The 20 mm M61A1 can bring an unprecedented amount of firepower to any jets equipped with it. At almost 6,000 rounds per minute, the weapon can very ea
...ounted externally in gun pods. Today, many of the "teen-series" of fighter jets in use by the US Air Force and Navy has the M61 or its variants as their ma
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...h service, Matra (now part of Airbus SE) developed a new IR AAM for French jets in 1968, with additional control surfaces for better manoeuvrability in com
The missile has been exported to many countries operating French jets; China also acquired some examples of it and built a reverse-engineered ver
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...[[NR-23 (23 mm)|NR-23]] or [[N-37D (37 mm)|N-37D]] found on earlier Soviet jets. This greatly simplifies aiming, and with the 67.14 g of TNTe filler found
...its predecessor (Su-7B) has a very good acceleration and can outspeed most jets, it can easily doge incoming missiles by turning as it can turn and still m
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...e payload and flight time (10 hours) of the AD Skyraider far surpassed the jets of the time, and the first ADs saw action operating from the ''USS'' Valley
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...aft need speed to dodge even the "weakest" of air-to-air missiles, so slow jets are prime targets for your missiles.
...AS. The player should however be careful when performing them: some of the jets in this bracket are equipped with missiles which are not able to hit a turn
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...Browning (12.7 mm)|M3 Browning]] was an insufficient armament for fighter jets. The Mk 12 was used on the [[F3H-2|F3H-2 Demon]], [[F4D-1|F4D-1 Skyray]], [
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...-10 was outdated by the late 1950s, when the PLAAF had acquired supersonic jets like the MiG-19 and its license-built version, the J-6. The PLAAF approved
...90-1 rockets are better than the anemic S-5 rockets used by typical Soviet jets and can penetrate 280 mm of armour with 1.03 kg of TNT equivalent, but thei
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...ank munitions. It rounded between 300-480 mm of RHA against slug and small jets only with the following protection percentages:
...rted to show up against the K1 ERA, these were stronger and more canalized jets, tandem warheads and improved darts. For this reason, a more powerful explo
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...rt-to-medium range engagements, and is primarily mounted on MiG-21 Fishbed jets. Although it cannot compete with the range (9 km vs 45 km) or speed (1.7 M
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...st unbeatable by all that it faces; be it the late superprops or the early jets of its battle rating. Due to its rarity, most players have never faced one,
...BI not using the sleek low profile aerodynamic wings, as you find on other jets. However, to do this, you must reduce the speed down to under 420 km/h or y
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...g the 1960s alongside another 87 F.58 (exported [[Hunter F.6|F.6]]). These jets were further upgraded under the KAWEST (Kampfwertsteigerung; Increased Oper
...against enemy acquisition. Although it will face more advanced supersonic jets which sometimes have radar-guided missiles or all-aspect AAMs, if picking e
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* New test flight mission for carrier-based jets for USA, Britain and USSR.
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...lopment-jump-jets-arrive-in-war-thunder-meet-the-harrier-en|[Devblog] Jump Jets arrive in War Thunder: Meet the Harrier]]
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...lopment-jump-jets-arrive-in-war-thunder-meet-the-harrier-en|[Devblog] Jump Jets arrive in War Thunder: Meet the Harrier]]
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| colspan="2" | Kolesov RD-38 (lift jets) || 2
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| colspan="2" | Kolesov RD-36-35FV (lift jets) || 2
* Fast acceleration - one of the fastest subsonic jets, can quickly hit Mach 0.98 in level flight!
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===[[wt:en/news/6918-development-jump-jets-arrive-in-war-thunder-meet-the-harrier-en|Devblog]]===
...lopment-jump-jets-arrive-in-war-thunder-meet-the-harrier-en|[Devblog] Jump Jets arrive in War Thunder: Meet the Harrier]]
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...Harrier GR.1 has an impressive climb rate, though it is put down by Soviet jets that it may face, like the [[MiG-19PT]], [[Su-7B]], and [[Su-7BKL]]. The Ha
...r. In such battles it is better to stay low and fast, picking off top tier jets with fast approaches from the side, or by forcing an overshoot (thrust vect
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