The Shooting Range
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Description
The Shooting Range is a series of video produced by the War Thunder YouTube Community for the purpose of aiding the playerbase on certain aspects of the game such as game mechanics, pages of history, Q&As, tactics, strategies, and more. The Shooting Range airs every Sunday at 04:00 PM GMT (noon in Eastern time).
Playlist for the whole series can be found here.
The Shooting Range is meant to be a compilation of various of tips and tricks for the players to use. However, the information presented in the series require experience in gameplay mechanics to understand, so the target audience is definitely for confirmed War Thunder players.
Videos
Latest videos
Episode 387 2023.12.31
Episode 386 2023.12.24
Video Summaries
2023
Episodes 336-387
- Metal Beasts 2023: the most iconic metal beasts
- War Thunder in 2023: technologies and new mechanics
- Locations 2023: a sightseeing tour
- Hotline: how to see in cockpit mode in replays, what's the best Tiger tank from the German tech tree, 4 x SC50 or 1 x SC250 bombs for the Bf 109 B-1 against tanks at BR 4.3 to 6.7, why aren't there more PL-8s available on the JH-7A.
- Metal Beasts: Challenger 3 TD
- Pages of History: Black Friday
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "Air Superiority"
- Hotline: how to select night battles, which R-60 missiles are better, are the MK export models worse, what's the difference in these MBTs: Ariete, Ariete PSO, and Ariete AMV, on the Q-5L, if you look from one of the wingtips toward the fuselage, you can see a red hourglass within a circle: does it have any signifance.
- Metal Beasts: Su-27
- Pages of History: M1128, single-role wheeled tank
- Special: Pugachev's Cobra on the Su-27
- Hotline: what is the best Viggen: the AJS37 or the JA37C, drop tanks for new aircraft, what is the best F-16 out of all variants, tactics for the F4U-4 Corsair in Air RB, which is better: Leopard 2 PSO or Leopard 2A6.
- Metal Beasts: Strikemaster Mk.88
- Pages of History: TTD, South African MBT
- Squadmates: Japan
- Hotline: does a vehicle test drive give SL and RP gain the same as if you buy the vehicle, what does FAB mean in the name of Soviet bombs.
- Metal Beasts: Vickers Mk.11
- Pages of History: how a Swordfish captured an entire island
- Arsenal: F-16 (Family)
- Hotline: how to see the bomb falling when recording, if you break the floats off of seaplanes, will they fly faster, does air density make a difference in missile performance, is it modelled in the game and how much of a difference is it.
- Metal Beasts: Mi-8AMTSh
- Pages of History: TOG II
- Special: optical contrast targeting
- Hotline: what is the small tube sticking out of the later IL-2s' right wing (starting with the IL-2 (1942)), what is the difference between the F-16C and the Israeli Barak II, what does IRCCM mean on IR missiles.
- Metal Beasts: M109A1
- Pages of History: JH-7A, flying Leopard
- Squadmates: Flanders
- Hotline: what is the difference between the AJ37 and the AJS37, is there a way to change the speed of your WASD camera movement in replay mode, what is the hardest medal you can get in the German tech tree, what's the best way to angle the M26 (and T26 variants).
- Metal Beasts: JH-7A
- Pages of History: Hungarian armour
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "Kings of Battle"
- Hotline: what is the purpose of the 2 separate vertical controls on the Su-25: it seems counterproductive to have one turn the right way while the other seems to go the wrong way, why is there landmine protection when there is no landmine in the game.
- Metal Beasts: Object 775, pancake tank
- Pages of History: Strikemaster Mk.88, British flying desk
- Arsenal: A-4 Skyhawk family
- Hotline: could the Su-22M3 squadron vehicle be used as an air-to-air interceptor, what are all the aircraft with a helmet-mounted seeker, why does it look like someone forgot the rudders on the floats of the He 115 C-1, the A-4E Early has a little triangle above the pilot: does it have any meaning, what is the difference between the Leopard 2A5 and the Leopard 2 PSO.
- Metal Beasts: F-111A Aardvark
- Pages of History: G6, South African HE slinger
- Special: Flanders
- Hotline: which is better: the R-27ER or the R-27ET, which tank is better: the Abrams or the Challenger and which one has the most armour, what's the best Spitfire, is it true that tracks are used as add-on armour in real life, or is it just in the game.
- Metal Beasts: VIDAR
- Pages of History: Ki-48, surplus bomber
- Squadmates: Test Site 2271
- Hotline: what is the best close air support fighter near the 7.0 battle rating, which Vautours are best at air-to-air combat: the French with their manual and radar-guided missiles or the Israeli with their heat seekers, why are Japanese planes carrying torpedoes slightly on the right or left of the fuselage, should the APFSDS be spinning in the Shooting Range intro, is it possible for an air-to-air missile to damage a ground target.
- Metal Beasts: F-16C Block 50
- Pages of History: MBT rearmament
- Round Study: top radar-guided AAMs
- Hotline: tips to play the P-47D-22-RE, what is the difference between the Ferdinand and the Elefant, if you activate a best squad wager and then go into a solo queue, what will happen if you don't get automatically squaded, tips for playing the M18 GMC.
- Metal Beasts: Leopard 2 PSO
- Pages of History: Stanley Vejtasa
- Arsenal: Harrier II
- Hotline: is it possible during an air battle to change the load of secondary weapons once landed at the airfield, what is the weird window thing sticking out of the Pvkv m/43 (1963), why can the F-16s and the Netz carry only 1 external fuel tank and not 2, and will the Tomcats ever receive external fuel tanks.
- Metal Beasts: Mi-8TV
- Pages of History: tank ambushes
- Squadmates: updated Normandy
- Hotline: purchasing order between M19A1, M4A3E2 Jumbo, and M18 GMC, Bulgarian tanks in-game, what is the earliest fire-and-forget missile AA vehicle.
- Metal Beasts: KF41 Lynx
- Pages of History: Beechcraft XA-38, flying cannon
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "Sons of Attila"
- Hotline: why does the M62 shell on the M18 appear to fly faster in the gun sight than on the M4A2 and the M4A3 (76) W, tips for playing the M1A1 AIM and the A-10A in ground RB, is the AIM-7E-2 better than the AIM-7F or is it the other way around, what jet has the greatest acceleration in-game.
- Metal Beasts: MiG-29SMT
- Pages of History: battle of Kursk aftermath
- Special: Test Site 2271
- Hotline: what is the best BR for the German ground tech tree, what is the little black-coloured device under the fuselage of the A5M4, what is the best fighting style for the Ju 188 A-2, what is the difference between the A-10A and the A-10A Late.
- Metal Beasts: Patria CT-CV 105HP
- Pages of History: Italian tri-motor planes
- Arsenal: MiG-29s
- Hotline: what's the better role with an F-5E: being a bomber, a fighter, or both, what is that warning light-looking thing on the tail of the Mi-24 Hind and what does it do, what's the difference between the S-25 rockets (O, OF, OFM), what is better: the M26 or the T26E1-1, Indian vehicles in War Thunder.
- Metal Beasts: Su-25BM, the first plane to carry the R-73 missile in-game
- Pages of History: ZUT-37
- Squadmates: Abandoned Factory
- Hotline: what is the most powerful anti-tank missile, what is the strongest jet engine in the game, what are the best tactics for planes like the Tornado IDS, are there any Spanish vehicles in the game, and in what tech tree is each one found, which one is better: M1A1 AIM or M1A1 HC.
- Metal Beasts: Pz.Sp.Wg.P204(f) KwK
- Pages of History: Wyvern S4, first turboprop strike aircraft
- Tactics and strategy: Toss bombing
- Hotline: should you get the F-16 first or the F-14B, which plane can hold the most unguided rockets in the game, will AIM-7 Sparrow missiles be added to aircraft such as the F-4F Phantom, what is the difference between the AJ37 and the AJS37, why can't Stingers or similar IR missiles lock onto helicopters from their normal range of 5-6 km instead of the 2-3 km in game.
- Metal Beasts: B7A2 (Homare 23)
- Pages of History: M4/T26
- Triathlon: early HE slingers
- Hotline: when will you add a keybind to drop the fuel tank, will we ever see machines back on sale that were once on the Gaijin store/Steam but were taken off sale, what's the purpose of the F-84F's radar, how do you effectively use the SPECAT Jaguars in Air RB, what is the best all-round top-tier jet.
- Metal Beasts: SPz 12-3 LGS
- Pages of History: White Sea rescue
- Squadmates: Poland (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: why is one exhaust nozzle on the F-14 dilated in the hangar while the other one isn't, why is the T-44 at BR 6.7, what happened to proximity-fused shells: the 2S3M became unusable against tanks since the shells just explode above rocks or the ground.
- Metal Beasts: He 162 A-2
- Pages of History: tanks vs ATGMs
- Arsenal: F-4 Phantom II (Family)
- Hotline: any tips to avoid getting shot by AA and escape fighters with the Wyvern S4, where is the A-10's titanium tub, in jet aircraft, does going to a higher altitude make your fuel burn slower, what is the best tactic for the Tiran 4 and Tiran 4S, is there any chance air refueling is going to be added to the game.
- Metal Beasts: M4/T26
- Pages of History: night sky chaos
- Triathlon: top battleships
- Hotline: what is the best tactic for using the SMK in arcade battles, if a plane with two pilots has the main one taken out, would the copilot be able to take over, why does the Bf 109 G-14 have a heart on the side, which is the better tank: the Tiger II (H) or the Panther F, is it possible to play on a map with naval and ground forces together.
- Metal Beasts: J-8F
- Pages of History: Sherman engines
- Squadmates: Finland
- Hotline: are there any Dutch vehicles in the game, why does the JA37D rank IV modifications cost 57k RP but any other countries' top-tier jet modifications don't come close to that, if a missile is launched and locked on a target and the launching vehicle is destroyed, will the missile reach the target anyways, what is currently the fastest jet in-game.
