The Radar and RWR are both placeholders (it literally uses the F-5E’s radar lmao). Should have a modern radar with ground radar modes, as well as a digital RWR with target identification. Same goes for the F-111F. (They also should both have Aim-9Ms)
@@zeitgeistx5239 It'd just be nice if the Dominions were formally mixed into the UK tree and stopped getting shafted. I'm Canadian so having to fight my own country's Leopards with the Canadian ADATS is kind of insulting.
As an Aussie, I am very sad we didn't get a fuel-dump feature this update. Could be quite helpful to quickly shed weight......definitely no other reason 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
@TimsVariety There's an awesome photo of a F-111C doing a dump and burn of the city of Ipswich in the state of Queensland in Australia at night. It was done as part of celebrations during the aircraft's retirement. In the photo, the pilot did a climbing spiral above the city, leaving a spiral of flame to send off this magnificent jet
Hello Tim, I just want to say that I really appreciate how you structure your videos. Informational, not try harding, but not over edited, and meme filled. You deserve way more views and attention. Reliably good content. Thank you for your time, Casey Bennett
Hey, off topic for this video, but I'd just like to say your radar guide video a few months ago helped me improve exponentially. Particularly the EEGS section. Whenever I saw that reticle, I thought my ballistic computer was just glitching out by thinking I was close to the ground. Ho boy I turned into a gun-fighter overnight with everything I flew.
Thanks Tim, made my day to see you do the F-111C. Absolutely stoked. My tip for those grinding out 'The Pig', research the 9L early on, this allows you to choose to mount the 9L on the inner pylons, allowing the 500lbers to be mounted on the outer pylons. No restriction on wing sweep this way, which means you can hit over Mach 1.2 at sea level with a full loadout. Get to those bases first!
Got this plane yesterday… almost done getting all the mods. Gotta say, full fuel and max load, it’s so dang sluggish, but then finally decides to go once you pass 700mph (ias). But using guided munitions on PlayStation is confusing (only been playing for like a year 😅), so I just take 24x snakeyes and the targeting pod and do 100-150ft bomb runs. If I fee ballsy, I will take 40-60% fuel (depends on map size), the Vulcan, and the AAMs…. Boy do they underestimate you! My only complaint on the C is that they should have added the Ausi jungle camo! Man, those early Cs were a beauty! I just pray they add the extra hard points!
thank god for this review... this one's like the only one at all available for the f-111c, and I've been just about burnt out grinding for it while not knowing whether it'd be worth it in the end, now I'm a lot more able to decide
ooooo i really like seeing what loadout youre using in the bottom left also, love seeing my country in war thunder! ive actually sat in the cockpit of one of these things, beastly aircraft
Always love your videos brotha! Fun and informational. Don't take it the wrong way but I love putting on your videos when going to sleep. I find them quite relaxing honestly.
I've had at least a dozen people over the last few years mention that they sometimes throw on one of my playlists late at night to listen to in the background as they're dozing off. I take it as a compliment that I have a relaxing voice and don't use screaming-meme-heads in my vids. :-)
I appreciate your more serious style of videos on war thunder but still crack your jokes and have your fun. Love the channel! Always look forward to your new uploads. I have the bell on!
The new Varks honestly might be enough to drag me back into playing seriously again, I've dinked around with the F in test flight and it feels pretty damn nice.
With the F111C, I genuinely wonder if there's even a reason to research and purchase the Tornado GR.1 right after it, since it's at the same BR with less ordinance (Do correct me if I'm wrong though)
tornado has PGM2000s (TV guided 1kg bombs), and since they are TV guided, you can launch them at a really far distance, so its better against pantsirs... hell, even the AJ.168 anti ship missile on the Bucc s2b at 10.3, which cant even face pantsirs, can be a menace to pantsirs if you know how to use it, there is a compilation hunting Pantsirs with the AJ.168 the video is named : "The PANTSIR Killer - AJ.168 | Buccaneer S.2B" and has only 225 views
@@Fiery126 I'm not an expert at all on the tornado however I believe it currently doesn't have its full capabilities for balance reasons. Saying that that's also true for my beloved f111c
@@firestar7890 what does f111c have in game? I know nothing about these and had to look it up. Should have BAe ALR-2002A (AIR 5416) radar warning receiver. which if I'm understanding it properly should be digital?
