THE FORGOTTEN WONDER WEAPON | FLAK PANTHER 

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I come for the intros, and stay for the killer gameplay

Never understood how this thing has less pen than a Whirbel wind when it’s a larger caliber gun and the flakpanzers round travels faster.

as a german it is strange to hear the mustache man yelling out of a tank

Ah yes forgotten, more like unavailable to 99% of the community.

The intro makes it feel that the game is really fun- until reality hits you.

*plane slams into the side of a mountain* "Yeah, he's going down"

I played since this tank was named Coelian and its BR was higher than Kugelblitz

I remember when this thing use to have over 60mm of pen, I actually killed a T32 from the front with it. Not joking. I didn't know it at the time, but I had shot the little 40mm lip on top of the T32's turret which killed some of his turret crew so I just kept aiming there. Both the T32 player and I were confused as to how it was working and after that battle I went over to the T32 and checked that weak spot and lo and behold it was there. Now that the pen is 49mm, it can no longer use that weak spot, especially now because of the volumetric shells update. It can still kill light armored vehicles, but I just wish Gaijin didn't nerf its APHE rounds, yes the rounds are APHE, and used to be OP as hell. I hope someday it can pen over 60mm of armor again.

I like how it has a gun shield on top for the commander/another crew member to shoot out of as if the 2 aa cannons pointing in the same direction weren’t enough against infantry already.

Whenever I spawn a fighter or bomber there is always three to six enemy aircraft waiting to ambush me. When I spawn AAA there is almost always not a single aircraft in the sky but always some spawn camping a**hole who somehow gets by the entire fricken team.

It combines the plane-killing power of an ostwind while being pretty much immune to death by strafing. Any plane with machine guns can attack a wirbelwind, zsu, etc. but they can't attack this thing unless they have bombs and/or rockets. Germany has plenty of vehicles at 6.3-6.7 that can easily kill other tanks, this thing is very good at doing what SPAA are supposed to do: kill planes

Well day 181 i will probably go till 200 then stop but it was worth a try: play the P-51C-10 to show em a little trick you learned.

That intro was sooo good lmao

With the Downfall rant audio, that made me laugh a lot.

Well.. The guns it has now could fire the same APCR as some aircraft with 142mm pen now, reported and denied years ago if I remember correctly. Alternatively it could be updated to have its actual prototype guns with higher velocity, pushing the current APHE pen to 83mm.

Phly: Hey do you know the Phlydaily curse. *explodes* Me: sure do.

No wonder cousin Flakpanther is forgotten, turns out he was the secret love child when mom secretly had a "wrestling match" with the Ostwind

I was flying a BF-110 yesterday in ground rb. A anti air was shooting at me and missed all his shots. But one, it hit my right wing and toor it right off. It was a M-10 gmc

13:42 I have that curse too. Drives me nuts. There are maybe a couple of places around here which I know won't screw up my orders and now I pretty much only go to them lol

NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL AN INTRO!!!!

This intro perfectley demonstrates why i want this thing to come back

Your " special intro's " is getting better and better, keep up the good work!

Day 89: Of asking phly the play the dicker max because it’s 105 is basically cheating at is br and it can survive

Cant wait until baby phly comes!!❤❤

I love the 341. It's especially fun in AB, and you can make those flyboys that like to keep flying out in aircraft get so salty.

Nailed that intro my man, i love angry german yelling

The guy driving by as his teammate dies and not even looking or stopping. That's 90% of my War Thunder experience right there.

Phly my guy! Please use the proper anti air shells for the german 37mm! They have double the explosive mass and more velocity to make those air kills easier

The intro is beautiful 😭

Love the intros like us just love the intros I love it so much that I watch it with my newborn son and my 11-year-old he knows not to repeat anything he sees the best you're the best man love your content

The intros are always on point 👌

Edited be WeBe? Now this is going to be very, very good. That man works magic.

day 221 now where you have played the old and rusty Centurion you might have a look at the Ultimative Centrurion the STRV 104 with a J29

First the thumbnails and now Intros. High quality

Loved the intro, best one I've ever watched that was made by Phly!!!