- Metal Beasts: Object 435
- Pages of History: joyriding a jet fighter
- Arsenal: Su-25T and Su-39
- Hotline: what is better; the F-14A Tomcat or the F-4J Phantom II, what's the thing on the Strv 122B PLSS called, what is better on the Ju 87 D-5: the 12 x MG 81 or the 4 x MG151, what is the better tactic to use when it comes to mid range (about 4.0 BR) German tanks, where is the custom loadout for the A2D-1.
- Metal Beasts: Mirage 2000-5F
- Pages of History: Renault tanks
- Triathlon: late HE slingers
- Hotline: why does the premium A7M have an asymmetrical back, which is the best (not premium) F-104, which tank has the fastest turret rotation speed in the game.
- Metal Beasts: Raketenautomat
- Pages of History: Cobra to Viper
- Squadmates: Iberian Castle
- Hotline: what is the difference between the F-16A and the F-16A ADF, what is the most powerful 20 mm cannon shell, will jets such as the Eurofighter Typhoon, the F/A-18 Hornet, and the F-15 Eagle be eventually added to War Thunder.
- Metal Beasts: F-14B Tomcat
- Pages of History: Pz.38(t) n.A.
- Round Study: 20 mm aircraft autocannons
- Hotline: what is the purpose of the F3D-1's tracking radar if it doesn't provide lead, what is the difference between the M18 GMC and the premium M18 "Black Cat" light tanks, what propeller-driven plane in-game has the engine with the most horsepower.
- Metal Beasts: Freccia
- Pages of History: ramming duel
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "La Royale"
- Hotline: which is better, the Panther D or the Panzer IV/70(V), what skills prioritize when training all crew types, why was the White Rock Fortress map removed, what is the fastest jet in War Thunder and can it outrun any guided missile while flying horizontally.
- Metal Beasts: Su-25T
- Pages of History: T-70, third wheeler light tank
- Tactics and strategy: retarded bombs
- Hotline: when will Gaijin release War Thunder for mobile phones, what are the best tactics with the J21 and A21 series, what is the biggest napalm bomb and the biggest torpedo, will the flight performance of an aircraft improve the longer it burns fuel, how effective is the Harrier's thrust vectoring during dogfights.
- Metal Beasts: AuF1
- Pages of History: Georgy Parshin, enigmatic IL-2 pilot
- Special: Iberian castle
- Hotline: Heinkel He 111Z, what's the best Soviet torpedo bomber, is the F-16 slow compared to other top-tier fighters, do the Ka-50 Black Shark and the Ka-52 Alligator have ejection seats in-game, what is the best loadout for the F-4S Phantom II.
- Metal Beasts: A32A Lansen
- Pages of History: battle of Hannut
- Triathlon: mid-tier helicopters
- Hotline: are there any Swiss vehicles in the game, what's the better ground attack aircraft: the Tu-2S or the IL-10, does the hard kill APS on the T-55AMD-1, Merkava Mk.4M, or Black Night work inside smoke screens.
- Metal Beasts: Centurion Mk.2
- Pages of History: controversial air victories
- Squadmates: Carpathians (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: why do the German tech tree G.91s lose half their machine guns or cannons just cause you want to use Nord AAs, which rank VI Soviet tank is best for first rank VI tank, what is the difference between the M1A1 and the IPM1 besides the gun size, which tank within its BR can destroy the T95, should the new F-4S Phantom II be bought.
- Metal Beasts: He 112 A-0
- Pages of History: Diesel as a German Solution
- Arsenal: A-1H
- Hotline: what is the plane that holds most air-to-air missiles, which is better: the Pz.II or the Pz.III E, why was the nose section of the He 111 made asymmetrically, German dubbing of the Shooting Range.
- Metal Beasts: AFT09
- Pages of History: Anatoly Kadomtsev
- Tactics and strategy: filling ammo racks
- Hotline: what aircraft has the most variety of guided munitions, will ejection seats be added to 1950s jets that had them, why do the Su-25 and the Su-25K have different missiles if they're the same plane.
- Metal Beasts: Hunter F.58 (Germany)
- Pages of History: AMD.35
- Round Study: late large-calibre HE rockets
- Hotline: tutorial for helicopters, what is the function of the tube on the rear of the T-64's turret, triathlon for late piston-engined fighters, what are the differences between the Lancaster B Mk I and Mk III, which is better: the Maus or the T95.
- Metal Beasts: Sd.Kfz.222 / ␗Sd.Kfz.222
- Pages of History: Pe-2
- Squadmates: Jungle
- Hotline: why is the canopy of the F-16 yellow, what is the best way to play the Strv 81 (RB 52), what's the smallest aircraft cannon in the game, what about the smallest tank cannon, which plane has the most powerful piston engine.
- Metal Beasts: Tornado F.3
- Pages of History: German tank engines
- Triathlon: earliest twin-engined bombers
- Hotline: how to use the Helldiver in the most optimal way, what is the fastest jet that could reach Mach 1 (from takeoff), what is the best aircraft for ground attack, the P-47 or the Typhoon, is it possible to hit ground units with an air-to-air missile.
- Metal Beasts: T1E1
- Pages of History: La-9, the last Soviet prop
- Arsenal: Su-25
- Hotline: what strategy is best for the Brigand B 1, what are the differences between the AIM-7F and the AIM-7M, is there any point using the rectangular radar over the default one, what is the best British prop aircraft for ground attack.
- Metal Beasts: Kurnass 2000
- Pages of History: tank crew layouts
- Round Study: mid-tier HE rockets
- Hotline: what is the difference between the GBU-8 and the GBU-15, which tank is better: the T34, the T30, or the T29, when will the P-47D-25 get its drop tank, how long after a video is posted do the people that pick the comments for the next Shooting Range stop reading them, can the British active protection system on the Challenger be effective against artillery.
- Metal Beasts: ItPsV 90
- Pages of History: Yak-141
- Squadmates: Eastern Europe
- Hotline: which is the best tactics for tanks like the Strv 121, what are the differences between the T-72B and the T-72B (1989), if you land a helicopter on a captured zone, can you replenish rockets/ammo, why is there a fixed MG in the tail of the He 111, what's the purpose of it.
- Metal Beasts: Challenger 2E
- Pages of History: German armoured cars
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "Sky Guardians"
- Hotline: what's the difference between the Su-25 and the Su-25K, why can't the Tornado have more missiles, if you keep one bomb on a wing, is rolling affected, will we see more planes with fuel tanks, out of all the variable geometry wing designed aircraft, which is the best for dogfighting.
- Metal Beasts: Yak-141
- Pages of History: one a day in Tampa Bay
- Triathlon: new top-tier MBTs
- Hotline: if you jettison all your bombs and rockets/missiles because you're in a dogfight, are your bombs active and explode, East German vehicles, ejection seats.
- Metal Beasts: Me 410 A-1
- Pages of History: tank suspensions
- Arsenal: A-10A
- Hotline: what is the heaviest prop fighter in the game, what is better: the F-105 Thunderchief or the Buccaneer, is it possible to use the Mirage III's rocket booster in the air, can you use CCRP for laser-guided bombs.
- Metal Beasts: Khalid
- Pages of History: Pilipenko's millstones
- Tactics and strategy: rocket CAS in jets
- Hotline: which plane has the most turrets, with the F-105D being a bomber, why doesn't it get an airspawn, how to check how many vehicles you unlocked, what is the difference between the PTL02 and the WMA301 and what's the best way to play them, drop tanks for P-51s and P-47s.
- Metal Beasts: A-6E TRAM
- Pages of History: reactive armour
- Squadmates: Karelia (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: which is a better Soviet plane for CAS: the MiG-27K, the Su-25 or the Su-17M4, are ground arcade battles ever set at night, did the IS-2 (1944) get a reworked model.
- Metal Beasts: AMX-32 (105)
- Pages of History: Apache or Cobra?
- Triathlon: deeply modernized early MBTs
- Hotline: which is better: MiG-23 or MiG-27, how do you properly play the Leopard 2K, how can you drop all the GBU guided bombs at the same time for the same target.
- Metal Beasts: Tornado IDS ASSTA1
- Pages of History: 2C bis
- Tactics and strategy: CAS with propeller planes
- Hotline: what makes missiles like Sidewinders or Sparrows increase in range with progressing variants when the shape and therefore fuel capacity doesn't change, why do some jets have a large tube protruding before the tail and rudder section like the Scimitar or the Harrier, what are the differences between versions of the P-51D, how long should you expect to wait to see your moments on the Thunder Show, shoud they win.
- Metal Beasts: 2C bis
- Pages of History: Louis Curdes, American ace
- Round Study: Soviet rockets
- Hotline: which planes have thrust reversal in-game, why is the M1128 so slow on sand and snow, what does the designated bomb point do and how to use it, can you find a tank triahtlon IRL and where to watch it.
- Metal Beasts: Mirage 2000D-R1
- Pages of History: racing Panzer
- Squadmates: Kuban
- Hotline: what is the difference between the Phantom FG.1 and the FGR.2, does losing your landing gear on fixed landing gear aircraft make you have less drag, what does the Bf 109 G-6 have over the G-2 that makes it lose so much performance, how can I precisely aim my CCRP when the target is not a base, custom loadouts on propeller planes.
- Metal Beasts: M728 CEV
- Pages of History: P-38s vs IAR-81s
- Triathlon: F-4 Phantoms
- Hotline: can you use drop tanks as more fuel and use them as bombs, why doesn't the bomb series keybind work when you use the weapon selector, can you explain all the abilites of scout drones, how do you decide which comments to pick for the hotline segment.
- Metal Beasts: MiG-29
- Pages of History: Sturmtiger
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "Apex Predators"
- Hotline: does having your canopy open when flying around do anything, how to change the amount of smoke grenades used in a smoke screen, how to use time-fused shells on a tank like the Flak 88.
