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| 4s | The Shooting Range |
|---|---|
| 8s | Hello, friends! |
| 9s | Merry Christmas to you all! |
| 11s | The end of the year is coming, and with it come |
| 14s | the holiday episodes of the Shooting Range. |
| 17s | Today we’re going to talk about the new winter update, |
| 20s | and the next episode will break the tradition |
| 22s | and premiere on Saturday, December 31st, |
| 25s | to wrap up the year for War Thunder. |
| 28s | Make yourselves comfortable to see... |
| 30s | In this episode: |
| 31s | Pages of History: Soviet Night Fighters |
| 35s | Special: A Tour Around the Gold Quarry |
| 38s | And Metal Beasts: Gen 4 Fighting Falcon |
| 52s | The Apex Predators update is already available to all players, |
| 56s | which means it’s time to introduce the new vehicles. |
| 59s | Please welcome! |
| 61s | An American light multirole fighter, the General Dynamics F-16A Fighting Falcon. |
| 68s | It’s the most mass-produced 4th generation plane today, |
| 71s | in service with almost 30 nations! |
| 74s | Let’s take a closer look... |
| 76s | Its power plant is a bypass turbofan engine with an afterburner. |
| 80s | The fuel is stored in self-sealing tanks installed in the wing and the fuselage. |
| 85s | More fuel can be added via external drop tanks. |
| 89s | The nose cone hides an on-board radar station. |
| 92s | Its forward-firing armament includes a 20-mm autocannon with 512 rounds of ammo, |
| 97s | as well as conventional and smart bombs, rockets, |
| 101s | and guided air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles. |
| 104s | Generation 4 fighters representing Rank 8 aircraft in War Thunder |
| 109s | can boast incredible flight performance. |
| 111s | Just think of it: the F-16 can take off and go supersonic in only 30 seconds! |
| 117s | Thanks to its powerful engine and small mass, |
| 119s | the fighter’s thrust-to-weight ratio is so high it can take off, |
| 123s | pitch its nose up straight, and continue accelerating. |
| 129s | Of course, a powerful engine brings an expected flaw: |
| 132s | fuel consumption. |
| 134s | The internal fuel tanks can only last 5 minutes of flight with the afterburner on. |
| 138s | That’s why additional drop tanks are more of a necessity |
| 141s | rather than a luxury for Gen 4 light aircraft. |
| 144s | This American plane can enjoy 1.5 more minutes of afterburner flight with them on, |
| 149s | which is a good increase in percentage terms. |
| 152s | Moreover, you can always drop the dead weight: it’s in the name, after all. |
| 159s | As for the Falcon’s weaponry... |
| 161s | It can carry up to six all-aspect infrared-guided missiles, |
| 165s | and there’s always a trusty 20-mm Vulcan. |
| 168s | It’s pretty comprehensive for short-range combat. |
| 174s | The F-16 can also handle ground targets well enough. |
| 177s | Besides rockets and regular bombs, it has some great sets of guided munitions! |
| 182s | They’re efficient against enemy air defenses, tanks, and even aviation. |
| 186s | Moreover, climb rates of Gen 4 fighters are so good |
| 189s | that high altitude attacks become very simple. |
| 195s | By the way, sim mode fans might enjoy the cockpit design. |
| 198s | Not a single seam or frame in this bubble canopy... |
| 202s | Best view ever! |
| 216s | Tactical fighters are useless in night battles. |
| 219s | It didn’t take the Royal Air Force or the German Luftwaffe long |
| 222s | to arrive at this conclusion after WW2 began, |
| 225s | and the USAF got it soon after, too. |
| 228s | They knew they needed a machine capable of long patrols in the dark, |
| 231s | with good guns and, most importantly, an on-board radar system for guidance. |
| 236s | Naturally, pilots would also need special training to operate such an aircraft. |
| 241s | The first European specialized night hunters were |
| 244s | made from heavy twin-engined fighters and bombers, |
| 247s | such as the Blenheim, the Beaufighter, |
| 249s | the Messerschmitt 110, the Dornier 17, |
| 251s | and the Junkers 88. |
| 253s | The Soviet Union, however, failed to adopt this practice in time, |
| 257s | so in 1941, it was completely unprepared for Luftwaffe night raids. |
| 262s | They tried to compensate for their lack of night fighters |
| 264s | with thicker anti-air fire in larger cities, |
| 267s | but making it a widespread solution was impossible. |
