The Shooting Range
In this episode
The Howling Vulture: the rise and fall of the Ju-87;
Too heavy, too late: the T29 or how the Americans tried to build a perfect heavy tank;
Hotline: the developers answer questions that you've left in the comments!
But first, let's start with… Heavy fighters and how to use them!
Heavy fighters are not just bigger and heavier than the more conventional, single-engined fighters.
What really makes them stand out are the weapons they carry. And oh boy, do they carry a lot of them.
One second burst mass is through the roof.
The increased firepower doesn't come cheap though.
This type of aircraft is usually relatively slow and unwieldy
which means that you can't fly it the same way you fly any other fighter.
There are two basic strategies. You can be on the verge of attack employing hit and run tactics
or you can help your teammates by shadowing dogfights and shooting enemies that are distracted.
Or a little of both.
You are the ultimate support, the heavy firepower.
It takes you only a few seconds to "eat" through enemy bombers, you have loads of ammunition
and you're usually more robust than your single-engined teammates.
All of that allows you to stay in battle longer than any other plane,
making you a constant heavy-hitting presence in the sky.
Avoid horizontal turn fighting, it is simply not your cup of tea. Head on, lots and lots of head on.
Attack what gets in front of you but don't chase down a single plane.
Try not to engage in any maneuvers that make you bleed energy in general.
Keep your speed up no matter what!
Learn to take your enemies down by pre-firing at a distance of at least one km;
talked about this technique in one of the previous episodes, look it up.
If you have someone on your tail, in most cases your best hope is to fly back to your base.
Let your teammates and/or the AA guns do the work!
If you prefer to fight in the thick of the battle, plan your engagements beforehand,
know where you're going and where you will be in a few moments.
Heavy fighters are for steady folks who know what they are doing.
There can be no hesitation. Only swift high-caliber justice.
… now let's talk about the great American quest for a good heavy tank
After WWI most tanks had to make do with bullet-proof armour,
that protected the crew only from certain stray shell fragments – and, well, bullets.
But the emergence of quite a few good light anti-tank guns in the second half of the thirties
changed the rules of the game. Today these 37-45 mm cannons are considered peashooters,
but then it was a completely different story. Last doubts were cleared during the Spanish Civil War.
As a result, all the main tank-builders started working on their own, heavier tanks,
that had shell-proof armour: that's how we got the Soviet KV,
the British Churchill and the German Tiger.
Meanwhile the American tank building industry was still at its infancy.
Only in September of 1939,
did they start working on a heavy 50-tonne armoured vehicle with anti-projectile armour.
The new tank that was called the T1 during the development phase
and received the official designation of M6
but never engaged an enemy and soon disappeared from factories and army units alike.
It wasn't a very good design: while having a similar mass to the Tiger,
the American tank proved inferior when it came to both armour and firepower.
Moreover, the designers believed that the only way to move these fifty tonnes of steel around the battlefield
was with the help of a powerful 1000 hp engine. Sounds good, right?
Well, you had to make room for such an engine –– and that made the vehicle a bigger target.
Long story short, the first heavy tank was not a success.
In September, 1943,
the Americans decided to have another shot at making a heavily-protected armoured vehicle,
now with a 105mm cannon.
Despite its name, the T28 Super Heavy tank was more of a... self-propelled gun.
Yeah, it's a bit confusing.
The vehicle that was designed to break through enemy defences turned out to be way too heavy,
too cumbersome – and too late to see any actual combat.
Finally, in the middle of 1944, the engineers built the T29,
a heavy tank that was supposed to hunt the Königstiger. It mounted the same gun as the T28
but in a conventional rotating turret
which was really massive due to the size of the gun and the fact that it required two loaders to operate.
It was a very interesting (and, in many ways, a truly innovative) design.
For example, the tank included an advanced drivetrain that merged transmission,
steering system and brakes into a single unit.
The T29E3 variant also got a large coincidence rangefinder forming distinctive "ears" on turret's sides.
