*When I left the Canadian Armoured Corps in the eighties, I opened a bar in Ladyville Belize, just down the road from the Brit army base. Harrier and Puma pilots were regular guests, so much so that when I mentioned I hoped to have a Christmas tree for the soldiers away from home but there was no such tree in Belize, a Puma pilot then mentioned that there were such trees in Guatemala but he would have to sneak across the border at night to get one. Later that week there was the downwash of a helicopter above the bar and seconds later, a beautiful pine tree thumped down into the bar's courtyard. :) True story.*
oh it's definitely coming, maybe even soon, as well as the AV-8B. I expect Gaijin to basically do the same thing with them as they did with the GR.1: introduce powerful missile systems onto a less-than-desirable airframe to "balance" it. I imagine this would be a "good" way for high-performance all-aspect missiles to be added, especially the AIM-9L. That and the A-4 Skyhawk.
From an argentine, what a beauty aircraft the Sea Harrier. Back there we fought the last war between gentlemen. No hard feelings or rancour mate, perhaps just perhaps, one day we could talk about the sovereignty of Malvinas in the mainwhile, let's enjoy these beautys aircrafts (and backstorys). Salute!
And no sea harrier was shot down in air-to-air, so that part of the video isn't quite right. Check out these K:D ratios for one RN SQDN. Sea Harrier 801 SQDN RN - 1980s. In terms of supremacy = vs. Phantom 25:1 superiority - vs. F14 = 40:1 - vs. F15 = 3:1 (That's overall as a SQN not the top guys alone) - some guys kill F-15s at 25:1 Look up "Sharkey" ward's interview with Ken Griffiths on YT, or Cdr. Sharkey Ward's book too. Also they didn't use VIFFING at all in the Falklands. That's just a bit of psychology.
@@DarkpowderUK sharkey ward is pretty cool although hes quite a controversial figure. The video was right in that no harriers were lost to enemy air, and although the Argentines only had rear aspect missiles, the Lema's that the UK were using were only ever fired from rear aspect as well, so it wasnt really all the missile doing the work there
If itd let me map wheel brakes on my controller to anything other then the same axis of the same stick that does throttle down, id be able to build rpm on the brakes and let go and havd a shorter takeoff run, but noope
Just fly in a straight line The fire range at 10.0 is .5 miles and anything supersonic can get that far from a harrier that is usually only going 600mph
@@TheOrionNebula. Yeah but the most iconic aircrafts of britain be like 10 Spitfires, the Harrier, 3 more spitfires, Hurricane, 7 more spitfires, Mosquito.....and Lancaster. "Spitfire" -GO2 Eurobeat
I once saw a Harrier hovering at an air show, from that point it's always going to the coolest aircraft ever created for me. For its time and even now it's an engineering marvel
@@Quercus09 ok then remove the sraam and give us the aim 9Ls that it had over the falklands. Trust me, the fact we dont get aim9L is a much bigger downside than having sraams is a benefit.
@@andrewtorcisi6714 The GR3 was, and the harriers used over the falklands were using aim 9L as their air to air armament. I would much rather have aim 9L which is pretty much a guaranteed kill against anything currently in game, than buggy sraams that have half a mile of effective range.
@@andrewtorcisi6714 In addition dont tell me to do my research on a video in which Gaijin claim VIFFing was crucial in the falklands despite the fact that it has been confirmed it was never used by any pilot during the conflict.
Hoping to see the Sea Harrier FRS.1 and AV-8B Harrier II in he near future. Sea Harrier was the main British workhorse of the Falklands conflict mentioned in the video.
@Eddzward to Overrated, this unique British jet is underrated asf and also maybe the grandfather of Vertical TakeOff and Landing (VTOL) Jets,Too OP I mean A-10 for Americans will go BRRRRT,BUT for British the Harrier will go “drink tea and fly up and forward”.
It would be very interesting if you would add the personalized skins of the Argentine air force and the Argentine navy to the store to buy them with gjns or golden eagles since these are historical and not like many that already are and did not have any action in warlike conflicts,sorry for my english so bad but i'm using google translator,but they should listen a little more to the community or in this case read it
True Falklands story about Steve brown's Harrier: When Steve brown was land his Harrier on the Atlantic Conveyor he set the nozzles to 27° whilst landing. Soon he realised how close his tail was to the pole at the end of the ship. So he moved forward which made it worst. His mistake was that he forgot to set the nozzles to 90° and he soon realised that. He then pushed it to 90° but as he tried to land the nose flopped over the side bringing the plane with it. "That's the end of that airplane" said (Can't remember his name) from the main deck. It looked as if he was going to smash straight into the water, but just then Steve Brown (thinking quickly) pushed the throttle to 100/WEP and managed to pull the 21,000lb jet up away from being lost and (name not remembered) looked from the deck amazed even though it seemed the aircraft had tipped over the side. Steve Brown then turned vertical landing off and flew away from the Atlantic Conveyor with little fuel left. He later landed at Hermes.
They harrier is by far my favorite plane. The vtol works on helipads and the weapon loadouts make it ideal for ground pounding, if done right you can refuel and rearm at the helipad and be back into combat in around a minute at a time. Great vehicles. Definitely worth a shot trying them!
