User:U12017485

See the gallery of my screenshots (I'd like to think that I make a quality images for the wiki) and contributions.

Fun facts

• Joined November 2013, play on/off
• Highest win % with a decent number of games: P-47D-25/T26E1-1/RN Eugenio di Savoia
• Highest number of games: B7A2/C2A1/IJN Yuudachi
• My Player profile in the WT community
• Spent on game: €761
• Ranks (only those worth noting): USA: Tanks V, Fleet IV GER: Tanks VIII, Fleet III USSR: Tanks IV, Air III, Fleet IV UK: Tanks III, Air IV JAP: Tanks V, Air V, Fleet VI CHN: Tanks III  IT: Tanks III, Air V, Fleet VI  FR: Air IV, Fleet V  SWE: Tanks: III

Naval shell calibres

Go to the main article to see a table of the gun calibres, how much penetration they have and how large HE fillers.

E.g. 12-ich/305mm guns with the AP shells have 275 - 419 mm penetration and 5.66 - 18.79 kg HE filler, the best one being the B-50.

Naval comparison tables

• BR 4.7 (h)
• BR 5.7 (h)
• BR 5.3 (h)
• BR 6.3 (h)
• See: {{#unit}}/{{specs}}

Naval tips and hints

To be expanded and updated if/when I'll have time.

• See Rowan's guide to war thunder naval
• Naval mode is 60% positioning, 20% lineup, 20% gunnery & miscellaneous
• Positioning
  • Know when to disengage. There is no shame in retreating. If you get focused-fired by multiple threatening ships - break contact. Smoke, hard terrain, everything is good. In a large ship it's often best to just hide behind the hill and run aground, as it does next to no damage to self, while stopping you instantly, instead of rolling next kilometer on full reverse trying to bleed speed.
• Lineup
  • Airplanes:

Low BR	A ton of options, hard to choose bad, just FYI: equivalent to 800-1000kg bombs are 2000 lb	Any Ju-87	Su-2/BB-1	▄Wirraway into Firebrand TF Mk IV	D4Y or B6N1 for torpedoes	Ba.65 (K.14) L into Ju 87 D-3 or SM.91	V-156-F into ▄F6F-5 or Potez 631
Mid-High BR (Rank III+)		Do-217/Ju-87, for fun: He 111 H-6 with PC 1400 X	Pe-8 (with 4 x FAB-1000)	Sea Fury FB 11 or Wyvern S4 or Lancaster or (lowest BR rank III with TinyTims & 1600lb AP) ▄Hellcat Mk II	B7A2	SM.92 into ▄P-47D-30 into ◔Tu-2S-59	▄AD-4 or ▄F6F-5N into ▄AD-4NA or ▄F8F-1B

• Nations. Assumes: personal bias/bias of those I trust with opinions plus some numbers, AB, ships are at the top of the lineup (e.g. no judging of BR 6.3 BB vs BR 7.0). Also keep in mind that every such list will be heavily subjective (e.g. how you score a category where most are bad and one is great or how you score a ship that has an amazing guns for the BR, but no AA and bad torpedoes, while also having good armor, yet can get easily deleted with a broadside into a critical spot?)
  Last updated: 2024-02-26/Air Superiority (2.33)

	Destroyer	★★★★★	★★★★☆	★★★★☆	★★★☆☆	★★★☆☆	★☆☆☆☆	★★★★☆
	Light cruiser	★★★★★	★★★★☆	★★★★☆	★★★☆☆	★★★☆☆	★★★☆☆	★★★★☆
	Heavy cruiser	★★★☆☆	★★★★☆	—	★★★★☆	★★★★☆	★★★★☆	★★☆☆☆
	Battleship / Battlecruiser	★★★☆☆	★★★★★ Scharnhorst**	★★★★★	★★★☆☆	★★★★☆	★★☆☆☆	★★★☆☆
	7.0 lineup
	Coastal Rank I-III	★★★★★	★★★☆☆	★★★★★	★★★☆☆	★★★☆☆	★☆☆☆☆	—
	Coastal Rank III/Early IV	★☆☆☆☆	★★☆☆☆	★★★★☆	★☆☆☆☆	★★☆☆☆	★☆☆☆☆	—
	Coastal Top tier	★☆☆☆☆	★★★☆☆	★★★★★	★★☆☆☆	★☆☆☆☆	★★★★☆ Saetta P-494	—

ℹ️ Note: USSR does not have any heavy cruisers. French coastal tree isn't released yet.

