It’s a gas guzzler, especially when you take off vertically. And you barely can carry much ordnance in real life if your planing on actually using the VTOL. And if you don’t what’s the point?
You're right, it's pretty unfair, in the current state of the MM it's uptiers all the way up from 6.0. cus nobody wants to play a lower BR plane that gets shat on. Kinda a shame how compression has killed what used to be the favourite BR range 8.7-9.7 (speedyish jets with guns, nothing worse than a 9E to dodge). Ah good times.
@@dirkbastiaandejong997if it got your whole tree I’m assuming it’s good? Lol. I’m tier 4 props right now trying to research the rest of the props to get to the Cold War tier 5 jets but I’m very much thinking of buying the av8 to grind the rest of the tree, you think it’s worth it?
@@Zakilgore Its a pretty damn good aircraft, but I dont know if its as good as it was when it was still fairly new. TBH Id wait for a sale before buying it if you are gonna.
I like to bind them to 2 and 3 on the number row, so it's not too far from the WASD keys. But I don't think it's optimal. I'm sure there's an easier placement if you are a full time thrust vector gamer.
@@thementalgentleman nice! Honestly doesn't seem that bad! Right now I have them bound to alt+w/alt+s, which I thought was a good idea until I figured out I can't use vectoring while turning with WASD lol
4:03 my honest reaction too with russian tech retarded stone age tree !!! And I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN BECAUSE YOU FUCKING AWESOME !!!!!! FOR FUCK SAKE !!!
Yh true, I mainly only care about a KS when you've kinda earned the kill with a prolonged fight, otherwise idm. Kill's a kill, ngl everyone has killed stealed so it's not the end of the world.
Purchased AV8a few days, 90% in 10.3, 9% in 10.0 and others 10.7, and in this battle rate you can not run from anyone except A10 and su25, and you are compeletely one of the worst flexible plane & losing speed so quick like MIG21 & gun line off-axis when tumbling. Most funny thing is that this is an attacker with only 3000ib bombs that cant even distory one base. F5C can do anything better than you and you re in the same battle, why dont snail just give av8a 2 more aim9g and rise it to 10.3, good for everyone
i got av-8a in first discount after it's release and i still hate this plane cuz you can't do any fighting generally like other planes in it's br. i prefer fighters but still a funny plane especially the gr.3 (not the goofy ahh gr.7)
Yep it is a frustrating dogfighter for sure. With the thrust vectoring you can get away with a couple of quick high speed turns that'll take enemies by surprise. However, quite often enemies are going so much faster than you at that point after a couple of turns you'll burn all your speed, get energy trapped, and die. Esp if it's a non-delta wing aircraft fighting you, or you get dogpiled. Which people frequently do when they see a harrier... You can punish people sometimes by forcing an overshoot with your thrust vectoring, quickly accelerating, and then deleting them with a sidewinder; although, quite often planes have flares, and you only get two missles so you can't rely on that. It's a goofy ah dogfighter and the gr.3 is probably the best harrier to play atm. I do think the f5c is a much better premium pickup (not that the AV8A is bad) but if you like to actually easily dogfight people and not die the f5c is the way to go.
@@thementalgentleman hell yeah dude you're completely right. unfortunately when i bought av-8a, f5c was a new vehicle thats why i got this thing. nowadays playing my harrier for grind and money 'cuz im not playing wt since may. need to grind many vehicles but man what a painful experience for me and im not an average player. thanks for video tho loved it.
@@thementalgentleman Why getting energy trapped when you can fly straight again and teleport yourself out of a low speed dogfight? Harrier requires some thinking out of the box, but it can manage in most situations.
@@23thenicu I don't mean energy trapped in the sense that you stall out in front of them in a 1vs1, but that if you try to turn with someone you typically burn speed much faster than them, so don't have any dogfight endurance. (Planes will run you out of energy slowly over time). Sure you can accelerate out again, but your top speed being low means you are giving up a lot of position to extend, and don't have a hope of outrunning them. Forcing you to put yourself in front of their guns again. You can then try to turn again, but you'll always being giving away more chances in a dogfight then you'll get. You can't win a rate fight, can't gain much separation, can't outturn some planes (even with thrust vectoring). The best you can achieve is a stalemate against most planes and just pray they make a mistake before you do and overshoot into your guns/missiles. It's not unusable but there are much better choices if you want to dogfight in that tier.
