.
Grinding the soviet at 8.3 tree and my main fear isn’t anything *but* F-104’s, you cannot catch them, you cannot kill them, the *will* fly away from you at mach jesus, and they will come in from the stars.
13:15 fun fact, Mitsubishi was an aircraft company before a car company, with their first plane taking flight in 1906, Their first car was in 1917. Both of these are strange, as Mitsubishi started out as a shipping firm in 1870. Now they just make half of Japans appliances, 80% of its military. And 100% of its space program. As well as pencils. Edit: 14:05 imagine stock grinding it right when they added the f16 and mig 29, before the br changes. Eating all aspects missiles from 20 different 4th gens who out preform you in your one good metric, speed and acceleration, with no flares. Fun shockingly, most people would just ignore you until its to late lol, the amount of cope in chat when i got a 6 kill versus their shiny new 4th gens was beautiful.
So crazy to catch you this early at 17k. This content you’re creating is really really good, hits lots of little niche groups. The Jokes and meme integration felt tasteful and not just Wii menu music and tik tok sounds. Very informative not just in video game knowledge, the toe dipping into what really happened is something I love. And on top of all of that your voice is quick, concise and great for telling jokes. I’m sold dude, this a great video, I’m subbed.
I actually enjoyed the F-104J... emphasis on -ed. It was the first "modern"/post-Korean war jet I ever got an ace in. This happened last year, when it still only had 4 AIM-9Js and was at 10.7. When the custom loadout option dropped, I was THRILLED that I was finally able to bring rockets as makeshift flares and man were they my absolute saviors. My aced match was like a month or so after the A-10 craze and I've gotten quite used to flaring their AIM-9Ls with the rockets. It was also my main grinder for the F-4EJ and EJ Kai, it will always have a special place in my heart, no matter how horrendous it becomes in the current matchmaker.
The Italian F104G only has 2 missiles instead of 4, so it’s basically a direct downgrade over the German one lol. Also the S used AIM7E missiles, not Aspides, as those are only on the ASA. A funny thing about the gun block though is that there was a bug during the first day of custom loadouts in which you could take the missiles AND the gun, without needing the aim block. I got to keep that loadout so now I am probably one of like under a thousand players who are able to take both at the same time, and it is super funny to freak people out with it.
F-104J was the first ever rank 6 jet for me. Thought that was just the norm for jets and couldn't understand why people played jets. Despite the suffering, I somehow grinded to rank 7 with it, but holy shit I can't belive I flew on that thing over 100 matches without committing an unimaginable catastrphy.
The M-61 Vulcan was not "added later" it was installed on the test articles (both the XF-104 and YF-104) and caused the loss of one of the test aircraft when it malfunctioned.
14:00 Wait till Donut finds out that Japanese players are so based we managed to push the F104J to 10.7 before it's buff, what was the buff? The 2 extra missiles and the ability to carry the AIM 9J. Yes there was a flareless F104 at 10.7 that only got 4 AIM 9E's for it's top missiles.
Love these vids man saw the MiG 23 and friends vid a few weeks ago and encouraged me to grind the mld and Lordy lord it is the king of the flogger’s and a beast a 11.3
5:56 F-104ZAZA F-104A/C is definitely too low of a br for their capabilities, though it does make some pilots complacent as they just expect to outrun everything in every scenario, but then they get my Yak-28B and a few cannon rounds up their afterburner because they forget its really good at climbing after them (gaijin give me the interceptor Yak-28 already)
There's a museum around Langley BC I got to see when visiting family, which has a F104 I can't remember if it's still running or not, but I got to sit in it, shockingly to me, it was quite comfortable. "it's not like those Maple Syrup drinking idiots know how to use planes" made me laugh as a Canadian btw.
As someone who spent way too long getting good at the ASA when grinding for the f16, it is lovely to see someone actually recognize how funny that plane is. Also, you are wrong on one thing with it; aspides are god aspides are life
As someone who fully spaded the F-104J, I can confirm it was painful. And that was a long time ago, when it was at 10.7 with 4 missiles. I will say though, the livery’s are very nice. I just gotta say though, they should just give it countermeasures and move it back to 10.7. I’d prefer that over it being flareless at 10.3. And don’t say anything about “muh realism”, when the F-5C has countermeasures. I mean, Japan already has the F-16AJ, so where’s the issue.
as an italian, i completely agree with italy being batshit stoobid they were even offered the F-4 somewhere in the late 70s, but they said nuh uh, for some fucking reason
@@1nv15BL3 no, but i am ready to learn also this doesn't change the fact that our air force is proud of having used the F-104 for more then 40 years, which is really not something to be proud of
about the 9.3 starfighters, the lighting and sea vixen get actually all aspect you with red tops against 104s. it's very risky for them but it's possible.