Hi, i think it may be worth testing/mentioning it's speed on less than 100% throttle, as some jets can hold a lot of speed in economy mode. For example, lightbing f6 while it has lots of pwr in wep, it can go supersonic at ~90% power, and hold around 1k ias even at 70% thrust, while eating many times less fuel than in wep.
This is a fairly routine and well known thing - some jets have better T/W than others, etc etc. The lightning, for example, is capable of supercruise as you mentioned.
I can't believe mr Tim didn't mention the most famous F-111C, the one that took the Olympic flame from Sydney to Athens during the 2000 Olympics closing ceremony.
Aussie-American here - the bomber that the F-111C replaced was the "CAN-bra", not the "Can-BERR-a". Speaking of which, the F-111s ended up getting the nickname "Lawn Darts" after we lost a bunch of them in training accidents.
Another commenter chimed in with the weird pronunciation. I'd refer you to that convo for my snarky dissatisfaction with the English language, and silent letters.
Could we get a review for the Mig 15 bis Ish? its the only "CAS capable" plane in its BR range for the soviet tree and my ground lineup is severely missing a plane. the s1 rockets seem really promising.
I recently posted a review of the Mig-15 Bis, it'll be a while before I do the ISH specifically, but about 95% of my 15-Bis review applies to the ISH as well.
@@TimsVariety yeah the bis will have to make do i suppose even though the secondaries are a little lackluster compared to that damn a4e. i saw some guy shred my team with 5 bullpups it was insane. anyway thanks for the quick response! its going to be a sad day when you get too big for that.
How awesome would it be if they added the "spark-vark"-jamming varient? They could give it a 20km range where anything inside the bubble counts as an assist💀
Firstly, it's pronounced CAN-BRA 😉Yeah my second favourite plane of all time and my favourite jet ever. Engines are underperforming, wrong radar, wrong missiles and as mentioned the wings are from the bomber variant so carry the full load out of the A version the Americans have. Also missing gbu15 and another pair of air to air missiles
@@TimsVariety yeah but it's pretty common. Look at letter combinations in Chinese words spelt in English. Lots of translated words into English spelling use dumb non phonetic spelling. It's our nations capital so it grinds to hear it said wrong lol. Like if I said are-cans-as for Arkansas.
This honestly makes me wish they threw the old F-111A a bone. I remember coming from the Thunderchief meta to this and I was just surprised by the bulkiness. Less fast paced bombing and more side climbing and praying the enemies don't sweep down that side. Give the ol' girl better missiles cause man the thing blows nowadays. AIM-9B combat where chaff and flares are a plenty is just rough.
Hey Tim, are you going to cover the Shar FA2? It's hilarious to fly that thing with such a massive flight performance gap between it and everyone else in the lobby.
I haven't tried it yet, but even the A variant wasn't the top speed in it's bracket, some phantoms are way faster, so I wonder if is really that fast 11.7, especially if with bad acceleration.
The absolute top-end depends on altitude and parasite drag (external weapons). Off the top of my head, I believe the 111-A is faster than phantoms when its clean/light.
@@TimsVariety Yes, but you can only take anything on the second innermost hardpoint, which allows the wings to fully close, and even then it's around mach 1.2 at 1000m, and takes forever to reach that speed, a phantom will get to mach 1 way faster, in my experience if both you are going for the same base, he will get there first, even if you will eventually overtake him. It's another thing on the EC maps, but then fuel becomes an issue, and this is the A, at a considerable lower BR. I just hope that when I get around to spading the newer models they will be actually viable.
