Harrier / War Thunder 

*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.*

1:08 Bombs detonating with a distance 1:13 Average War Thunder bomber user

“Jets need a long runway” Me: Crying and laughing in piston engine

I love the looks of the harrier. Such a legendary appearance!

Hopefully the Sea Harrier will come. Since you spoke about the Falklands.

I love flying it, the repair cost...not so much.

Forget the stream. THIS is what I need to watch!

6:33 "The harrier was known as one of the most accidsnt prone vechicles of the cold war" The F-104: hold my beer

Ah yes. The jet, that bullies take to custom battles to piss everyone off

They're fun until everyone seems to target you with Air to Air Missiles

As you mentioned that France saw the interest of VTOL aircrafts, will you add the Mirage 3 V?

2:17 me and the boys going into creative

0:06 One of the most iconic vehicles of the Royal Air Force *that is not a Spitfire

I wonder why they are making a video about an aircraft with a premium variants. There's definitely not a sale on premium vehicles.

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

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

They wont mention that SRAAMS where prototypes though!

You forgot the part where it is to expensive to fly

My favorite jet in the world. Love this plane.

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!

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

i love it!!!!! great video, also a big thx to mister Grant for the great narrating

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 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

Man i love the harrier, in this game and irl.

Love it! ❤️ Hoping the Sea Harrier FRS.1 and F/A.2 will be added in the near future. 👍

I tell you what Bruce, this was a cracking video.

"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

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

Yall neglected to add that the majority of why Harriers saw such success in the Falklands is because of their armament: AIM-9Ls.

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

I require Rank VI Aircraft RP reduction

When being chased by other jets I prefer to go vertical because they cant out climb the harrier.

Attack The D Point!

Thank you for existing

5:06 UN Etendard IVM with rotated argentinian Flag, epic Edit : and B-29 bailing out in falklands war, still more epic

Love the video and love the harrier I actually got to see one of these fly and I will never forget that feeling love that I can fly it myself on war thunder

Love the air spawn that makes facing them nearly impossible

"do you enjoy flying it?" _I haven't gotten to it yet :(_

Hey I made those skins! Nice to see them being showcased, thanks Gaijin!

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

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!

Yes my fav plane! This was the first jet fighter I sat in! 😄

Amazing.

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.

Man. Cant wait for another Thunder Show episode

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.

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

They forgot to mention the use of Aim-9L in Falkland war which help correct the problems with harriers

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.

Ah, yes. The creative-mode aircraft capable of killing unaware people from 3km away.

This is one of the fighters that people actually bother to land when out of bombs/ rockets as it vertical landing is easy

"do you enjoy flying it?" well i don't know because i cant devote my entire life and afterlife to War Thunder

Got 2 questions Is there a way to not fully extend the radar on the ZA-35? And Can you maybe do a quick small tutorial on the Starstreak HVM?

Surprisingly, This was uploaded on my birth day.

WT: Did you enjoy flying the harrier? Which one is your favorite? Me: Yeah im gonna have to stop you there-

Nice vid

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.

Harrier AV-8C is in my top 5 favorite planes to fly in-game

Gaijin: do you enjoy to fly with it? Me: i love it

One of my favourite jets and my first rank 6 one, but the repair cost is a bit much

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.

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 !!!!!

0:12 ah yes the Harriers are ascending again

I love this guys voice

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

It pretty good i wait for RTN Skin

I don’t even play war thunder but I love these videos

Do a video on the history of the ”Tunnan”, ”Lansen” or even ”Draken”

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.

"Jets need a long runway" Me: Laughs in Viggen

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!

Still waiting for the A10 Warthog and AC-130, now that both tanks and jets can be in a single match

Just bought one, going to try it this weekend. Any tips?

Oh cool I just finished building a 1/72 scale model of the Harrier recently!

Q: Could we get a way to lock out turret in place? I sometimes have problems keeping my gun forward while driving as I like to free look around. It has gotten me killed a handful of times. It would be much appreciated!

its beautiful

How do I take off like they’re doing in this video? My engine feels like a wet flannel and it overheats after about 15 seconds giving me roughly 20 feet off the ground in a vertical lift

Love playing against these in my mig 15 and early sabres. Very realistic and fun

i love the harrier and i have the AV-8A, which is an american premium version of the harrier the only problem is the fact that the air to air missle systems are hard to use and the maneuverability dosent give it the ability to dogfight btw gaijin, since the f5-c freedom fighter has just came to the shop, please make a video on the series of aircraft, i wanna see it

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

Oh look it’s the thing that wrecked the game for like a month

Can you make a video about the yak 38 I would love to learn more

I love the harrier GR. 1 but man the repair cost is still so high, I rarely go without losing more SL than gaining it

I love flying the Av-8

We must make the "My name is Giovanni Georgio, but everybody calls me Gorgio" meme with this plane's vertical take off lol

It was op, then because its britsh and not russian, you nerfed it.

This is great now can y’all add the early versions of the f-15 ? Or f-111

The Mirage where also low on fuel if I'm not mistaken. Are those new camouflages I see?

I managed to capture a tank cap zone with the av8c

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.

"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

Repair cost though, that's a BIG turn down for me

you mention the 1982 conflict? why does the gr3 not have Limas?? like in the 82 confict?

Ah the VTOL planes! Also the German Do-31!

I cannot believe gaijin just forgot to add the harrier to the italian tree lmao

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

It’s good fun flying it but at 10.0 br , the gr.1 with no counter measures and almost all of the Time being upteired, often leaves you pretty defenseless against middles