I remember back in the late 80’s the Pentagon was having my squadron do “Run-in’s” as I called it, on hostile to the US, military bases. We would turn directly at the base and begin identifying any and everything visible to then “Ultra Modern” surveillance equipment mounted on our aircraft. We would brake off our “Run-in’s” at the 10 nm line and reset out over the ocean to have another go until we had the information we wanted. I remember on more than one instance Harriers coming to our aide driving off well armed Mig fighters who had attached themselves to our wings in hope to force us to land. We knew they were well armed because the first thing they did was to pull up even with our cockpit and slowly roll away so that we got a full close-up view of the bottom side of their wings. Then they would circle around and re-form up on us. Of course in the spirit of US peaceable intentions, we were UNARMED. LOL
I bought the harrier gr1 and I can say for a fact that I love it! It is perfect in my lineup and am really close to having the gr3 as well which I’m super excited about as well
My Grandfather used to fly the Sea Harrier for the Royal Navy he tells story’s of how he always felt a proud feeling when flying the Harrier, and my uncle would always gossip about how tedious it was to repair or work on the harrier as an engineer for the royal navy
As far as i'm aware during the Falkland's war every single one of the pilots said that it was a dream to fly. If there were problems there would have been a few shot down by enemies but the only 10 that were lost were outside of engagements which is the only problems they had. They used AIM-9L's and they worked great for sure!
@@FalconWarThunder true but still the harriers we’re hard to land vtol and small British carriers made it worse so the aim-9l really help there success in that war
@@masongros7319 Landing and ergonomic issues are totally different compared to warfare usability issues. I agree with what you're saying in terms of non-combat issues, but in regards to combat issues the Aim-9L did help along with the unpredictability and superior technology of the Harrier.
"I want that tower taken out!" President Dugan. Seriously though, 6:34 looks seriously like that section of the Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge intro vid xD
Question: will your add some plane from Argentina, someday, in the game? im thinking about something like the IA-58 Pucará/Fenix, or the Pampa 3... they are good planes for ground atack, particularly the IA-63 Pampa 3.
@@vin9865 JAJAJA que fumaste? de pedo llega a 800 km/h y sin llevar armamento extra,puede llevar solamente dos pods de 7.62 en los anclajes alares,con respecto al de 30mm todavia estan renegando para homologar armamento,es un avion de entrenamiento a caso nadie entiende eso? desde los planos fue concebido para ser un avion de entrenamiento!!! me recordas a los que pedian/piden que al pucara se le pongan motores a reaccion,como si fuera facil cambiar el punto de gravedad que tiene el plano de un avion...
@@vin9865 Todo bien, pero el Pampa es un entrenador avanzado, para eso fue diseñado. Y si, tiene capacidades de ataque ligero, pero de ahí a que sea mejor que el Pucará y solo te bases en la velocidad final como argumento, es cuando poco, muy vago. ¿Qué sería un armamento demasiado lento? Acaso las bombas, cohetes y cañón (singular, porque apenas puede llevar uno suspendido) del pampa salen disparados a mach 5? ¿El armamento del Pucará no es tan rápido? No entiendo sinceramente que quiso decir con eso.
Any chance to add the Vulcan to the British bomber line? Popped into my head when the conflict between Argentina and Britain was mentioned. Super cool plane!
On the Folklands War, A British Maritime Said The Following: "They did what we never expected the Argentine Pilots to do; They were flying at sea level." We lost the Folklands war, and since 1982, The UK Refused To Sell Us Anything Weaponry Related. We may have outdated Mirages and A-4Q's, But we do have a strong soul for fightning! Fun fact: The british soldiers saluted the Argentine soldiers when retreating from the islands, and they also recognized the skill of our pilots for flying so low!
Some missinformation. No Harrier performed VFFING in 1982, they fought as they were trained and slowing down during air combat makes you easy target. They fought dog fighting in normal maneuvers, the few air to air combats Argentine Daggers and Mirage III gained first shoot due their speed advantage but lost energy and their missiles failed due poor reliability of the old missiles then the British pilots outmaneuver them and fired the Limas. British pilots were trained with outdated sidewinders so they fired the 9Ls from the 6 as usual. The advantage they got was the the Limas had a higher reliability with new seeker heads and electronics, so unlike Argentine 9Bs and Saffirs they didn't lock on the sun, didn't lost targets doing high G evasion and could be launched from farther. Only 1 Mirage IIIC was lost to air combat. Fighter pilots were ordered to not merged in turn fights against Sea Harriers and Sea Harriers avoided Mirages coming hot supersonic and high staying out of their range, waiting 4 minutes and then proceeding, since the Mirages couldn't stay in the area due lack of air refueling. All other fighter losses except 2 Daggers, were fighter bombers, and 65% of them were lost to Royal Navy anti air missiles.
"No Harrier performed VFFING in 1982"(si) One SHAR attempted it in a futile attempt to down a Pucara. "Only 1 Mirage IIIC was lost to air combat."(sic) One Mirage IIIEA was shot down by a SHAR flown by RAF Flt Lt Barton on 1 May. A second Mirage IIIEA was hit during the same engagement by RN Lt Thomas in a SHAR and then shot down by Argentine AAA.
I'm currently reading a book about the FRS1 Sea Harrier in the falklands...x2 of the losses were that two crashed in thick fog after launching from the carrier to intercept a possible target...They reached altitude then 1 dove to investigate, followed soon after by the 2nd...then all contact was lost. The assumption was they collided in the fog/clouds at some point.