I mained Italy when they started adding f104s, it was soo much fun! The F104S.ASA was different, it was first plane with all aspect missiles in game. That time was something else)
F104s with it's aim 7 used to be the greatest fun I had in game. Especially when you could pop clueless AV 8s out of the sky in a downtier and troll the shit out of the Mig 21 bis sweatlords with your speed. Ngl i would rather have aim 9bs on my F104s and the old presets, so i could just abuse this speed again.
Whoever designed this thing without flares, the plane can't even make an evasive maneuver. The radar signature is large too. This thing screams "this needs flares" vibes.
I hate playing the F104 in game. If you do a boom and zoom run on and enemy plane and you don't kill them on the first pass, they're just going to fire a missile at you as soon as you overtake them, and if it's anything better than an AIM-9B, you're completely Fked because of the lack of countermeasures or turn ability. It's hard for me to play
Regarding "Car makers" producing 104s... you know how in Cyberpunk we have these ridiculously powerful Megacorporations that produce everything? and how Cyberpunk often has this level of "asia is futurist" in it? thats because Megacorporations are real in Japan. Welcome to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd, producing everything from forklifts to Ships to nuclear Powerplants to fighter jets to space rockets.
clearly you dont go through enough pain playing wt, sadly the votes seem.... HIGHLY skewed for the fishie. No F-4C Suffering yet Anyways, wonderful guide to watch per usual, and the Japanese F-104 intro was a pleasant surprise
The only problem I have with this meme video is that Fiat Aeronáutica was one of th earliest plane manufacturers in the world producing planes since 1908 until 1969, when it merged with Aerfer became Aeritalia, later renamed Fiat Avio, it has a division specialized in jet engines, manufacturing the engines for the Panavia Tornado and the American Harriers, among others. So it kind of one of the aircraft companies with the longest tradition of making aircraft and jets, way more than most American companies whose eventual fate was to be aquired by Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop.
Turkey's F-104 acquisition was done during Cyprus War which was when Turkey was sanctioned to kingdom come by USA. Initially they were interested in F-16 program (and eventually got them after sanctions were lifted).
You know for a fact that when you see a F-104S ASA on the enemy side, that guy is going to Pegg everyone at the end of the match, be damn if your whole team is high tier, he is going to get that booty.
The main reason for the F104 ASA, well, other than the economic return of commissioning a licence built version, was that the F16 could not go from cold to in the air at Mach 2 in under 3 minutes. And for a pure interceptor, that was way more important than being able to dogfight.
Being a fan of donut is like a long distance relationship with a good friend that only responds to your text every few months.
fax tho
I’m that friend lol
It's called "quality over quantity", most TH-camrs have forgotten it exists
lol
Playing an F-104 is like being that shitty friend that text you sometimes and destroys your mood.
fun fact: on the F-104S ASA irl the pilots would literally turn the RWR off and fly without it because it would randomly pick radar signals
So... it was too good of a radar? Or not good enough?
@@Pikachugamer-2007 I'm guessing too good, as in it was *so* goddamn sensitive to unrelated radar signals that it would just randomly pick them up
@@uberschnilthegreat22 Yeah, that's what I thought but I just wasn't entirely sure
@@Pikachugamer-2007 the RWR was shit, it triggered randomly. radar was pretty modern, for a starfighter atleast
@@groucho1080p Ah, I see. That checks out
The F-104S ASA is literally the epitome of "Nah, I'd win". Bro slays gods like it's his 9-5
Am I a piece of shit pencil? Yeah.
But it's called "trash can", not "trash can't".
@@revolver265 Good ASA players have so much main character energy you swear you can hear the Latin music emanating from their cockpits
@Registered_Simp the real question here is, do you run Aspides or 4 Ls?
@@RD_unia I refuse to sacrifice my gun. Run 4 L's
@@Registered_Simp valid.