I hope this plane gets buffed along with the f-111f the f-111a you can take out enough to take out four bases and still sweep your wings to 75% which I haven't bought the f111f yet come on devs 24 500 lb jadams😂
@ZacOnTrack The VarkC is like a weird amalgamation between the failed VarkB and A, hence it's "navalized" longer wings and reinforced undercarriage from the B. I was asking if the longer wings really do make a big difference to it's flight performance compared to the standard size. And if it's enough to offset the F's greater Thrust
The aardvark can take 4 GBU-24s, taking 2 was my personal loadout choice to bring a couple sidewiders in. I don't think anyone said the GBU-24 was better than the PGM-2000? (They're entirely different weapons, one is laser guided, the other is TV) The GR1 is *after* this in the tech tree, so .. you'd kindof *expect* it to have upgraded/better weapons anyway? ...
@@TimsVarietyBut the GR.1 is LOWER br than the f111c: it is 11.3 in ground rb with the same 4 GBU payload, doesn't have to give up guns for a targeting pod, has dedicated missile pylons and has access to fire-and-forget AGMs (which are a must have against top tier AA systems). Not to mention somewhat workable flight performance compared to the f111. Just about the only advantage the f111c has over the GR1 is more flares (and less chaff), but that's kind of irrelevant in ground rb.
A jet that it's only advantage is speed, yet has LGB's that can only be dropped at 1.0M or lower. Literally defeats the purpose of the jet. Kinda dogshit, especially at 11.7 and literally just strictly worse than the 11.3 Tornado Gr.1 in almost every way.
It hurts to see you putting every enemy into a radar lock. There’s no point in doing this if you’re just going to send a non IRCCM IR missile at the target. All you’re doing is giving the enemy advanced warning that you’re there and likely engaging them.
Advance Australia as they say
Goated theme. I miss the old orchestral music
The historical background is always my favorite part of your videos
AUSTRALIA MENTIONED!!! RAHHH
Hooroo woop woop woop
The Radar and RWR are both placeholders (it literally uses the F-5E’s radar lmao).
Should have a modern radar with ground radar modes, as well as a digital RWR with target identification. Same goes for the F-111F.
(They also should both have Aim-9Ms)
We fr need more Aussie jets, maybe a Aussie f18, or even a Aussie f86
Aussie hornets were known by the designations (A)F/A-18A and (A)F/A-18B, and sometimes by AF-18A and ATF-18A.
CAC Sabre with 2x30mm
Aussie f18 with asraam would be pretty sick. Looking forward to it being added to Britain 2 updates after su57/f35
There isnt even a normal navy F18💀
@@ZahraAfshari-bn6lr 🤷
That supersonic treetop level snakeeye run at the end was sexy AF
Being mostly a UK tree player I was pretty stoked to get this. I feel bad for the Aussies not being able to use the F-111 with the M1 AIM though.
There should be an Australian sub tree for Britain.
@@zeitgeistx5239 It'd just be nice if the Dominions were formally mixed into the UK tree and stopped getting shafted. I'm Canadian so having to fight my own country's Leopards with the Canadian ADATS is kind of insulting.
For sure.
As an Aussie, I am very sad we didn't get a fuel-dump feature this update. Could be quite helpful to quickly shed weight......definitely no other reason
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Cuz it'd be more badass than airshow smoke, no other reason needed.
@TimsVariety There's an awesome photo of a F-111C doing a dump and burn of the city of Ipswich in the state of Queensland in Australia at night. It was done as part of celebrations during the aircraft's retirement. In the photo, the pilot did a climbing spiral above the city, leaving a spiral of flame to send off this magnificent jet
@@ZacOnTrack Don't forget the closing ceremony of the Sydney Olympics in 2000.
Turning on afterburners ❌
Turning on the real afterburners ✅
Hello Tim, I just want to say that I really appreciate how you structure your videos. Informational, not try harding, but not over edited, and meme filled. You deserve way more views and attention. Reliably good content.
