This review is ok. It shares the one thing the HARRIER always had. People laughing at it, saying how shit it is, how everything else is better. Only thing is, the thing doesn't know how to lose. It ate up better planes and enemies its whole career, doing jobs people said it couldn't do, and did them well. The US Marines extended their fleet again. At a later career point, SHAR (FRS2) had a radar and AMRAAM upgrade that made the platform BVR and for a time was the UKs premier air combat platform. And it took on all comers in that period and did at least 'well'. Fucking ace plane. Made in a shed. To wreck your day. :)
@@willsimpson3783 Not really. Harrier was a program they grabbed with both hands and made a better program. They did not make a mistake, its been a great platform. It outlasted and out performed many contemporaries - and did well in every conflict it flew in.
Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know the turning rate of the Harrier, due to the VTOL system is pretty bad and can't even hover for a long time in one place. Don't get me wrong, this plane inspired me to create some VTOL concepts and looks cool in my opinion. But the shortcomings of the plane in mostly due to the VTOL system and it's rough state (i.e. it's not a proven design yet and had a lot of compromises which later on mostly had been fixed)
@@LastGoatKnight Its hover time is only really for take off/landing phase. Its turn rate was so bad that in repeated air to air contests it bested NATO's best (SHAR2)? The whole family of jets is battle proven, and thus it can't be a bad thing.
As a sim only player it annoys me that it hasn't got its correct cockpit yet. Gaijin basically used the GR.1/3 cockpit and just replaced the map with a radar. The Sea Harrier FRS.1 was the same as the GR versions from the intakes backwards, but forward of the intakes, it was a completely different aircraft. It had a completely different cockpit instrument layout from the GR versions. It's seat was also raised 11 inches inside the bubble canopy for a much better rear view.
@@aplosm I have played sim for 4 year and never had trouble getting in, or finding a game, and there's always a few games with at least 10 players per team.
@@WeebLord69 don't burn yourself on that take. Ask literally anyone who flies a plane without countermeasures within 5km of a p2w su25k whether the r60m is trash or not
@@WeebLord69 telll that to korean war era jets that not only dont have flares but can't even outrun a frogfoot. At least you can keep your distance from an A-10. Oh and dare i bring up the YAK -38?
Started research on this thing the day it entered the game. Finally starting to approach the unlock, so I decided to look for a review. I am pleasantly surprised that it is not terrible!
I just got it this week, and I’ve had the most fun so far in British especially with the late grind. Consistently top-3 with 1-4 kills. I’m so used to the AV-8, it feels right at home, so I got a talisman for it to finish out the tech tree.
Personally I've fallen in love with thus jet as using in after I bought it and used some ge on it the first game I got an ace wich was the first ace I've gotten in jets since I've been playing warthunder
If you want the Gripen the Harrier lets you skip grinding column 4 in the UK tree. Thats over a million RP and several million SL. You can skip the bomber column anyway. And it's great in sim... no top tier matches...
I'm not sure if you leave it out intentionally for some reason but you never seem to mention the ballistics computer for the cannons when they have them, CCIP for cannons is really helpful when attacking ground targets.
Cannot get a single kill with this thing after nine flights (air battles). It is like driving Panzer IV H against Leo 2A7. I tried low altitude, high altitude, I rarely even get close to enemy to use the missile. Got shot from far greater distance than the stock missiles are able to lock on. HUGE disappointment for me.
I wish there were more interesting lower tier planes to squadron research. It's either this or the crappy prop plane, considering the german and russian ones are not that good.
Now that I bought and half-spaded the A4E Early I can confirm that this plane is better worth it. At least for those who can't use rear-aspect AIM-9Bs, because the A4E Early has only that for AA combat. And a LOT of ground pounder which let's just say that it's not my specialty
Hey could you try do more naval videos, such as on coastal vessels like the VS10, the MZ1 and others, and keeping the advice for both arcade and realistic? I've noticed there's zero to no videos on the MZ1
@@boltzxz The Sea vixen is a very good grinder, but its quite boring as it has no guns. But yeah the Wyvern is one of the most broken planes in the game and also a great grinder
Well the Harrier's S/VTOL capabilities aren't of much use in air battles, VIFFing aside, however it can be tremendously useful in ground battles where Harriers can rearm at helicopter bases and return to the battle very quickly.
I can really tell that you main ground vehicles because of this video. For many people this will be their first ever jet aircraft in War Thunder and instead you decide to recommend the T-80UK and M1A1 AIM?! Seriously?!?!?!