I was the guy who said F-104s are singlehandedly ruining the 8.3 experience at 10:40! I was so salty that match I just instantly left after, now on a whim I see this and see I didn't run into a F-104 abuser, but a chad who knows it's flat out broken. I salute you sir.
The german F104G actually had AIM9Ls at the end of its service. The reason it has AIM9Js is because it carried AIM9Js during Training in the US, the same reason the german F-4F has them
The german government never purchased aim-9 J or E, so if is were correct, the f-104 would either have aim-9F or aim 9L
@thorluis226 definitely! ... if we give countries in WT what they ordered in real life. I mean in a WW3 scenario all those NATO stocks would be used interchangeably anyways. Otherwise we also would need to think about how many missiles of each kind each country had. 😅
tbh 104G with 4 9Ls would either be extremely over BRed or completley under BRed regarding the br compression. same with the F-4F (if it doesn't get a new ICE varient with AMRAAMs added)
@@hubril7921 lmao, hello f4 ICE at 12.7
> Balance is dead
> Blood is fuel
> Top tier match maker is full
“May god forgive these downtiered MiG 29s cuz I won’t, while forgiving them is up to god, sending them to him is UP TO ME”
Bro dropped the coldest lines ever uttered and thought we wouldn’t notice 🥶🗿.
And then Devil Trigger to make it even fucking colder
@@barnykirashi Fr
“This isn’t the weeny hut jr. this is the Fiat Air-Italia F-104s.ASA bitch we CLOWN in this 1v4 against 4th generation fighters.”
It's the ULTRAKILL game reference i think. Cool game but hard tho
The most interesting thing in regards to the F-104's gun is that it was technically always meant to have one (the XF-104 had it), but the Vulcan had feeding issues in its earliest incarnation. When the Vulcan was brought to a useable state, that's when it was re-implemented on the F-104A.
Absolutely true.
Those korean war F86 Aces that Lockheed interviewed asked for THREE things.
1. Superior speed (Both acceleration and top end airspeed)
2. Superior rate of climb
3. Armament that allowed the pilot to use the afore mentioned attributes effectively. Specifically- a 20mm cannon with a radar ranging gunsight, and most importantly, a low on target dwell time.
(Meaning an extremely high rate of fire) in the skies above Korea- all of them had learned that having to manuver into an advantageous position on an enemy and then spending time pummeling it with a pair of slow rate of fire cannon or a less destructive array of heavy machine gun fire was NOT the best way to ensure a kill. And many had seen squadron mates get jumped by a Mig from on high while locked onto the tail of a target, for far too long while trying to get enough .50 API into it it to set it alight, or tear a big enough chunk off of it to ensure it wouldn't limp home.
They wanted something that would ensure enough rounds struck home to do the job - even if the piper was on target for a fraction of a second.
The Vulcan had been part of the starfighter package from day 1.
The RWR on the F-104 S.ASA looks so pathetic that I just can't stop laughing lmao
it's dog💩.
1:44 another fun fact in Germany it has the nickname Erdnagel and Witwenmacher which translate to Dirtnail and Widowmaker because of its high crash rate
It's the American MiG-21 in literally every way huh, from being called a pencil/pipe to being called a flying coffin
The second half of the F104S.ASA review was some of the most badass war thunder content i've ever seen. I replayed that segment like 5 times
"running away to their airfields like a bunch of pussies"
Not me and my jet with 47 seconds of gas, 23 rounds of ammo, and no missile's
"whats up w/ car manufacturers building these things"
wait till you find out that Ford Built the sidewinders for the F104
And that Japanese was build by Mitsubishi
Not a car manufacturer, but reminder that Texas Instruments made the AGM-88 HARM
@@zacharymarino8926 dont they make stuff for the javelin too? or just missile micro circuts
Well that explains why they were shit
no one tell this man that we made an upgrade to the upgrade of the upgrade of the upgrade of the 104 aka the f-104s-asa-M with better avionics and other upgrades to the cockpit like gps.
also side note the asa and asa-m could carry the aim-9LI aka a m seeker on a L body and that the asa could carry 6 missiles and not the 4 gaijin gave the asa, they knew it would have been way too powerful otherwise *huffs personal copium tank*, the asa-m lost the belly pylons and was only fitted with air to air missiles and no other ordinance so it explains why gaijin thinks the asa should have the 4 missiles only.
anyway gaijin where asa-m with aim-9LI?
Yall have a very unhealthy addiction to speed... then again yall have the best flying conditions for the 104. Stable air and stable weather.