ℹ️ Note 2: As of the time of writing French tree ends at 6.7

** Scharnhorst is effectively impossible to kill by ammo-racking. It's best countered with the use of HE munitions.

• Gunnery & miscellaneous
  • Naval mode is much more like Ground than Air - it's all about killing the crew rather than taking down the vehicle. You can turn that part of a ship into a black hole with all the shell hits, but it won't matter if there is no crew left in the compartments.
  • Typically the best way to kill the crew is by destroying the ammo racks, or specifically: blowing up the magazines (note: shell rooms can also explode, but magazines are much more likely to).
  • As of Update "Air Superiority" main guns do not cause unrepairable hull breach, making ships that in real life did not have enough buoyancy in the citadel to stay afloat (e.g. Scharnhorst) unusually difficult to sink. While in real life ships typically "died" by sinking, rather than the deaths of crew members, original implementation of this mechanic caused a huge uproar in the community, causing the feature to be removed - currently unrepairable hull breaches can be caused only by the torpedoes with a sufficiently large warhead (the size of the warhead needed to inflict it depends on the thickness of armour at the specific location it hit).
• Destroyers (DD)
  • US destroyers typically have a huge magazine in the back, if you'll hit that with AP/SAP - they will blow up in fireworks
• Battleship (BB) / Battlecruiser (BC)
  • Majority of them should be used for pushing the caps. Obvious exception being a glass cannons, but these are relatively rare. Role of the BB is first to assert dominance over the area and secondly: soaking up damage. Getting kills is least important for an average BB (and most important for glass cannons)
• Other notes:
  • There is no such thing as a "meta shell" in the game. You use different shells for different effects. Unlocking new shell types is not an upgrade, it's opening new options, it's nothing like in Ground or Air forces where unlocked ammunition is almost always better than stock, and the best ammo types are last in the modifications tree. See this image for explanation of the AP vs HE damage, though occasional shrapnel bug out causing more damage with HE than it might appear from this example alone.
  • If you look to earn - play bluewater navy in BR 5.0 - there is no place where you can earn more SL per hour than here. Want to level it up to another level? Use USS Moffett in Realistic Battles.
  • BR spread is 1.0. This means that if you play USS Mitscher (BR 4.7) you'll be able to see IJN Ikoma (BR 5.7) (As of 2.23). Such matchups are not common, and the matchmaker trying to avoid putting multiple BB players in such low matchups. Either way, don't get discouraged - DDs are CLs are not meant to duel BBs, just avoid getting focused and fight with the other targets. BBs are best dealt with in bombers, as they typically have a pitiful anti-air defence - drop bombs on turrets (→ammo racks). Throwing some torpedoes at them or a bit of HE shells to cause a fire can also be helpful.

Large bombs for naval

A comparsion of the most common aerial bombs used on a strike craft and single-engine bombers below BR 7.0 with a mass ≥ 500 kg or, for bombs with a mass given in pounds: ≥ 500 lb (just to illustrate the point, that the 500 lb is not the same as 500 kg, not even close).

HE/General Purpose bombs

Bomb			Mass (kg)	TNT equivalent (kg)
		2,000 lb AN-M66A2	996	632.01
		2,000 lb LDGP Mk 84	894	578.61
		1,000 lb AN-M65A1	501	318.48
		1,000 lb LDGP Mk 83	447	272.43
		500 lb AN-M64A1	243	162.81
		SC1000L2 (1,000 kg)	1000	600
		SC500K (500 kg)	500	260
		FAB-1000 (1,000 kg)	1080	485
		FAB-500sv (500 kg)	508.3	325
		FAB-500M-43 (500 kg)	468.57	243.71
		FAB-500M-44 (500 kg)	477.1	222.15
		M.C. 1,000 lb Mk.I	463	215.4
		M.C. 500 lb Mk.I	232	128.9
		G.P. 500 lb Mk.IV	213	65.5
		800 kg Number 80 Mod. 1	800	429
		500 kg Type 92 GPHE	500	245.3
		GP 500 (500 kg)	508	216
		500 kg No.2	520	255.68
		400 kg Vliegtuigbom	400	167