| 271s | Walking their own path of trial and error in the first, hardest years of the War |
| 275s | took the Soviets an enormous amount of effort. |
| 278s | They first attempted to use daytime fighters in night interception missions. |
| 283s | The MiG-3 proved to be the most efficient at this, |
| 285s | but the best chances for target designation its pilots had |
| 289s | was verbal commands from ground-based radar systems. |
| 292s | Regular fights, however, involved blinding projector lights |
| 295s | and a high risk of being shot down by your own anti-aircraft guns. |
| 300s | Meanwhile, Soviet cities and factories continued burning bright at night. |
| 304s | What could they do? |
| 305s | Ask the British for night fighters? |
| 308s | They were in desperate need of them, too: |
| 310s | the Beaufighters were supplied to squadrons in single digits. |
| 313s | Maybe ask the Americans? |
| 315s | They didn’t even have any night fighters... |
| 317s | Well then, gotta make do on your own somehow. |
| 320s | The Soviet radio engineers managed to pull off something close to impossible: |
| 324s | create the Gneiss-2, their first airborne radar system, |
| 328s | while the entire industry was being evacuated. |
| 331s | It was pretty compact for the time, weighed only half a ton, |
| 334s | and was compatible with the Pe-2 and the Pe-3. |
| 337s | These multirole aircraft were based on the VI-100, |
| 341s | a high-altitude fighter, and proved to be excellent. |
| 344s | The tests were long and complicated, but in the end, |
| 347s | the first specialized night fighters entered service by the summer of 1943. |
| 352s | They turned out to be hard to land or take off, |
| 355s | which was crucial for nighttime flying, |
| 357s | and their armament proved to be lacking. |
| 359s | Then, the Soviets tried to remake the American A-20 Boston into night fighters. |
| 364s | They didn’t know they were repeating the mistake the Americans had already made |
| 368s | trying to create the P-70 Nighthawk on its base. |
| 371s | So, the Soviets managed to start the production of their own night fighters... |
| 375s | But all of a sudden, they discovered it wasn’t enough either! |
| 378s | They also needed to polish the usage tactics, improve reaction speed, |
| 382s | and establish a good level of communication with the ground surveillance systems. |
| 387s | These tasks were tough on their own, |
| 388s | but redundant secrecy complicated the matters even further. |
| 392s | Ironically, it only served as another tell-tale factor. |
| 395s | The Germans quickly grasped |
| 397s | why some Soviet airfields didn’t even allow their own fighters close |
| 401s | and how it was tied to radar waves some Soviet aircraft emitted at night. |
| 406s | They employed the well-known measures previously used on the Western front |
| 409s | where a new generation of night fighters had been in use already, |
| 412s | such as the Heinkel 219, the Northrop P-61, and the Mosquito. |
| 417s | The Soviet Union was hopelessly lagging behind, |
| 419s | but by the end of 1944 they managed to bridge the gap with the Tu-1, |
| 424s | a powerful night fighter with a cutting-edge radar called the Gneiss-5. |
| 429s | When it finally entered service, though, |
| 431s | it was long past the times of German bomber armadas flying at night... |
| 449s | As is tradition, |
| 450s | the first episode of The Shooting Range after a major update goes live |
| 454s | tells you about freshly-added vehicles |
| 456s | as well as about new locations for mixed battles. |
| 460s | We hope this kind of tour will help you navigate unfamiliar grounds better. |
| 464s | Today we’re going to travel around the Gold Quarry, |
| 466s | a location inspired by the landscapes of Kazakhstan. |
| 470s | You can expect a mining site and monstrous vehicles, |
| 473s | dry soils, and magnificent rocky ridges with snowy peaks. |
| 480s | We’ll begin with point [A] found in the northern part of the map. |
| 483s | On the way there, we can see a small river |
| 485s | passable either by wading or via one of the crossings. |
| 489s | The capture circle is found among warehouses and cisterns. |
| 492s | Inside, we see piles of containers, crates, canisters, and other debris. |
| 497s | It won’t be hard to find cover from enemy fire here. |
| 501s | Crossing the river again, we find ourselves in a maze of factory shops. |
| 505s | It’s easy to get lost among all these identical tall hangars |
