In my experience the P-63 is an anti-American design. It’s not H U G E, it doesn’t have an ungodly amount of .50s, it has a good climb rate, it can turn quite well, and it has that chonker of a cannon. That’s probably why it fits the meta so well. Combine with the average IQ of new American players who see the funny gun and the funny wing and gaijin’s stat-based balancing and you get a meta aircraft at low BR.
I think its more so the fact that we get so used to just having to improvise cause none of our other planes fit the meta that we don't know how to fly a meta plane.
@@ELITE-xn3sh speaking of Ki61, i almost got saved by a ki61 but there was like 3 fighters on my A-20, we both died, and put up a really annoying turn fight
Bro if u have over 23 chromazomes u would know that any good player in the p 63 checks their speed, plus its an insane diver at its tier and u always stay above 3k before combat (unless u just dived and got into a turn fight) so you'll just regain speed faster than a pit bull chasing after a todler
Have a premium P-63A-5 from a Soviet Union tech tree, one of the best deals in War Thunder, ever, at least for me. Good armament, good flight characteristics, you can stand your ground even against BF-109s, Spitfires and Zeroes. And a good SL and RP multiplier on top of that! All this greatness for measely 1,6k of GE. Also, i agree about people missing out on lower br games, mid and early war props are really cool and often have very distinct strong and weak sides, so gameplay with them can be very distinct from one another.
The downside of the Soviet P-63s is that you cannot choose the ammo belt for the 37mm, like you can with the US P-63s. So you have an AP round every other round.
I got a discount card on it, I play mainly tanks so I had a total of 0 planes researched. When the price was only $3 CAD it really was a hard bargain, first premium vehicle and it’s able to back up my 6.3 lineup and also my 3.7 such an awesome plane. Nothing more satisfying than putting 37mm holes in everything
One thing i will say about this plane: While it turns well, don't rely on your turning unless you're fighting something you know you heavily outturn This thing shines at climbing and getting away from stuff Its not easy to fly. If you just point and shoot you will die pretty fast, but when played properly it can truly carry
Exactly, everyone sees an american plane that can turn and starts dying to zeroes, the thing that makes the cobra shine is it can dive from any fight and the only plane that can keep up is the 190, which cant turn worth a shit.
yeah this is so true, when I was at low tiers I had the Russian p39k-1 which is really similar and I was struggling for a very long time until I figured out how to pick my fights and how to come out of them unscathed, and that's when it starts to shine
I got Pokryshkin's P-39N-0 about two years ago. It's relatively similar. It has such a high RP modifier I unlocked some jets with it while just playing for fun. Last year they removed the 37mm Air belts which is a bit of a bummer but it's still extremely powerfull at that BR
I picked it up last year and had the same experience. First aircraft I ever got a free ace crew with. I didn't even realise that was a thing until it happened with Pokryshkin's.
Same feelings about Yak-9T. It has 37mm canon but the impact is the same. You can one-shot-kill pretty much everything. Yes, you can't climb higher than everything but it still have decent capabilities in terms of climbrate and only A6Ms and Spitfires turn better but you are way faster. It is my favourite prop tbh.
I love these when I can get the cannon to work for me. I’ll have games where everything I shoot at just disintegrates, and then other games where it feels like I’m shooting spitballs. But man when it hits there’s nothing quite like it.
Unironically one of my most played US tech tree vehicles. Extremely different gameplay wise than most other US planes but even with the 37 being hard to adjust to, it's s godtier plane
Finally somebody is talking about this plane! It is my favourite low tier plane for a year or so and I started to think that it's just my weird playstyle that made it shine.
Another plane that I think isn't talked about that much would be the ITP from the season 2 battle pass back in 2021. It's a similar plane to the P-63 where it has a big cannon in the nose, but the big thing that makes it quite good in my opinion is that it also has 2x 20mm cannons in the nose. The 37mm has both full API-T and full HEI-T belts with a 50/50 mix in between, and you also get the standard 20mm ShVAK belts. The ammo belts, combined with the fact you can bring 2x FAB-100, or 8x RBS-82 means that you can also ground pound quite effectively while still retaining the ability to fight off other players. I consider myself to be "above average" in skill level, but I was repeatedly getting 5-6 kill ARB games with this when it was first added at 3.7. It's now since been moved to 4.0, but I still believe it's quite good despite that. It also pairs perfectly with the lineup of: KV-1E, T-34E (and the t-34e stz), BTR-152A, and the KV-2 (1940) (I wish I had this one, but I instead substitute the normal KV-2 (1939)). I regularly get 10+ kill games with this lineup in GRB, since you're nigh unkillable in the KV-1E, and when you do die you can hop into one of the most effective fighter bombers at that BR. I'd love to see a video on it since it's been mostly forgotten about.
As someone who flew the soviet P-63 a lot I must say that this thing was one of the best planes in the game, back when it was 3.7, and I have no idea what went through gaijin's mind to lower it (probably statistics) Only problems I see with it is that it has a little less MG ammo now and the soviet one only has a mixed belt for the 37mm
I love the P-39s and P-63s. I wish Gaijin would add the P-63D, it had a proper bubble canopy, the highest hourse power of any P-63 and slightly larger wings. The only reason it didn't enter production was because the P-51 and P-47's were already in production and there was no real need for it.