AP/SAP bombs

Bomb			Mass (kg)	TNT equivalent (kg)	Penetration @ 3000m @ 30°
		AN-Mk 1 (1,600 lb)	721	95.55	130
		A.P. AN-MK 33 (1,000 lb)	457	62.35	111
		PC1000 (1,000 kg)	988	158.08	112
		PC500 (500 kg)	500	75	88
		BRAB-1000 (1,000 kg)	1012	201.43	163
		BRAB-500 (500 kg)	510	100.87	129
		A.P. Mk.I (2,000 lb)	877	70.78	153
		S.A.P. Mk.II (500 lb)	222	40.01	70
		800 kg Navy Type 99 Number 80 AP	800	31.61	125
		500 kg Number Type 2 50 Model 1 GP(SAP)	498.95	85.93	92

Other tips and hints

• How to turn off seasonal hangard? Download the default one from https://live.warthunder.com/post/941994/en/, go to your game folder (%localappdata%\WarThunder), unpack it there, rename hangar.blk to hangar_21.blk, open config.blk with text editor and insert hangarBlk:t="hangar_21.blk" after the first block (before oculus{ in my file). Now you'll have a permanent copy of a switchable default hangar, if you want to go back to seasonal, just delete the hangarBlk:t="hangar_21.blk" bit of code.
• You can't repositioning your camera in Nvidia Ansel? Restart the game with anti-cheat turned off.
• Go to Options and change "Temperature indication" to "Always" - this will allow you to see how the engine cools down after you decrease the thrust - pretty useful for avoiding IR-guided missiles.

Light Rockets (≤5 kg)

A list of ≤5 kg rockets in ranks ≥III, needed for some of the missions in War Thunder, like Battle Pass mission "Ballistic calculation".

• S-5K
  • IL-28Sh (Rank V, BR 8.0)
  • Mi-4AV (Rank V, BR 8.0, Starting Russian helicopter)
  • Mi-24A (Rank V, BR 8.7)
  • MiG-15 -17 -19 -21 -23 -27
• Type 57-1
  • All Chinese helicopters
    • Z-11WA (Rank V, BR 8.7, Starting Chinese helicopter)
• R4M
  • Me 262 A-2a (Rank V, BR 6.7, 🛒Market)
  • Me 262 A-1a (Rank V, BR 7.0)
  • Me 262 A-1a/Jabo (Rank V, BR 7.0)
• S-5M
  • MiG-15bis ISh (Rank V, BR 8.0, Flash sales (formerly 📦Pack))
  • MiG-15bis (Rank V, BR 8.3)
  • ◊MiG-15bis (Rank V, BR 8.3)
  • J-2 (Rank V, BR 8.3)
  • MiG-17 (Rank VI, BR 8.7)
  • J-4 (Rank V, BR 8.7)
• RN
  • Sea Vixen F.A.W. Mk.2 (Rank V, BR 9.0, Premium)
  • Buccaneer S.1 (Rank VI, BR 8.7, 🛒Market)
  • Buccaneer S.2 (Rank VI, BR 9.3)
  • Lightning F.53 (Rank VI, BR 9.3, 📦Pack)

Articles improved

A list of articles that I've made a significant contributions to the content of, from latest to oldest edits within each category.

• Naval vessels
  • Colbert (Rank IV, BR 5.3)
  • Primauguet (Rank III, BR 5.0)
  • MC 485 (Rank III, BR 2.7)
  • S-204 Lang (Rank III, BR 2.3)
  • Emile Bertin (Rank IV, BR 5.3)
  • Jeanne d'Arc (Rank III, BR 4.7)
  • Duguay-Trouin (Rank III, BR 4.7)
  • RN Eugenio di Savoia (Rank IV, BR 5.7)
  • Type T-51b (Rank III, BR 2.3, post-2.19 rewrite)
  • IJN Kuma (Rank III, BR 5.0)
  • Daihatsu-class Landing Craft (AI unit)
  • IJN Yugumo (Rank II, BR 4.3)
  • Type K-8 (1944) (Rank III, BR 2.3)
  • IJN Ayanami (Rank I, BR 4.0)
  • IJN Mutsuki (Rank I, BR 3.3)
  • Type K-3 No.1 (Rank III, BR 3.0)
• Weapons
  • 3-inch Mk.34 (76 mm)
  • Type 88 AA (75 mm)
  • Army Type 92 GPHE (500 kg)
  • BAS depth charge
  • Mk.6 depth charge
  • Guiraud depth charge
  • 3-inch Mark 10 (76 mm)
  • 65 mm/64 Ansaldo-Terni Mod.1939 (65 mm)
  • 135 mm/45 O.T.O. Mod. 1937 (135 mm)
  • 152 mm/45 Schneider model 1911 (152 mm)
  • Type 8 No.2 (610 mm)
  • 320 mm/44 Ansaldo model 1936
  • Model 1923DT (550 mm)
  • Whitehead A 110/450 (450 mm)
  • 75 mm/50 model 1922
  • 155 mm/50 model 1920
  • 152/53 mm O.T.O. Mod.1929
  • B TG depth charge
  • 37 mm/54 Breda: Mod. 32, Mod. 38, Mod. 39
  • 100 mm/47 O.T.O. Mod. 1928
  • S.I. 250/533,4X7,5 Tipo A (533 mm)
  • 36 cm/45 Type 41 (356 mm)
  • 15 cm/50 Type 41 (152 mm)
  • 5 inch/40 Type 89 (127 mm)
  • 140 mm/50 3rd Year Type (140 mm)
  • Type 38 pattern 1907 (6.5 mm)
  • Type 11 pattern 1922 (37 mm)
• Other
  • Ise (Family)
  • Mortars
  • Landing Craft Support (Family)
  • / Battle of the Atlantic
  • Shipboard reconnaissance aircraft
  • Template:TorpedoTravelTime
  • Template:Max & Template:Min
  • Dark-class
  • Space Thunder
  • Template:NavalMobility