Considering around HALF of the world's supercars (likely more) come from Italy, is it really that surprising they would fall head over heels in love with the Starfighter?@@jamesbuckner4791
I want this for real
8:00 When I heard the Ace Combat 7 music kick in, I genuinely got chills. You had some excellent shots with all of those F-104s, and it brings me such joy.
Germany: We need new CAS plane
Lockheed: We offer F-104 for CAS
Germany: Surely nothing bad will happen with using the F-104G to conduct CAS
:clueless:
Don’t forget the bribery!
First mistake
Why didnt none of the commanders or pilots go "This thing has wings size of my coffee table, i am not using this for cas"
@@ozan1234561 So turns out money is pretty powerful in swaying opinions, and if your higher ups tell you to shut up while they enjoy their new yachts you do it or risk getting forced into the crappiest positions your branch has to offer while technically still being "your job", making you miserable until your contract expires.
That wasnt the point for the accidents it was because there wasn’t a proper training aircraft for the 104
Regarding Fiat and Mitsubishi, did you forget they were the same companies that used to makes planes back in WW2? Fiat came up with the CR32/42 and G50/55 while Mitsubishi came up with the Zeros. Don't understand why you were surprised when their names came up. It's like having a surprised Pikachu face after learning that BMW was involved in making the 109s.
Edit: not the 109, it’s FW190 that used BMW engines.
Erm actually bmw helped with the fw 190's it was Daimler Benz who did the 109's (ik what u meant and am mentally deranged)
@@thetriggeredningen8161 I mean the 190.
In Italy it was nicknamed Spillone (hatpin or more generally any big pin). Other firms wich contributed to the S variant were: Piaggio (Vespa rule), SACA, SIAI-Marchetti, Aerfer, Macchi, Officine Aeronavali e Alfa Romeo (the og F1 dominators).
i hope the asa gets its jammer in the future and can consume without limitations
13:30 correction the italian f104 G gets only 2 aim9js unlike the german one which gets 4 aim 9js
also the f104 s can only take aim7e's and its the f104 asa that can take the aspide
doesnt matter either way since both have to give up the gun to take radar missles
ain’t that cool that the german one gets more missiles that the italian one but its the same br? super fair
@@lolsadboi1238 until recently the chinese f104g used to be same br as the german one despite being the same plane but with nor flares and now its the same br as the f104j which is the same plane but with more missles
Its classic gaijin balancing
U can actually bring the gun and the aspide together if u only bring one and 3 aim9's @@pko6596
We absolutely lawn dart maxxing with this one
as you can see by my pfp i love italian starfighters lol my uncle was a starfighter pilot, and boy oh boy did he love the thing. He loved how difficult it was to land it, and thought that the eurofighter was too easy of a plane to fly when they introduced it in 2004 lmao
The F104S is my most played vehicle and as someone who absolutely adores the starfighter i will say the history section at the start was really damn funny. This is going in my favorites for sure.
The italiens maybe be stupid in many ways, but the moment they building something that is eccentric, has temperament and goes fucking fast, they are giving hearth and soul to go above and beyond. They just have that fire.
Replace "stupid" with "greedy" and you get a historically accurate statement.
I swear to god the sasa is fueld by the hatred people have for the New top tier meta and it's only there to piss f15 and mig29 players off
I just discovered your channel and its a frickin war crime that you don't even have 10k subs. You should get the Nobel price for peace for your vids.
Seriously incredible videos
Every time someone asks me to play [insert BR the F-104A/C/J/G has been incongruously jammed into] I'll always take the pencil jet, it's just so bad, and yet so good.
A friend sent me this video, your work is excellent, humor is on point! :)
Also at 7:31 (since this comment is now hearted so editing it will remove that) if you are in a duel with another starfighter (we call this a "draw" - no poor sod that has to fly this plane really wins) slower is the answer! I beat one of my top 100 friends by using the Vulcan as an airbrake to fall behind him and turn his J79 into a bill of sale at a scrap metal dealer.
I will forever love the italians for pushing my favorite plane way past anything it was ever meant to do cause "fuck it we have them why not" 10/10 phenomenal
The actual history behind it is that the US bribed Italian politicians so fucking much that there was no one in the defense sector able to make a logically-sound decision.
As an italian i couldn't stop laughing, good job buddy
I was lowkey pissed off at life but I just watched this video and I genuinely feel so much better. Also mig21 meme guide?