Quick note- the nose wasn't designed just for the cannon. It was also supposed to hold a turbocharger similar to the p38 and p47. While most of the world was embracing superchargers, the USAAF was investing heavily in turbos, which paid off very well in the p38 and p47 high alt. The experimental p39s with a turbo flew incredibly high and fast, but turbos were limited and they removed it from the design. Greg's airplanes and automobiles did an awesome video about it
i love the P-29 and P-63s so much. Like a dogfighter a-10. My great grandfather worked on both of these planes, and they are my favorite american planes in warthunder because of that, and how ridiculous they are.
I always loved this thing, as a Russian player as most of us do I started playing on Soviet tree first, so I got used to huge cannons with limited ammo capacity and when I switched to grinding other trees this plane was obvious choice from an American tree, and I felt at home flying it, I grinded most of planes using it and come to understanding why Soviet pilots lived it so much
low tier = fun tier. my comfort zone is around 2.3-4.0 in planes and tanks. these are relatively relaxed battles where i dont have to hurry after a long working day
i went into this vidoe thinking it would be alright but i now find myself at the end of the video having enjoyed all of it, well done you seriously deserve more views and subscribers
That whole side of the american plane tech tree is awesome. Idk why but having massive caliber cannon in the front of the plane is so powerful. The ability to one tap someone in low teir AB or RB air battles is amazing
I remember when I discovered the P-39. It attracted me with it's unusual engine layout and the large cannon in the nose but when I started playing it I quickly found that it was actually a great aircraft to fly. So I was excited when I saw a similar looking aircraft a little farther up the tree called the P-63. I had a blast spading the P-63 and even researched all P-63's in the American tech tree. To this day I recommend people play both aircraft as they are both sleeper hit's in the tech tree. As for why no one talks about it? For one thing it wasn't very popular with American Pilots irl, only the P-39 was used in fount line service with the US and UK and both hated the plane for it's lack of high alt performance. This meant that pretty much all P-39's and P-63's were sent to the Soviet Union whose pilot's absolutely loved the P-39 but were forbidden from using the P-63 over Europe meaning the P-63 basically saw no combat. Thus leaving the P-39 to continue on as the plane that the allies hated but the Soviets loved while the P-63 basically fell into obscurity.
The P-39 and P-63 were my favorite aircraft in Warthunder when I played it. I loved dunking on people with the cannon, firing 1 or a short burst of rounds and watching a plane evaporate was always fun. But I stopped playing Warthunder as Jets became everyone's focus, that part of the game was uninteresting for me.
I still play props even though i have missile boats. Good therapy. And 3.0-5.0 is great depending on how much turning you want cus enough people know what they're doing its not a seal club, but still not in an age where the fight was determined two minutes before someone shot first.
This is exactly how the Yak 9P used to be back in the day, it was a closet spitfire that had a decent top speed and acceleration, but climb rate wasn’t the best. The guns feel very similar to Korean War MiGs. The Russians actually loved the P-39 because of its familiar feeling armament
In 2.3 - 3.3 sim battles the P-39 is a beast and if you know how to use the lift it generates over 250mph you can just about out turn anything at speed. It's insane, the P-63 is everything turned up to 11 💪
I know I’m late, but the Soviet P-63-A10 is a gem at 4.0. Huge sl bonus and a great MM. it’s also the first event vehicle I ground out so there’s a spot in my heart for it.
The Stalinking is one of my favorites, the cobras in wt are just little candy coated goodness. Fun Factoid...you can't tell in game but I got to walk up to a USAAC P39 and P63 and they are TEENY TINY, of all the planes on display they were the most miniscule, I swear a Kia looks large by comparison.
This thing seems like a seal clubber until you realize that the real life counterpart was just as amazing. It was one of the least produced planes of the war but it has an insane reputation especially among the Soviets. It was one of the least produced planes of the war yet most Soviet aces flew p39s, and the best are rumored to have actually flown p63s. Ive never found solid numbers of the cobras performance, but just knowing how they were underproduced yet fought through the whole war in almost every front and produced top aces, id say theyre probably one of the best fighters of the war. Damn shame the 63 never got its turbo supercharger. Also i have a theory that the reason this plane isnt more celebrated is because america doesnt want to admit their best plane was flown by russians, and russians dont wanna admit their best plane was built in america. But yea, only plane that comes close to it is the f4u, yak9, and ki61. If you die to anything else its user error.
The P-39s/63s were not and are not talked about much because they were just not what the Americans wanted out of a fighter. They performed best at low altitude instead of high altitude and they were maintenance nightmares due to their unusual internals. When the Soviets got their hands on them through lend-lease, they fit right in and were used extensively. The issue of maintenance was completely ignored, instead the Soviets pushed these planes to maximum performance until they broke because they could and did always get new ones. In-game they are an excellent way to teach players how to make the most out of their powerful but limited cannon ammo, a skill that conveniently carries all the way up to the Soviet jets.