Thank you for your time,
Casey Bennett
Hey, off topic for this video, but I'd just like to say your radar guide video a few months ago helped me improve exponentially.
Particularly the EEGS section. Whenever I saw that reticle, I thought my ballistic computer was just glitching out by thinking I was close to the ground.
Ho boy I turned into a gun-fighter overnight with everything I flew.
I live to serve. o7
Australian Aardvark!!!!!! Literally dropped everything I was doing to watch this!
Thanks Tim, made my day to see you do the F-111C. Absolutely stoked. My tip for those grinding out 'The Pig', research the 9L early on, this allows you to choose to mount the 9L on the inner pylons, allowing the 500lbers to be mounted on the outer pylons. No restriction on wing sweep this way, which means you can hit over Mach 1.2 at sea level with a full loadout. Get to those bases first!
Got this plane yesterday… almost done getting all the mods. Gotta say, full fuel and max load, it’s so dang sluggish, but then finally decides to go once you pass 700mph (ias). But using guided munitions on PlayStation is confusing (only been playing for like a year 😅), so I just take 24x snakeyes and the targeting pod and do 100-150ft bomb runs. If I fee ballsy, I will take 40-60% fuel (depends on map size), the Vulcan, and the AAMs…. Boy do they underestimate you! My only complaint on the C is that they should have added the Ausi jungle camo! Man, those early Cs were a beauty! I just pray they add the extra hard points!
thank god for this review...
this one's like the only one at all available for the f-111c, and I've been just about burnt out grinding for it while not knowing whether it'd be worth it in the end, now I'm a lot more able to decide
Another great vid, thanks Tim!
ooooo i really like seeing what loadout youre using in the bottom left
also, love seeing my country in war thunder! ive actually sat in the cockpit of one of these things, beastly aircraft
For bombers, I try to show the damage of popular bomb loads on bases, showing the loadout on-screen seems like a reasonable way to make it more clear.
IMO if you physically hit a tank with a 2000 pound bomb it should knock out the tank before the bomb even explodes haha
Thanks Tim
Always love your videos brotha! Fun and informational. Don't take it the wrong way but I love putting on your videos when going to sleep. I find them quite relaxing honestly.
I've had at least a dozen people over the last few years mention that they sometimes throw on one of my playlists late at night to listen to in the background as they're dozing off. I take it as a compliment that I have a relaxing voice and don't use screaming-meme-heads in my vids. :-)
I appreciate your more serious style of videos on war thunder but still crack your jokes and have your fun. Love the channel! Always look forward to your new uploads. I have the bell on!
The new Varks honestly might be enough to drag me back into playing seriously again, I've dinked around with the F in test flight and it feels pretty damn nice.
For anyone that doesn't know. Bases are 4,500 LBS of bomb. = 2020KG
Tim this plane looks scary , Great video as always 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
With the F111C, I genuinely wonder if there's even a reason to research and purchase the Tornado GR.1 right after it, since it's at the same BR with less ordinance (Do correct me if I'm wrong though)
tornado has PGM2000s (TV guided 1kg bombs), and since they are TV guided, you can launch them at a really far distance, so its better against pantsirs... hell, even the AJ.168 anti ship missile on the Bucc s2b at 10.3, which cant even face pantsirs, can be a menace to pantsirs if you know how to use it, there is a compilation hunting Pantsirs with the AJ.168 the video is named : "The PANTSIR Killer - AJ.168 | Buccaneer S.2B" and has only 225 views
@@Fiery126 I'm not an expert at all on the tornado however I believe it currently doesn't have its full capabilities for balance reasons. Saying that that's also true for my beloved f111c
tornado also has a fully digital rwr
@@firestar7890 what does f111c have in game? I know nothing about these and had to look it up. Should have BAe ALR-2002A (AIR 5416) radar warning receiver. which if I'm understanding it properly should be digital?
tornado has way better ordinance + cannon too
Hi, i think it may be worth testing/mentioning it's speed on less than 100% throttle, as some jets can hold a lot of speed in economy mode. For example, lightbing f6 while it has lots of pwr in wep, it can go supersonic at ~90% power, and hold around 1k ias even at 70% thrust, while eating many times less fuel than in wep.
