My opOnionated Review On The Tornado WTD61 

Gaijin gave me this plane completely for free and I still want my money back...

Average 11.0 BR Tornado experience: 1) Rush bomb → your teammates are faster → teammates die → bomb → back to hanger → teammates bomb → back to hanger → you are faster → get tked → back to hanger 2) Side fly to avoid initial chaos → team disintegrates instantly → bomb → back to hanger → back to hanger → enemy disintegrates instantly → back to hanger 3) Go aerial superiority → back to hanger During the above process you might get a few air kills here and there, but results are very inconsistent, with most probable kills being 9Ls on oblivious enemies and head-ons

"Jokes on you, it's a PNG" - Defyn, a few days into 2024

Gaijin on their way to add more bombing oriented strike fighter premiums the patch after they nerf bombing respawn timers.

I feel like gaijin only added this to make the MIG-21 Lazur look more appealing by compairison.

props to that gaijin employee trolling with onions, could it be the legendary basement guy? we might never know

5:43 “I was fulling pulley there” look what this plane has done to our fedyn

If we had bases respawning at a reasonable speed again, It wouldnt be a problem simply because you can just use the plane as a bomb grinder in air RB. Sadly... tornados in general are just in a meh position. You either 1) rush the base to bomb it risking SARH/AIM54 death or 2) you circle out a bit to dodge those... and somebody else bombs the bases.

"I was yanking that stick like I do at night everyday" Please Defyn, never change. Your humor is great.

10:18 damn I knew a cut was going to come there and still got scared by the sound of the crash 🤣😅 it came sooner than expected

The onion flies better than the jet

"It won't fight F-16" - Stoner, Forum admin. 10:50

Keep up the good work bossman 👍🏻

nah the gaijin employee is insane

For crying out loud not ANOTHER Tornado

Is it weird that I didn't even notice the onion on the thumbnail when I clicked on it

hi defyn just wanted to say thank you for making these videos they make my day ly man keep up the great content

Sick man voluntarily furthers his suffering on camera... sounds like a tornado video

That crash came out of nowhere i was so focused on the dogfight you were teaching, you have to buy me a coffee now!

The delayed manoeuvreing is the same in sim aswell, you can be going transonic on the deck and still have to maintain like 3° AoA which makes flying low a pain. Which is funny cause the thing was SPECIFICALLY designed for low flight....

This plane has a radar which you can use ACM to lock targets and use the radar gunsight.

this is truly a Turnado of all time.

In Polish we have word "Cebulak" (literally "Onion man") which can by roughly translated as miser. Usually used in context like this, so it was very funny to me.

Another tornadooooo😂 hope u get well soon defyn we love u❤

That “there’s no way this is gonna work, BUT IT DOES” 😂 sound of a mad genius

just got your decal last week :))

rare sighting of a W Gaijin employee :))

bro you are hilarious the subtle jokes always kill me

Your fight against the F-16 in the end gave me flashbacks of trying to dogfight MiG-17s in a Vautour. It was definitely cock and ball torture at the time, but now years later I'm kind of nostalgic about it

I should buy this :)

Brother that bit scared the living crap out of me

I dont blame ya, damn good deal.

Thx alot, now they maybe change something about this plane xD

5:43 hmm yes, "fulling pulley there"

That jumpscare tho 🤯

gajin did the tornado rly dirty XOX

absolutely bussin

I bought this premium specifically because I’m a big fan of the tornado. I enjoy having a Tornado that I can use to grind SL more efficiently than my tech tree ones. And even I don’t know why Gaijin didn’t just sell this exactly to me, and tried to market this to normal players.

That’s me in the mig23 on the 4:50

"I was fulling pully there" -Defyn

It might be a complete boat, only carry 2 AA missiles and not really excel at any one thing, but I kinda like the Tornado and I seem to do ok in it. I have the IDS reward variant with the kormorans, which are perfect for cleaning people up on their airfield.