"Do you enjoy flying it?" I'm getting started into war thunder and I am considering using the british tech tree as a main aircraft source just to fly the Harrier. The only problem is that my computa can't run war thunder
same, tried many things to make it run but, nope. I had borrowed a HP Pavilion from my friend, but when he said that he had to go, I had to give back his laptop. Oh how I miss flying the Spitfire
@@rc_1234 I use a 2013 pc with a gt1030 and run the game on low/medium settings at 1080p@60fps. Should be around 150-200 euro/dollar to buy that as a used build nowayads so if you want to game for a low budget that might be a good option. (Cpu is AMD a10-6800k 4.1 ghz quad core, Ram memory is 2x4gb ddr3 1666mhz)
There was a point where I would play the GR3, get 3 kills, die and lose SL. It was like 28k SL to repair at the beginning of the patch, it's not as bad now (19k) but still kinda high
So Harrier 2 when?? Haha But yes, the Harrier is extremely fun to fly. On mountainous maps, I hover behind a hill/mountain and wait for prey to fly by, then I intercept and fire my Air to Air missiles. It’s worked many times. Sometimes the missile doesn’t reach the target though, but sometimes it does.
If anybody wants to know more about how the harrier came to be and the pegasus engine I can highly recommend "not much of an engineer" by Stanley Hooker. The biography also goes over the merlin engine and early jet engines
When they first were added to the game, it seemed like they were less maneuverable than other jets at tier, as if they were constantly in compression. But now they seem to be flying a lot better. I have the GR.1 and GR.3, not the american ones, though.
You know Britain could get the best top tier tanks Challenger 2 CLIP Australian M1A2 Abrams Canadian Leopard 2A7 but I doubt this will happen WAR THUNDER TILL I DIE
Is that the 50$ dead weight. Remember when people bought it when it was 9.3? With flares and sraams? My prediction is that will be the normal, introduce an op and underranked plane by “accident” in order to force cash out of those people wanting an advantage.
Thank you two for proving me wrong but that doesn’t take away the fact that it’s true. I guarantee you guys when the next jet premium comes it will be beyond op then nerf it two weeks after. These guys are struggling for money that they forced the season pass on us.
@@sum41ow the thing is, they somewhat started to go back the old school premium style with the su-7, the F-5C is an extremely good plane but its not op, in my opinion as i own it aswell, its fairly balanced, im really hoping gaijin sticks to this style and continues along this path
@@stalker5299 they did that because there are very few limited planes that are actually insane for their time. F5c is one example of them tuning down and I’m just predicting that’s what is gonna happen with the next few planes and if it does and it means that they’re being counter productive and giving them selves a bad name. I won’t deny I bought like 2 premiums worth 50 and they are decent the g91 r4 and the f86-35 big F that is.
I can't wait for the AV-8B Harrier II. The US Marines and Italian Navy still have them in service, and there's the Spanish Navy as well (maybe a premium for another tree, I don't know), and it's an even more beautiful aircraft. Finally, I could take up one of my favorite aircraft in history, if Gaijin actually gives it to Italy eventually.
I'm beginning to understand how you implement new vehicles, let me know if I'm close! -Hype it in dev blog and make it power creep the game towards requiring new upper BR limit -Spend 6 months actually playing it in game before realizing the attributes of said vehicle and then adjust BR of surrounding jets -Release a video on youtube of your now-polished product with newly found knowledge of how to pilot the vehicle
>Calls the R.550 Magic 1 an outdated missle >Argentina recieved Magic 1's in 1982 DURRING THE FALKLAND WAR for the Mirage 3EA and Super Etendard >Dosent even mention the Super Etendard.
It wasnt really a mirage it was a Kfir if I’m not mistaken and thus the aircraft was Israeli not French although I can’t wait for them to add it even tho it might not be the best it sure sparks joy of the patriotism in me
Hey Gajin! (War Thunder) Can You Add A(Some) "Surveillance" Vehicle(s)? And A New Gamemode Use The Surveillance Aircraft(s) To Discover Ground Positions And Then Destroy The Discovered Positions.. Can You Add That? Sounds Pretty Cool.
Something I would request is the hover percentage meter the way you control it is strange because you have to use the air brake button every time you want to hover. ps: I am talking about Xbox about how you use the d-pad left to use it
Thank you to mention my country 🇦🇷, and a part of the story of the war of Malvinas. I'll prefer use the legendary Skyhawk and the Mirage. I hope that one day the M5 Dagger combat plane will be added in the game.
I like the aircraft but I prefer ww2 planes but hawker is probs my favorite aircraft company for the hurricane, typhoon and tempest mainly but the harrier is a icon worthy of the reputation it holds
Hey so you say you read all of the comments so I got a serious question that can be huge. When I first started playing wither first thing I noticed was how dark the game looks. Shadows are so dark and grass is so dull that it puts a depressing look on the game with all do respect. It wasn’t until I stumbled on a forum someone said set global illumination to low and turn on contrast in postfx. It looks better and more colorful. But I feel like this could be an easy fix so everybody can have an enjoyable experience without having to just turn shadows off. Especially console players that can’t really adjust these things. Anyway love the game, been playing allot now since I fixed that issue.
