Salamander / War Thunder 

Isn't 20k repair cost too much for a "flying piece of plastic held together with glue"?

Did someone say He-162? 😎

"It easily reached a speed of 840kph" Looks at the in-game vehicle with disappointment

5:00 I know the Germans were ahead of their times but I did not expect an afterburner!

Hmmm yes a budget defense fighter with a 13k sl repair cost

Ah yes another day of listening to Bruce's voice then going back to sleep (edit): Bruce vs Morgan freeman

“Have you tried to fly the salamander in War Thunder?” With the horrible grind and me, refusing to pay for a premium account or vehicles, I don’t think I will. Or at least in 5 more years.

"Throwaway planes operated by inexperienced pilots" Seems like the right description for a flying piece of plastic held together with glue

even the smallest damage can easily kill this Salamander. Poor animal...

Ok but gaijin makes better historical content than history channel at this point

I always love: History lessons with Gaijin

Funny how that liberator never shot back at the 162 when we all know he would've been pilot sniped a full 1.5km's out.

This is such a derpy looking plane, it's almost cute.

0:40 nice damage XD

"It easily reach the speed of 840 kph" Ingame barely reach 600 kph

0:11 rare footage of bombers actually working above br4 in war thunder

German engineers: we have so many awesome ideas! German industry: cool, here's some wood and glue. Also your factory workers are literally slaves who take every chance to manipulate you.

*Pro: able to dodge bullets and hard to kill. Con: horrible cannons! that basically sums it up*

0:16 Is this gaijin HQ?

The salamander is a great low level fighter, with considerable success above tree top level. Just can I ask, why is the 30mm variant still a hidden gift vehicle? I understand you're dirty money grubbers, but just make that one like a Jabo Salamander and add in the original into the tech tree.

IronArmenian will approve this

Imagine ejecting out of that, ooph

First thing that comes to mind after flying this plane, "Low Thrust to weight ratio."

This plane is ridiculously outclassed at 6.3, drop it down a little please

How to fly the HE-162: 1. Pray the glue holds 2. Pray the glue holds 3. Pray the glue holds 4. Oh dear god pray the glue holds

20k repair cost for a "throw away fighter"

"Tons and tons of explosives on German airfields". Yeah, totally not cities and towns...

Someone give him a raise, Bruce is better teacher than my actual History teacher in my school.

War Thunder videos be more educational than history class

You forgot to mention the glue being changed because the original one was made by a single factory, that factory got bombed and the blueprints with it, glue recipe forever lost so the production had to switch to a different glue which turned out to be acidic and eating the wood away and thus responsible for the aircraft falling apart

Fun fact: In the construction plants for the Salamander, the workforce was composed of prisoners from concentration camps. The prisoners pissed on the glue that held the wooden frame of the Salamander together. Over time, the dried urine caused the glue to deteriorate, increasing significantly the chances of a mid-air structural failure for these fighter jets.

Nice, I love the 162. Very underrated plane and hard to fly until you learn it, but still a good plane to have on your team. Managed 7 kills with it once, stealth belts and BnZ flying works well.

The 162 is probably my favorite fighter in the game. I find it’s best used in ground rb when there is no hud for aircraft, allowing you to get the drop on opponents. The only issue is that it doesn’t retain energy well, so you’ll have to dive, shoot, then runaway and climb.

It did not enter service with 30mm MK108s. The recoil damaged the airframe. It had 2 MG151 20mm instead

last time I was this early war thunder was still a game with only ww2 ehicles

The biggest advantage is, that it is so small. It is really difficult to hit them in a Turnfight, when theree is still energy left in that plane

Any plans to make it possible to get the He 162 A-1 for collectors? Gaijin: yOu cAN uSe ThE gAiJiN mArKEt iTs oNly 2200€ ... oH nO ItS aLrEadY sOLd oUT

Ah yes the "Volksjäger", never played WT or WOWP only je oldde IL2 1946 loved the plane with all its flaws and dont get me started on the variants also I somehow remember flying the "Schwalbe" for the first time and imidiatly caused an engine fire which blew up my wings some seconds later.