Also A-10/C-5 has everything that A5 and has 3 bomb (2drops). This and 37mm AP belt - it's just a deadly combination during the tank RB. Also P63 is one of the best all rounders at low attitude (she's fast and quite powerful engine) what makes her even more deadly on tank RBs. It's something different that other US planes but it's nonetheless a hidden and forgotten gem. A-10/C-5 used to be a main pick for SqBs. I have over 2k battles on that thing. I know what I'm talking about xD
I liked the p-63 so much that I unlocked the stripey yellow one as well and would just bring out all three in arcade mode. I was disappointed there weren't more US planes with giant one shot sniper cannons.
the french p-39 in Ground RB is fantastic even at higher tiers. you can evade everyone and deliver a clean bomb or get assists by pestering with the xanon
I legit had some of the most fun playing WT with the P63 @ 4.0(the bumblebee camo one). I like the mid engine layout, except instead of a Ferrari, its more of a Porsche Boxster. Not the best, but still good enough at everything to make it a blast to use. Its definitely not a Pontiac Fiero.
If you think the P63 is broken, then oh boy let me introduce you to the first P38 at the grand battle rating of 3.0! Seriously, its so bloody broken. 20mm AM canon that basically shreds everything in sight, an amazing climb rate and cowler flaps. Like holy shit the cowler flaps are a game changer. You could get into a dogfight with a spitfire, deploy them and then the poor teaboo realises to his absolute horror that he cant out turn you.
In reality it was a good aircraft that just didn’t do the things that the US needed at the time. The US in Europe needed fast high altitude interceptor and escort aircraft. The P47, P51 and somewhat the P38 could do that but the P63/39 cannot. In the Pacific, The Hellcat, Corsair (and P38) were performing exceptionally well against the Japanese in an environment that the P63/39 doesn’t really fit into. But in the Eastern front it performed very well. Since the aircraft performs well at low to mid altitudes, it fit the soviet air fighting style very nicely, since in the eastern front the majority of the fighting took place under 3000 meters. It’s a good plane that just didn’t do what the US wanted, but that does not mean it’s bad at all
One the things that pisses me off the most is trying to grind to get out of low tier props either the enemy rams you or 5 teammates rush to steal your kill from u and ram u
Had two games and had two 9 kill games with this bird, really awesome plane! Really helped me save my ammo and learned how to Burst fire rather than spray n pray
This plane has got to be one of my favourite American aircraft, it climbs better than most American fighters and has a big gun it is also visually pretty beautiful in my opinion though the P-63 A-10 was pretty hard to spade it performed great once I had all the mods
Airacobra was bad for USAF, because pilots was trained to shot from long range, so USA give some airacobras to SSSR, where they was very good, because soviet pilots was trained to shot from short distance, so they shot 37mm shel to the enemy airplane, best pilots had more than 50 kills with it (sry about my english)
it was bad for the US because it was a low alt fighter and everyone they were fighting could fly better and higher to boot. Hell wildcats used aircobras as zero bait. the real reason it was so good for the USSR was its ability to devastate bomber formations.
I play 5 air trees and have them at 3.0-1.7. Gaijin recently moved the P-400 to 2.0. It is not necessarily overpowered there, but it is a struggle for my Fury and Gladiator because if it is on the enemy team it will chop your tail off out of no where and if it is on your team it steals your kills.
Love the P-63...I stumbled across it one day during my grind and it became my goto at that BR... My game nic is the same as it is here, see ya on the battlefield...
I fell like the reason most people don’t play these lower battle rating once they get top tier is because of the low sl and rp modifiers. Idk how gajin could change that but that is what is keeping me away from things like the P-63.
The irony is that the SL modifiers were far higher across the board a few months back. Back then a good game without premium could net you about 60k now it nets you at best 20-30k. Toptier formerly had modifiers around 500% give or take 50% while lowtier had 100-200%. No toptier makes at best 200% give or take 50% and lowtier is down to 30% at some points. Research has always been aweful as it was a constant all or nothing even after the economy change, you could be under the best 5 and still get nothing in terms of RP and SL. Suggestions have been made enough that the top 5 of the losing team get the winning modifiers as a motivation (A for effort) but alas you know GJ regarding giving the player that has braincells and can play good.
Absolutely l9ove this plane. And if you think its good in air RB, play ground RB at that tier level and spawn the P-63 in. It is amazing for its maneuverability, structural strength in dives and pullouts, fast plus the armament is great for killing tanks. I've even played that exact plane in a top tier battle and still ended up with 4 kills on jets.
I feel that the p63 is a good learner plane. Decent flight performance to teach the basics but it’s skill ceiling is fairly low. It can turn well but only for a bit as it doesn’t retain much energy. It’s low speed thrust is abysmal meaning stall maneuvers are out of the question. It’s decently fast but it’s acceleration isn’t great along with its climb.
Do you not wep when you fly? This thing out accelerates pretty much every plane it goes up against, out dives everything easily, and turns better than any other american. If i go up in a cobra in air rb or ground rb i expect 3 kills, unless i dont see that many targets. Its a fantastic plane.
@@daslynnter9841 it does have good turnrate and speed but in a dogfight it loses speed fairly quickly and the main reason you can get so many kills is simple, sealclubbing most newer players wont know that taking you vertical will lead you to lose a lot of thrust and meaning even at an energy advantage the p63 can stall before a plane with less energy but better low speed thrust.