*When I left the Canadian Armoured Corps in the eighties, I opened a bar in Ladyville Belize, just down the road from the Brit army base. Harrier and Puma pilots were regular guests, so much so that when I mentioned I hoped to have a Christmas tree for the soldiers away from home but there was no such tree in Belize, a Puma pilot then mentioned that there were such trees in Guatemala but he would have to sneak across the border at night to get one. Later that week there was the downwash of a helicopter above the bar and seconds later, a beautiful pine tree thumped down into the bar's courtyard. :) True story.*
That's pretty wholesome and cool
what a madlad
Sick man
that might be the coolest guy I’ve ever heard of.
Love stories like this, along the lines of hearing a chinook engineer and the team landing in a field near a pub by Odiham for a pint
I love the looks of the harrier. Such a legendary appearance!
I prefer the f4 phantom, it's the king of the beasts
@L So you hate every modern jet fighter?
@L L2P Freeloader noob )))) /s
Just spam countermeasure button, apparently flares are now the temperature of the sun with Red Skies update.
@L Im not judging and I love the older vehicles but why do you hate these jets? Handling?
@@Ranjuw Ok, I am still in mid teirs but when I reach high teirs I will enjoy that! :)
Hopefully the Sea Harrier will come. Since you spoke about the Falklands.
oh it's definitely coming, maybe even soon, as well as the AV-8B. I expect Gaijin to basically do the same thing with them as they did with the GR.1: introduce powerful missile systems onto a less-than-desirable airframe to "balance" it. I imagine this would be a "good" way for high-performance all-aspect missiles to be added, especially the AIM-9L. That and the A-4 Skyhawk.
From an argentine, what a beauty aircraft the Sea Harrier. Back there we fought the last war between gentlemen. No hard feelings or rancour mate, perhaps just perhaps, one day we could talk about the sovereignty of Malvinas in the mainwhile, let's enjoy these beautys aircrafts (and backstorys). Salute!
And no sea harrier was shot down in air-to-air, so that part of the video isn't quite right.
Check out these K:D ratios for one RN SQDN.
Sea Harrier 801 SQDN RN - 1980s. In terms of supremacy = vs. Phantom 25:1 superiority - vs. F14 = 40:1 - vs. F15 = 3:1 (That's overall as a SQN not the top guys alone) - some guys kill F-15s at 25:1
Look up "Sharkey" ward's interview with Ken Griffiths on YT, or Cdr. Sharkey Ward's book too.
Also they didn't use VIFFING at all in the Falklands. That's just a bit of psychology.
@@DarkpowderUK sharkey ward is pretty cool although hes quite a controversial figure. The video was right in that no harriers were lost to enemy air, and although the Argentines only had rear aspect missiles, the Lema's that the UK were using were only ever fired from rear aspect as well, so it wasnt really all the missile doing the work there
Wait there is a sea harrier?!
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Bombs detonating with a distance
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Average War Thunder bomber user
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Gotta spam em all
You always gotta use em all before you get shot down
@Pranav RANE same
@Pranav RANE oh Indians play this game too good to see that
“Jets need a long runway”
Me: Crying and laughing in piston engine
me too
Same things that make us laugh, make us cry... - Big Smoke (2004)
Yup, I’m still working for something above rank IV
If itd let me map wheel brakes on my controller to anything other then the same axis of the same stick that does throttle down, id be able to build rpm on the brakes and let go and havd a shorter takeoff run, but noope
@@pbpeverill1192 bro I’ve just started tank IV
I love flying it, the repair cost...not so much.
At least test flight allows for free swooshing, that's about it though
@@mixnmatchflavourbleach2313 agreed xD
@@HappyCookieTime my xbox broke so I can’t play it rn :(
how much is it?
@@mixnmatchflavourbleach2313 in a custom battle you dont need to repair
Forget the stream. THIS is what I need to watch!
You and I both.
*US*
Yes😢
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"The harrier was known as one of the most accidsnt prone vechicles of the cold war"
The F-104: hold my beer
You beat me to it
Ahh yes the lawndart
Bro I cant stop laughing
That forced Hartmann to retire due to the F-104
the A-10, rearming on the ground after racking 8 friendly units with an 8 foot blast radius gun and primitive radar:
Ah yes. The jet, that bullies take to custom battles to piss everyone off
Hey hey, I’m not a bully, I’m just an asshole!
Then I pull out an f4e to do gods work
Especially the ones with the premium version, who's just lvl 12 or something.
I love yeeting G.91 with the P-51H
@@phantomaviator1318 i love pissing everyone off with the horten in arcade
As you mentioned that France saw the interest of VTOL aircrafts, will you add the Mirage 3 V?
probably not since it was unarmed.
@@user-fj7ig2jq6q From what I know, the British GR.1 never got SRAAMs, so Gaijin isn't above giving a vehicle weapons it never received irl
@@user-fj7ig2jq6q they can give the Mirage 3E ordonnance
Eh wasn't it just a prototype? I think only 1 was built so i'm pretty sure it won't make it in the game
@@geekadeuzan2103 uhhhhhhh, a good amount of vehicles in war thunder are prototypes never actually produced
They're fun until everyone seems to target you with Air to Air Missiles
Because it's a big heat sig and a cleansing
@@williewilson2250 I know that but it does take the fun out of the game tbh
Just fly in a straight line
The fire range at 10.0 is .5 miles and anything supersonic can get that far from a harrier that is usually only going 600mph
@@Joopyter724 think they're talkin about the harrier getting locked not the sraams
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One of the most iconic vehicles of the Royal Air Force
*that is not a Spitfire
ONE of the most iconic. Not THE most iconic.