If I remember, Lockheed got in trouble since one of the main reasons of the export “success” was due to bribery.
Probably due to all the pilots dying due to all the crashing because of its disastrous stall speed
Few corrections:
- Italian F-104G only get 2 AIM-9Js
- German F-104Gs did use AIM-9Js while training in the US (and later the Marineflieger used AIM-9Ls)
- German F-104Gs have slightly more powerful J79-MTU-J1K engines
The callback to the F-16 video was my favorite part lol😂
Shit was actually kinda funny
1 minute in and my boy completely mischaracterised the only reason it was a popular jet
Bribes, Lots and Lots of bribes. The indisputable best thing about it is that it indirectly lead to the creation of my favorite stealth jet, The F-117 Nighthawk and it single handedly saved Lockheed martin from becoming bankrupt
oh dont worry i talked about that a few times (i.e in the history section where i said "Scamming various militaries")
F 104 even inspired a rock concept album by members of Hawkwind, including Lemmy Kilmister on bass
“At 9.3 there isn’t a single thing in your tier that can catch you”
MiG21 bro
you can outrun the 9.3 MiG-21F-13 very easily.
@@DonutWithMustache could legit be a massive skill issue on my end but that’s not the experience I’ve had. besides, can’t outrun their missiles and can’t turn to evade them either
I'd say it is easier to not lose speed and run away from it than dodging well placed missile @@THATguyTOMO
I love how the intro you used in f-16 video with pics of 104 is same here with f-16 pics. This is genius level
I was kinda hoping the twist would be "I meant mig-21 the entire time, but I guess the f-104 is here also"
A little nitpicky detail, Canadian Starfighters did actually carry radar (R-24A NASARR), though only in a dedicated air-to-ground mode. They also carried an inertial navigation system (LN-3-2B) as well as TACAN (AN/ARN-52). I can confirm however that we did indeed fuel them with pure Canadian maple syrup. Cheers, great video✌️
Man, I can barely keep my attention for like 5 seconds, and you kept me hooked for 30 minutes straight and made me laugh so fucking much LMFAOOOO
I just found out about your channel through the MiG 29 video, I love your content, It is entertaining and very helpful.
24:25 ULTRAKILL reference? fucking based.
With this video alone, you have my sub thank you also I’m the F-104 TAF at 23:22
A bit late but THIS IS PROBABLY THE SINGLE BEST WT VIDEO I HAVE EVER WATCHED. like seriously i love it the shitty memes, the cinematography, the actual substance as well! Good job keep it up!
F104 is probably the funniest plane i know, death pencil 😂
MiG-21 when
I am approaching your location btw
MiG-21 was already voted to be the next episode. It will be out by the end of april
The reason why the F-104 was exported so much was because of Lockheed bribing the government. The plane that should’ve exported was the F-11 Tiger which would’ve have been really cool to see in foreign service.
Grinding the soviet at 8.3 tree and my main fear isn’t anything *but* F-104’s, you cannot catch them, you cannot kill them, the *will* fly away from you at mach jesus, and they will come in from the stars.
13:15 fun fact, Mitsubishi was an aircraft company before a car company, with their first plane taking flight in 1906, Their first car was in 1917.
Both of these are strange, as Mitsubishi started out as a shipping firm in 1870.
Now they just make half of Japans appliances, 80% of its military. And 100% of its space program. As well as pencils.
Edit: 14:05 imagine stock grinding it right when they added the f16 and mig 29, before the br changes. Eating all aspects missiles from 20 different 4th gens who out preform you in your one good metric, speed and acceleration, with no flares. Fun shockingly, most people would just ignore you until its to late lol, the amount of cope in chat when i got a 6 kill versus their shiny new 4th gens was beautiful.
So crazy to catch you this early at 17k. This content you’re creating is really really good, hits lots of little niche groups. The Jokes and meme integration felt tasteful and not just Wii menu music and tik tok sounds. Very informative not just in video game knowledge, the toe dipping into what really happened is something I love. And on top of all of that your voice is quick, concise and great for telling jokes. I’m sold dude, this a great video, I’m subbed.
holy starfighter, that ace combat 7 siren song soundtrack with a formation of F-104 was so fitting, nice job
Now I want that f104 pen😭
Edit: that devil trigger hits hard
I actually enjoyed the F-104J... emphasis on -ed. It was the first "modern"/post-Korean war jet I ever got an ace in. This happened last year, when it still only had 4 AIM-9Js and was at 10.7. When the custom loadout option dropped, I was THRILLED that I was finally able to bring rockets as makeshift flares and man were they my absolute saviors. My aced match was like a month or so after the A-10 craze and I've gotten quite used to flaring their AIM-9Ls with the rockets. It was also my main grinder for the F-4EJ and EJ Kai, it will always have a special place in my heart, no matter how horrendous it becomes in the current matchmaker.