I love this plane series so much and it sucks that historically America didn't (that is why the next two have target camo by default) makes me wish the P-59 Airacomet was a tech tree vehicle ;(
once you get used to them and handel them carefully the cobra family whoops big butt in simulator mode. You just gotta be carefull of stalling since it's hard to recover because of the mid mounted engine.
a year later and this thing still slaps, i consider myself an okay player, but in the p-63-a5 i would find myself clutching 1v5's and getting an average of 8 kills over 5 matches, and on a bad game id still get like 4 kills. tldr p-63 slaps
One thing that the P-63 doesn't do well at is stall fighting due to the terrible low speed prop efficiency. Other than that, it's an excellent aircraft.
Ki-100-II is the most broken prop I play with, I routinely get 3+ kill games and recently had an 8 kill game with it. The things armament is absolutely busted and it has pretty good flight performance imo.
The cobras and the Yak 9T are so underrated if you can aim. Also nobody climbs in Air RB in that Br range most people just want to farm ground kills to get bombs for ground rb.
The P-39 and P-63's are, generally, highly underrated. I especially enjoy the French and Soviet lend-lease variants. Can you out climb a Bf-109? No. Can you out turn an A6M5? No. Can you out gun a P-47? No. Can you out roll a Fw-109D? No. Can you out tank an IL-2? No. But it's performance in all those characteristics is such that you don't really care if you're not #1 in any given category since you will inevitably find the enemy's weaknesses in short order. They are such forgiving planes to fly and don't require a PhD in the Dark Arts of Air Realistic to squeeze serious performance out of them. Why they are not talked about or used more is beyond me. Perhaps it's a historical bias thing kind of like the mythos surrounding the Tiger so other options get overlooked?
Most players will grab this thing, fly to the slaughter that happens at the start, struggle to hit anything with the 37mms and get out turned by some japanese fighter. Its just not a noob friendly vehicle
You should try the mörkö morane. its similiar to the P-63 in many ways except that its at 2.0 and if you equip the smaller caliber cannon you can use API (c) bullets on the groundtarget belt which have a cermedium core and will go through your enemies like they are made of butter
if you like a big ol cannon the yak-9 k i think that has a unneedingly big gun that 1-3 shots bombers and consistently rips off the wings of fighters with one shot
The next P-36s after this one (The yellow ones) are pretty daunting since after the ~50k SL cost of this model, the next ones just JUMP into 105k + 30k training cost. Insane
Yeah, I take this into 4.3 and kill all the bombers with like two shots before getting in a Mustang. If I jump into a Mustang, I die way quicker than if I jump into a P-36A-5, usually lasting a whole game with upwards of five kills in Arcade.
The yak 1b is an even better seal clubber Imo. I have the highest kd ratio of any plane in the yak 1 b something like 20 to 1. You can literally win every match you play in with it if you just climb and force your opponents down.
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man I used this plane to unlock rank 2 3 and some of 4 completely in RB. This plane is insane
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In my experience the P-63 is an anti-American design. It’s not H U G E, it doesn’t have an ungodly amount of .50s, it has a good climb rate, it can turn quite well, and it has that chonker of a cannon. That’s probably why it fits the meta so well. Combine with the average IQ of new American players who see the funny gun and the funny wing and gaijin’s stat-based balancing and you get a meta aircraft at low BR.
This right here ^^^^
I love the Cobra line.
Them cobras have a very special way of fighting i love , but i would choose the Ki-61 every day for 3.7
I think its more so the fact that we get so used to just having to improvise cause none of our other planes fit the meta that we don't know how to fly a meta plane.
@@ELITE-xn3sh speaking of Ki61, i almost got saved by a ki61 but there was like 3 fighters on my A-20, we both died, and put up a really annoying turn fight
Its an unspoken rule in the P63 community to not talk on how good that plane is
P39 still better, major flaw of the p63 is that it is a boat at low speeds
Bro if u have over 23 chromazomes u would know that any good player in the p 63 checks their speed, plus its an insane diver at its tier and u always stay above 3k before combat (unless u just dived and got into a turn fight) so you'll just regain speed faster than a pit bull chasing after a todler
Have a premium P-63A-5 from a Soviet Union tech tree, one of the best deals in War Thunder, ever, at least for me. Good armament, good flight characteristics, you can stand your ground even against BF-109s, Spitfires and Zeroes. And a good SL and RP multiplier on top of that! All this greatness for measely 1,6k of GE. Also, i agree about people missing out on lower br games, mid and early war props are really cool and often have very distinct strong and weak sides, so gameplay with them can be very distinct from one another.
Same with the premium p39, it used to be so OP at making SL it had a 580% sl without premium account, but they nerfed it to 480 a year ago.
that vehicle was my first premium and its such a good begginer premium
The downside of the Soviet P-63s is that you cannot choose the ammo belt for the 37mm, like you can with the US P-63s. So you have an AP round every other round.
@@Wernerrrrr It is 3.3, often you don't even need your big pp gun, .50 cals alone do the job just fine most of the time.
I got a discount card on it, I play mainly tanks so I had a total of 0 planes researched. When the price was only $3 CAD it really was a hard bargain, first premium vehicle and it’s able to back up my 6.3 lineup and also my 3.7 such an awesome plane. Nothing more satisfying than putting 37mm holes in everything
One thing i will say about this plane: While it turns well, don't rely on your turning unless you're fighting something you know you heavily outturn
This thing shines at climbing and getting away from stuff
Its not easy to fly. If you just point and shoot you will die pretty fast, but when played properly it can truly carry
Exactly, everyone sees an american plane that can turn and starts dying to zeroes, the thing that makes the cobra shine is it can dive from any fight and the only plane that can keep up is the 190, which cant turn worth a shit.
