User:Jareel_Skaj

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

Main article: Navy Shells

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	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		Do-217/Ju-87, for fun: He 111 H-6 with PC 1400 X	Pe-8 (with 4 x FAB-1000)	Worst options (try Firefly Mk I with 2x 1000 lb, or Lancaster)	B7A2	SM.92 into ▄P-47D-30	▄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	★★★☆☆ USS Mississippi*	★★★★★ 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

* Mississippi is one of the best vessels in the game, featuring very good protection and the best penetration characteristics in the game. Issue is: It's a limited event vehicle. Without that American battleships are mediocre.

** 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

	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^{[b 1]}	400	167

AP/SAP bombs

	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

↑ 400 kg Vliegtuigbom is the largest native Dutch bomb in the game, thus it was included into the list, even if it's sub-500 kg.

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
- 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

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
avaiable -> available
burned -> burnt
burned out -> burned-out
compliment -> complement
costal -> coastal
defense -> defence
fuze -> fuse
harbor -> harbour
kilometers -> kilometres
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"

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Annotations for armour

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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)

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