The Italian F104G only has 2 missiles instead of 4, so it’s basically a direct downgrade over the German one lol. Also the S used AIM7E missiles, not Aspides, as those are only on the ASA.
A funny thing about the gun block though is that there was a bug during the first day of custom loadouts in which you could take the missiles AND the gun, without needing the aim block. I got to keep that loadout so now I am probably one of like under a thousand players who are able to take both at the same time, and it is super funny to freak people out with it.
F-104J was the first ever rank 6 jet for me. Thought that was just the norm for jets and couldn't understand why people played jets. Despite the suffering, I somehow grinded to rank 7 with it, but holy shit I can't belive I flew on that thing over 100 matches without committing an unimaginable catastrphy.
I have never experienced the amounts of hate I encountered spading both, the 104A and the 104C in air rb.
“Royal Pizza Hut Air Force “
I almost dropped my iPad. Holy crap that was funny.
Which is funny, because Italy stopped being a Monarchy at the end of WW2.
this is TOO GOOD FOR A YTER LIKE U, UR MY #1 FAV NOW!!!
How To Play The F-104J: put in your 1970s / 80s japanese casette tape, profit
The M-61 Vulcan was not "added later" it was installed on the test articles (both the XF-104 and YF-104) and caused the loss of one of the test aircraft when it malfunctioned.
ooh yes my favourite thing in the afternoon, lawn darts
14:00 Wait till Donut finds out that Japanese players are so based we managed to push the F104J to 10.7 before it's buff, what was the buff? The 2 extra missiles and the ability to carry the AIM 9J. Yes there was a flareless F104 at 10.7 that only got 4 AIM 9E's for it's top missiles.
The Lightning came in to service 4 years before the F104. They were contemporaries.
Fleet Destruction's Siren's Song is an absolute banger of a soundtrack
Also Sunset Glow from Ace Combat 2.
You pick the best soundtracks for your videos. Its fantastic
Love these vids man saw the MiG 23 and friends vid a few weeks ago and encouraged me to grind the mld and Lordy lord it is the king of the flogger’s and a beast a 11.3
Almost missed that vulcan cannon being brand new & immediately slapped on a plane bit, that was funny
the max verstappen joke aged well after australia
5:56 F-104ZAZA
F-104A/C is definitely too low of a br for their capabilities, though it does make some pilots complacent as they just expect to outrun everything in every scenario, but then they get my Yak-28B and a few cannon rounds up their afterburner because they forget its really good at climbing after them (gaijin give me the interceptor Yak-28 already)
There's a museum around Langley BC I got to see when visiting family, which has a F104 I can't remember if it's still running or not, but I got to sit in it, shockingly to me, it was quite comfortable. "it's not like those Maple Syrup drinking idiots know how to use planes" made me laugh as a Canadian btw.
Hardest speech I've ever heard at the end there.
“And while forgiving them is up to God, sending them to him is up to me”
Just witnessed absolute Badassery
As someone who spent way too long getting good at the ASA when grinding for the f16, it is lovely to see someone actually recognize how funny that plane is. Also, you are wrong on one thing with it; aspides are god aspides are life
I love 104's and that was the best wt video i've watched for the last year
As someone who fully spaded the F-104J, I can confirm it was painful. And that was a long time ago, when it was at 10.7 with 4 missiles. I will say though, the livery’s are very nice. I just gotta say though, they should just give it countermeasures and move it back to 10.7. I’d prefer that over it being flareless at 10.3. And don’t say anything about “muh realism”, when the F-5C has countermeasures. I mean, Japan already has the F-16AJ, so where’s the issue.
as an italian, i completely agree with italy being batshit stoobid
they were even offered the F-4 somewhere in the late 70s, but they said nuh uh, for some fucking reason
"for some fucking reason". Propaganda Due, Operazione Gladio, Mani Pulite, Scandalo Lockheed, mai sentito parlare?