That plane is a class Canon tho.
It feels like even a single shot from a. 50cal kills it.
yeah this is so true, when I was at low tiers I had the Russian p39k-1 which is really similar and I was struggling for a very long time until I figured out how to pick my fights and how to come out of them unscathed, and that's when it starts to shine
Back than when i just started playing war thunder, and began to switch from AB to RB, the P63 was probably one if my most used props
I got Pokryshkin's P-39N-0 about two years ago. It's relatively similar. It has such a high RP modifier I unlocked some jets with it while just playing for fun. Last year they removed the 37mm Air belts which is a bit of a bummer but it's still extremely powerfull at that BR
I picked it up last year and had the same experience. First aircraft I ever got a free ace crew with. I didn't even realise that was a thing until it happened with Pokryshkin's.
Along with the very similar P-39, this is one of my absolute favorites.
P-39 is not very similar to the P-63, even if they're the same family they handle very differently
@@IHaevATajpo idiot
Same feelings about Yak-9T. It has 37mm canon but the impact is the same. You can one-shot-kill pretty much everything. Yes, you can't climb higher than everything but it still have decent capabilities in terms of climbrate and only A6Ms and Spitfires turn better but you are way faster. It is my favourite prop tbh.
3.0 airframe that can see 5.0 planes because of a gun, very nice
The 9T is a monster in ground rb
@@IHaevATajpo doesnt matter as long as you hit your shots
the p-63 is a hidden gem that's why nobody talks about it
absolute gem of a plane this thing is a beast and i was so confused why people are not talking about it
I love these when I can get the cannon to work for me. I’ll have games where everything I shoot at just disintegrates, and then other games where it feels like I’m shooting spitballs. But man when it hits there’s nothing quite like it.
Now play the P-39N-0 which for some reason got moved down to 2.7. You'll love it
It W H A T? Bruh these things are already BS as it is
i think it was the p39q5 that got moved to 2.7
@@onixbaron613 they both are now...
It is criminal to put it at 2.7...
fuckin love it
Unironically one of my most played US tech tree vehicles. Extremely different gameplay wise than most other US planes but even with the 37 being hard to adjust to, it's s godtier plane
Finally somebody is talking about this plane! It is my favourite low tier plane for a year or so and I started to think that it's just my weird playstyle that made it shine.
I kept thinking is it just me or is this totally badass
Thank you for this content! I wish more people talk more about low tier planes, and gaijin to add more low tier planes
I love how it looks, and how it's a mid engine, makes me think of a bullpup rifle, super awesome plane.
Another plane that I think isn't talked about that much would be the ITP from the season 2 battle pass back in 2021. It's a similar plane to the P-63 where it has a big cannon in the nose, but the big thing that makes it quite good in my opinion is that it also has 2x 20mm cannons in the nose. The 37mm has both full API-T and full HEI-T belts with a 50/50 mix in between, and you also get the standard 20mm ShVAK belts. The ammo belts, combined with the fact you can bring 2x FAB-100, or 8x RBS-82 means that you can also ground pound quite effectively while still retaining the ability to fight off other players. I consider myself to be "above average" in skill level, but I was repeatedly getting 5-6 kill ARB games with this when it was first added at 3.7. It's now since been moved to 4.0, but I still believe it's quite good despite that. It also pairs perfectly with the lineup of: KV-1E, T-34E (and the t-34e stz), BTR-152A, and the KV-2 (1940) (I wish I had this one, but I instead substitute the normal KV-2 (1939)). I regularly get 10+ kill games with this lineup in GRB, since you're nigh unkillable in the KV-1E, and when you do die you can hop into one of the most effective fighter bombers at that BR. I'd love to see a video on it since it's been mostly forgotten about.
As someone who flew the soviet P-63 a lot I must say that this thing was one of the best planes in the game, back when it was 3.7, and I have no idea what went through gaijin's mind to lower it (probably statistics)
Only problems I see with it is that it has a little less MG ammo now and the soviet one only has a mixed belt for the 37mm
I love the P-39s and P-63s. I wish Gaijin would add the P-63D, it had a proper bubble canopy, the highest hourse power of any P-63 and slightly larger wings. The only reason it didn't enter production was because the P-51 and P-47's were already in production and there was no real need for it.
also 37mm + 3x500lb bomb = excellent CAS plane
I haven’t played ground in years, but I do remember using one of the p-63’s for CAS when I was playing it. Meme cannon go BANG BANG BANG
Nope, well semi nope, this model only has the single 500lb😂 still a viable CAS plane
Quick note- the nose wasn't designed just for the cannon. It was also supposed to hold a turbocharger similar to the p38 and p47.
While most of the world was embracing superchargers, the USAAF was investing heavily in turbos, which paid off very well in the p38 and p47 high alt. The experimental p39s with a turbo flew incredibly high and fast, but turbos were limited and they removed it from the design. Greg's airplanes and automobiles did an awesome video about it
i love the P-29 and P-63s so much. Like a dogfighter a-10. My great grandfather worked on both of these planes, and they are my favorite american planes in warthunder because of that, and how ridiculous they are.