@@TheOrionNebula. Yeah but the most iconic aircrafts of britain be like 10 Spitfires, the Harrier, 3 more spitfires, Hurricane, 7 more spitfires, Mosquito.....and Lancaster.
"Spitfire" -GO2 Eurobeat
How about the Hunter and the Avro Vuclan? They're iconic as well.
Mosquito
2:17 me and the boys going into creative
I wonder why they are making a video about an aircraft with a premium variants. There's definitely not a sale on premium vehicles.
There’s a bundle sale at 50% off for both premium variants and their country alike premium tanks right now
@@barbatoslupusrex8712 I think he was being sarcastic
@@barbatoslupusrex8712 howd the hook on that bait taste
I once saw a Harrier hovering at an air show, from that point it's always going to the coolest aircraft ever created for me. For its time and even now it's an engineering marvel
They wont mention that SRAAMS where prototypes though!
But werevtested on the harrier platform
@@Quercus09 ok then remove the sraam and give us the aim 9Ls that it had over the falklands. Trust me, the fact we dont get aim9L is a much bigger downside than having sraams is a benefit.
@@n0rman908 The GR.1 wasn't used in the Falklands. Do your research.
@@andrewtorcisi6714 The GR3 was, and the harriers used over the falklands were using aim 9L as their air to air armament. I would much rather have aim 9L which is pretty much a guaranteed kill against anything currently in game, than buggy sraams that have half a mile of effective range.
@@andrewtorcisi6714 In addition dont tell me to do my research on a video in which Gaijin claim VIFFing was crucial in the falklands despite the fact that it has been confirmed it was never used by any pilot during the conflict.
Hoping to see the Sea Harrier FRS.1 and AV-8B Harrier II in he near future. Sea Harrier was the main British workhorse of the Falklands conflict mentioned in the video.
It’s an experience to see one take off luckily for me with my service in the American military and my current jobs I’ve been able to see some
Me and him use the same thing because he made it and I just watch videos on it
Are you going to apologize?
My favorite jet in the world. Love this plane.
@Eddzward to Overrated, this unique British jet is underrated asf and also maybe the grandfather of Vertical TakeOff and Landing (VTOL) Jets,Too OP I mean A-10 for Americans will go BRRRRT,BUT for British the Harrier will go “drink tea and fly up and forward”.
@Eddzward point is these 2 are Balanced OP Wise BUT the only difference is Harrier Retired and A-10 is active so GG in that.
Same, but I stopped playing it bc I got very busy
You forgot the part where it is to expensive to fly
yup
Good, screw GR1 pilots
@SoleFox I think he meant IRL, it was hella expensive to produce
It would be very interesting if you would add the personalized skins of the Argentine air force and the Argentine navy to the store to buy them with gjns or golden eagles since these are historical and not like many that already are and did not have any action in warlike conflicts,sorry for my english so bad but i'm using google translator,but they should listen a little more to the community or in this case read it
True Falklands story about Steve brown's Harrier:
When Steve brown was land his Harrier on the Atlantic Conveyor he set the nozzles to 27° whilst landing.
Soon he realised how close his tail was to the pole at the end of the ship. So he moved forward which made it worst. His mistake was that he forgot to set the nozzles to 90° and he soon realised that. He then pushed it to 90° but as he tried to land the nose flopped over the side bringing the plane with it. "That's the end of that airplane" said (Can't remember his name) from the main deck. It looked as if he was going to smash straight into the water, but just then Steve Brown (thinking quickly) pushed the throttle to 100/WEP and managed to pull the 21,000lb jet up away from being lost and (name not remembered) looked from the deck amazed even though it seemed the aircraft had tipped over the side. Steve Brown then turned vertical landing off and flew away from the Atlantic Conveyor with little fuel left. He later landed at Hermes.
They harrier is by far my favorite plane. The vtol works on helipads and the weapon loadouts make it ideal for ground pounding, if done right you can refuel and rearm at the helipad and be back into combat in around a minute at a time. Great vehicles. Definitely worth a shot trying them!
i did not know that, thanks
Also you can cap a point in Ground RB and Sim if you land properly
i love it!!!!! great video, also a big thx to mister Grant for the great narrating
Bruce is such a legend
I remember back in the late 80’s the Pentagon was having my squadron do “Run-in’s” as I called it, on hostile to the US, military bases. We would turn directly at the base and begin identifying any and everything visible to then “Ultra Modern” surveillance equipment mounted on our aircraft. We would brake off our “Run-in’s” at the 10 nm line and reset out over the ocean to have another go until we had the information we wanted. I remember on more than one instance Harriers coming to our aide driving off well armed Mig fighters who had attached themselves to our wings in hope to force us to land. We knew they were well armed because the first thing they did was to pull up even with our cockpit and slowly roll away so that we got a full close-up view of the bottom side of their wings. Then they would circle around and re-form up on us. Of course in the spirit of US peaceable intentions, we were UNARMED. LOL
My uncle Dan was in the marine corps as a Air framer and he’s got so many cool pictures of harriers in millions of pieces
Love it! ❤️
Hoping the Sea Harrier FRS.1 and F/A.2 will be added in the near future. 👍
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I bought the harrier gr1 and I can say for a fact that I love it! It is perfect in my lineup and am really close to having the gr3 as well which I’m super excited about as well
My Grandfather used to fly the Sea Harrier for the Royal Navy he tells story’s of how he always felt a proud feeling when flying the Harrier, and my uncle would always gossip about how tedious it was to repair or work on the harrier as an engineer for the royal navy
Man i love the harrier, in this game and irl.