@@1nv15BL3 no, but i am ready to learn
also this doesn't change the fact that our air force is proud of having used the F-104 for more then 40 years, which is really not something to be proud of
Lovely video edits man, awesome job.
the 10.3 104s used to be fun back when the f-4e was top of the br range
Glory Glory hallelujah in the beginning is so epic
Battle Hymn of the Republic. Not to be confused with John Brown's Body, or Blood Upon the Risers
I've never gotten a match below 10.0 in this thing and the mig-21 is a genuine threat
finally a new video i love ur videos
about the 9.3 starfighters, the lighting and sea vixen get actually all aspect you with red tops against 104s. it's very risky for them but it's possible.
> "you should play this thing, its fun!"
> grinding air trees in Warthunder
> warthunder grind
Girls und Panzer OST mentioned
And you're lucky, I had to grind the 104J before its update for the 6 missiles
I mained Italy when they started adding f104s, it was soo much fun!
The F104S.ASA was different, it was first plane with all aspect missiles in game. That time was something else)
F104s with it's aim 7 used to be the greatest fun I had in game. Especially when you could pop clueless AV 8s out of the sky in a downtier and troll the shit out of the Mig 21 bis sweatlords with your speed. Ngl i would rather have aim 9bs on my F104s and the old presets, so i could just abuse this speed again.
@@benni1015 I would pay so much money to play that old top tier again!
Whoever designed this thing without flares, the plane can't even make an evasive maneuver. The radar signature is large too. This thing screams "this needs flares" vibes.
I love the decal of the jet in the first Minute. Looks like the painting of the display model at the entrance of the Luftwaffes Fliegerhorst Büchel
“What is up with car manufacturers building this thing?” Fun fact; Mitsubishi has been mass producing planes for longer than it has cars.
Ngl I love the ASS-A and seeing you love it is great because it is sooo underrated
I hate playing the F104 in game. If you do a boom and zoom run on and enemy plane and you don't kill them on the first pass, they're just going to fire a missile at you as soon as you overtake them, and if it's anything better than an AIM-9B, you're completely Fked because of the lack of countermeasures or turn ability. It's hard for me to play
Skill issue, you better learn how to aim better
Regarding "Car makers" producing 104s...
you know how in Cyberpunk we have these ridiculously powerful Megacorporations that produce everything? and how Cyberpunk often has this level of "asia is futurist" in it?
thats because Megacorporations are real in Japan. Welcome to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd, producing everything from forklifts to Ships to nuclear Powerplants to fighter jets to space rockets.
24:00 your wish was granted, now it can clap Su-27’s
F-104S.ASA: *FEED ME MORE 4th GENS*
The F-104G Widowmaker. Because greed and corruption are more important than pilot's lives apparently..
clearly you dont go through enough pain playing wt, sadly the votes seem.... HIGHLY skewed for the fishie. No F-4C Suffering yet
Anyways, wonderful guide to watch per usual, and the Japanese F-104 intro was a pleasant surprise
The only problem I have with this meme video is that Fiat Aeronáutica was one of th earliest plane manufacturers in the world producing planes since 1908 until 1969, when it merged with Aerfer became Aeritalia, later renamed Fiat Avio, it has a division specialized in jet engines, manufacturing the engines for the Panavia Tornado and the American Harriers, among others. So it kind of one of the aircraft companies with the longest tradition of making aircraft and jets, way more than most American companies whose eventual fate was to be aquired by Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop.
Bf-109 family meme guide???
Turkey's F-104 acquisition was done during Cyprus War which was when Turkey was sanctioned to kingdom come by USA. Initially they were interested in F-16 program (and eventually got them after sanctions were lifted).
omg, this has to be the best WT video i've seen since Zetaris 4 years ago
getting compared to Zetaris is the compliment of all time, honestly.
You know for a fact that when you see a F-104S ASA on the enemy side, that guy is going to Pegg everyone at the end of the match, be damn if your whole team is high tier, he is going to get that booty.
I did not expect to hear Ferrari slander in a War Thunder video.
Can't wait for the me 262 episode 🎉
The main reason for the F104 ASA, well, other than the economic return of commissioning a licence built version, was that the F16 could not go from cold to in the air at Mach 2 in under 3 minutes. And for a pure interceptor, that was way more important than being able to dogfight.