1. Give the jets which have it, TFR. F-111, Su-24, Tornado. Throw in B-52 and B-1B if you like. Let them fly at night with FLIR/NVG (Tornado GR.4) as a 'just before the dawn' strike on...whatever. WVR scooters tend to fly a lot less confidently when it's pitch black and pissing rain/sleet/snow. Heaters also go away in Euromet. 2. Give the game genuine, campaign style, gameplay so that bases which are hit do not launch/spawn a ton of more players, this will reduce the missile spam problems of top tier because a lolo Tornado which spawns in at 600 knots with a pair of JP.233 or MW-1 on the centerline can not only make his mission count in a SINGLE PASS down the ramp and taxiways, he attrite the bad guys air, ultra-quick. 3. As part of the above, put COLUMNS of vehicles on roads, so that you can block their movement with bridge strikes (Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG/Tomahawk MRASM/LLAD) and then use particularly the MW-1 to just zap them all, as they sit, behind a downed span. 4. As part of the above, *Add Fixed Site GBAD*. SA-2-3-6-11 at least. This means GR.1 with the ALARM mod (X4 to X11 missiles, depending on fuel and countermeasures) and the ECR (X4 HARM plus internal jammer with ELS/IRLS) so Tornado players can uniquely find and kill battery engagement radars and provide target-spotting datalink handoff to other jets to bomb what's left, Hunter:Killer style (this opens up the way to the F-4G as well...). i.e. Make the damn thing useful by letting it do the missions which it was capable of. Not what it was not. IDS stands for Interdiction Strike. That means ground pounding with anything from cluster munitions to PGM to nukes. It does not mean Red Baron with a MiG-21/29/Su-27. MRCA was a 1970s development airframe folks. If you want the ADV (Air Defense Variant) mission then design something like an Atlantic Approaches attack where you are hitting Tu-22M and Tu-16, on their way to nail REFORGER convoys or, alternately, as they try to OCA shut down places like RAF Lossiemouth and USAF Keflavik. With nukes as an option to very fast Kh-22 strikes. Get as many archers as you can before their arrows turn your airbase into a moonscape of 40ft wide craters. Throw in some MiG-31 or Su-27 escorts, with Il-78 Midas Tankers, to make it 'interesting'. Gaijin has a basic free for all air RB mission set but no real sense of tactical game play with sequential missions equalling operational win:lose outcomes (airbases knocked, fly further, tank columns advance, less SP for the mission set) with added survivor rewards for victory through multiple missions as a mini-campaign.

When they added the Tornado i was ecstatic until i flew it and realized it was like flying a school bus with a casserole as the controls.

German winrates going to 0% rn

he was fulling pulley right there

I cant believe i grinded out the event version of this thing with the anti ship missiles.

I love energy trap MiG23 ml with the event one XD

Can't wait until Gaijin gives us the Tornado GR4 and A-200C (Italian IDS MLU) with ASRAAMs and a ton more air-to-ground ordnance. This thing has felt gimped since it was first introduced. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. The GR1, A-200A, and ASSTA1 should've come alongside the MiG-23 and F-14A, not fucking F-16s and MiG-29s.

Still dropping a buring drop tank to put out a fire was kind of cool that it worked.

Tornado is freaking weird it has a speed where it turns good but if you go 1 knot faster then its a battleship. Like there is no progression it just falls off a cliff . If you bounce in and out of that speed its downright confusing as your plane shifts back and forward between being useless and decent.

5:40 'I was fulling pully over there"

10:17 absolute tornado moment

sir defyn may you please make a video on the A10A late but solely using the AGM65 for air to air purposes, we would like to see you suffer

DEFYN, can you make a video on the IAR-81C? I love the plane but some games I do well and others I get rekt so fast! Thanks in advance 🔥

IMO they either need to lower the BR, or straight buff the plane, be it give 2 extra AIM 9L's plus airframe buffs overall certainly turn time.

I think you should do a video on the Spitfire mk24 (it eats jets for breakfast of course) but seriously I like it so tell my why it’s bad

“i was fulling pully there” hehehe

To be fair it's a great grinder. You see no 12.3, the two missiles you have are great and you get a base almost every game if you choose a proper loadout.

Defyn cat girl moment 12:07

this thing burns fuel faster than a M4K O.o (its fuel tanks are the same size as the M4K's and it burns slower with afterburn) sheesh

BOUTABLOW

gg

5:40 I mean come on guys, he was fulling pully there

5:42 ..."I was fulling pully there..." Good ol Defyn

12:08 defyn nya~

tornado is slept on 🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪🌪

Yeah the only thing that isn't bad about the Tornado's maneuverability is the roll rate, everything else is excruciatingly slow. Also, this thing should be used with 12 1000Lb bombs, 2 AIM-9L, and the large caliber countermeasures. It is supersonic so you should go around the side of the map and swoop in when the bases respawn, this playstyle is boring but it has always served me well in the event Tornado and I am pretty sure the tornados have identical airframes.

Is there a suggestion that this is actually how the plane handled in real life? Everything I've seen from combat pilots suggests they really liked the Tornado!