When being chased by other jets I prefer to go vertical because they cant out climb the harrier.
Really depends on what aircraft you’re flying against. Stuff like a mig19 will catch you on that pretty easily
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also aam exist
Laughs in lightning f.6
I require Rank VI Aircraft RP reduction
Yall neglected to add that the majority of why Harriers saw such success in the Falklands is because of their armament: AIM-9Ls.
Yes my fav plane! This was the first jet fighter I sat in! 😄
Also the most op plane....
Did you admit that you bought your way into the top tier?
@@snakethewarlord4685 I think he means in real life and even if he did buy it it doesn’t matter does it…
@@snakethewarlord4685 idk maybe it was when he had gotten to like right before jets? But most likely... Sadly
@@snakethewarlord4685 the tech tree harrier
They forgot to mention the use of Aim-9L in Falkland war which help correct the problems with harriers
aim9L used by who?
@@ofekk213 by the Harriers, main reason of how the Brits won air supremacy.
As far as i'm aware during the Falkland's war every single one of the pilots said that it was a dream to fly. If there were problems there would have been a few shot down by enemies but the only 10 that were lost were outside of engagements which is the only problems they had. They used AIM-9L's and they worked great for sure!
@@FalconWarThunder true but still the harriers we’re hard to land vtol and small British carriers made it worse so the aim-9l really help there success in that war
@@masongros7319 Landing and ergonomic issues are totally different compared to warfare usability issues. I agree with what you're saying in terms of non-combat issues, but in regards to combat issues the Aim-9L did help along with the unpredictability and superior technology of the Harrier.
5:06 UN Etendard IVM with rotated argentinian Flag, epic
Edit : and B-29 bailing out in falklands war, still more epic
Ah, yes. The creative-mode aircraft capable of killing unaware people from 3km away.
AV-8A/C, of course.
"I want that tower taken out!"
President Dugan.
Seriously though, 6:34 looks seriously like that section of the Red Alert 2 Yuri's Revenge intro vid xD
Was anyone else waited on him to say OH and it was used in a movie by a special agent you all know as 007
"do you enjoy flying it?"
_I haven't gotten to it yet :(_
Question: will your add some plane from Argentina, someday, in the game? im thinking about something like the IA-58 Pucará/Fenix, or the Pampa 3... they are good planes for ground atack, particularly the IA-63 Pampa 3.
¿De donde sacaste que el Pampa es bueno para ataque a tierra? ¿Particularmente? ¿Por encima del Pucará?
@@vin9865 JAJAJA que fumaste? de pedo llega a 800 km/h y sin llevar armamento extra,puede llevar solamente dos pods de 7.62 en los anclajes alares,con respecto al de 30mm todavia estan renegando para homologar armamento,es un avion de entrenamiento a caso nadie entiende eso? desde los planos fue concebido para ser un avion de entrenamiento!!! me recordas a los que pedian/piden que al pucara se le pongan motores a reaccion,como si fuera facil cambiar el punto de gravedad que tiene el plano de un avion...
@@vin9865 Todo bien, pero el Pampa es un entrenador avanzado, para eso fue diseñado. Y si, tiene capacidades de ataque ligero, pero de ahí a que sea mejor que el Pucará y solo te bases en la velocidad final como argumento, es cuando poco, muy vago. ¿Qué sería un armamento demasiado lento? Acaso las bombas, cohetes y cañón (singular, porque apenas puede llevar uno suspendido) del pampa salen disparados a mach 5? ¿El armamento del Pucará no es tan rápido? No entiendo sinceramente que quiso decir con eso.
"do you enjoy flying it?"
well i don't know because i cant devote my entire life and afterlife to War Thunder
Word.
This is one of the fighters that people actually bother to land when out of bombs/ rockets as it vertical landing is easy
Hmmm…I find it easier to just land it like any other jet. I fly sim though so it’s pretty insanely wobbly when hovering.
Any chance to add the Vulcan to the British bomber line? Popped into my head when the conflict between Argentina and Britain was mentioned. Super cool plane!
On the Folklands War, A British Maritime Said The Following:
"They did what we never expected the Argentine Pilots to do; They were flying at sea level."
We lost the Folklands war, and since 1982, The UK Refused To Sell Us Anything Weaponry Related.
We may have outdated Mirages and A-4Q's, But we do have a strong soul for fightning!
Fun fact: The british soldiers saluted the Argentine soldiers when retreating from the islands, and they also recognized the skill of our pilots for flying so low!
LOVE the British GR3 and I would play it a lot more if I was not faced with a ridiculous 20.000 Silver lions repair cost !!!!!
The av8a has a 16k repair....
WT: Did you enjoy flying the harrier? Which one is your favorite?
Me: Yeah im gonna have to stop you there-
Some missinformation. No Harrier performed VFFING in 1982, they fought as they were trained and slowing down during air combat makes you easy target. They fought dog fighting in normal maneuvers, the few air to air combats Argentine Daggers and Mirage III gained first shoot due their speed advantage but lost energy and their missiles failed due poor reliability of the old missiles then the British pilots outmaneuver them and fired the Limas.