I always loved this thing, as a Russian player as most of us do I started playing on Soviet tree first, so I got used to huge cannons with limited ammo capacity and when I switched to grinding other trees this plane was obvious choice from an American tree, and I felt at home flying it, I grinded most of planes using it and come to understanding why Soviet pilots lived it so much
low tier = fun tier. my comfort zone is around 2.3-4.0 in planes and tanks. these are relatively relaxed battles where i dont have to hurry after a long working day
i went into this vidoe thinking it would be alright but i now find myself at the end of the video having enjoyed all of it, well done you seriously deserve more views and subscribers
That whole side of the american plane tech tree is awesome. Idk why but having massive caliber cannon in the front of the plane is so powerful. The ability to one tap someone in low teir AB or RB air battles is amazing
I remember when I discovered the P-39.
It attracted me with it's unusual engine layout and the large cannon in the nose but when I started playing it I quickly found that it was actually a great aircraft to fly.
So I was excited when I saw a similar looking aircraft a little farther up the tree called the P-63.
I had a blast spading the P-63 and even researched all P-63's in the American tech tree.
To this day I recommend people play both aircraft as they are both sleeper hit's in the tech tree.
As for why no one talks about it?
For one thing it wasn't very popular with American Pilots irl, only the P-39 was used in fount line service with the US and UK and both hated the plane for it's lack of high alt performance.
This meant that pretty much all P-39's and P-63's were sent to the Soviet Union whose pilot's absolutely loved the P-39 but were forbidden from using the P-63 over Europe meaning the P-63 basically saw no combat.
Thus leaving the P-39 to continue on as the plane that the allies hated but the Soviets loved while the P-63 basically fell into obscurity.
This thing was a life saver in grinding low tier props early on. Seeing this makes me wanna go pop 109's again.
I love the fact that this thing is basically great at almost everything.
The P-39 and P-63 were my favorite aircraft in Warthunder when I played it. I loved dunking on people with the cannon, firing 1 or a short burst of rounds and watching a plane evaporate was always fun. But I stopped playing Warthunder as Jets became everyone's focus, that part of the game was uninteresting for me.
I still play props even though i have missile boats. Good therapy. And 3.0-5.0 is great depending on how much turning you want cus enough people know what they're doing its not a seal club, but still not in an age where the fight was determined two minutes before someone shot first.
The prop games are still filled to the brim with people as I instaqueue.
This is exactly how the Yak 9P used to be back in the day, it was a closet spitfire that had a decent top speed and acceleration, but climb rate wasn’t the best.
The guns feel very similar to Korean War MiGs.
The Russians actually loved the P-39 because of its familiar feeling armament
Notification came in late but it's always a good morning when my favorite WT creator uploads. Keep up that good work
In 2.3 - 3.3 sim battles the P-39 is a beast and if you know how to use the lift it generates over 250mph you can just about out turn anything at speed. It's insane, the P-63 is everything turned up to 11 💪
I know I’m late, but the Soviet P-63-A10 is a gem at 4.0. Huge sl bonus and a great MM. it’s also the first event vehicle I ground out so there’s a spot in my heart for it.
The p39 Q 0 with ace crew is the most op low teir plane I've played. In arcade ace crew turntime is like 18 seconds
This thing and the P38 are beasts at their tiers
The P39 and 63 America's first A10 since the A10 too was designed around a big gun
The British hurricane is similar with x2 40mm canons. A well placed shot can one tap clip both wings off of a fighter bomber. Nothing more satisfying.
The Stalinking is one of my favorites, the cobras in wt are just little candy coated goodness. Fun Factoid...you can't tell in game but I got to walk up to a USAAC P39 and P63 and they are TEENY TINY, of all the planes on display they were the most miniscule, I swear a Kia looks large by comparison.
Spaded this machine two weeks ago and I can confirm that it's very good
I remember using the p-39, basically the same plane just with smaller guns and had a similar experience
P63 has been my main for a little while; love the 37mm. Extremely satisfying
This thing seems like a seal clubber until you realize that the real life counterpart was just as amazing. It was one of the least produced planes of the war but it has an insane reputation especially among the Soviets.
It was one of the least produced planes of the war yet most Soviet aces flew p39s, and the best are rumored to have actually flown p63s. Ive never found solid numbers of the cobras performance, but just knowing how they were underproduced yet fought through the whole war in almost every front and produced top aces, id say theyre probably one of the best fighters of the war. Damn shame the 63 never got its turbo supercharger.
Also i have a theory that the reason this plane isnt more celebrated is because america doesnt want to admit their best plane was flown by russians, and russians dont wanna admit their best plane was built in america.
But yea, only plane that comes close to it is the f4u, yak9, and ki61. If you die to anything else its user error.
This is the planes that made me like air rb and the fact that cannon one shot everything is satisfying
The P-39s/63s were not and are not talked about much because they were just not what the Americans wanted out of a fighter. They performed best at low altitude instead of high altitude and they were maintenance nightmares due to their unusual internals. When the Soviets got their hands on them through lend-lease, they fit right in and were used extensively. The issue of maintenance was completely ignored, instead the Soviets pushed these planes to maximum performance until they broke because they could and did always get new ones.
In-game they are an excellent way to teach players how to make the most out of their powerful but limited cannon ammo, a skill that conveniently carries all the way up to the Soviet jets.