He-162 is a nice plane with easily one of the best cockpits

One of my favorite plane in the game, both in terms of looks and in gameplay in general. Many hate it and call it garbage, but it suits my play style. With this plane i made most kills in simulator battles, back in the time i used to play them. Great plane to fly with joystick.

The reason they made a version with 20mm mgs was that americans had bombed the main factory that was producing the glue they used for this aircraft.

there is some evidence that points to the possibility of this plane being actually called spatz (sparrow) with the salamander nick likely coming from a after war czech test series.

Love how its meant to get to 800kmph easily but never does in game. And ngl would love to seethe other variants of this plane

I didn't even know this thing existed until I saw one at the air museum in Chino, California. Probably still there. Such a weird looking plane, even for an early jet.

The plane that got me to start playing War Thunder back in 2014. Love the plane, hate when it's called by its project name. 😅

I stopped playing the Salamander because you pushed the repair cost from 14k to 27k for Sim wich made flying the arguably worst jet in Warthunder from a challange to a net loss. But sim is dying anyways because you keep reducing the rewards wich is hurting the normal players far more than it is hurting the farmers.

Dude loving the riffs in the start of the videos, where can I get a hold of some tabs?

just earned my ace crew for the 162 this week.. when the glue holds just right...

I RHINK YOU SHOULD ADD ITS OTHER VARIANTS, like the he 162 V3, witch was a prototype that had forward swept wings and a v tail design, or even the he 162 blowtorch, that was fitted with two of the v1 flying bomb rocket motor engines

I love this plane, i fly it a lot in Simulator, and i honestly love to fly it, its such a great engineered vehicle, small, agile, and retains speed quite well once it first reaches it =)

*stares at the b29a's repair cost and the tu-4's repair cost* *confusion intensifies*

The salamander looks pretty good!

You can't not love the design of the Salamander

''Why did you build this? You're fighting and watch everyone around you die!, think Luftwaffe, think!''

My most used plane in Ground RB. Its TOO SMALL, too fast, accelerates good starting from 500km/h at ground level up to 750kph, so people DONT SEE IT COMING FROM THE TREES. In a dive, yes, it goes up to 900km/h and relatively conserves that speed losing only 50km to 850km/h. Loses a lot of speed when turning horizontally, so you avoid sharp turns and prefer to turn vertically so you can use the acceleration of gravity while descending to speed you up again. Also, turning slightly will not lose you a lot of speed. Remember, 500km/h is your lower end of speed. Less, and you are a goner. Americans spawn in attackers, and you go up to them in their rears and sides and blast them with your 2 20mm with minengeschos stealth shells. When enemies notice you, you are already gone... just... dont run into the enemies airport... Finally... it rolls like a fw190 but loses a lot of speed doing so, consider the situation youre in before rolling. Finally, you climb at 500km/h IAS.

Kinda hilarious how a literal plane made of wood and held together by glue has twice the repair cost of something that's made out of aluminum and with twice the armament

Very good desigined vehicles i love how they make it

Yeah I’ve tried flying this thing. And no, getting clubbed by superprops was not enjoyable

They need to hire a man who can impersonate Werner Von Braun for these voiceovers!

Where’s iron when you need him? Or the baroness?

I love the 162 in war thunder, you can outrun anything in 6.3 and below, the 20mm do wonders, it's small and agile, problem is once you get barely hit in the fuselage, you lose all speed

Needs to be 5.0 br, its outclassed by everything it's against as it is now

this is my fave plane in game. 162 190 and f86 my faves

I know of all the memes saying gaijin are bad but you gotta respect how much they update the game and upload these quality video’s

Once you learn how to play it very little can touch it. Love flying it

I like it, it can do well it just needs a careful hand

ah yes the wooden plane with a Boeing 747 engine at the top of it

We all know by now that German scientists at that time where on a completely different level

You guys should do a family video for the I-16 Ishak.