British pilots were trained with outdated sidewinders so they fired the 9Ls from the 6 as usual. The advantage they got was the the Limas had a higher reliability with new seeker heads and electronics, so unlike Argentine 9Bs and Saffirs they didn't lock on the sun, didn't lost targets doing high G evasion and could be launched from farther.
Only 1 Mirage IIIC was lost to air combat. Fighter pilots were ordered to not merged in turn fights against Sea Harriers and Sea Harriers avoided Mirages coming hot supersonic and high staying out of their range, waiting 4 minutes and then proceeding, since the Mirages couldn't stay in the area due lack of air refueling.
All other fighter losses except 2 Daggers, were fighter bombers, and 65% of them were lost to Royal Navy anti air missiles.
"No Harrier performed VFFING in 1982"(si)
One SHAR attempted it in a futile attempt to down a Pucara.
"Only 1 Mirage IIIC was lost to air combat."(sic)
One Mirage IIIEA was shot down by a SHAR flown by RAF Flt Lt Barton on 1 May. A second Mirage IIIEA was hit during the same engagement by RN Lt Thomas in a SHAR and then shot down by Argentine AAA.
Hey I made those skins!
Nice to see them being showcased, thanks Gaijin!
Still waiting for the A10 Warthog and AC-130, now that both tanks and jets can be in a single match
I'm currently reading a book about the FRS1 Sea Harrier in the falklands...x2 of the losses were that two crashed in thick fog after launching from the carrier to intercept a possible target...They reached altitude then 1 dove to investigate, followed soon after by the 2nd...then all contact was lost. The assumption was they collided in the fog/clouds at some point.
busca la historia del cabo almada con su bateria AAA o la historia de los comandor argentinos que derribaron uno
Surprisingly, This was uploaded on my birth day.
It was op, then because its britsh and not russian, you nerfed it.
Yup
Because SRAAM vs 50's jets is balanced
@@kajmak64bit76 it would still verse mig21 and yak 38 at 9.7
Russian bias doesn't exist, every nation is annoying in their own ways
@@williewilson2250 there is no russian bias it's all just NATO bias
Oh look it’s the thing that wrecked the game for like a month
"Do you enjoy flying it?"
I'm getting started into war thunder and I am considering using the british tech tree as a main aircraft source just to fly the Harrier.
The only problem is that my computa can't run war thunder
same, tried many things to make it run but, nope. I had borrowed a HP Pavilion from my friend, but when he said that he had to go, I had to give back his laptop. Oh how I miss flying the Spitfire
@@rc_1234 I use a 2013 pc with a gt1030 and run the game on low/medium settings at 1080p@60fps. Should be around 150-200 euro/dollar to buy that as a used build nowayads so if you want to game for a low budget that might be a good option. (Cpu is AMD a10-6800k 4.1 ghz quad core, Ram memory is 2x4gb ddr3 1666mhz)
@@TheTryingDutchman will think about it mate
Repair cost though, that's a BIG turn down for me
Yup
13k not bad used to be 20k
@@cristobalalvarez5491 that's still not good with how much the gr.1 gets bullied by 11.0 you lose sl playing a premium. That is egregious.
Yeah. The American Harriers are much cheaper than the English ones despite being just about the same planes. Thanks Gaijin...
There was a point where I would play the GR3, get 3 kills, die and lose SL. It was like 28k SL to repair at the beginning of the patch, it's not as bad now (19k) but still kinda high
So Harrier 2 when?? Haha
But yes, the Harrier is extremely fun to fly. On mountainous maps, I hover behind a hill/mountain and wait for prey to fly by, then I intercept and fire my Air to Air missiles. It’s worked many times. Sometimes the missile doesn’t reach the target though, but sometimes it does.
If anybody wants to know more about how the harrier came to be and the pegasus engine I can highly recommend "not much of an engineer" by Stanley Hooker. The biography also goes over the merlin engine and early jet engines
I managed to capture a tank cap zone with the av8c
Gaijin: do you enjoy to fly with it? Me: i love it
When they first were added to the game, it seemed like they were less maneuverable than other jets at tier, as if they were constantly in compression. But now they seem to be flying a lot better. I have the GR.1 and GR.3, not the american ones, though.
You know Britain could get the best top tier tanks
Challenger 2 CLIP
Australian M1A2 Abrams
Canadian Leopard 2A7
but I doubt this will happen WAR THUNDER TILL I DIE
Bro the Canadian leopard would be so good 😫
Can you explain why Britain would recieve the 2a7?
add Leopard 2SG. Basically a 2A4 with improved armour protection.
Playing with vehicles that aren't even from your tree, go and play other nations the challenger is already good
@@blitz2973 because Canada isn’t a separate nation in the game so there vehicles are in the British tech tree just like South Africa
0:12 ah yes the Harriers are ascending again
"Jets need a long runway"
Me: Laughs in Viggen
I don’t even play war thunder but I love these videos
Is that the 50$ dead weight. Remember when people bought it when it was 9.3? With flares and sraams? My prediction is that will be the normal, introduce an op and underranked plane by “accident” in order to force cash out of those people wanting an advantage.
"With flares and sraams" Harrier GR.1 never had flares.
GR.1 never had flares
Thank you two for proving me wrong but that doesn’t take away the fact that it’s true. I guarantee you guys when the next jet premium comes it will be beyond op then nerf it two weeks after. These guys are struggling for money that they forced the season pass on us.