How do you not have more subscribers?? This video was amazing
Cheers my guy!
because if you wanted more of this in a better form you’d sub to trepkas.
@@totallynotFrank yh true
@@totallynotFrank no trepkas has less fps
fun fact the harrier is one of the best performing planes ever made
That is a fun fact; thank you for the fun fact :)
Fun fact the harrier is one of the performing planes ever made.
@@drew1427 factual
It’s a gas guzzler, especially when you take off vertically. And you barely can carry much ordnance in real life if your planing on actually using the VTOL. And if you don’t what’s the point?
to reiterate im referansing with combat losses
I've played this since it was the top dog of 9.0 br and tbh it's still good, lacks heavily in manoeverability however it had amazing armament
Yeah pretty much all the harriers were busted on release. It's good now; but it's not the absolute monster it was back then.
@@thementalgentleman definitely, everyone used to fear this but now mig 21s are more dominant
I ain't laughed at a war thunder vid before. Thanks for changing that :)
Thanks man 'preciate it.
nice vid!
Thanks dude, I like your vids too!
funniest wt vid on yt! keep it up!
Thanks! Will do!
This thing faces A4s and F86s LMAO
You're right, it's pretty unfair, in the current state of the MM it's uptiers all the way up from 6.0. cus nobody wants to play a lower BR plane that gets shat on.
Kinda a shame how compression has killed what used to be the favourite BR range 8.7-9.7 (speedyish jets with guns, nothing worse than a 9E to dodge). Ah good times.
Hey man. Your videos are the best. They have a perfect mix of gameplay and memes, your skilled in war thunder. Keep going bucko
Thanks man, more content coming soon!
I played 1 match in a harrier in my 2500h war thunder carrer, with my brothers acount. I got an ace.
The first one was a 6km aim9G kill
Yeh the Aim 9Gs really are scary. The Harrier is a great plane for sure.
I think the av8a is a very good plane
yeah I think so too. Great missiles, flight performance and loads of flares at 9.7 makes it a great choice.
It got me practically my entire US air tree
@@dirkbastiaandejong997if it got your whole tree I’m assuming it’s good? Lol. I’m tier 4 props right now trying to research the rest of the props to get to the Cold War tier 5 jets but I’m very much thinking of buying the av8 to grind the rest of the tree, you think it’s worth it?
@@Zakilgore Its a pretty damn good aircraft, but I dont know if its as good as it was when it was still fairly new. TBH Id wait for a sale before buying it if you are gonna.
@@dirkbastiaandejong997 awesome yeah I probably will, $60 is a good chunk of money 🤣 thank you!
Harrier my beloved
The plane that you hate to love. But I love all the same...
Bro I’m finna subscribe
Yoooo, thanks men!
@@thementalgentleman nah bro you just deserve it
What keys do you have your thrust vectoring bound to?
I like to bind them to 2 and 3 on the number row, so it's not too far from the WASD keys. But I don't think it's optimal. I'm sure there's an easier placement if you are a full time thrust vector gamer.
@@thementalgentleman nice! Honestly doesn't seem that bad! Right now I have them bound to alt+w/alt+s, which I thought was a good idea until I figured out I can't use vectoring while turning with WASD lol
Very swag video
Thank you very much for the swag.
Everybody watching the first kills thinking they’re teammates:
There are two kinds of Harrier players, The ones who have mastered the vector thrust mechanic and those who have no idea what they are doing.
That one F5 or whatever really having the audacity to claim kill steal
the aim 9G is the top G
Nice vid! Also what was the song starting at 2:02?
buenisimo
Thanks bro, glad you enjoyed it :)
4:03 my honest reaction too with russian tech retarded stone age tree !!! And I FUCKING LOVE YOU MAN BECAUSE YOU FUCKING AWESOME !!!!!! FOR FUCK SAKE !!!