Also A-10/C-5 has everything that A5 and has 3 bomb (2drops). This and 37mm AP belt - it's just a deadly combination during the tank RB.
Also P63 is one of the best all rounders at low attitude (she's fast and quite powerful engine) what makes her even more deadly on tank RBs.
It's something different that other US planes but it's nonetheless a hidden and forgotten gem. A-10/C-5 used to be a main pick for SqBs.
I have over 2k battles on that thing. I know what I'm talking about xD
Absolutely loved playing these. Also the P-39, but this one was way better.
That's a good question. THe P63 F would be an excellent update to US tech tree for tier IV or V
I liked the p-63 so much that I unlocked the stripey yellow one as well and would just bring out all three in arcade mode. I was disappointed there weren't more US planes with giant one shot sniper cannons.
this has long been one of my favorite USA prop planes because of its troll cannon
the french p-39 in Ground RB is fantastic even at higher tiers. you can evade everyone and deliver a clean bomb or get assists by pestering with the xanon
I legit had some of the most fun playing WT with the P63 @ 4.0(the bumblebee camo one). I like the mid engine layout, except instead of a Ferrari, its more of a Porsche Boxster. Not the best, but still good enough at everything to make it a blast to use. Its definitely not a Pontiac Fiero.
If you think the P63 is broken, then oh boy let me introduce you to the first P38 at the grand battle rating of 3.0! Seriously, its so bloody broken. 20mm AM canon that basically shreds everything in sight, an amazing climb rate and cowler flaps. Like holy shit the cowler flaps are a game changer. You could get into a dogfight with a spitfire, deploy them and then the poor teaboo realises to his absolute horror that he cant out turn you.
I currently main the 63 and it really helped me grind for other planes.
In reality it was a good aircraft that just didn’t do the things that the US needed at the time. The US in Europe needed fast high altitude interceptor and escort aircraft. The P47, P51 and somewhat the P38 could do that but the P63/39 cannot. In the Pacific, The Hellcat, Corsair (and P38) were performing exceptionally well against the Japanese in an environment that the P63/39 doesn’t really fit into. But in the Eastern front it performed very well. Since the aircraft performs well at low to mid altitudes, it fit the soviet air fighting style very nicely, since in the eastern front the majority of the fighting took place under 3000 meters. It’s a good plane that just didn’t do what the US wanted, but that does not mean it’s bad at all
when in combat and out of ammo you must become the ammo
One the things that pisses me off the most is trying to grind to get out of low tier props either the enemy rams you or 5 teammates rush to steal your kill from u and ram u
That’s how I feel about the Yak-9K fridge launcher
Always... Well, sometimes fun teaching buddies to play..
Had two games and had two 9 kill games with this bird, really awesome plane! Really helped me save my ammo and learned how to Burst fire rather than spray n pray
This plane has got to be one of my favourite American aircraft, it climbs better than most American fighters and has a big gun it is also visually pretty beautiful in my opinion though the P-63 A-10 was pretty hard to spade it performed great once I had all the mods
Back when I played, we used the p-39 for 1v1s in tournaments
Airacobra was bad for USAF, because pilots was trained to shot from long range, so USA give some airacobras to SSSR, where they was very good, because soviet pilots was trained to shot from short distance, so they shot 37mm shel to the enemy airplane, best pilots had more than 50 kills with it
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it was bad for the US because it was a low alt fighter and everyone they were fighting could fly better and higher to boot. Hell wildcats used aircobras as zero bait. the real reason it was so good for the USSR was its ability to devastate bomber formations.
I revisited the Corsair C and fell back in love again
I just found out this too like at the start of summer and i really love this plane now
I play 5 air trees and have them at 3.0-1.7. Gaijin recently moved the P-400 to 2.0. It is not necessarily overpowered there, but it is a struggle for my Fury and Gladiator because if it is on the enemy team it will chop your tail off out of no where and if it is on your team it steals your kills.
With over a 1000 hours in war thunder, the kingcobra has my favorite plane from the beginning
The P-400, P-39 and P-63 (don't have one but assume it's the same) are my 3 favourite planes
Love the P-63...I stumbled across it one day during my grind and it became my goto at that BR... My game nic is the same as it is here, see ya on the battlefield...
I fell like the reason most people don’t play these lower battle rating once they get top tier is because of the low sl and rp modifiers. Idk how gajin could change that but that is what is keeping me away from things like the P-63.
Jap prem 109 or corsair. Super low br and high SL modifiers. Try those
The irony is that the SL modifiers were far higher across the board a few months back. Back then a good game without premium could net you about 60k now it nets you at best 20-30k. Toptier formerly had modifiers around 500% give or take 50% while lowtier had 100-200%. No toptier makes at best 200% give or take 50% and lowtier is down to 30% at some points. Research has always been aweful as it was a constant all or nothing even after the economy change, you could be under the best 5 and still get nothing in terms of RP and SL. Suggestions have been made enough that the top 5 of the losing team get the winning modifiers as a motivation (A for effort) but alas you know GJ regarding giving the player that has braincells and can play good.
Absolutely l9ove this plane. And if you think its good in air RB, play ground RB at that tier level and spawn the P-63 in. It is amazing for its maneuverability, structural strength in dives and pullouts, fast plus the armament is great for killing tanks. I've even played that exact plane in a top tier battle and still ended up with 4 kills on jets.