This is a fairly routine and well known thing - some jets have better T/W than others, etc etc. The lightning, for example, is capable of supercruise as you mentioned.
I can't believe mr Tim didn't mention the most famous F-111C, the one that took the Olympic flame from Sydney to Athens during the 2000 Olympics closing ceremony.
so, I actually thing adding the 'Vark's fuel dump would help with landing AND be a fun addition to the game. (iykyk)
Tim do you think the F/A-18 is coming this december? Or maybe the Eurofighter Typhoon?
Aussie-American here - the bomber that the F-111C replaced was the "CAN-bra", not the "Can-BERR-a".
Speaking of which, the F-111s ended up getting the nickname "Lawn Darts" after we lost a bunch of them in training accidents.
Another commenter chimed in with the weird pronunciation. I'd refer you to that convo for my snarky dissatisfaction with the English language, and silent letters.
Love the F model and learned quickly to go fast and low!
hey tim, i always wonder why you always use the 5 decal as i see it in every review, just a curious question
Its a bit of Tim Lore(TM) that I get asked about now and then.
My first solo flight "IRL" was in plane #5 of my school's fleet.
My only complain is that neither the C or the F variant have incendiary bombs, with that it could easily become my favorite bomber
I remember pre-f111 getting nerfed. Best dogfighter at its br that made mig-21 look like a brick if you need vertical loops.
Aussie Aussie Aussie!
Oi Oi Oi!!
Oi oi oi!
Could we get a review for the Mig 15 bis Ish? its the only "CAS capable" plane in its BR range for the soviet tree and my ground lineup is severely missing a plane. the s1 rockets seem really promising.
I recently posted a review of the Mig-15 Bis, it'll be a while before I do the ISH specifically, but about 95% of my 15-Bis review applies to the ISH as well.
@@TimsVariety yeah the bis will have to make do i suppose even though the secondaries are a little lackluster compared to that damn a4e. i saw some guy shred my team with 5 bullpups it was insane. anyway thanks for the quick response! its going to be a sad day when you get too big for that.
such a shame it doesn't have the more powerful rnhinrs of the F variant
Big w for my fellow Australians ❤
This is the best thing I ever saw.
How awesome would it be if they added the "spark-vark"-jamming varient? They could give it a 20km range where anything inside the bubble counts as an assist💀
Firstly, it's pronounced CAN-BRA 😉Yeah my second favourite plane of all time and my favourite jet ever. Engines are underperforming, wrong radar, wrong missiles and as mentioned the wings are from the bomber variant so carry the full load out of the A version the Americans have. Also missing gbu15 and another pair of air to air missiles
Thats an E in there, inn'it? INN'IT!?
@@TimsVariety it's an aboriginal word, E isn't pronounced.
@@solreaver83 Then leave it out when spelling it in English :-P
(Really, English is such an awful language.)
@@TimsVariety yeah but it's pretty common. Look at letter combinations in Chinese words spelt in English. Lots of translated words into English spelling use dumb non phonetic spelling. It's our nations capital so it grinds to hear it said wrong lol. Like if I said are-cans-as for Arkansas.
@@solreaver83 Oh, I assure you, people who aren't from Arkansas say Are-can-sauce all the time. ;-)
This honestly makes me wish they threw the old F-111A a bone. I remember coming from the Thunderchief meta to this and I was just surprised by the bulkiness. Less fast paced bombing and more side climbing and praying the enemies don't sweep down that side.
Give the ol' girl better missiles cause man the thing blows nowadays. AIM-9B combat where chaff and flares are a plenty is just rough.
Hey Tim, are you going to cover the Shar FA2? It's hilarious to fly that thing with such a massive flight performance gap between it and everyone else in the lobby.
