The Westland Wyvern; Outdated Monster 

Any fan of counter rotating props will like it. Cheers!

​@@shauny2285👍👍👍

Love flying it in war thunder

Been there, done that.

Agreed. I think it's a great looking aeroplane!

Guess that’s the real reason they gave the backseater a periscope…

Ejecting over water is hard enough.

Oh yeah. And he had an aircraft carrier directly above him Now there's a headache in itself.

@@tonymarsh8436 I have to wonder how he avoided the carrier's propellers.

@@danielkemp4860 That was only on the trainer that was never produced.. but that joke would have been amusing if it was a produced model

I'm curious if the UK had not scrapped the Malta's I wonder if that would have bee enough to keep the Wyvern around (though simultaneously, it could have doomed it further if someone else had come up with a jet attack craft earlier)

More like a competitor to the A2D Skyshark a turboprop evolution of the Skyraider. The Skyraider hung around for a long time because it could be used from both USN and Marine Essex class carriers still in use in the 60's and 70's. The British had the Harrier in service from 1969 fully capable of operating from the smallest RN carriers making prop and turbo prop aircraft obsolete. The Skyraider was finally retired just 2 years after the Harrier was adopted by the US Marines.

@@themanformerlyknownascomme777 RN had the Sea Hornet in service at the same time as the Wyvern. Although they could handle a slightly smaller payload, they were cheaper to operate and far more reliable. It’s notable that RN deployed Sea Hornets to the Malay emergency, not Wyverns.

@@Ushio01 Correct about the Skyshark, but I'm thinking more about the role than the technical spec. Skyraider and Wyvern were both large, prop aircraft designed originally as torpedo bombers. There's a big gap between 1957 (Wyvern out of service) and 1969 (Harrier into service), and Harriers weren't routinely operated from carriers by UK forces until the Sea Harrier entered service with the FAA in 1980(?). Skyhawks and Crusaders operated off Essexes too, so the "smallness" of their decks (they were only really "small" by US standards: plenty big to everyone else!) wasn't the prime reason for keeping Skyraiders around. In any case, I was thinking more of the land-based USAF/SVAF COIN role that Skyraiders undertook.

They might have regretted it but the RAF didn't have the money.

The whine is both the most annoying and terrifying sound to hear in game

I absolutely despise this thing in war thunder, you can find the worst players using this, it's got airspawn, minimizing it's low-er acceleration, and goes easily 700km/h in the deck while fighting P-51 D10/30 Bf109 G-2/6/10 ... J21(all propeller powered variants) and whatever the japanese, soviets and italians have at ~br 4.0

My FAVE plane to use in WT! 🤘

@@badllama8090 I hate you!!!!

Irony 😅

@@michaelleslie2913 no Michael,no irony,fact

OK mate was just checking 😅👍

She’s a looker all right..Certainly an amazing design..

Seriously ? Looks like they kept raising the cockpit every time they lengthened the nose .

On the other hand it was a truly lethal aircraft, killing many of its pilots.

​@@user-yt8gu1cl5x From memory, a sizeable number of British and American aircraft proved exceedingly lethal to their crews in those days. Probably goes for Russian aircraft too but the truth will be hidden! The Cutlass and Scimitar spring to mind, both cut down many pilots if you'll excuse the pun.

Brest looking?

A universe where jet engines weren’t developed for an additional 10/20/30 years would be a fun setting for a book

@@DefaultProphet A universe where the romans developed flight - would be equally as novel --- (pardon the pun)

Governments love spending other people's money. This aircraft is proof!

​@@58fins I think you will find that the British government was mostly in the process of doing the opposite: they were accidentally bankrupting their aircraft industry with unmatched efficiency.

Crash after hover anyway

The F-35 was made as 3 in one while at lessened strife between US/Russia so the project slowed down

Still its amazing how quickly Soviets managed to advance compared to brits im aviation knowing that first really successful jet fighter mig 15 was using copy of the Nene and next model mig 19 was basically way above anything Britain had to offer.

@@cactuslietuva it really is given that the British made that engine. The soviets apparently had more German engineers.

@@cactuslietuvaThe brits had no money unfortunately, and limited ambition after the war.

@@TheBenchPressMan well they empire and exploitation of other nations crumple completely after ww 2.

​@@TheBenchPressMan The Air museum youtube channel episode about the hunter (my favourite) talks about that.

I think that has to be the inside story ie the Wyvern just wasn’t very good in its own terms. As others have noted the Skyraider was on paper more outdated, yet served very successfully in the earlier part of Vietnam.

BOINK!!

In that terrifying situation I don't suppose he had many alternative options.

Or beer holder...