Speaking of seal clubbers, the swedish Tier 2 premium prop is also insane for its BR.
Always said this to my friends, the kingconbra series of aircraft is awesome and they would always laugh at mr
I feel that the p63 is a good learner plane. Decent flight performance to teach the basics but it’s skill ceiling is fairly low. It can turn well but only for a bit as it doesn’t retain much energy. It’s low speed thrust is abysmal meaning stall maneuvers are out of the question. It’s decently fast but it’s acceleration isn’t great along with its climb.
Do you not wep when you fly? This thing out accelerates pretty much every plane it goes up against, out dives everything easily, and turns better than any other american.
If i go up in a cobra in air rb or ground rb i expect 3 kills, unless i dont see that many targets. Its a fantastic plane.
@@daslynnter9841 it does have good turnrate and speed but in a dogfight it loses speed fairly quickly and the main reason you can get so many kills is simple, sealclubbing most newer players wont know that taking you vertical will lead you to lose a lot of thrust and meaning even at an energy advantage the p63 can stall before a plane with less energy but better low speed thrust.
@@mustangproluckyh.3686 these people don't understand low speed thrust
i like one low tier plane too, its the i-16 type 27, it has 2 20 mm cannons and 2 mgs at 3.0 BR. And great maneuverability
Thank you for reintroducing me to this plane, just clutched a 1v6 in it
That thing was so fun when I was new to arcade.
I love this plane series so much and it sucks that historically America didn't (that is why the next two have target camo by default) makes me wish the P-59 Airacomet was a tech tree vehicle ;(
once you get used to them and handel them carefully the cobra family whoops big butt in simulator mode. You just gotta be carefull of stalling since it's hard to recover because of the mid mounted engine.
Ayo finally someone noticed this thing dangerous
a year later and this thing still slaps, i consider myself an okay player, but in the p-63-a5 i would find myself clutching 1v5's and getting an average of 8 kills over 5 matches, and on a bad game id still get like 4 kills. tldr p-63 slaps
One thing that the P-63 doesn't do well at is stall fighting due to the terrible low speed prop efficiency. Other than that, it's an excellent aircraft.
Micheal finnaly got the discord server he wanted
P-63C is more fun to me, i've had the wing blown off multiple times and been able to land a destroyed plane and repair it.
As a p63 player, this thing does slap
Ki-100-II is the most broken prop I play with, I routinely get 3+ kill games and recently had an 8 kill game with it. The things armament is absolutely busted and it has pretty good flight performance imo.
The cobras and the Yak 9T are so underrated if you can aim. Also nobody climbs in Air RB in that Br range most people just want to farm ground kills to get bombs for ground rb.
The P-39 and P-63's are, generally, highly underrated. I especially enjoy the French and Soviet lend-lease variants.
Can you out climb a Bf-109? No.
Can you out turn an A6M5? No.
Can you out gun a P-47? No.
Can you out roll a Fw-109D? No.
Can you out tank an IL-2? No.
But it's performance in all those characteristics is such that you don't really care if you're not #1 in any given category since you will inevitably find the enemy's weaknesses in short order. They are such forgiving planes to fly and don't require a PhD in the Dark Arts of Air Realistic to squeeze serious performance out of them. Why they are not talked about or used more is beyond me. Perhaps it's a historical bias thing kind of like the mythos surrounding the Tiger so other options get overlooked?
Most players will grab this thing, fly to the slaughter that happens at the start, struggle to hit anything with the 37mms and get out turned by some japanese fighter. Its just not a noob friendly vehicle
You can outrun everything at low altitude
Also consider gaijin compleately forgot bombers exist.
You should try the mörkö morane. its similiar to the P-63 in many ways except that its at 2.0 and if you equip the smaller caliber cannon you can use API (c) bullets on the groundtarget belt which have a cermedium core and will go through your enemies like they are made of butter
if you like a big ol cannon the yak-9 k i think that has a unneedingly big gun that 1-3 shots bombers and consistently rips off the wings of fighters with one shot
The next P-36s after this one (The yellow ones) are pretty daunting since after the ~50k SL cost of this model, the next ones just JUMP into 105k + 30k training cost. Insane
Yeah why is that?
@@EmperorProd grindthunder
@@RandomFBIguy but it's just for the yellow p63s the others are at their usual price
@@EmperorProd Bummer cuz I don't wanna use em but I need to purchase them for P-82
@@RandomFBIguy same here
watching ur video i think the p63 is amazing great video
Last left in game I won a 1v5, they were dumb though. They were separated so I could kill one before another would show up
mmm i was just saying today that this video is so fucking good
Yeah, I take this into 4.3 and kill all the bombers with like two shots before getting in a Mustang.
If I jump into a Mustang, I die way quicker than if I jump into a P-36A-5, usually lasting a whole game with upwards of five kills in Arcade.
Basically the American yak-9t, I have mastered the 9k's cannon love one popping planes out the sky. Try the 9k its amazing
Its even more fun when you have the soviet premium version of the plane :)
The yak 1b is an even better seal clubber Imo. I have the highest kd ratio of any plane in the yak 1 b something like 20 to 1. You can literally win every match you play in with it if you just climb and force your opponents down.