Monday, October 20, 2014

War Thunder American P-40 Tier 2 Fighter

The P-40 is an outstanding Tier 2 fighter. In short, this thing can turn, climb, and wreck everything else. While you may not think of this low Tier 2 aircraft as amazing, this is a best when fully modified and crew is all the way up. Let me just say that all the stats below are from a stand point of the plane already being fully upgraded. This thing has a nice top speed of 601 km/h and can climb at about 17.5 m/s.  The climb is pretty good but that speed is nice for a Tier 2 fighter. Now lets talk about the armament.  This aircraft has 6 x 12.7 mm machine guns with about 280 rounds per gun. That gives a total of 1680 rounds. May not seem like a lot but when playing realistic, conserve your ammo! If you can learn and get really good at conserving ammo, you will become an amazing pilot. With training in other skills also haha. Lets now talk about the modifications. When upgraded, it can carry 2 x 100 lb bombs and a single 500 lb under the fuselage. I do not recommend using this is realistic because your plane will be so heavy and so slow that you wont be able the dogfight or climb well.  Only use the bombs in arcade if you really feel like it. Next up is the tactics. In realistic, there are a lot of tactics but I have my favorite. You climb as high as you can when you take off. Try and get above the enemy and scare them down lower. Once you have forced the enemy aircraft down, you can pick a target and begin dog-fighting. Note that sometimes you will die on the "scare them to a lower altitude."  Or you could just Boom and Zoom. Whatever you feel like you love the most. Now compared to the P-400. I would say that this plane is just better. Yes, I know that the the P-400 has a 20 mm. The P-40 can out turn and out climb the P-400 any day.  This may go against some, but as I said, the P-40 is better. Remember, set your gun targeting distance to 500 or 600 meters, That ensures you some nice kills from any distance! Now lets talk historically. In WWII, 1500 P-40 were produced. That's a pretty big amount! These planes were used all over the world for a very long time! Overall, this single engine aircraft is amazing for all around purposes. You can dogfight, attack ground troops, or provide air support. I also want to say that Gaijin did a nice job on the flight model. It is surprisingly more or less accurate the the real WWII aircraft. This plane is just so fun and cool to watch and fly!

       Thanks for reading guys! Comment below for some more aircraft I should write about! Thanks everyone

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