Just looked it up - one was (surprise surprise) a deck landing accident - arrestor hook didn't extend. The other was a blue-on-blue, shot down by US B-29.
@@Solidboat123 *FACEPALM* Still, that happens to me in Sim battles; allied bombers don't want to wait until you get close enough you can damage them...
Reminds me of how José Sanjurjo died in a very very stupid & very avoidable plane crash. He put way too much luggage on a tiny biplane... even though there’s a bigger plane available. The pilot warned Sanjurjo about this, but he said, “I need to wear proper clothes as the new caudillo [Dictator] of Spain.”
Mk 1, you cant beat the classics, specially considering these made the bulk of the batches that fought in the battle of britain and gave fame to the aircraft
MkXIVE and the MkVb are my favorite Spitfires, The Mk Vb is how I learned to fly in warthunder and I got several ace games in it,meanwhile the XIVe has enough speed to catch diving high-tier props (bloody jerries always running!TURN BACK AND FIGHT ME COWARDS!)and enough manouverability to turn inside most of them(including some of the rarer japanese aircraft ex:Ki-87,Ki-94-II, J6k1 and J7w1)
"Ditched two of its machine guns to get 2 20mm cannons.Much more dangerous" Except in warthunder where hispano's dont work at all. *meanwhile the 12mm 50.cals are second only to thirty mills*
@PBJMan Here is a clip of some of the quickest kills with them... air target belts are utterly useless.... you've obviously never used em in game. might be good irl... but not in WT. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1Af0hCzRwqA.html
Just in case anyone is curious what the ‘LF,’ ‘F,’ and ‘HF’ designations on of the mid to late Spitfires meant, as it was sort of glossed over in the video: ‘LF’ - Low (altitude) fighter ‘F’ - (Medium altitude) fighter ‘HF’ - High (altitude) fighter Additionally, there were 3 special designations: ‘FR’ - Fighter - Reconnaissance; Armed, and mostly LF variants, occasionally F variants. ‘PR’ - Photo Reconnaissance; Unarmed, and mostly HF variants, occasionally F variants. ‘TR’ - Trainer; Specialized two-seat trainer variant
I've yet to fly using Hispanos, and I sure as hell hope they're not as bad as people say they are, especially since the tracers on my 7.7's have been wrecking planes left and right
Actually, there are a heap of scenes where the Spitfire lands its hits and shoots the enemy down. Either I’ve misread your comment because of sleep deprivation or you’re unobservant. Probably the first one.
@@yeetothecheeto5787 I think they're joking about hisparkos wasting their belt to do a lot, but not enough, damage only for someone to come and swoop in, stealing the kill and leaving you with a kill assist....
@2D good 3D bad I wish I could, I'm just learning about the mission editor and skinning process. I'm just saying that every update they are adding a lot of nice vehicles with an amazing level of detail, and bombers are just forgotten...
They cost do much simply because their rp and sl modifiers are good, plus they are excellent aircrafts, high reward high risk is needed to take out it, therefore high repair cost
@@Battttt Or, you know, they could just give it a low SL reward with a low repair cost, making it more friendly to players who aren't very good at the game.
@@Battttt Sure, but when the reward is way too small considering how steep the repair cost is, this is not just a problem for the Griffon Spitties but for many other vehicles across the whole game, and shows when Gaijin doesn't know how to balance something; they just increase it's repair cost.
@@elia_ssss thats what they did with almost every planes, the me264 is a good example, from 40k to 9k today, but i guess it takes time for them to change modifiers on planes...
@@Onyxar hispanos feel like they spark more than any other 20mm. mk II is kinda doo doo, as ive had over 150 rounds spark on the same fighter im shooting at on multiple occasions. mk V is pretty decent tho
You ever felt the pain when you trashed all your ammo (not just cannons, MGs as well) from your F Mk IX (for those of you who dont know, thats 240 MkII hispano rounds and 1400 .303 rounds) into a Fw190 and he still proceeded to land, repair and strafe you on the runway?
@@skybuprofen9834 Try playing it on medium alt 4000m should be good enough, then kite away from the battlefield for a moment, since no one will expect a hurri to suddenly apears behind them and could still follow them in a turn. The hurri is verry manouverable at 250-350km/h just wait untill someone dumb enough to try to beat you in turn because once you dive at someone, there's no escape to that person, if it decided to break you could still follow it and if it decided to outrun you, too bad you're faster. Oh also if you found yourself being the one gettin dived on, don't worry planes at that br don't really have what it takes to shoot down the hurri thicc airframe in one click so you could still turn and hope that he turns with you aswell, I got an average kill of 3-4 a match in the Hurricane MK 1. Hope this helps :D
@@tallthinkev I don't think so. Why would you load the V1 vertically on a ramp that has only a little incline and cannot be put vertical. Besides: you can see the V1 flying vertically at 3:36, which wouldn't be possibe due to the thrust of the V1 beeing to small.