Oh...he couldn't just bail out of the plane, could he?

Nobody: Late war germany: INTRODUCING ZE BRAND ZEW **FLEX TAPE FIGHTER** PROGRAM POWERED BY WOOD ENGINES™

Just another tip & good video from WT developers

Yeah! I love this plane so much! it's a joy to fly and one of my best performing

Hey War Thunder.... I've noticed you've put some experimental planes in the game as available for dogfights... could you also put the XP-47 H, and J variants as well as the XP-72 super thunderbolt? That would be awesome!!! :D

Gaijin rewrote history by not balancing the early jets 😂

Im remember those design during tests of flight.

It's sooooo fun to fly!!!! It's easily my second favorite jet to fly after the Saab105g

QUESTION: Any recommendations as to how to play the Swedish J29A in AR battles? It is a very challenging jet to fly with! Thanks 07

Dude I love the he 162 it’s my favorite plane but I’m not even close to getting it

Question: Could we see tank recovery vehicles anytime soon in the normal tech tree because you wont believe how many teammates flip themselves over in a way that a tank cannot help out. (Also can they be fully functional?)

There is no meme Add the kildozer

Last time i was this early people were still complaining about the repair cost of the B29

I love the german planes, maybe because those are very interesting and sometimes strange. I dont have the HE-162 but I could test fly with it, it is a very good plane, however when I play with my P-51H5 NA and facing with an HE-162, no matter what type (A1 or A2) simply I can outturn it from a good speed and then with a small and accurate burst I can destroy it, not the wing, just the engine, it is very very vulnarable, after I got the engine, no matter what will destroy it, the falmes or just crash after the engine dies. So my opinon is, very good plane, I love the handling, but just a little damage enough to kill it

Speaking about "Unique Designs", why not talk about the J7W1?

0:10 "Allied bombers were dropping tons and tons of bombs on german cities..." I fixed that one for you @War Thunder

They literally never removed the tailspin sound effect, *madlad*

can y’all add the First Air Calvary Decal in the week’s latest please I just got Huey and it would look wonderful with it

İts weird that an emergency fighter turned out to be better than premier jet fighter of the luftwaffe.(theoritically)

"Nyeees" -Salamander Man

To me it looks very similar to a V-I flying bomb. It probably had the same loss record.

Question: I wanna give my opinion to the ULQ Topic: sweatty players use ULQ for little benefits to see the Enemys Better. Dont missunderstand! i know people wich cant even get 30 fps with ULQ but U should deny this feature for players with good Setups. So my unexpierenced Suggestion is: Lock ULQ for players with stable fps corse you can track them and when the average fps without VSYNC or somthing like tht over like 140 fps or somming. This is an Obvius choice of corse and im sure im not the only one with this Idea so there is some problem with tht so please tell me in next Shooting range if there arent more importent topics love ur voice btw.

I just got a salamander model lol perfect timing

is there any drawning of the blohm & voss jet fighter on the internet? Just wanna see it.

The Rock's personal fighter jet

I love WW2 German tech

When I played it feels like having a p51c against a yak9u in the best case and in the worst case yak3u, basically most enemies you face outclass you in every way so even if you try really hard you cant really do anything other than hit and run but not p51 kind of hit and run I mean hit once run away to airfield and bless you actually land without getting mow down because if you run anymore than minimum fuel youre a sitting duck there is definetly no way you win a engagement if the enemy aint a bot and then on top of that if its a uptier you basically done go back to hangar dont even take it out the airfield. Basically like every other mediocre non op plane situation turns bad you head back to airfield simple as that now if thats your playstyle then perfect you go surprise someone and run away to airfield thats it.

Are these videos exclusive for new planes on the game? It’s just I would love to see one of the Ju-87 Stuka variants

That's some strong glue for it to fly over 800kph.

I built a 1/48 scale model of this thing. Very interesting little creature.

This is my fav aircraft in war thunder, I’ve got a 87 kills to 52 deaths in the thing :)