The T29 concept had two more major variations: the T30
(which was virtually the same vehicle but had a 155mm cannon)
and the T34 Heavy Tank that mounted a 120 mm gun. For its time these were decent tanks
but the end of the war curtailed further development.
These vehicles were simply way too big, heavy and expensive to go into mass production.
It wasn't all in vain though: the experience gained with the T34 was invaluable in the development
of other armoured vehicles, like the M103.
…what do you think of when you hear the word "blitzkrieg"?
Steel rivers of tanks marked by black crosses? Check. Seas of soldiers in grey uniform? Check.
And above them all -- the unforgettable howling shadows, Ju-87
History isn't fair.
The aviation pioneer, pacifist and inventor Hugo Junkers had nothing to do with the development of the Ju 87.
The aircraft was conceived behind his back and entered production after
the Nazi government forced Junkers out of his own company.
It wasn't a bad plane, not at all:
thanks to Junkers' legacy it was capable of precision bombing at high altitudes.
A smooth-skinned all-metal monoplane with inverted gull wings
and an automatic pull-out system had no difficulty outshining all rival designs.
Yeah, to make the bomber more robust the engineers ditched the retractable undercarriage
in favour of a fixed one… but what difference did it make when the skies belonged to the Luftwaffe?
The aircraft was easy to fly and could be manufactured in droves.
It was also outfitted with the sirens the sound of which quickly became associated with dread and death.
It didn't take the Ju 87 very long to become the symbol of destruction.
It rained death on the streets of Madrid during the Spanish Civil War;
then it left its mark in Poland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Greece and the Balkans.
But no reign of terror lasts forever.
The first wake-up call for the infamous Stuka happened during the Battle of Britain.
The British aviators fought like Kilkenny cats and it turned out that the Ju-87
weren't performing that well against targets that could fight back. Eventually the Stuka had to be withdrawn.
But that was the easy bit. Despite the initial success at the Eastern front,
the Stuka ran into serious trouble in the Soviet skies.
The soldiers of the Red Army hated the bombers with a burning passion
and were ready to go to any lengths to bring them down.
The first Ju-87 was shot down on the very first day of the German offensive
and when the Luftwaffe eventually lost air superiority,
more and more Stukas turned into balls of fire with every passing day.
Soon it became crystal clear that the Ju 87 couldn't cope with all the new challenges.
The Germans tried to repurpose it as a kind of an anti-tank aircraft
and the ground attack variant was being produced up until the middle of 1944
but that was only because there was practically nothing to replace it with.
The days of the deadly "German vulture" were finally numbered.
...now it's time for the traditional last part of our show: Hotline!
Developers answering questions from the comments!
Strictly speaking it's not the most serious-minded section of the show.
If you want answers to be given with solemn faces,
feel free to appeal to the Official War Thunder Forums.
Here we'll have a more… lighthearted discussion of the big questions of War Thunder.
The first question comes from a player called I_HAZ_BANANA:
"Hey Gaijin, how are you fellas doing?
Have you ever thought about organizing professional War Thunder esports?
I think this would be awesome to see."
Hey, buddy, we're good. You?
There was actually a thing called Thunder League that we were pretty happy with last year.
It's certainly not the last time we organized something of the sort!
Maverick Porter asks: "Hi, Gaijin, do you think a mobile release of the game could come in the future?"
Well, there is a problem with that. War Thunder is a complex game with lots of mechanics,
processes and interactions that are really tricky to emulate on even the most powerful mobile devices
not to mention that the game can't be played if you don't have precise control over your vehicle,
and mobile devices aren't really good at providing that. At least for now.
The last message comes from a player called ნიკა არაბული
"Will you guys change the test area for tanks and planes? It's kind of lonely"
We might improve it, yeah, there are quite a few ideas concerning the test drive
that are circulating within the team. But it's not a priority.
What you can do right now is to go to live and get some custom user-made test drives from there.
There are some amazing works in there!
That's it for today but feel free to write your questions in the comments below.
We do read them all, and you might see some of them answered in the next episode!
If you like what we're doing, don't forget to subscribe to our channel! See you on the Shooting Range!
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