What do you mean? The thrust vectoring? What about it do you not understand? As a brief explanation: The single jet engine feeds four nozzles that can each rotate, you aim them down at the ground to do VTOL, roughly 45° to do STOL, and you can do "viffing", Vectoring In Forward Flight so you change the nozzle direction to allow for slightly better performance in turning for instance.
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This review is ok. It shares the one thing the HARRIER always had. People laughing at it, saying how shit it is, how everything else is better.
Only thing is, the thing doesn't know how to lose. It ate up better planes and enemies its whole career, doing jobs people said it couldn't do, and did them well. The US Marines extended their fleet again. At a later career point, SHAR (FRS2) had a radar and AMRAAM upgrade that made the platform BVR and for a time was the UKs premier air combat platform. And it took on all comers in that period and did at least 'well'.
Fucking ace plane. Made in a shed. To wreck your day. :)
Americans being jealous man. They've been doing it since they were mere colonies. Hur dur Britain big bad!
@@willsimpson3783 Not really. Harrier was a program they grabbed with both hands and made a better program. They did not make a mistake, its been a great platform. It outlasted and out performed many contemporaries - and did well in every conflict it flew in.
Correct me if I'm wrong but as far as I know the turning rate of the Harrier, due to the VTOL system is pretty bad and can't even hover for a long time in one place. Don't get me wrong, this plane inspired me to create some VTOL concepts and looks cool in my opinion. But the shortcomings of the plane in mostly due to the VTOL system and it's rough state (i.e. it's not a proven design yet and had a lot of compromises which later on mostly had been fixed)
@@LastGoatKnight Its hover time is only really for take off/landing phase.
Its turn rate was so bad that in repeated air to air contests it bested NATO's best (SHAR2)?
The whole family of jets is battle proven, and thus it can't be a bad thing.
As a sim only player it annoys me that it hasn't got its correct cockpit yet. Gaijin basically used the GR.1/3 cockpit and just replaced the map with a radar. The Sea Harrier FRS.1 was the same as the GR versions from the intakes backwards, but forward of the intakes, it was a completely different aircraft. It had a completely different cockpit instrument layout from the GR versions. It's seat was also raised 11 inches inside the bubble canopy for a much better rear view.
i think if you leak some manuals for it it'll get changed
ngl no one plays sim
@@mr-izuku-6369 Oh right! I must be imagining things then, when I go into games and there's at least 10 players per team 🙄
@@chrisgardiner6771 atleast 10?
@@aplosm I have played sim for 4 year and never had trouble getting in, or finding a game, and there's always a few games with at least 10 players per team.
9.7 aircraft get to see even more all-aspect missiles. just what we needed gaijin, very cool.
At least its not the frog foot that fights 8.7
@@aviatorlewski9310 at least r-60m is trash , unlike a10 9L
@@WeebLord69 don't burn yourself on that take.
Ask literally anyone who flies a plane without countermeasures within 5km of a p2w su25k whether the r60m is trash or not
@@Hadgerz r-60m wont catch anyone after 2km, unlike 9L
@@WeebLord69 telll that to korean war era jets that not only dont have flares but can't even outrun a frogfoot. At least you can keep your distance from an A-10. Oh and dare i bring up the YAK -38?
"Almost every other nation has better [insert thing here] than this"
Britain's Warthunder experience in a nutshell.
No nation has better British aircraft than Britain does though ;)
Started research on this thing the day it entered the game. Finally starting to approach the unlock, so I decided to look for a review. I am pleasantly surprised that it is not terrible!
I just got it this week, and I’ve had the most fun so far in British especially with the late grind. Consistently top-3 with 1-4 kills. I’m so used to the AV-8, it feels right at home, so I got a talisman for it to finish out the tech tree.
You're gonna trigger a lot of Scottish/Welsh/Northern Irish people by using English and British interchangeably 😂
@@nola211 yes, yes we will
Let them suffer
And yes, yes they did, hence the bajillion wars between us
@@nola211they will lad don’t underestimate the will of those Scot’s trust me they are proper patriots
You forgot the Argentinians mate
4 Aim9Ls at 10.7 makes this plane insane.
Kill base and 4 L's what's not to love haha! Cheers dude
Personally I've fallen in love with thus jet as using in after I bought it and used some ge on it the first game I got an ace wich was the first ace I've gotten in jets since I've been playing warthunder
If you want the Gripen the Harrier lets you skip grinding column 4 in the UK tree. Thats over a million RP and several million SL. You can skip the bomber column anyway. And it's great in sim... no top tier matches...