2022
Episodes 285-335
- Metal Beasts 2022: landmark vehicles added to the game
- War Thunder in 2022: technologies and game mechanics introduced
- Locations 2022: a tour around new locations added this year
- Hotline: is there any tactical use for the Cobra manoeuvre, what is the difference between the IL-28 and the IL-28Sh besides the incendiary bombs, why does the tech tree A-10 get a worse camera than the premium A-10, what top tier jet can Japan expect to get in the future.
- Metal Beasts: F-16A
- Pages of History: Soviet night fighters
- Special: Gold Quarry
- Hotline: if my tank commander has the commander fire control feature, can I still shoot when the gunner is knocked out, how to take control of roof-mounted machine guns on tanks, in-game Hungarian vehicles, what do magnetic mines do and how to use them effectively.
- Metal Beasts: Rooivalk Mk1F CSH
- Pages of History: Sturmpanzer
- Triathlon: rank II medium tanks
- Hotline: if you buy a camouflage for the Strv m/42, will it apply to all tanks in the Swedish tech tree, tips for flying the Focke-Wulf Ta 152, can 3 nuclear bombs be dropped at a time, what is the best rank IV Swedish aircraft to research: J21A-2, A21A-3 or T18B, can a 10 kg bomb from the He 51 B-2/H kill a Maus.
- Metal Beasts: AS 42/47
- Pages of History: nighttime interception with a Yak-1
- Tactics and strategy: piston fighters
- Hotline: what is the thing sticking out the top of the nose of the Mirage, what is the best tactic for early missiles (AIM-9B/-9E) as they are not even nearly as manoeuvrable as something like the AIM-9G, does a dozer blade count as extra frontal armour.
- Metal Beasts: ◊MiG-23BN
- Pages of History: naval SPGs SU-85 and SU-100
- Squadmates: Normandy (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: what bomber has the most guns, French P-47 or French Yak-3, can a Maverick missile track a target at night without a TV pod, is the A-4E better as fighter or as a bomber.
- Metal Beasts: 38 cm Sturmmörser
- Pages of History: Sunderland Mk IIIa vs Junkers 88
- Triathlon: rank VI light tanks
- Hotline: do magnetic mines work on land, and if they do, do planes activate them, manual engine controls, does the map temperature affect engine cooling or overheating like the desert or snow, Su-7BMK or MiG-21S (R-13-300), which is better to grind with, custom loadouts for the A-4 series.
- Metal Beasts: Q-5L
- Pages of History: German tank building
- Round Study: Pulkzerstörer rounds
- Hotline: is it possible to send replays from older game versions for Thunder Show, how to use early/low-tier radar, does the Airstrike modification on light tanks reduce the spawn cost for drones, what does bis mean on vehicles like the MiG-15bis.
- Metal Beasts: 2S38
- Pages of History: Push! Resuce over Vietnam
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "Fire and Ice"
- Hotline: what is the difference between the J35A and the J35D, why does the German G.91 R/3 lose one of its cannons when you install the Nord missiles, can an ammo rack explosion overpressurize a nearby friendly open-topped tank, how many airplanes can do the Cobra manoeuvre.
- Metal Beasts: A-1H Skyraider
- Pages of History: M18 Hellcat
- Tactics and strategy: New SAM capabilities
- Hotline: Australian vehicles, what is the best way to play the SM.91 and the SM.92, after firing, will the pylons for bombs and rockets still affect flight performance.
- Metal Beasts: M1A2 SEP
- Pages of History: WEP in piston engines
- Special: Arctic map
- Hotline: what is the difference between the G.91 R/3 and the G.91 R/4, why does the 17-pounder have different penetration values on different tanks even when they have the same ammo, when should you use MG instead of the main cannon when playing, tips on how to play the Harrier family, T-34-85 (D-5T) 3D model rework.
- Metal Beasts: VK 3002 (M)
- Pages of History: unconventional American SPGs
- Triathlon: supersonic CAS with unguided weapons
- Hotline: how to get different content creators' decals, why is the WZ305 so powerful at shooting down aircraft other SPAAs can't, custom loadouts for Sweden, "MiG-28" paint scheme for the F-5, how many M22 Locusts do you need to tow a T95 Doom Turtle.
- Metal Beasts: Mirage 2000C-S5
- Pages of History: Z-10 & Z-19
- Squadmates: Berlin (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: what does "maximum overload" actually mean for a missile, what is the difference between the stock missile and the researchable one on the LAV-AD, how do you activate the periscope on the Strv 122B PLSS, is the Leopard I more efficient for long-range combat or close-range combat.
- Metal Beasts: Type 16 (P)
- Pages of History: Panther tanks
- Tactics and strategy: air-to-surface guided munitions
- Hotline: how can you change the colour of enemy icons if you're colour-blind, does upgrading the loader's reloading skill also increase the replenishment speed of first-stage ammo racks and magazines, which is the best Italian propeller fighter for Boom & Zoom tactics, what are the best tactics for the T-34-57, when can we expect 4th generation jet fighters in the game.
- Metal Beasts: Harrier GR.7
- Pages of History: D4Y Suisei
- Tactical Briefing: changes introduced in Update "Drone Age"
- Hotline: which belt should you use with the AM-1: Ground Targets or Universal, which Soviet rank III fighter should you take: Yak-3 or Yak-3P, if you buy a premium helicopter, do you still need to unlock a rank V vehicle.
- Metal Beasts: CV 90105
- Pages of History: Composite armour
- Tactics and strategy: Drones
- Hotline: do all Vautours have heat-seeking missiles or just the Israeli ones, what is the fastest single engine propeller-driven plane in the game, what are the best IR air-to-air missiles currently available in the game, is it possible to jettison rocket pods when they are spent, so as to have better flight performance.
- Metal Beasts: Su-25
- Pages of History: Liberator vs. Condors
- Special: Pradesh map
- Hotline: what is the best American mid-tier attacker aircraft, why is one of the Whirlwind Mk I's wings black and the other one white underneath, for the Wiesel 1A2, what is the difference between the TOW-2 and the TOW-2A.
- Metal Beasts: Do 335 A-1
- Pages of History: German heavy tank building
- Triathlon: BR 9.0 jet fighters
- Hotline: why can't the Mirage III have both rocket boosters and guns at the same time, how to play the C. 202, which is the best SPAA to use against tanks, what is the purpose of the muzzle brake on most of WWII and some post-WWII tanks and why don't most modern MBTs have one, what is the optimal amount of shells to take into battles.
- Metal Beasts: M36B2 (Japan)
- Pages of History: early WW2 French tanks
- Tactics and strategy: playing jet fighters
- Hotline: if the Lim-5P is a generation 1+ jet fighter, what kind of aircraft would be considered generation 2 in the game, what is the difference between the GBU-8 and the GBU-15, are the rank II and III Bf 109s suited for Boom and Zoom or not, did the missing IS-5 design become the T-10 tank.
- Metal Beasts: BV 155 B-1
- Pages of History: multiple-cannons Yaks
- Squadmates: Sinai
- Hotline: what is the lightest vehicle in the game, what's the best way play to play the M-51, why does the J7W1 have 5 wheels, can you land helicopters on battleships decks.
- Metal Beasts: Object 248
- Pages of History: evolution of tank armour
- Triathlon: early monoplane fighters
- Hotline: in some videos players have different aim sights instead of the default one, how can you change it, how to play the MiG-19 in the German tree, what is the biggest calibre in the game, how many Shermans are in the game
- Metal Beasts: Lightning F.53
- Pages of History: John Hannah
- Tactics and strategy: SPAAGs vs armour
- Hotline: how to change the colour of the missile lock and radar in air battles, why do some air-to-air missiles take 20 seconds to lock while other missiles take 2 seconds, is there a setting to stop a bomber from autocorrecting its flight path when switching to bomber sight view, when will custom loadouts be introduced for older aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: M18 GMC
- Pages of History: Evolution of tank guns
- Squadmates: Advance to the Rhine
- Hotline: what pilot skills affect helicopters and which ones are irrelevant, how to see if an airplane gets an airspawn, will custom loadouts for older planes be introduced, what is the best Su-22 variant in the game.
- Metal Beasts: MD500-TOW
- Pages of History: AM-1 Mauler
- Triathlon: early radar SPAAs
- Hotline: which belt is the most powerful: Ground Targets or Air Targets, how to get that view from the gunner's perspective that many youtubers use, with the visible cannon barrel, instead of seeing from the barrel, is it true that the Swedish B17's landing gear can be used as an airbrake, will helicopters get custom loadouts too, what is the best looking plane.
- Metal Beasts: G6
- Pages of History: IS-7
- Tactics and strategy: naval crews
- Hotline: how to use the assault fuse correctly and more efficiently, is there a control for dropping different bombs first, for example on the Ju 87 B-2 dropping the SC250 first instead of the SC50, even though the F-4F has Sparrow slots, why does it not come with Sparrows in-game, how to use thrust reverse and brake at the same time on the Viggen, how should one play the F-82E Twin Mustang, low or high altitude.
- Metal Beasts: Su-17M4
- Pages of History: HMS Glowworm's last fight
- Round Study: British 20-pdr rounds
- Hotline: if the tank gunner is knocked out and replaced, will the replacement behave like the original gunner, how to place markers for your squadmates without opening the map, what are the best rockets or bombs, why can't the F-104S.ASA bring 3 or 4 Aspide missiles on its pylons, how to create the UserSkin folder.
- Metal Beasts: MEPHISTO
- Pages of History: anti-Tiger cannons
- Triathlon: last heavy tanks
- Hotline: is the keen vision tank crew skill that helps mark enemies on the map only useful in arcade, should you upgrade it when playing realistic, can ATGMs on helicopters knock out a plane, what is booming and zooming, why don't the F-4EJ and F-4EJ Kai have any guided bombs like the American Phantoms.