I'll get to it eventually.
Its really annoying how these kind of aircraft dont get HUDS, like ccrp is difficult to use in sim bc of it
You forgot to mention that the engines are fueled by Bundy and Cokes (and asbestos)
could you do a review on the f4d-1
Ive got over 200 reviews up, just gotta search the playlists :-)
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@@TimsVariety will do
I haven't tried it yet, but even the A variant wasn't the top speed in it's bracket, some phantoms are way faster, so I wonder if is really that fast 11.7, especially if with bad acceleration.
The absolute top-end depends on altitude and parasite drag (external weapons). Off the top of my head, I believe the 111-A is faster than phantoms when its clean/light.
@@TimsVariety Yes, but you can only take anything on the second innermost hardpoint, which allows the wings to fully close, and even then it's around mach 1.2 at 1000m, and takes forever to reach that speed, a phantom will get to mach 1 way faster, in my experience if both you are going for the same base, he will get there first, even if you will eventually overtake him. It's another thing on the EC maps, but then fuel becomes an issue, and this is the A, at a considerable lower BR. I just hope that when I get around to spading the newer models they will be actually viable.
Attack the d point!
In my opinion that lower br tornado is better than F111C , why it is at 11.7 compare to its US version is weird
god i love the shartvark!
I hope this plane gets buffed along with the f-111f the f-111a you can take out enough to take out four bases and still sweep your wings to 75% which I haven't bought the f111f yet come on devs 24 500 lb jadams😂
1:53
Bro turned a little bit and dropped >200km/h
Do you have a discount link?
Sadly, no. My channel is too small to qualify for that level of the partnership program.
hows its longer wings compare to the VarkF?
It was based of the VarkA, not the VarkF. Look at the A varient, than the C, the difference is very noticeable
@ZacOnTrack The VarkC is like a weird amalgamation between the failed VarkB and A, hence it's "navalized" longer wings and reinforced undercarriage from the B.
I was asking if the longer wings really do make a big difference to it's flight performance compared to the standard size. And if it's enough to offset the F's greater Thrust
Why are the F and C the same b.r when the C has next to none of the toys
Worse engine, less missiles, worse bombs. Seems about right
VARK VARK VARK VARK
I dont see how gbu 24 is better than pgm 2000. And iirc you get 3 on gr1 than the 2 on the aardvark.
The aardvark can take 4 GBU-24s, taking 2 was my personal loadout choice to bring a couple sidewiders in.
I don't think anyone said the GBU-24 was better than the PGM-2000?
(They're entirely different weapons, one is laser guided, the other is TV)
The GR1 is *after* this in the tech tree, so .. you'd kindof *expect* it to have upgraded/better weapons anyway? ...
@@TimsVarietyBut the GR.1 is LOWER br than the f111c: it is 11.3 in ground rb with the same 4 GBU payload, doesn't have to give up guns for a targeting pod, has dedicated missile pylons and has access to fire-and-forget AGMs (which are a must have against top tier AA systems). Not to mention somewhat workable flight performance compared to the f111. Just about the only advantage the f111c has over the GR1 is more flares (and less chaff), but that's kind of irrelevant in ground rb.
So the C has less missiles, worse and less bombs, and significantly worse engines than the F. But same br. Awesome
Says credible 3 times in a VARK review, I see what you did there.
A jet that it's only advantage is speed, yet has LGB's that can only be dropped at 1.0M or lower. Literally defeats the purpose of the jet. Kinda dogshit, especially at 11.7 and literally just strictly worse than the 11.3 Tornado Gr.1 in almost every way.
🇦🇺 AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE 🇦🇺
It hurts to see you putting every enemy into a radar lock. There’s no point in doing this if you’re just going to send a non IRCCM IR missile at the target. All you’re doing is giving the enemy advanced warning that you’re there and likely engaging them.
A, slaving. B, forced habit. C, EEGS.
Unless they're asleep, they know I'm there already. It really doesn't matter.