I'm not sure if you leave it out intentionally for some reason but you never seem to mention the ballistics computer for the cannons when they have them, CCIP for cannons is really helpful when attacking ground targets.
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i love my frs. it smashed out all of my top teir grinding, id rather get in this than i would the tornado(s)
The Hawker Siddeley P.1154 would be cool a supersonic harrier maybe an event vehicle
Never existed.
We have enough paper planes already lmao
Cannot get a single kill with this thing after nine flights (air battles). It is like driving Panzer IV H against Leo 2A7. I tried low altitude, high altitude, I rarely even get close to enemy to use the missile. Got shot from far greater distance than the stock missiles are able to lock on. HUGE disappointment for me.
It is much better once researched AIM-9Ls. But without it, it is a suicide machine. Still gotta be very cautios when playing uptier.
Hey Tankenstein, I'd love if you would do a stock to spaded for the XM-803/MBT-70.
I was actually planning that! Good idea!
@@Tankenstein Sweet, I was looking into researching it
@@Tankenstein i was hoping to see one for the US f4j too
My mega yacht is super sonic I'll have you know
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I wish there were more interesting lower tier planes to squadron research. It's either this or the crappy prop plane, considering the german and russian ones are not that good.
Now that I bought and half-spaded the A4E Early I can confirm that this plane is better worth it. At least for those who can't use rear-aspect AIM-9Bs, because the A4E Early has only that for AA combat. And a LOT of ground pounder which let's just say that it's not my specialty
A4e is ok in air combat, but it's mainly for ground rb where it's just op af
Yess my favourite jet 😩
Bro, you ok?
One of mine too. It's awesome.
@@fabihubi7039 Yeah , the Harrier is just a dope jet 💀
i grinded it only because i like harriers, but i dont want to grind britain/ america
10.0 if soviet tech tree
Av8b when?
Hey could you try do more naval videos, such as on coastal vessels like the VS10, the MZ1 and others, and keeping the advice for both arcade and realistic? I've noticed there's zero to no videos on the MZ1
I really want to get this and put a talisman on it just to grind the GB air tree.
Its a great grinder, keep in mind it can only grind out rank 6-8
@@h.a8681 Yeah I'll probably buy the Wyvern S4 or something else in rank 4 or 5
@@boltzxz The Sea vixen is a very good grinder, but its quite boring as it has no guns.
But yeah the Wyvern is one of the most broken planes in the game and also a great grinder
That's exactly what I did. Totally worth it. For reference I also have the Wyvern and Sea Vixen as well. This thing is quite a bit better.
@@h.a8681 if you dont mind, can you explain why can it only grind out 6-8?
I need some help i can't get it to shot the miseals
I had the same problem test driving it and I check the control settings which shows you the button to shoot them
Im grinding it out, i like harriers. Swedish t80 next.
idk how to use aim9G
Surely being able to quickly STOVL to a base to repair and re-arm for CAS is an advantage?
Well the Harrier's S/VTOL capabilities aren't of much use in air battles, VIFFing aside, however it can be tremendously useful in ground battles where Harriers can rearm at helicopter bases and return to the battle very quickly.
Grinding this to get the bombs absolutely sucks. 😂
I can really tell that you main ground vehicles because of this video. For many people this will be their first ever jet aircraft in War Thunder and instead you decide to recommend the T-80UK and M1A1 AIM?! Seriously?!?!?!
i really like it I bomb a base then get a couple of kills
nah cause bros waffling bout the 9Ls how tf do i play it with 2 9gs
stock
It's amazing.
Hey, tankenstein, can you do m6a1 stock to spaded? Thanks
the rockets... aren't they RN´s and not RP´s?
And it went to 11.0 for no reason
Someone explains to me how the directional thrust comes together plis
What do you mean? The thrust vectoring? What about it do you not understand?
As a brief explanation: The single jet engine feeds four nozzles that can each rotate, you aim them down at the ground to do VTOL, roughly 45° to do STOL, and you can do "viffing", Vectoring In Forward Flight so you change the nozzle direction to allow for slightly better performance in turning for instance.
Alt + J and alt + U, it can be found as "thrust vector" in the settings
Who has enlisted :) I have it
She harrier on my sea til I VTOL?
Bruh I didn’t mean to buy this
this was an easy buy for me. great plane. gaijin will raise the BR
i hope you didn't GE it
@@PrintScreen. y not. i might not play the game in 3 or 4 months.
@@Dbars19 lol stupid
First... 😆
this plane sucks and the grind is impossible with aim9g's