If you are so good in War Thunder how about doing some fighter pilot stuff irl
brb bombing cambodia
You can tell it's 4th gen bc it can climb strait up
Reminds me of zetaris
Yeah, I did take some inspiration...
whats the name of the sound used at 0:44?
No idea sorry
we all complain about kill steals when it happens to us but not when we do it lol
most of time i steal a kill i dont notice bc thats how the game is 6v1
Yh true, I mainly only care about a KS when you've kinda earned the kill with a prolonged fight, otherwise idm. Kill's a kill, ngl everyone has killed stealed so it's not the end of the world.
why no vtol uese
I do use the thrust vectoring for dogfighting but I forgot to assert dominance with my VTOL supremacy, my apologies.
in needs a cooler cause i cant go more than 85% without it imediatly dying of heat
Why are your enemies purple?
I changed it in the battle settings.
@@thementalgentleman BUT WHY
@@admiral_alman8671 funny innit
@@thementalgentleman when you killed the first Su25 I thought you were teamkilling lol
go try harrier gr1 pain in the ass bro ;-;
I'm sure it's not great, I do have the hunter f.6 and that properly struggles. If I ever get a test drive for the harrier I might make a video on it.
not first :(
Unlucky for you gamer
Purchased AV8a few days, 90% in 10.3, 9% in 10.0 and others 10.7, and in this battle rate you can not run from anyone except A10 and su25, and you are compeletely one of the worst flexible plane & losing speed so quick like MIG21 & gun line off-axis when tumbling. Most funny thing is that this is an attacker with only 3000ib bombs that cant even distory one base. F5C can do anything better than you and you re in the same battle, why dont snail just give av8a 2 more aim9g and rise it to 10.3, good for everyone
i got av-8a in first discount after it's release and i still hate this plane cuz you can't do any fighting generally like other planes in it's br. i prefer fighters but still a funny plane especially the gr.3 (not the goofy ahh gr.7)
Yep it is a frustrating dogfighter for sure. With the thrust vectoring you can get away with a couple of quick high speed turns that'll take enemies by surprise.
However, quite often enemies are going so much faster than you at that point after a couple of turns you'll burn all your speed, get energy trapped, and die. Esp if it's a non-delta wing aircraft fighting you, or you get dogpiled. Which people frequently do when they see a harrier...
You can punish people sometimes by forcing an overshoot with your thrust vectoring, quickly accelerating, and then deleting them with a sidewinder; although, quite often planes have flares, and you only get two missles so you can't rely on that.
It's a goofy ah dogfighter and the gr.3 is probably the best harrier to play atm. I do think the f5c is a much better premium pickup (not that the AV8A is bad) but if you like to actually easily dogfight people and not die the f5c is the way to go.
@@thementalgentleman hell yeah dude you're completely right. unfortunately when i bought av-8a, f5c was a new vehicle thats why i got this thing. nowadays playing my harrier for grind and money 'cuz im not playing wt since may. need to grind many vehicles but man what a painful experience for me and im not an average player. thanks for video tho loved it.
@@thementalgentleman Why getting energy trapped when you can fly straight again and teleport yourself out of a low speed dogfight? Harrier requires some thinking out of the box, but it can manage in most situations.
@@23thenicu I don't mean energy trapped in the sense that you stall out in front of them in a 1vs1, but that if you try to turn with someone you typically burn speed much faster than them, so don't have any dogfight endurance. (Planes will run you out of energy slowly over time).
Sure you can accelerate out again, but your top speed being low means you are giving up a lot of position to extend, and don't have a hope of outrunning them. Forcing you to put yourself in front of their guns again.
You can then try to turn again, but you'll always being giving away more chances in a dogfight then you'll get. You can't win a rate fight, can't gain much separation, can't outturn some planes (even with thrust vectoring).
The best you can achieve is a stalemate against most planes and just pray they make a mistake before you do and overshoot into your guns/missiles.
It's not unusable but there are much better choices if you want to dogfight in that tier.