7:35 "most advanced naval-Spitfire variation." Shows it getting absolutely annihilated. Edit : how the hell did this comment start a discussion about real life WW2, hahahaha
My favorite is probably the FR XIVe: while it does kinda stupidly have 90hp less than the LF IX (when it should be running 21lbs with a hundred or so more horses), the Five bladed propellor really helps wring out some extra thrust, and as such, the faster “bleed” during hard turns is mostly nullified thanks to the excellent acceleration
Just a few points, 1 the first hispano armed Spitfires were MkIb put into operational trials during the Battle of Britain with 19 Sqd RAF. After the Hispanos constantly jammed, due to problems with convertion of the French Metric to British Imperial dementions. 2, the Mark XVI (16) introduced as the last of the Merlin Spitfires in 1945, and was essentially a MkIX with Packard Merlin rather than Rolls Royce produced. Often had (but not universal) cut down rear fuselage and clipped "e" wings. The clipped wing was i itally introduced 1941 in the LF MkVb/c. This was to temporarily respond to the inital introduction of the FockWulf Fw 190 A2. 3/ the Mark IX was it self a converted MkV to up engine from the 40 series Merlins in the MkV to 60 Series. This was responding to the Fw 190 wich sidelined the Mk VII and VIII. 4/ the Mk VII/VIII was a clean up of the designed arround the Merlin 60 series. 1350 built and mainly in the Mediterranean anf Far East. Used as the basis of the most of the Griffen Engined Spitfires* 5/ wing configuration:- "a" wing 0.303 Browning Guns x4 PER WING "b" 1 x 20 mm Hispano and 2 mgs "c" universal wing could be fitted with 4x mg/ 1x 20mm and 2x mgs/2× 20 mm "e" late war universal wing could be fitted with 2x 20 mm or 20mm and .50 Cal HMG. *6/ as above the Griffen engined Spitfires were based on the MkVII/VIII airframe except half of the first Griffen Spitfire acceped into fighter Sqd, The MkXII. The initall production used Mk V airframes and can be identifed by the fixed tailwheel.
Good video, but there are some quite major errors. Firstly, there's no mention of the spitfire's manoeuvrability and its source(the eliptical wing) but that could go without saying; however, one quite important thing is that after each upgrade the spitfire becomes less manoeuvrable(except with the lf mk ix), which was not mentioned. The Spitfire F Mk XVI was mentioned before the F Mk IX even though the F Mk IX came first historically and in the tech tree. Irrelevant to the video, but it's also a shame that tier 4 spitfires have ridiculous repair costs, higher than all top tier jets, even though they usually get destroyed in their small numbers by Bf 109 swarms while the rest of the Allied team bombs bases or ground pounds to no avail.
my favorite spitfire is the Spitfire LF Mk IX, it outclasses early and mid griffon spits (and maybe late ones) in therms of manoeuvrability and climb rate and outclimbs the OP axis planes (germans and italians)
In my experience the Spitfire MK 1 is the best spitfire for arcade battles, I still take into jet battles and it shoots down an average of 1 jet every 2 battles.
A long time ago, as in getting on for 4 years ago now, I was squadded up in my squadron at the time. I didn't have jets, but we were supposed to be in jets for this RB battle. I jumped in my Vc Trop for it (standard Vc wasn't in the game yet) and spent most of the match flying around trying to find something to shoot at. I realised we were losing, so I hit tab, to find I was the only surviving aircraft on our team, against I think it was an F86. The guy boomed and zoomed hard on his first pass, and I had an exceptionally red airframe, but I hauled the old girl around to his heading, only to find him wayyyy above me. I flew level while he dove on me, waiting. At the last possible moment, at already low airspeed, I pulled the nose up to face the oncoming jet, essentially putting the Spit into a stall to get the sights on him. He shot my engine out completely as I opened fire and tore his wing off. I then glided for long enough for the ticket counter to drop, and we won - somehow. It was absolutely hilarious.
my great grandfather, who i sadly never met, helped design the mk i spitfire, he solved problems they were having with the exhaust, however, as he did this under license by supermarine, his name never got put on anything
1. Why is the Spitfire mk.24 at 6.7 in RB, he is the only pro aircraft who get that br. without air spawn ? 2. Why does the mk.24 carry Hispano mk.2 canons while the Seafire mk47 carry mk.5 canons ? Furthermore, historically the mk.24 has mk.5 canons. Thanks for your answers.