I kinda like the plane 😂 it plays like a strike aircraft and I still have a positive KD with it

Dogwater jet in real life is dogwater in war thunder. Shocking! Great video.

At this point I think DEFYN rather be part of a real tornado disaster than flying another tornado.

"I was fulling pully there" I hear you brother 😔

You should try play the Italian F-104S again, at 11.0 you are barely faster, and cannot turn at all. Its so much fun!

Anyone else catch bro saying "I was fulling pully" at 5:43?

i'm not quite understanding how the external fuel tanks and the other pylons always stay facing forward when the wing sweep varies? are the pylons on a rotator that turns to make sure its still aerodynamic? otherwise it seems like sweeping the wings would tear whatevers on the pylons off

The way I would play this is more as a low level bomber that can also fight. This thing is basically a German aardvark you want to fly stupid ass low and fast then bomb a base or two and then rtb or try to go air to air. I would personally get this over the lazur (when it's on sale of course) but mostly because this thing fits my playstyle better then the lazur and also it's at least a partially German vehicle. If I want to fly and grind with a Russian vehicle, I'd play Russia. Regardless, there's not much to really grind for unless you want to get ready for when the typhoon or maybe the F4 ICE or something gets announced

It's a great grinder, it's not a fun plane but it's easy to get 20k rp a game. 1v1 fights are doable but there's just no point in trying since you'll just get third partied. After i get one or two bases i just stay fast and low and pick off one or two people, if you have this do not slow down or you're just gonna die. Really you just have to do what it was designed for, bomb things and intercept

Bro was yanking his stick like we all do at night

tornado has radar assisted guns, so if you have the plane and suffer (like me) use the radar to help you with gun kills

One of the most infuraiting parts of this airframe is the elevator. Like The F3 pulls a little harder. But ive had the elevator on the right or left get shot off. Even if thats the only damage on the plane your just done in a dive. The other one with try to pull you out of it. But unless your high up and need like 10 degrees your kinda SoL the thing will just plow dead into the ground. Your better off trying to use the rudder to pull out of the dive. Also the only way ive found that you even have a chance of getting a F16 or something similar off your ass is the Thrust Reversers. Drop air brakes, Thrust reveresers and they will over speed you, they just can't match the deceleration. The issue is now your super slow and food for everything else. Plus theres a good 10 second window where they can just tear you out of the sky with guns.

Hey DEFYN, do you think you could make a video or just reply with some common flying terminology such as "Compressing", " Notching" etc?

Man I wish the Shitenados had been added with the Phantoms or something. The definition of DoA :(

Atleast it's nice to look at I guess.

I was yanking that stick as I do it at night every day💀. Damn.

I will commit particular things involving myself and certain rapid-burning smokeless powder if Gaijin never addresses the damage of 27mm cannon. In my experience Mausers never straight up yeet planes as other cannons. They only cripple modules and engines and set everything on fire.

gaijin try to model a british plane correctly challenge (impossible), i just love how they reskinned the event one and sold it for 70 bucks

Sad thing the f4s is a fsster better bomber than the tornado whilst also carrying more missles

This plane is a beast, yesterday I made 57k research points and more than 200k SL without using booster in a single match

Hey Defyn, Should I grind the J11 or the F16 MLU first for the Chinese tech tree?

I remember checking the marketplace price of the Marinefleiger Tornado after the update came out and it just made me laugh at the fools that overpaid for less. The marinefleiger is cheaper and at least comes with anti ship missiles (you'll never use).

The plane for those who like clicking space bar on red dots

Can you play the f5e with the gun pod for memes now that it got the radar gun sight I've gotten quite a few 4 to 5 kill game with it

Ngl, I clicked on the video because of the onion in the thumbnail

10:14 unexpectedly funny

Ah yes, the Turdano

10:19 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

Man if the Tornado ids has now a premium version maybe the stats are getting so worse that both planes are getting a downtier if they don’t sell enough

i want to grind either america or soviets and i dont know if i should buy the f4s2 or mig 23ml i want to grind and not suffer so my question is which one is better?

Why does this thing fly like what the guys from the US Constant Peg program say the MiG 23 flies!? The more time passes, the more I'm convinced the "realistic" part of this game pertains to the fact the vehicles visually resemble real world ones and nothing else.

Its wierd seeing this video and comments cause i understand it technically isnt great but ive had good luck with it, guns work well for me and i bombrun and then cut in to engage to main fight, but hey, we all have preferance and opinion