@@sum41ow the thing is, they somewhat started to go back the old school premium style with the su-7, the F-5C is an extremely good plane but its not op, in my opinion as i own it aswell, its fairly balanced, im really hoping gaijin sticks to this style and continues along this path
@@stalker5299 they did that because there are very few limited planes that are actually insane for their time. F5c is one example of them tuning down and I’m just predicting that’s what is gonna happen with the next few planes and if it does and it means that they’re being counter productive and giving them selves a bad name. I won’t deny I bought like 2 premiums worth 50 and they are decent the g91 r4 and the f86-35 big F that is.
We must make the "My name is Giovanni Georgio, but everybody calls me Gorgio" meme with this plane's vertical take off lol
I can't wait for the AV-8B Harrier II. The US Marines and Italian Navy still have them in service, and there's the Spanish Navy as well (maybe a premium for another tree, I don't know), and it's an even more beautiful aircraft. Finally, I could take up one of my favorite aircraft in history, if Gaijin actually gives it to Italy eventually.
Never expected my little country Belize, to be mentioned in a war thunder video.
Q: can the object 279 actually survive a nuke in the game
Which tank was it that survived a nuke being dropped on it? They tested it on something but I can't remember what it was
@@hampdog5716 I think it was a centurion which served in the Australian army but I may be wrong
@@christiandimaiwat7379 Thats the one I was thinking of! British lend lease to Australia?
@@hampdog5716 Think so
I'm beginning to understand how you implement new vehicles, let me know if I'm close!
-Hype it in dev blog and make it power creep the game towards requiring new upper BR limit
-Spend 6 months actually playing it in game before realizing the attributes of said vehicle and then adjust BR of surrounding jets
-Release a video on youtube of your now-polished product with newly found knowledge of how to pilot the vehicle
This is great now can y’all add the early versions of the f-15 ? Or f-111
We need the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the Sukhoi SU-27 Flanker, too!
The mig 25 and f14 as well
Other than the T1 and T2, the last truly british military aircraft
>Calls the R.550 Magic 1 an outdated missle
>Argentina recieved Magic 1's in 1982 DURRING THE FALKLAND WAR for the Mirage 3EA and Super Etendard
>Dosent even mention the Super Etendard.
Love the air spawn that makes facing them nearly impossible
the repair cost is too expensive for me to play all the time but i mostly have good matches in it
Really??
@@snakethewarlord4685 17 k to repair last time I cheked
@@yggdrasile9684 I thought it was much lower last time I checked it was like 8 k sl
I have the gr 3
I love this guys voice
It wasnt really a mirage it was a Kfir if I’m not mistaken and thus the aircraft was Israeli not French although I can’t wait for them to add it even tho it might not be the best it sure sparks joy of the patriotism in me
Hey Gajin! (War Thunder) Can You Add A(Some) "Surveillance" Vehicle(s)? And A New Gamemode Use The Surveillance Aircraft(s) To Discover Ground Positions And Then Destroy The Discovered Positions.. Can You Add That? Sounds Pretty Cool.
Something I would request is the hover percentage meter the way you control it is strange because you have to use the air brake button every time you want to hover. ps: I am talking about Xbox about how you use the d-pad left to use it
Harrier AV-8C is in my top 5 favorite planes to fly in-game
Even Indian military ordered these. Decommissioned in late 1990s. Replaced by Russian Sukhoi SU 30 and now by Dassault Rafael from France.
I love flying the Av-8
I tell you what Bruce, this was a cracking video.
It’s very much Still in service by the US Marines as a closer in Strike fighter
Ironically America is now the most Prolific user of the Harrier, Namely the AV-8B
the Harrier was one of the best jets in war thunder past Mig-21 and F-4 Phantom
Harrier looks so muscular and cool
I cannot believe gaijin just forgot to add the harrier to the italian tree lmao
if you play harrier properly then it is really good to fly with
Stop. you are making me want to grind out the entire British tech tree
Please lower the repair costs or atleast remove repair costs. I love the harrier in every way.
I can't wait to get my very own harrier in the next 3 years
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This jet is literally the definition of PAIN and absolute pleasure.
Thank you to mention my country 🇦🇷, and a part of the story of the war of Malvinas. I'll prefer use the legendary Skyhawk and the Mirage. I hope that one day the M5 Dagger combat plane will be added in the game.
Falkland Islands
I like the aircraft but I prefer ww2 planes but hawker is probs my favorite aircraft company for the hurricane, typhoon and tempest mainly but the harrier is a icon worthy of the reputation it holds
Hey so you say you read all of the comments so I got a serious question that can be huge. When I first started playing wither first thing I noticed was how dark the game looks. Shadows are so dark and grass is so dull that it puts a depressing look on the game with all do respect. It wasn’t until I stumbled on a forum someone said set global illumination to low and turn on contrast in postfx. It looks better and more colorful. But I feel like this could be an easy fix so everybody can have an enjoyable experience without having to just turn shadows off. Especially console players that can’t really adjust these things.
Anyway love the game, been playing allot now since I fixed that issue.
I would like to enjoy my Gr.3 but for some reason it has a 15k repair cost but the AV-8C has a 5k repair cost
WTF IS THAT SONG IN THE BEGINNING, ITS SO FIRE!!