- Metal Beasts: Lim-5P
- Pages of History: Hughes MD500
- Tactical Briefing: Update "Danger Zone"
- Hotline: is the M4A3 (105) a good Sherman, why does the MiG-23/27 have their flares on top of the aircraft when every other nation has them by the exhaust, what is a better boom-n-zoom fighter, the P-38J-15 or the P-47N-15, where do you get more crew XP points, in arcade or in realistic.
- Metal Beasts: ZTZ99A
- Pages of History: IS-6
- Tactics and strategy: playing turretless tanks
- Hotline: is the stabilizer a modification or does it come already installed on the tank, what is the best tactic tor top-tier SPAAs, why does the KPz-70 have a faster reload rate than the MBT-70 and the XM-803.
- Metal Beasts: F-14A Early
- Pages of History: Soviet fighters' ammo pools
- Special: Abandoned Town
- Hotline: is there an ultra-low quality setting and how to enable it, what is the best way to play the T-55A, which aircraft can carry the heaviest bombload, on the German SF40 barges, could a torpedo go through the middle section between pontoons or would the hitboxes prevent that.
- Metal Beasts: J-8B
- Pages of History: from the Ferdinand to the Elefant
- Special: custom weapon loadouts
- Hotline: why can't you launch a TV-guided bomb at night, does the nuke become available at BR 6.7 or 7.0, how to use suspension on Japanese MBTs.
- Metal Beasts: IS-2
- Pages of History: B-24 Liberator
- Tactics and strategy: aircraft crews
- Hotline: in aircraft control settings, what are the horizontal and vertical "radar/IRST target cue control axis" options, what are the differences between the two types of Stinger missiles for the German Ozelot, do active protection systems (APS) work bhind smoke.
- Metal Beasts: Brigand B 1
- Pages of History: Half-tracks
- Triathlon: CAS with early guided air-to-ground missiles
- Hotline: how to play the AMX-13 (SS.11), how to fire rockets fast without spamming the button for it.
- Metal Beasts: Tiran 4S
- Pages of History: walrus against cans
- Special: battleship armour
- Hotline: why does the MiG-23 have a semi-automatic wingsweep mode and the Su-22 a manual mode, is the Ju 88 A-1 good at dive bombing, how to use countermeasures, is there any aircraft with a payload so heavy it can barely lift off.
- Metal Beasts: A-35B (France)
- Pages of History: Excelsior and T14
- Tactics and strategy: tank crews
- Hotline: how to used guided bombs, how to avoid blacking out when turning in a dogfight, what is the long pole on the A-4 Skyhawk for, could an air-to-air missile redirect by flares penetrate a tank.
- Metal Beasts: LAV-AD
- Pages of History: Joe Foss, F4F-4 ace
- Triathlon: early SPAAGs
- Hotline: what is the best way to play helicopters like the YAH-64 or the AH-1F, is it possible to shift gears manually with ground vehicles, what do the binoculars in the bottom left HUD mean in ground battles.
- Metal Beasts: F-104S.ASA
- Pages of History: airborne tanks
- Tactics and strategy: playing light tanks
- Hotline: why do guns on aircraft jam and how do you unjam them, what is the fastest MBT in the game, is there a large-calibre cannon with a fast reload rate in the game, why are other factors like optics not part of a tank's comparison in tank triathlons, if an A-10 is shooting from across the map, is there a sound delay?
- Metal Beasts: PUMA
- Pages of History: Sagittario 2
- Tactical Briefing: Update "Wind of Change"
- Hotline: why do the Viggen's RB 75 not work at night, how many times can your repair your tracks in a single battle, why do the Fairey Firefly's flaps look different from any other flap, how is the Strv m/42 DT best played, can a Pe-8's 5,000 kg bomb kill 100 Maus tanks.
- Metal Beasts: Merkava Mk.4M
- Pages of History: Hungarian tank building
- Round Study: 88 mm capped rounds for the Tiger I
- Hotline: is there a reason why military vehicle designations do not go in a sequential order, what is IRST radar and how does it work, what is a quick way to train a crew, what are the orange smokes on the battlefield for, how is the effective armour thickness calculated.
- Metal Beasts: Mirage F1C
- Pages of History: Robin Olds, P-38 ace
- Triathlon: top-tier wheeled tanks
- Hotline: what makes IR missiles that can be radar-slaved special, why do the high-tier Leopards have the iron sights of the barrel on the side and not on the top, how to enable weapon selection in aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: ZTZ88A
- Pages of History: Jagdpanzer IV
- Tactics and strategy: active protection systems
- Hotline: what are the graphic settings of the gameplay background footage, why do most British planes have a French flag on their tails, what is the white strip that the F-4E Phantom II has on the middle of the fuselage, can certain aircraft be more manoeuvrable than others at different altitudes, if half a tank is submerged underwater, will the shell have a reduced penetration if it hits the water.
- Metal Beasts: A-10A Late
- Pages of History: Midge Bite
- Special: Sun City
- Hotline: how to avoid joining ongoing battles, why is the A6M called a Zero, how do you play the A21RB, how low can the Type 10's gun go with its suspension.
- Metal Beasts: Sagittario 2
- Pages of History: autoloaders
- Round Study: BR-365A vs. BR-367
- Hotline: which gun location is better for planes: nose or wings, what is the best way to use the FJ-4B VMF-232 in a dogfight, what is the piece of metal that raises up when Soviet tanks swim supposed to do, why aren't artillery shells leaving deep craters after impact on the ground like bombs.
- Metal Beasts: HSTV-L
- Pages of History: B5N and B6N torpedo bombers
- Triathlon: top-tier light tanks
- Hotline: which settings to display the ammunition left in offensive weapons in air battles, what is the highest penetration in the game, how to use the rangefinder on older tanks, showcase of the different bomb sizes.
- Metal Beasts: Ki-83
- Pages of History: Shermans in Normandy
- Tactics and strategy: HE wielders
- Hotline: how to effectively play the SU-100P, what is the first tank that has commander fire control, what is the difference between radar and IRST lock for radar SPAAs, and how do I switch between them, does a torpedo cause damage to land vehicles.
- Metal Beasts: Merkava Mk.2D
- Pages of History: S-199
- Challenge: long-distance bombing record
- Hotline: what is the difference between the Bf 109 G-6 and the G-14, does the M1A2 Abrams have a laser warning system, how to use the M163's tracking radar, which Spitfire has the most bombs, after downloading a skin from WT Live, how to add it to your vehicle
- Metal Beasts: S.O.4050 Vautour IIN
- Pages of History: nuclear war tanks
- Triathlon: ship-based hydroplanes
- Hotline: what is the landing speed for a floatplane like the F1M2 to avoid breaking the gear off, how do you move the camera around inside an aircraft in a replay, why can't we use TV-guided bombs at night, what is the difference between an aircraft cannon and a machine gun, on Zhukovsky's I-153-M62, how do you activate the fuse after x metres instead of the default activation on impact.
- Metal Beasts: Bkan 1C
- Pages of History: F-104J, the Starfighter in Japan
- Tactics and strategy: playing heavy tanks
- Hotline: why after using the Thunderbolt does the game require 1,300 Spawn Points to spawn with the Spitfire Mk Vc/trop but only 600 SP to spawn with the Wyvern S4, would heat-seeking missiles not lock on a plane if the pilot turned the engine off, can a plane bomb incoming torpedoes or shoot them, what are the lines on an APFSDS shell that look like screw thread lines.
- Metal Beasts: S-199
- Pages of History: PT-76, how Soviet tanks learned to swim
- Tactical Briefing: minor changes introduced in Update "Winged Lions"
- Hotline: what was the actual problem with the single-spar wing on the Bf 110 and the Me 410, how do you operate the top-mounted machine gun without rotating the turret, what makes the A-7E better than the A-7D, why not PT-57 instead of PT-76-57.
- Metal Beasts: 2S3M
- Pages of History: F-5 vs MiG-21
- Triathlon: top-tier IFVs
- Hotline: why are there plane names with numbers on the side inside the cockpit of the Do 335, P-51 tutorial, how exactly do blow out panels work: are they supposed to prevent ammo racks from exploding every time or is there any chance for ammo to explode even with those panels, will you add more yearly everyday login decals.
- Metal Beasts: Kfir C.7
- Pages of History: Merkava, the desert chariot
- Tactics and strategy: smoke systems
- Hotline: why did the Lorraine 40t and the M56 use tire rubber tracks instead of conventional steel tracks, how to play with helicopters in custom battles, why are the British Jaguar's AAM on top of the wing, are there slipstreams with armoured vehicles like in car races in order to get faster.
- Metal Beasts: Type 10
- Pages of History: the Soviet engineers' radial nightmare
- Special: holiday fun with custom battles
- Hotline: how does the SIDAM 25's radar work, will the F-82E will remain in flight if one pilot gets knocked out, what is the difference between the Jaguar GR.1 and the Jaguar GR.1A, how to select a particular target if several targets are on the radar, why is the MiG-27 ground attack aircraft classified as a jet fighter.
2021
Episodes 233-284
- Metal Beasts 2021: landmark vehicles added to the game
- War Thunder in 2021: technologies and game mechanics introduced
- Locations 2021: a tour around new locations added this year
- Hotline: how can you know if an airplane has a ballistic computer and how to turn it on/off, where are the controls for cruise control on tanks, what is the metal rod under the Pz.IV's gun, what are the differences between the A-7 Corsair II and the F-8 Crusader, how to use the thrust reverser and the brakes at the same time on the Viggen.
- Metal Beasts: F-105D
- Pages of History: Cromwell
- Tactics and strategy: naval recon aircraft
- Hotline: what is the difference between the STB-1 and the Type 74 (C), do jet hydroplanes exist, how do single engine planes deal with the counter-rotating torque of the aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: Strf 9040B
- Pages of History: how Japan turned machine guns into cannons
- Triathlon: frontline bombers
- Hotline: how much time is added to a tank's reload time if the loader is knocked out, what is the best use and the best tactics for the Sherman Firefly, where do bullet casings get out of aircraft wings, is there a way to know exactly how many points both teams have instead of the cursors at the top.