I was researching this when the Maus was removed (and this) went away with work, couldn't get a research point on the Maus and War Thunder made this thing way to expensive to play. It has been in the back of the hangar gathering dust. Thanks Phly is now time to bring it out for some laughs.

Hey Phly, Uncle Tom rockets got a HUGE buff a couple days ago, their explosive mass was increased by 5x and now they're pretty much 500lb bombs that're stupidly easy to guide and can be launched from a huge distance. The mosquito mk VI at 3.7 carries them and they're absolutely op, they overpressure tigers like it's nobody's business. You should definitely check them out.

The terror of a pe-8 coming at you, looming over the horizon. Always gets to me

Ahaha. The audio, is part of the best video ever, ‘Gunny Hitler’, of course it’s added in, but unceasingly hilarious

Fun fact, Gaijin said they removed Coelian because it never existed, only to replace it with Ostwind II which not only also never existed but has even less info than Coelian. While Coelian is fairly well documented both in specs, drawings and photos so we can be certain how it would look and how it would perform, the only piece of information we have about Ostwind II is that it was supposed to have twin cannons, but other than that we have nothing. No specifications other than those of Ostwind, no info on how the guns would be placed in the turret, not even a drawing. From what I found, the only illustration of the cannons is the twin mount that was used on ships which was posted in the suggestion post on the forum and photos of a model kit. The twin mount shows them side by side, while the model kit above each other, so we can't even be sure the one in the game is how it would have looked.

Love the Tigor doll placement.

That into slapped so good

I remember back in the day before they added that formula to calculate the pen of the rounds the german 3,7cm cannons had 64mm of pen with those aphe rounds, just magnificent

there used to be a reason to use the Coelian over the Kugel, and that was the Kugel had shite turret traverse...when that got buffed, if you factor-in the better penetration for the Kugel over the Coelian, it was a no-brain decision to take the Kugel out. Kugel is more versatile in that regard (plus they both were 6.7). Of course, if you are running a 6.3 lineup, by all means take the Coelian.

I started research on this before they took it away to save it. Still haven’t finished researching it but I can when I finally feel like it.

I think one of the bf 110 has a 37mm with 142mm of pen. Which has more pen than 40mm apfsds with 1990...+

Dude your sound work is always so wonderful. It's a gift.

I swear your intros are the most funny thing I ever saw in my life

that opening is just pure gold

The 341/Coelian was somewhat real, there was a mockup of the turret on a real panther chassis, the weapon system, basically a twin flak43 also existed. The project was eventually shelved, after it was found that a twin 37 was found too weak of an armamant for a panther chassis since the ostwind II alread was capable to fit twin 37s. Therefore a 55mm version was planned, I think it was called Gerät 58

The 2 good things with this AA are the 60°/s turret rotation and the nice top armor. At this Br other AA are erradicated by MG and canons

German Sixth Army gets surrounded at Stalingrad. Hitler in his Flakpanzer: FINE I'LL DO IT MYSELF.

Day 107: Phly, I challenge you to the conphusing aerial smokescreen challenge. Destroy three enemy aircrapht with smoke shells in a single game. Good luck. o7

I love the muffled talking in german tanks, its so funny

“Hey guys you know the PhlyDaily curse?” *engine gets ripped to shreds*

Demoranch and phly has the best intros ever

One of my favourite tanks to play its amazing

“Where are the p-47’s at when you need em” Me playing anti air with an KV-85: no where

Hears *in the hall of the mountain king* and sees guns blazing. "Oh? Haven't you head the new sensation sweeping the nation? Bitches love cannons"

When Phly was going after the Q3.7 at the beginning of the second match an ASU-57 wit bushes was driving in the background. And I think it got s few kills too

btw phly if you didnt know yet arty strikes have overpressure damage, so they will literally kill any open top tank they land within 10m of

At the beginning of the second match when Phly was dealing with the Q-3.7 an ASU-57 wit bushes was driving in the background. The ASU’s name was something like Aleks Games and he got a few kills I think

let6s gets this straight. 37mm cannons, that were made automatic, clip fed, and still retaining 49mm total penetration AND armor-píercing rounds with explosive filler, all put from the Ostwind to a Panther hull, fully enclosed. *wowzers*

Fly you silly something or other... your intros always make my day...

