How to use the AIM-54 Phoenix missiles in War Thunder in under 2 minutes 

Can’t wait to get the Iranian f-14 thanks for the guide !

Best explanation out of 5 videos i saw on these missiles. Thanks man

For me, there's a trade-off between firing at the higher targets that are probably also tossing BVR missiles, and the lower ground targets who are probably gonna try to scoot into a valley or behind a mountain when they see the smoke trails flying toward them. If you're lucky, there won't be much terrain to hide behind for the low and fast targets (with nothing to hide behind if its Sinai lol), and you'll be able to just launch at 50km+, and sit and wait. On the other hand, the higher targets will probably immediately notch+chaff to avoid the incoming BVR-spam (Hell, its what I do in the Tomcat). Another thing I do occasionally is just fly low and fast, then quickly side-climb to lob some at the ensuing dogfight in the middle of the map and try to catch people off-guard lol. Especially with the Fakour-90s, the IRIAF Tomcats can work at a surprisingly close range.

Much appreciated been getting 2-3 kill games because of this instead of 0-1 via guns :)

this really helped me with the F-14 IRIAF! 👍

I should also mention that if you are paying attention to your missiles and have a bright green dot on your radar for the guys you wanna track you CAN guide the missile in until very close to target then swap off TWS to minimize their time getting a radar warning, but in my experience letting them self guide too late will cause you to miss some hits

Thanks for this, it helped me get 2-3 kills per launch

Good to know on the "Keep the TWS on" bit... 0 mention of that being important in the ingame tutorial. I guess the missiles get fed info from the plane's datalink?

I am still somehow confused as they will not actually lock onto people

Thanks man this really helped

Thanks just got my first 2 kills with the aim-54 in the first game.. yeaaa

the Iranian F14 is coming!!!!!!!! thx 4 the guide

First game from watching this video got 4 aim-54 kills in the beginning of the match

doing all thise and yet not getting missles to do the green circle

this might be stupid, but how do i know when its 17 clicks away?

So what button should I keybind to switch targets in TWS mode

I turn on my tws change my range but i cant lock anyone with the tws can you help please

Thanks now imma commit some sins.

What key bind is it to swap between the targets so quickly

Hey man I just got the Iranian F-14 and I’m wondering if you could help me with the keybinds on Xbox? I can’t find any tutorials and it seems I’m the only one with this problem 😅

How do you instalock all these enemies??? I have to Manually select them !

how to make the radar lock from this far

how do you instantly swap to another target like that? I have to first manually move the little square to another target on the radar with a keybind ...

Quick heads up that I forgot to throw in the comments cause I spaced. My comment at the end about the R27 is a little invalid, I have since been informed that you can launch the missile with a soft lock in tws, but it requires a hard lock for terminal guidance! So I'd recommend against ripple firing them.

How do I put it on tws??

how do you switch targets on the radar?

Hi! I'm playing on the f14b, what do you think is the best rocket? 54C or 54A?

how do i lock with tws?

Fast and nice explanation, when i tried the phoenix and get a lock, i couldnt active the seeker head of the phoenix or the radar stops getting a lock after some seconds and the green square disappears, could you help me, please? Also, the only thing i changed in settings is switch targets off

why can't i actually lock people to send missiles also why can i not see people on my tws in the first mins or so while my teammates are already sending theirs?

No idea still about those Phoenix missiles. I have assigned the beyond visual range mode and get a green box right in front of me but it won't lock. No idea what sorcery is happening on your screen dude. I will just ignore those kind of missiles.

No idea you had to let the missiles go off tws to engage passive radar

Bruh too many keybinds, what are the main things i need bound?

My tws doesnt lock

WHY WONT MINE FUCKING CYCLE TARGETS!!!

Interesting tactic, normally i like shooting at higher targets to clear out the biggest threats. But hey, it works for you. Nice short video too, earned a sub

Do you play sim battles ever? I’ve been wanting to see more people playing sim with the aim54. It’s really fun but the radar symbology isn’t great so it’s hard to know distance to target and stuff

Hey bro i cant get the radar Lock i have everything right tws 93km and it doesent Lock on

Idk what im doing wrong but since the Update, even tho i am doing EXACTLY those steps my Radar Just doesnt Lock onto any targets

How do you know missle is In range? And what does clicks mean?

so you have to guide them with your aircrafts radar then they can swap to self homing?

Just wondering ill fire at a target with TWS but a few seconds later after firing my fox 3, my radar soft locks a different target. Does this mean that the fox 3 that I just fired tries to go after the new target or is it still on track to its main target. thxs and sorry for any bad grammar

Hey, how to switch target when I have finish to shoot a missle on a target ?

I cant even get a hit

Do you know why the switching between tragets after firing the first missile is not working for me? The key bind works fine just after firing the missile it does not seem to work

this helped a bunch with the f-14A IRIAF thanks so much also you know why so many hate on me being level 15?

How to u switch from a locked target to tws screen and then how do u select another target without interfiring with the first (what binds do u press)

WHAT RADAR SETTINGS DO I USEEEE IM CONFUSEDDD