- Metal Beasts: Spitfire LF Mk.IX Weizman's (Israel)
- Pages of History: John Dundas' last flight
- Round Study: missile quads
- Hotline: what is the best round for the Soviet T-10A, tips for playing the A-4E Early, where to find the Manual Engine Control keybinds and how to properly use them, why do some German planes have fuel gauges on the engine itself rather than in the cockpit, is it possible to destroy a flying boat with a torpedo or a sea mine.
- Metal Beasts: PT-76-57
- Pages of History: T-28
- Tactics and strategy: precision-guided arsenal
- Hotline: which is better between the F-5C and the American Harrier AV-8A, what is the fastest tracked vehicle in the game, why do the F-5A and the F-5A (China) have different loadouts.
- Metal Beasts: Jaguar GR.1A
- Pages of History: Me 410, Messerschmitt's twin-engined fighter
- Triathlon: comparing early SPGs (BR 3.0/3.3)
- Hotline: War Thunder tiktok account, what are the differences between the M1A1 HC and the M1A2 Abrams, how to make the camera follow the shells in naval battles.
- Metal Beasts: T26E5
- Pages of History: Alan Deere, a pilot with nine lives
- Tactical Briefing: changes to Aviation introduced in Update "Ground Breaking"
- Hotline: how to turn off the jet engine sounds in ground battles, how to use effectively countermeasures on the MiG-27M, what is the best rank V German aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: A-7E
- Pages of History: interleaved roadwheels
- Special: Aral sea map
- Hotline: how to open marketplace trophy chests, how do you activate flares on the AV-8A, tips on grinding the Swedish tech tree, which subsonic aircraft can reach Mach 1 in a dive.
- Metal Beasts: Wiesel 1A2
- Pages of History: convertible tanks
- Triathlon: top-tier attack aircraft
- Hotline: what are the differences between the 2 Marder 1 IFVs in the German tech tree, does the map's weather affect engine water and oil temperatures, what does WEP and IAS stand for, what are the best rank III Soviet aircraft, how to learn about how to fly a plane and about plane control settings.
- Metal Beasts: F-8E Crusader
- Pages of History: A6M Zero
- Tactics and strategy: Aircraft radar systems
- Hotline: how to install the dev version of War Thunder, can you download a saved replay, what are the 3 best Japanese planes for ground attack, does the in-game map follow the cardinal directions (North, South, East and West), what are the clamp-like devices of the Merkava's cannon barrel for.
- Metal Beasts: Type 87 RCV
- Pages of History: Czechoslovakian tank-building
- Triathlon: rank IV medium tanks
- Hotline: is there a plane in-game without self-sealing fuel tanks, why did bombers stop having defensive turrets after WW2, how to shoot the main cannon from the binocular/commander sight, how does the Type 93's SAM work, if the Maus is the heaviest heavy tank in-game, what is the lightest heavy tank in the game.
- Metal Beasts: Tu-1
- Pages of History: the last flight of the Japanese King of the Sky
- Tactical Briefing: changes to ground vehicles introduced in Update "Direct Hit"
- Hotline: why do statcards say that planes can fly at 2,000 km/h when they fall apart at roughly Mach 1.05, why does the Jaguar have a tailhook even though it's not a naval aircraft, can the slowest plane in the game outrun the slowest missile in the game, how to use the J7W1.
- Metal Beasts: 2S25
- Pages of History: Sea Fury FB 11
- Round Study: AMX-30B2 BRENUS
- Hotline: with an aircraft, if you drop your ordnance, does that mean the flight characteristics go back to the values of the bare aircraft or does it still take into account empty rocket pods and pylons, will we see more user-made vehicles in the game like the He 177 A-5 Greif, what is fastest, the slowest tank on the road or the fastest amphibious tank in the water, can we use torpedoes to attack ground vehicles.
- Metal Beasts: JA37C
- Pages of History: King Tiger
- Triathlon: rank IV piston interceptors
- Hotline: what are the things under the tails of jets like the MiG-21 or the Jaguar (GR.1/A), how to make your plane more manoeuvrable when taxiing on the ground, the VFW can move its side screens for better protection, where is it in the controls and are there any other vehicles that can do this.
- Metal Beasts: M1A1 HC
- Pages of History: F-5
- Tactics and strategy: naval UI and gun fire-control system
- Hotline: how can I reset the laser rangefinder on tanks like the Marder 1 IFV, what's the difference between the T-34-85 (D-5T) and the T-34-85, how can I turn my aiming reticle from red to black.
- Metal Beasts: MiG-27M
- Pages of History: sub-zero chemistry
- Special: Breslau ground map
- Hotline: what is the best German rank 3 fighter, how can I use my coupons to get the next Battle Pass for free, why do modern IFVs have engines in the front.
- Metal Beasts: P-400
- Pages of History: Valentine (Family)
- Round Study: Type 75 SPH shells
- Hotline: what is the difference between the Leopard 1, the Leopard A1A1 and the Leopard 1A5, what is the purpose of the yellow tip on propellers of single-engine piston planes, how do you use the T92 light tank, are autoloaders better than manual ones.
- Metal Beasts: SK-105A2 and JaPz.K A2
- Pages of History: M.B.162
- Triathlon: mid-tier strike aircraft
- Hotline: when armour-piercing ammunition is selected for the F-4EJ's primary weapon, do the 3 gunpods also get the same belt, is there an option to disable voice chat completely, how do the radar warnings systems work on the Yak-38 and the Ka-50, can you incapacitate an exposed crew member with a smoke grenade.
- Metal Beasts: Vampire FB 52A
- Pages of History: the first air ramming on a jet
- Challenge: capturing areas on floatplanes
- Hotline: are the skins on WT Live visible to my enemies, how to use the Do 335 A-1, why does the Object 120's APFSDS shell have less penetration than top-tier MBTs when the Object 120 has a longer barrel and a bigger calibre, will there ever be an option to turn unrealistic tank decorations and bushes off.
- Metal Beasts: Type 59
- Pages of History: Panzer IV
- Round Study: T26E1-1 Super Pershing
- Hotline: what is the four-engine bomber with the lowest payload, are artillery shells the same for each nation or does each nation have their own calibre and explosive mass, can you torpedo amphibious tanks, can we have a greater variety of sights on tanks, which plane has the slowest speed without stalling.
- Metal Beasts: WMA301
- Pages of History: Yak-28B
- Triathlon: mid-tier piston fighters
- Hotline: do radiators and mixture control help put out aircraft engine fires, what is a smoothbore gun and what are the other types of gun, do internal modules have simplified hitboxes or are they identical to the shape of the module, can the Type 93 outrun the slowest missile.
- Metal Beasts: Bong's P-38J-15
- Pages of History: the longest tank shot in history, by a Challenger 2
- Round Study: how to penetrate the Centurion Mk.5 AVRE
- Hotline: how to play the Kürassier, why was the M18 GMC changed from tank destroyer to light tank, what is the point of using the BI if it only gets a minute and a half of fuel, why does the Soviet BR-365A shell have an easier time punching through angles than the BR-365K shell, which has on paper more penetration power against angled armour plates, what is the cable connecting the cockpit to the tail.
- Metal Beasts: Marder A1-
- Pages of History: the first Italian attack helicopters
- Round Study: Ikv 91, HE or HEATFS ?
- Hotline: is there a way to control different guns in a plane independently, what is the difference between the British ADEN 30 mm cannon and the French DEFA 30 mm cannon, how do you do reversing with planes.
- Metal Beasts: Bf 109 G-6 (Sweden)
- Pages of History: medium to main: M48 & M60
- Triathlon: heavy tanks
- Hotline: can the rockets on the U-SH 405 be fired individually, can you destroy a tank or a ship by ramming it with a plane, why does the Corsair have W-shaped wings, why does the German M41 get a HEAT shell while the American M41 doesn't.
- Metal Beasts: Concept 3
- Pages of History: P-51
- Challenge: large-calibre air guns
- Hotline: how to use the Black Prince in battle, if a plane that fired a radar homing missile gets destroyed before the missile actually hits, will it keep tracking the target, what are the best rank 1 and 2 French fighter aircraft, do bombs have blast overpressure.
- Metal Beasts: Sea Vixen F.A.W. Mk.2
- Pages of History: tanks as electric vehicles
- Tips & Tricks: large-calibre air guns
- Hotline: what are the little propellers on the back of the bombs for, what is the best playstyle for the Leopard 2K, how do you hide the UI when viewing replays, why modern MBTs don't have composite armour on the sides, how damaged can a vehicle get before being destroyed.
- Metal Beasts: Dardo
- Pages of History: the British Octane war
- Round Study: T-80BVM
- Hotline: which tank has the slowest turret traverse speed, what is the difference between the Tiger H1 and the Tiger E, what is the best way to use the A32A, what is the bulge found on some guns of modern tanks.
- Metal Beasts: J-7E
- Pages of History: Variable wing sweep
- Triathlon: Strategic bombers
- Hotline: how do you get bushes to cover your tank with, why is the lower glacis always less armoured than the upper glacis plate, which Axis fighter can dogfight the P-51 Mustang and the Spitfire Mk 24.
- Metal Beasts: T-80BVM
- Pages of History: M4A5
- Tactics and strategy: new commander sights
- Hotline: Ta 154, is there any chance Flaks will be added as airfield defense system, what is the difference between the three American heavies T29, T30 and T34, what are the differences between heat-seeking missiles of different nations and how to use them effectively.
- Metal Beasts: MiG-23M
- Pages of History: Robert Bateson, Mosquito ace
- Special: Red Desert
- Hotline: when will more modern aircraft be added, what are the different existing types of torpedo modes, It's fixed!, why does the Su-17 have those special wings, at what point are guns considered machine guns or cannons in terms of rate of fire and calibre.