| 508s | with smoking pipes and numerous passes. |
| 511s | Open spaces between them are unsafe, however. |
| 514s | It’s worth peeking around the corner before leaving cover. |
| 517s | Moving further, past the railway tracks... |
| 520s | The open area greets us with the main inhabitants of this place: |
| 524s | the mighty rock haulers. |
| 526s | Man, look at their size! |
| 528s | Even the Maus seems toy-like next to these. |
| 531s | Uncompromising, raw power! |
| 537s | Let’s leave the hangars and head to the central point [B] |
| 540s | found next to the boiler rooms. |
| 542s | Similarly to the northern capture area, |
| 544s | buildings and cisterns create multiple safe positions, |
| 547s | making it suitable for a quick capping and later defense, |
| 551s | so mobile machines should be a priority here. |
| 554s | This is where the concrete roads end and let the real off-road terrain begin. |
| 559s | It’s a quarry, after all. |
| 560s | Humans had mined millions of tons of rocks here over many years... |
| 564s | And almost every other step greets you with either a hollow or a mound. |
| 571s | Finally, this picture is accomplished by a giant rotary excavator. |
| 576s | Remember those huge rock haulers? |
| 578s | Well, forget them. |
| 579s | This is one true giant of a vehicle! |
| 583s | And right below it, by the way, is point [C]. |
| 586s | Funny how you could fight next to this metal monster’s tracks |
| 588s | and easily forget about the enormous structure above your head... |
| 592s | Unless you get a spare second to look up, of course. |
| 595s | Naturally, this location comes in multiple versions. |
| 598s | We only toured around the largest one of them today. |
| 601s | Other modes have different point placements, |
| 603s | but the terrain stays the same. |
| 607s | Share your impressions and tactical ideas, |
| 610s | tell us how many haulers you could count on the new map, |
| 612s | all while we answer some of the questions you ask us in the comments... |
| 630s | The first question was sent by a player called nie mam pomysłu na nazwę |
| 636s | “If my tank commander has a description that he can shoot the main weapon, |
| 639s | does this mean when I lose the gunner but my commander lives I can still shoot?” |
| 644s | Hi there. You’re absolutely right. |
| 647s | This is why we add this tip to the X-ray mode: |
| 649s | so that you don’t have to join a battle to test some mechanics. |
| 653s | Check out the descriptions of other modules, you might find them useful! |
| 658s | Cyber Droid asks: |
| 659s | “How do you take control of the roof mounted machine gun |
| 662s | like on the British Tortoise to change the direction it's facing?” |
| 666s | Greetings, Cyber Droid. |
| 668s | You can switch to machine gun control either via the multifunctional menu |
| 673s | or by assigning a separate key in “Controls, Ground vehicles, Weaponry.” |
| 678s | Another question comes from Fat Spiderman: |
| 681s | Can you name all the Hungarian vehicles in the game?” |
| 685s | Hi, Spidey. Sure, let’s do this! |
| 688s | The He-112 B-1/U-2 in the German tree, |
| 692s | the Bf 110 G-4, |
| 694s | the Bf 109 G-2, |
| 697s | the Toldi IIA, |
| 698s | Turan II, |
| 700s | and the Zrinyi I in the Italy tree. |
| 702s | Six machines in total. |
| 704s | Hope we didn’t forget anything! |
| 707s | Max Engler writes: |
| 709s | “What do the magnetic mines do and how do you use them effectively?” |
| 713s | Hey Max. There’s quite a lot of things to discuss about them, |
| 716s | which is precisely what we did in episode #220. |
| 720s | Check it out when you have time! |
| 723s | And the last comment for today was written by Eric Wüstenberg: |
| 727s | “Will the Panavia Tornado be added?” |
| 730s | Hi Eric. |
| 731s | Why use the Future Tense? It’s already there! |
| 735s | There’s even multiple versions available. |
| 737s | See them soon in Metal Beasts! |
| 740s | That’s it for today. |
| 741s | Once again, the entire episode won’t premiere on Sunday, |
| 744s | but instead, on Saturday, December 31st, |
| 747s | to sum up the entire year in War Thunder! |
| 750s | You’ve been watching the Shooting Range by Gaijin Entertainment. |
| 753s | Subscribe and click the bell if you don’t want to miss our next videos. |
| 757s | Don’t forget to leave a like, share your thoughts and comments... |
| 760s | and see you in a bit less than a week! |