Linguistics & Toolbox

(this is a list of particular errors that I have made, put here to serve as a reminder. A lot of that boils down to US English -> British English, I know. 😒)

• airplane -> aircraft
• armor -> armour
• armored -> armoured
• avaiable -> available
• burned -> burnt
• burned out -> burned-out
• compliment -> complement
• costal -> coastal
• defense -> defence
• fuze -> fuse
• harbor -> harbour
• kilometers -> kilometres
• maneuvers -> manoeuvres
• maneuverable -> manoeuvrable
• maneuvering -> manoeuvring
• meters -> metres
• owning it to sth -> owing to sth
• repatriations -> reparations
• straights -> straits
• sub-pair -> sub-par
• succesfully -> successfully
• targetting -> targeting

Annotations for ammunition

Ctrl+F for stuff like "|AP|" (pipes around your search phrase) rather than just "AP"

Annotations for armour

External links

• Naval weapons and ships
• In-game icons (you can use it with github folder downloader)
• Optimization of the ammo racks on the naval vessels
• Sales in War Thunder (historical records up to 2022)
• War Thunder CC / Streamer Decals & Twitch Drop Items Table (continually updated)
• Unused assets of War Thunder, including assets which were removed from the game files after the initial appearance.
• War Thunder Replay finder (download server-side replays)
• Historical bloggers/websites:
  • SENSHA - The Japanese Vehicle Manual by MaiWaffentrager aka QAZ aka Seon Eun-Ae, in-game: Mai_Waffentrager (♀️🇰🇷)
  • Naval blog by 霧島代艦_krsmDaikan aka 霧島レイコ aka (on WeChat:) 舰政四部制圖工場 (♀️🇨🇳) Contact details posted with explicit permission.
  • Drachinifel's blog aka Dr. Alexander Clarke (♂️🇬🇧)

See also

Various profile pages on the Wiki that I found worth checking out. If you'd like to add someone or yourself - feel free to ping me, or just edit this section directly - I won't mind. If you like the idea - feel free to build a similar list on your profile. Note that this is in no particular order, or if you're not here - it doesn't mean I don't like you, I love you all folks! ;)

• Bangerland - a lot of guides/tips/hints for Ground Forces. Pretty much a must-see for anyone struggling.
• X_pazzo1972_X - various cool info about vehicles, e.g. which minor nations are already in the game, what vehicles were only tech demonstrators, a list of ships by year, boats by year etc.
• ShimakazeChan - lots of info, but one key thing to check out is his "Missing Vehicles" table that contains stuff that's at least partially implemented, but not available in the game
• Colok76286 - among many things on his profile, you can find a list of all torpedo-carrying vehicles and a list of event vehicles grouped by year
• AN_TRN_26 - a list of WW2 ace pilots, planes they used, their tactics, etc.
• RideR2 - useful for air-mode players: turn rate @ IAS
• Other:
  • Shootsave - hints/tactics/ideas
  • Flame2512 - pretty cool Sidewinder family free
  • CaID - some info on the bullet types
  • MiniMe943 - "Gaijin please", with pictures
  • Math3matica - "Gaijin please" for naval
  • Hinyanawi_Tenshi - "Gaijin please" for China
  • MO_Blahajman - "Gaijin please" for Chinese ground forces, with details