- Metal Beasts: U-SH 405
- Pages of History: T-10, the last Soviet Heavy tank
- Challenge: Katyusha vs MBTs
- Hotline: which American tank research next: M6A1, M18 GMC or M4A3E2 Jumbo, is there a way to invert the pitch control when flying, does the sun generate heat to trick IR-guided missiles, how to get the camera to follow the bomb, what happens if an SPAA shoots the nuke while it is in the air.
- Metal Beasts: Fw 190 F-8
- Pages of History: surviving North of the Arctic Circle
- Round Study: 105 mm discarding sabot rounds
- Hotline: what is the best airplane to research between the Bf 109 F-4 and the Fw 190 A-4, why the M1128 doesn't have the scouting feature like the ROMOR and Type 16, what is the best rank 5 attack aircraft for the US to use in mixed ground battles, what is the tank that can hold the most shells.
- Metal Beasts: Tortoise
- Pages of History: T-72
- Triathlon: Hydrofoil boats
- Hotline: how to play with the M1A2, can you still fly a plane the same when one of the two pilots gets shot, are there any plans for adding or updating top-tier ground forces for Japan, which tank has the longest gun in the game, fastest plane or slowest missile: which would win.
- Metal Beasts: Yak-9B
- Pages of History: Super Corsair
- Map Guide: Berlin
- Hotline: why don't aircraft of the MiG family have even numbers, can you overpenetrate a tank wreck to kill a tank that is taking cover behind it, how to play the IS-6 effectively, what are the MiG series of planes good at.
- Metal Beasts: Char 25t
- Pages of History: Henschel's Tiger
- Special: blast overpressure - updated HE rounds
- Hotline: why does the Breda 88 (P.XI) have a bomber sight window but no bomber sight, what is the IR spotlight and how to use it, how to get aerobatic smoke for your aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: M.B.175T
- Pages of History: Sukhoi's firstborn jets, the Su-9 and Su-11
- Round Study: penetrating the Ferdinand
- Hotline: why can't you drop bombs above Mach 1, how can you see your ammo count in air battles, are the skins from WT Live visible to my teammates or enemies, what are the funny-looking wires on the nose of German attackers such as the Me 410 B-6/R3.
- Metal Beasts: M3A3 Bradley
- Pages of History: birth of the Leopard 2
- Triathlon: sub top-tier MBTs
- Hotline: how big a difference is there between different types of ammo used when playing as a fighter aircraft, climbing the ranks with helicopters, what is a good way to deal with both late propeller and early jet fighters in the A2D-1 Skyshark, are there any plans to make HE shells damage the enemy crew like in real life or at least stun them.
- Metal Beasts: Su-11
- Pages of History: Boris Kovzan, "Air Ramming Champion"
- Tactics & Strategy: playing the hills
- Hotline: is there any advantage having a double propeller similar to the Seafire FR 47, how to kill the Super Pershing from the front, how do I make my own skin, why is there a crew replenishment modification in 2-man tanks like the Shturm-S or the Khrizantema-S, how do you play the British AVRE in the best possible way.
- Metal Beasts: ZA-35
- Pages of History: M13/40, the workhorse of the Italian Army
- Round Study: comparing BR-471 B/D rounds
- Hotline: why is the Italian Vampire faster, what is the best way to play the F-86F-2, which navy do you recommend first, what is the difference between the AIM-9B and the AIM-9B FGW.2 on the German F-104G, what is a float-controlled carburetor.
- Metal Beasts: F-5A Freedom Fighter
- Pages of History: Bruce Carr
- Challenge: Auxiliary weapons
- Hotline: how do you fire a 37 mm cannon separately from a 20 mm cannon on a plane, why are the gunners on bombers so bad, why don't jet fighters have cannons over 30 mm calibre, what's the most effective way playing with the P40.
- Metal Beasts: Ikv 91-105
- Pages of History: Ratel 20, the South African Badger
- Map Guide: Ash River
- Hotline: what's the binocular icon in the lower left corner of the in-battle tank UI, why does the Challenger Mk.2 have a stock APFSDS shell with a better normal penetration than the researchable APFSDS shell, why planes don't like to pull negative Gs and which aircraft can pull the most negative Gs, can you use the nuke in Realistic Battles.
- Metal Beasts: Su-17M2
- Pages of History: SAAB-105
- Triathlon: reserve rank helicopters
- Hotline: what is the best tank to research between M60A2, M551 and T95E1, why some ground arcade battles allow more than one bomber or attacker in the air when it is normally limited to one, how to fire AGM missiles, how to create a custom battle to fight a 1-on-1 duel with a friend, can you destroy bombs using guns or cannons.
- Metal Beasts: Olifant Mk.2
- Pages of History: the desert Crusader
- Tactics and strategy: urban tank duels
- Hotline: how to play the T-55A, why did US pilots dislike the P-39 while Russian pilots loved it, does the Me 262 have underwing rockets, how squadron activity points are received, how to lock the turret in position while driving.
- Metal Beasts: Re.2005 serie 0
- Pages of History: Pe-8
- Challenge: unguided air-to-air rockets
- Hotline: what is the best playstyle for the Fw 190 series fighters, how to change team and enemy colours, what are good tactics for beginner tankers, how to get hexagonal camouflage for the Ho 229.
- Metal Beasts: Vickers MBT
- Pages of History: Chi-Ha and Chi-He
- Map Guide: Kuban (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: why was the Archer built with a backwards turret, how can you see your replays, what is the difference between inline and radial engines in piston planes and which one is superior, what is the Challenger 2 & (2F) playstyle.
- Metal Beasts: F8F-1B Bearcat
- Pages of History: Yak-38, the first Soviet production VTOL
- Triathlon: early jet fighters
- Hotline: what are some notable features of German bombers, how to play the F-104S, how to get to the mission editor, making a Cobra manoeuvre in an A-7D.
- Metal Beasts: ZSU-37-2
- Pages of History: StuG III
- Tactics and strategy: Assault in Tank Arcade
- Hotline: what is the best way to play the Super Pershing, why do most jets have spikes on their noses, why did Grunman naval aircraft have "cat" at the end of their name, what are early jets tactics.
- Metal Beasts: Buccanneer S.2
- Pages of History: a new old engine for the Fw 190
- Map Guide: Karelia
- Hotline: what is the maximum daily login reward you can receive, how to set the lock-on SAM missiles, how to know which engine is number 1, 2, 3 or 4 when in a bomber, does my aircraft become faster and lighter over time by consuming fuel and wasting ammo, slowest plane vs. fastest ground vehicle.
- Metal Beasts: ZTZ99
- Pages of History: M6A1, the first American heavy
- Triathlon: top battleships
- Hotline: which Ju 87 have the Stuka siren, what is the playstyle of each nation and which to pick as a new player, what is the gameplay style of the early P-51, what is the best early US jet, what is your favourite weird SPG.
- Metal Beasts: A-7D
- Pages of History: A.109EOA-2
- Tactics and strategy: Boom and Zoom
- Hotline: why most Soviet tanks have bad gun depression, which is the best heavy fighter to dogfight single-engine fighters, tips on how not to lose SL and end up grinding low ranks, what is the most effective way to lose speed when trying to land with VTOL aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: VFM5
- Pages of History: Chieftain, the Centurion's successor
- Map Guide: Sinai
- Hotline: how to change the color of the aerobatics smoke, are there airborne anti-ship missiles in the game, where to find the controls for guided bombs like the Fritz X.
- Metal Beasts: SK60B
- Pages of History: The birth of the Harrier
- Triathlon: Top piston engine fighters
- Hotline: how to set up wheel brakes for an aircraft when landing, what are the differences between the T-80U and the T-90A, which aircraft has the highest climb rate, what are the tactics and strategy for using early helicopters equipped with only unguided weapons and no ATGM.
2020
Episodes 181-232
- Metal Beasts 2020: landmark vehicles added to the game.
- War Thunder in 2020: game features introduced or improved.
- The weapons and ammo of 2020: new weapons introduced.
- Locations 2020: maps added this year.
- Hotline: which manoeuvres you should use when there's an enemy fighter behind you, how star shells work, what is the best non-premium German fighter at low BR, what is the purpose of the red paint of the submerged bottom part of ships, what is your favourite Swedish jet.
- Metal Beasts: T-90A
- Pages of History: ARL-44
- Challenge: Toss bombing
- Hotline: where do you send questions for the Hotline, which Phantom is the best in the game, how do you play the US T34 heavy tank, how does a VTOL plane land and hover like a helicopter, why did the later models of the Fw 190 stop using radial engines.
- Metal Beasts: Harrier GR.1
- Pages of History: Bf 109 in Swiss service
- Tactics and strategy: dogfights on top jets
- Hotline: how to configure the VTOL controls, why ammo can still explode even when it doesn't have explosive filler, smoke shells vs. smoke grenades, comparison of the T-72AV (TURMS-T) and the XM-1 (GM), why does the nose cone of some aircraft have spirals painted on them.
- Metal Beasts: Leopard 2A6
- Pages of History: Sturer Emil
- Map Guide: Abandoned Factory
- Hotline: why the body of Mil helicopters is constructed at an angle, how to change the height of the sight on the Strv 122B PLSS, how to switch to bomb tracking view, why planes are painted black on the nose, why there is a nuke in the game.
- Metal Beasts: MiG-21bis
- Pages of History: Old 666
- Triathlon: reserve destroyers
- Hotline: how to use the M60 effectively, ricochet table for tank rounds explained, how to turn off the flight instructor without using full real controls, why the bottom half of big ships is coloured red, which modern MBT is most fun to play.
- Metal Beasts: SMS Helgoland
- Pages of History: T-80 (Family)
- Special: capturing points on a VTOL aircraft
- Hotline: is the Su-7B or BKL worth the grind for ground battles or is the MiG-21SMT better, how to join a Dev server, what is the lowest BR jet fighter in-game, what is the best way to play the Kingcobra, what does the little grey circle represent in the bombsight view.