My experience playing Spitfires: You wanna climb? No problem You wanna dogfight? Go ahead You wanna be faster? Bad news... You wanna fight Head-ons? Don't You wanna energy-fight? Try the 109 You wanna take only 12 minutes of fuel? 20 minutes always Remember: you're frangile and sensitive as a kitten so Be kind to the controls, and once your 20mm cannons are out you'll return to the airfield and rearm unless you have enough 7.7 ammo to attack your last enemy, and when i say "enough" i mean 800+ bullets If you Treat her like a lady She will always bring you back home
Wish they added Ian Smith’s spitfire. That’d be dope. I think he got shot down either attacking a convoy or a train. He went on to become Rhodesia’s prime minister after returning home after evading capture in Italy and journeying across the alps to get to the French front.
MkXIVE and the MkVb are my favorite Spitfires, The Mk Vb is how I learned to fly in warthunder and I got several ace games in it,meanwhile the XIVe has enough speed to catch diving high-tier props (bloody jerries always running!TURN BACK AND FIGHT ME COWARDS!)and enough manouverability to turn inside most of them(including some of the rarer japanese aircraft ex:Ki-87,Ki-94-II, J6k1 and J7w1)
....Powerful weaponry.... Me: *Sparks at pretty much everything if not using anti ground belts most of the time* yeah.... they were powerful... before we had to rename them to hisparkos, effectively ones of the worst guns in the game...
It would sound like this The bf109 siries is one of the best climbing props so you can circle around enemy spawn at 6000m and boom n zoom everyone + it requires no skill thats here for today
@@zhurs-mom oh boy how wrong are you. The 109s require quite good understanding of energy fighting, and knowledge of enemy planes. You have to have some skill cause otherwise you will get killed by everything. Unless you mean in AB. In that case i fully agree with you, but not like there is any skill involved anyways in anything
@@zhurs-mom depends what you determine skill is. Is skill to you hitting a barrel roll head-on with the 20mm potatoe cannon? Or is skill using a plane to it's strengths and not just turn fighting.
@@samuellatta6774 The Bf 109s aren't overpowered rather that they have better team composition and are closer packed than allied planes which are less densely packed cause they have to side climb. (Not to mention the allied fighters filled with bombs and rockets flying at sea level going for light pillpoxes )
Miss Tilly Shilling did of course design a temporary component to reduce the negative G cut outs on early Spits.. Fave Spit has to be the MkVIII & IX.. with the 2 stage, 2 speed supercharger on the Merlin 60 series engines, and with the original shape rudder and high back fuselage.. & standard non-clipped wings👌🏼
Blueeagle yeah by that logic, it could extend to stuff like the Me262, 264 or other Messerschmitt-made aircraft in the game. If we were going to have a video like that, I would also like to see one on the Junkers bomber series
The Spitfire F MK.XVI, so good and so agile; good firepower. It is surprising how good it is with the clipped wing. What it lacks in turn it makes up for in role. A lot of people disregard it but it just requires a different type of playstyle.
Spitfire MK IX in my opinion is the best. *A TIP FOR ALL PILOTS WHEN FLYING THIS AIRCRAFT:* Start to side climb at 15 degrees full WEP to about 6000m. Then dive on anything below you but choose your targets wisely
V1's launched from a rail with a rocket booster, using a ramjet engine for flight. They were called "Buzz Bombs" because of the sound the ramjet made. The V2, like a modern rocket, launched vertically because it WAS a rocket, .
Spitfire Mk.2B with Stealth ammo on the cannons and Tracer ammo on the guns. You can force enemies to manouver, break groups apart, take out anything it faces without anyone realizing your there, catch bombers, fight early tanks. It can do most things realy. Fantastic plane, and in my opinion one of the ebst for its tier.
"Short bursts" With Hisparknos? hell no. Maybe so in a unlikely, nearly impossible universe where they decide to fix british 20mm and make them act like actual cannons instead of harmless firework throwers.
I love the early Spits. They're so realistically british... They even overheat like a british engine should! Not even pushing it and BOOM, best drop to 70% for a while, let that magic carby Merlin chill for a hot second
The Spitfire's design actually has a German wing. (There was a person who worked at a German aircraft production place (I don't remember, tbh. Just look up "Spitfire" on Netflix.) But the blueprints were shared with the Germans.)
My favorite one is the Spitfire F Mk 16 because it features a bubble canopy, 4 blades on prop & something that makes it stand out from the other spitfires... clipped wings.
It's also a reference to when an FR 47 was shot down by a B29 by accident during the Korean War. Which the narrators bushes past as a "Stupid mistake" The second being one lost when its arrestor hook failed as hinted in the following clip
definitely the mk9 in game. in real life the MK1 or 2 have seen one of them flying with the BBMF and siting on the ground an absolutely beautiful aircraft. maybe it will inspire me to get my pilot license
