Tuesday, October 14, 2014

F4U-1C Tier 3 Navy American Fighter

The F4U-1C is one of the American Naval aircraft of World War II. The 1C brings a few things that the other variants of the plane do not This plane had four 20 mm cannons. While having very impressive firepower, this plane is not good at turning, climbing, and it had decent speed.  In War Thunder. the best tactic would be Boom and Zoom in this. The only downfall to that would be that this plane can not climb very well.  The one thing this plane did have was the W - Wing shape. This design reduced weight and drag for the aircraft. With this design came a very interesting fact. The wing design of this plane called for a huge propeller. Biggest of WWII for that matter. The propellers had a diameter of 4 meters. As stated previously, this is the biggest propeller for a single engine fighter. Anyway, lets talk about the armament on this aircraft. Here we have 4 x 20 mm AN/M2 cannons. These cannons pack a punch if you are well at aiming. I say that because they have a relatively slow rate of fire. In WWII they mainly just used this aircraft for ground attack and night time interceptions. In War Thunder Arcade battles, you can use this thing for whatever you want. Although it isn't great for Realistic battles, you can use them. My advice is to just stay behind everyone and don't engage unless you know that you can take on your enemy. Each gun had about 230 rounds. That is one other thing I should state. When flying this aircraft, put ALL your crew points into weapons reloading. This will decrease the time it takes to reload and is a blessing for this aircraft. I now reload in 20 seconds instead of 40. I can continue to upgrade weapons reloading and bring it down to only a 15 second reload time. Very helpful in a plane with cannons that have a small amount of ammo.  For modifications on this aircraft, let me just say this. There isn't any. This plane can not carry rockets or bombs. I think rockets would be very nice but I also like the fact that Gaijin is being historically accurate.  I think that since they used these for ground attacks, they carried a few small bombs. Probably not enough that Gaijin would care to add them to this aircraft. Lets talk  about the cockpit for Simulator battles. I have a few bad things for you Sim pilots. The good news is the fact that it has a great cockpit for looking forward and above. The not so good news is that you can not see behind you at all in this thing. They obviously did not design this aircraft cockpit for looking backward. That is like most Tier 3 American Fighter aircraft though. So nothing new just a few sad face facts.  Overall, I think that this is a great and fun plane to fly and admire. I do not suggest using this plane as you main fighter. Stick to your P-47 or P-63 for that, Well, thanks for reading this guys!

P.S. Put stealth bullets on this thing and go troll some aircraft in Arcade.

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