- Metal Beasts: M47 (105/55)
- Pages of History: the crazy battle of USS Lexington
- Tips and tricks: Assault air arcade
- Hotline: why are some jet engines angled downwards like the Jaguar or the Phantom, what is the plane with the biggest number of bombs, why do WW2 tanks have 5 crew members sitting apart while Cold war tanks have 4 crew members sitting close to one another, which MBT has the fastest reload, how do you use the Bullpup ATGM on an aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: Su-6
- Pages of History: Nb.Fz.
- Map Guide: Advance to the Rhine
- Hotline: what is the best way to play the T-35, why did allied planes have stripes on their wings, what is the best German ground attacker.
- Metal Beasts: TAM 2C
- Pages of History: hunting the Friedrich
- Triathlon: comparing early MBTs
- Hotline: what is the best way to use the FV4005, how does battle cruise control work for ATGM vehicles, how to use "schräge Musik", how to change the font size of the User Interface (UI).
- Metal Beasts: Lightning F.6
- Pages of History: USA heavy tanks
- Tactics and strategy: Manual engine controls
- Hotline: how to use the QF 3.7 Ram and the VFW in battle, which tanks have suspension controls, difference between fighters and interceptors, what is the purpose of the new game mechanic "LWR / laser warning receiver".
- Metal Beasts: Strv 104
- Pages of History: boats and fortresses
- Map Guide: Poland (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: how to lock a target, bushes in Arcade battles, which game mode is used by the Shooting Range, gun stabilizer on low-rank vehicles, slowest reload rate in-game.
- Metal Beasts: Jaguar A
- Pages of History: the story of two competing aces
- Triathlon: comparing medium tier SPAAGs
- Hotline: what the device on the back of the T-80U's turret is for, why the movie settings is not recommended for gameplay, why you can't take the Pe-8 as your first aircraft in Sim battles, what is the best strategy to play P-47D-25 or D-28.
- Metal Beasts: Chi-Ha LG
- Pages of History: Panzer III (Family)
- Tactics and strategy: Naval mines
- Hotline: how to play the M46, how to know which bombs will drop first: weapon selector, best rank IV and V German vehicles, most versatile piston fighter in-game, manual engine controls.
- Metal Beasts: ▃Merkava Mk.3D
- Pages of History: how the Swedish engineers changed their engines mid-flight, the J21 (Family)
- Map Guide: Normandy
- Hotline: how to play the Ju 87 G-1/G-2, how to display info like ammo count and engine temperature in Realistic Air Battles, why AIM-7 Sparrow missiles sometimes fail to track their target and self-destruct, comparison between P-51H-5-NA and Spitfire F Mk 24, how to play Soviet vehicles with little or no gun depression.
- Metal Beasts: BI
- Pages of History: the Trophy T-34s
- Triathlon: ATGM carriers
- Hotline: how to perform a Cobra manoeuvre, role of barrage balloons, tutorial for ASU-57, best Soviet rank 4 plane, how to use the weapon selector in aircraft.
- Metal Beasts: Somua SM
- Pages of History: the Swedish engineering miracle
- Tactics and strategy: defense manoeuvres in air duels
- Hotline: how radar-homing missiles work, does a shell lose penetration when shooting through a wall, best way to play British 6.7 tanks, how to play the P-38 Lightning, best rank IV or V US tank.
- Metal Beasts: T-72B3
- Pages of History: F11F-1 Tiger
- Special: Volumetric rounds
- Hotline: how to play the P-61C-1 in battles, difference between 0 seconds fuze and assaut fuze, how to prevent your plane from going back to horizontal flight path when switching to rear gunner view, what to do if you have very few Silver Lions
, how to tell if your tank can swim or not.
- Metal Beasts: AMX-13-M24
- Pages of History: M3 Grant
- Map Guide: Jungle
- Hotline: best way to use the Churchill Mk VII, why there are 2 pilots in the F-82E, best way to use heavy bombers in GF RB, tips and tricks for a player new to rank 5.
- Metal Beasts: Mirage IIIC
- Pages of History: P-61 Black Widow
- Air Triathlon: Biplanes
- Hotline: which gun has the fastest rate of fire in-game, why fires on Japanese planes can't be put out, which British plane has the highest speed, can the fastest plane catch the slowest missile, which tanks for Realistic Battles.
- Metal Beasts: M48 Super
- Pages of History: Drone Day
- Tactics and strategy: Air duels: attacker's position
- Hotline: in-game planes flying Mach 2.0 and above, which rank 3 British tanks research first, getting more SL in a squad, how to use the ballistic computer, slowest in-game tank and plane.
- Special: Operation S.U.M.M.E.R.
- Pages of History: Ta 152 H-1
- Triathlon: Top helicopters
- Hotline: what happens to the daily rewards if you don't log in everyday, how to play the Hs.129, what planes can be used in naval RB, how to play the Bf 109, purpose of the red and white stripes on the deck of Italian ships.
- Metal Beasts: Su-7B
- Pages of History: F-104 Starfighter
- Map Guide: Eastern Europe (Ground Forces)
- Hotline: who was Marge, the woman pictured on Richard Bong's P-38J-15, which German CAS planes fly in tank realistic battles, what are the advantages of a propeller fighter compared to a jet engine fighter, which plane car carry most guns, best ground vehicle for drifting.
- Metal Beasts: AMX-32
- Pages of History: Beaufighter
- Challenge: Destroying missiles with tanks cannons
- Tactics and strategy: Destroying missiles normally
- Hotline: how to use orders in-game, why some US planes have glossy camouflage, destroying a plane with a falling bomb, best rank 2 US fighter plane.
- Metal Beasts: T-69 II G
- Pages of History: T-50
- Air Triathlon: Top-tier fighter jets
- Hotline: why the NS-23 cannons on the IL-10 have less penetration than the VYa-23 cannons on IL-2s, which US ground vehicles play to grind the American tech tree, self-sealing tanks work, how to play with the T95, how to grind faster to reach top-tier jets?
- Metal Beasts: F3H-2 Demon
- Pages of History: M4A3E2 Jumbo
- Tactics and strategy: Playing on torpedo boats
- Hotline: best way to make silver lions and earn research points, tips and tricks for air-to-ground missiles, mid-air collision between a tank and a jet aircraft, adding a tank from the future, World War season 3.
- Metal Beasts: IL-2 M-82
- Pages of History: Battle of the Chinese Farm
- Tactics and strategy: Surviving on a fighter
- Hotline: tow cables and helicopters, damaging a jet engine by shooting through the air intake, angling armour, best German ground vehicle, destroying an helicopter by ramming it.
- Metal Beasts: M60 AMBT
- Pages of Alternative History: Battle for the Fulda Gap
- World War: Season 3
- Hotline: how vehicle sounds are recorded, Pz.Bef.Wg.VI P, are points curtailed when leaving a game early? playing as kamikaze, best climb rate among Soviet WW2 planes, FPS improvement with next-gen consoles.
- Metal Beasts: Scimitar F Mk.1
- Pages of History: Jagdpanzer 38(t)
- Challenge: Jumping as high as possible with the Type 93
- Hotline: guests on the Shooting Range, new secondary weapon selection menu, books of records for planes, "Nice shot!" voice order, how flares work in-game, new sound design.
- Metal Beasts: Strf 9056
- Pages of History: how Germany managed to create 2 Tigers at the same time
- Tactics and strategy: radars
- Hotline: multifunction menu for console players, rangefinders before the introduction of laser rangefinders, Japanese propeller plane with the best climb rate, full circle Cobra manoeuvre, killing tanks with WW2 rockets, British jet fighter Scimitar.
- Metal Beasts: HSTV-L
- Pages of History: Her Majesty's Red Army Men
- Tactics and strategy: high-precision weapons
- Hotline: why it is not possible to view replays from older versions, presets for keybinds, Italian armour, modeling your own tank with the CDK.
- Metal Beasts: F-104 Starfighter
- Pages of History: Mirage IIIC
- Special: meet the glorious Italian fleet
- Hotline: Shooting Range intro, ammo rack detonation for AP shots, dive bombing at the speed of sound, what determines the color of NVD sights?
- Metal Beasts: Rooikat 105
- Pages of History: KV-1 (L-11)
- Naval Triathlon: Heavy cruisers
- Hotline: why MGs on tanks and airplanes sound different, thrust vector jets, climbing the ranks with French planes, 200th episode.
Episode 200 (Shooting Range 2.1)
- Metal Beasts: Ka-52
- Pages of History: Curtiss SB2C Helldiver
- Challenge: Performing the Cobra
- Hotline: impact of Covid on Gaijin's work, banning maps in a squad of premium users, killing an enemy with smoke grenades or shells, autorotation for helicopters when losing the engine, guns with the best elevation.
- Metal Beasts: Strv 74
- Pages of History: Pearl Harbor 2
- Tactics and strategy: Using the MBT
- Hotline: how to aim with the MiG-15bis, hitting a torpedo with another torpedo, how to control the multiple engines of an aircraft separately.
- Metal Beasts: F-4E Phantom II & F-4EJ Phantom II
- Pages of History: Mysterious kinship
- Tips and tricks: bombing in mixed battles
- Hotline: YT channels to learn how to land on a carrier, new voice orders, turning off the helicopter turbine engine, boom and zoom, blood effects.