I love phly classing the 341 worse than the flakpanzer 1 because he knows to damn god no planes are gonna be up when he plays SPAA lmao

Last time I was here this early, war thunder was actually enjoyable 😔

This is still my favorite SPAA to use. It's incredibly survivable!

Best intro ever, and one thing, any tip for a incoming Tiger 1 Comander ???

Phly you should take out the Sherman Firefly, its been over 5 years and everyone loves some 17 pounder ass kicking! Certainly not the best Sherman but its always fun to play

Intro literally had me in tears bro 👌

No, apparently the thing did exist but the turret was only a wooden mockup, so they removed it (even though there are tanks that are worse in their falsity then this tank that are still in the game)

I love it, " I can't kill them they are doing Team work ! "

The intro was 100000/10 like all of your videos

The Open Cinematic was funny! Nice Downfall reference.

When you see the chassis of this thing: „Oh yeah a tasty little pantheryboy😋“ When you see Tigor steering this thing: „AAAAHHHHH RUUUUN“

GET EM UNCLE DOLF!

That intro is pure gold

Phly : I have a worse pen thanca flakpanzer 1 for crying out loud Me : Man, did you understand what SPAAG task is ?

Believe me newer players, Phly makes this thing look way cooler than it really is. It's a more armored, uptiered version of standard AA with lackluster ammo. It's very mediokrish in any role but not horrible and looks kinda cool.

Fucking best intro ever, I replayed that at least twenty times, almost an hour of laughing my ass off, my stomach hurts and my lungs are cramping, this is the best shit ever

Germany: OK we need a new better Flak. Let's put a Flak on a Panther and see what happens and there you go :)

Haha can you imagine the poor gunner and loader having to deal with all that spit as Adolf goes off in the Commander position

i'm glad i grinded for this.

All i ever wanted to have its acctual pen of 83mm, it used a different 37mm than the Sd.Kfz 6/2, the Flak 44 37mm had overall better characteristics over the early 37mm AA guns, hell even the Ostwinds had that amount of pen, just imagine, Ostwind I could go back to at least 4.7, the Ostwind II to 5.7 with an acctual AP belt to protect themselves

With the old 65mm pen aphe round,this thing is really good even at 6.7

Attempt 2: have you tried rocket sights for planes, you can toggle the sights to be for both rockets and bombs in the cockpit, rocket sights are accurate for around 5-5.5km

These introductions always make my day.

in the intro when it was driveing away I saw a sneaky APDS boi still alive

Gaijin - 'we've removed the Panther II, the Tiger 2 105cm and the Flakpanzer 341 because we fucked up, they never existed and they're OP'. Me - see's Panther IIs, Tiger 2 105cms and 341s every single fucking match.

my favourite flank panzer but sadly the blastics is bugged some time dosent hit but satisfying when it does

To be fair, the ZSU might be amazing for tank destroying but its completely hit or miss for destroying air targets. Either you get the hang of the ballistics and annihilate anything that dares enter your no-fly-zone or miss everything and get obliterated by anything because of the gigantic open top and very badly protected ammo storages. Also dont forget that even fifty cals are fully capable of killing it from the front. It might LOOK like a T54 chassis but the actual armour is around the level of a 2-3.0 BR light tank, even at the UFP.

Awesome video Phly! I know baby is on the way. got one mysef about two weeks after your due date. But I was wondering if you'd do a how to Sherman series. I'm a Feherboo myself but seeing as that's my competition It sure would be nice to get inside the mind of a Brad Pitt Fury Fan! Much thanks!

THAT INTRO WAS AMAZING!

That intro killed me, keep it up Mr. Fairchild!

Day: 53 of asking Phly to play the Typhoon Mk Ib

Phanter with flak this is other level m8

Gaijin: removes Tiger II 105 and maus from the game cause they're not historically accurate Also gaijin: maintains a panther spaa

The Flakpanzer 341 was only a concept vehicle. The only turret that was made for it was a wooden mock up.

i always wanted this thing. this and the Panther 2.