- Metal Beasts: CV 90120
- Pages of History: Saburo Sakai, 1 vs 15
- Tank triathlon: mid-tier medium tanks
- Hotline: using the landing flaps to land faster, killing a top tier MBT with a reserve tank, the tank with the slowest turret traverse speed
- Metal Beasts: A-4B
- Pages of History: the last voyage of HMS Edinburgh
- Challenge: Landing the biggest possible plane on an aircraft carrier
- Hotline: most armoured light tank in each tier, music of the show, timecodes for specific sections of the episode, multifunction menu
- Metal Beasts: J35D
- Pages of History: Ho 229
- Tank Triathlon: Wheels versus caterpillars
- Hotline: damaged from the backblast of a recoilless rifle, how to activate X-ray mode during battle (damaged modules overview), largest aircraft you can land on a carrier, running WT on minimal specs
- Metal Beasts: AML-90
- Pages of History: Strv m/42
- Challenge: climbing up some hills
- Hotline: customizable HUD, social distancing, multifunction menu, tutorials for newly introduced technology, working remotely during the quarantine
- Metal Beasts: Strv 122
- Pages of History: battle of Sunda Strait
- Tactics and strategy: assault ground arcade
- Hotline: the effect of modern missiles on gameplay, copyrighted music for the show, how to use mortars on ships, Gaijin's priorities, full barrel roll in a tank
- Metal Beasts: T-72B
- Pages of History: the first Swedish tanks
- Special: new multifunction menu
- Hotline: which game modes are best suited for new players, custom loadout vs. preset loadout, fuel options for ground vehicles
- Metal Beasts: Strv m/31
- Pages of History: Lightning F.6
- Map: Sweden
- Hotline: vehicle with the most polygons in the game, find out if your shot will penetrate with the Protection Analysis feature, bomber carrying the biggest explosive mass in WT, infantry not coming to the game
- Metal Beasts: IS-3
- Pages of History: Focused specialists vs universals, a comparison of tank design in Britain and Germany during WW2
- Tips and tricks: High-explosive rounds
- Hotline: BR decompression past 10.3, how tanks are modeled for the game
- Metal Beasts: G-Lynx
- Pages of History: Tokyo Express, how Japan used destroyers as resupply ships
- Tips and tricks: aircraft rockets
- Hotline: choosing target tanks in test drive, why fuel tanks were placed next to the driver in modern tanks, damage model of commander optics, fastest Soviet ground vehicle, how answered YT comments are selected
- Metal Beasts: Albatros
- Pages of History: George Beurling, Canadian ace pilot in Malta (Part 2)
- Challenge: capturing points on a helicopter
- Hotline: the tank that was most difficult to model, cannon barrel collision with the environment, which in-game vehicle is the closest to its present day version, how to control air-to-ground missiles in RB GF
- Metal Beasts: T-44
- Pages of History: George Frederick "Screwball" Beurling (Part 1)
- Tips and tricks: Urban battles
- Hotline: tanks with fastest reverse speed
- Metal Beasts: Jagdpanther
- Pages of History: Re.2001
- Challenge: Planes racing against ATGMs
- Hotline: Swedish ground tree, how to put out a fire on a plane, how to turn off a helicopter engine
- World War: Attack from the sea
- Pages of History: Douglas Skyraider
- Tips and tricks: Fighting tanks on SPAAs
- Hotline: sliding bar for fuel options, upcoming plans for naval battles, how answered comments are selected, ammo racks detonation explained
- Metal Beasts: Admiral Graf Spee
- Pages of History: American tank diet: post-war US tank projects T41, T42 and T43
- Tactics and strategy: Using your SPAA radars efficiently
- Hotline: searchlights for ships, fastest biplane in the game, WW1 tanks
- Metal Beasts: J32B
- Pages of History: Mitsubishi G4M Betty, the "Flying Lighter"
- Tactics and strategy: Climbing in air battles
- Hotline: discount sales of premium vehicles, effect of a full fuel tank on your plane performance, are in-game bots named after War Thunder devs and team?
- Metal Beasts: SAV 20.12.48
- Pages of History: Hans Hahn, the fall of a German ace pilot
- Tactics and strategy: how to sink heavy cruisers
- Hotline: different sparkles for different ammo, how to use rockets on a plane, graphics card used to record the show, fastest piston engine aircraft in the game
- Metal Beasts: MiG-21SMT
- Pages of History: history of the Swedish aviation industry
- Map: New Zealand Cape
- Hotline: crushing vehicles with heavy tanks, formation lights for convoy night travel, damage from kamikaze attacks, tank fighting capability with only 1 remaining crew member
2019
Episodes 129-180
- Metal Beasts: Metal Beasts of 2019
- Tactics and strategy: War Thunder in 2019, game features introduced or improved.
- Map: Maps of 2019
- Hotline: does the graphics update profit every platform? how to climb faster in a plane, backblast of a recoilless rifle
- Metal Beasts: Rooikat Mk.1D
- Pages of History: Strv 103
- Special: the big graphics engine changes in Update 1.95
- Hotline: HDR in-game, operation the Strv 103 with only 1 crew member left, operation F.R.O.S.T.
- Metal Beasts: M56 Scorpion
- Pages of History: Mitsubishi J2M Raiden
- Tank triathlon: deadly tractors, comparison of half-tracks and trucks equipped with guns
- Hotline: easiest way to earn Silver Lions, can 2 shots collide mid-air? learning armour values on tanks
- Metal Beasts: Chi-Nu II
- Pages of History: James H. Howard, US ace pilot
- Tactics and strategy: Cannibal bombers, the bombers who can also intercept enemy bombers
- Hotline: which tank has the fastest hull turn time in the game
- Metal Beasts: Ariete PSO
- Pages of History: The Bristol Blenheim
- Tactics and strategy: Playing on mid-tier SPAA tech
- Hotline: highest reverse speed in the game, how recoilless guns work, first Soviet tank with neutral steering
- Metal Beasts: Vickers Mk.7
- Pages of History: how the French created their famous AMX-30
- Tank triathlon: reserve tanks
- Hotline: Gaijin's priorities between gameplay and historical accuracy, fastest way to grind the game, Swedish ground tech tree, in-game tank flight experiments
- Metal Beasts: Mi-28N
- Pages of History: the Schwalbe problem: too few, too late
- Tactics and strategy: tanks with recoilless weapons
- Hotline: shooting a cannon round through 2 aircraft, why aircraft wings rip and which manoeuvers to avoid
- Metal Beasts: ZTZ96
- Pages of History: Pyörremyrsky
- Tactics and strategy: Hunting on a helicopter
- Hotline: fastest tank in the game on- and off-road, difference between tank burnt down and hullbreak, upcoming Swedish planes
- Metal Beasts: Ka-50
- Pages of History: Saab J29 Tunnan
- Tactics and strategy: HEAT projectiles
- Hotline: naval gun scopes, separating propellers and jets, effect of fuel amount on flight performance, using knots to measure in-game speed
- Metal Beasts: Super Hellcat
- Pages of History: the ghost pilots from Biggin Hill
- Special: the scariest tanks
- Hotline: fastest projectile in the game, how penetration values are determined in-game, hullbreak explained, is the blast force modeled in-game?
- Metal Beasts: Type 75 SPH
- Pages of History: Operation Crusader, the first defeat of the invincible Rommel
- Map: Japanese port
- Hotline: learning how to aim with anti-air guns, how long it takes for a tank engine to cool down, difference between ammo rack detonation and ammo rack destroyed, controls for hydropneumatic suspension explained
- Metal Beasts: Admiral Hipper
- Pages of History: Joseph R. Beyrle, a captured US soldier that became a Soviet tanker
- Challenge: the most powerful bomb in the game
- Hotline: best piston engine aircraft for boom and zoom, materials used in composite armour
- Metal Beasts: SIDAM 25 (Mistral)
- Pages of History: wheeled tanks
- Tank triathlon: Top SPAAs
- Hotline: why night vision is green, where to find zoom controls in the interface, night vision mode for ASU-57, turning the engine off in low tier ground battles
- Metal Beasts: the French and German Eurocopter Tiger
- Pages of History: the yellow Focke-Wulf
- Challenge: toss bombing
- Hotline: difference between IAS and airspeed, engine battery countdown explained, turning your engine off to become invisible to thermal vision, comparison between night vision and thermal vision
- Metal Beasts: F-4C Phantom II
- Pages of History: Wirraway
- Tactics and strategy: night ground battles
- Hotline: is armour fatigue modeled in damage mechanics? factors determining the reload speed of a tank, at which tiers can you find night vision devices and thermal sights?
- Metal Beasts: MiG-21
- Pages of History: Night vision
- Tactics and strategy: Cargo Port map
- Hotline: how critical hits are defined, plane carrying the most bombs, why max plane speed is measured at an altitude and not at sea level, assign a key for the rangefinder
- Metal Beasts: Ta 154 A-1
- Pages of History: SB2C Helldiver
- Tactics and strategy: helicopter defence systems
- Hotline: going supersonic, effectiveness of AA gunners on ships, BM-13N Katyusha, zoom sensitivity in sniper mode
- Metal Beasts: HMS Southampton
- Pages of History: Fw 200, the airliner that went to war
- Tactics and strategy: Reload types: pros and cons
- Hotline: How tanks were transported to operation theatres, fuze delays on bombs, parameters influencing shell penetration, thickest conventional armour in the game
- Metal Beasts: Jagdpanzer 38(t)
- Pages of History: I-153, or the ShKas carnage!
- Tactics and strategy: Learning the way of the MRL
- Hotline: Maus removal, how IAS was measured during WW2 and Climbing the ranks with British aircraft
- Metal Beasts: A light tank with a very heavy gun BT-7 (F-32).
- Pages of History: The Soviet tank transmissions and their unique construction.
- Challenge: How many enemies can you destroy with a single shot?
- Hotline: Artillery, Aircraft with slats, Armour angle, Will Israel join the game? French tanks and rearview mirrors.
- Metal Beasts: The regular Yak with an unusual engine (Yak-3U).
- Pages of History: The Yom Kippur War and the hell it brought upon Sinai (October 4th, 1973).
- Tactics & Strategy: The right way to use the landscapes around you on tanks of different nations.
- Hotline: Decompress top-tier MBTs?, Climbing the ranks with Soviet tanks, Hydraulics in vehicles?,Shooting tank barrels, Do heat seeking missiles lose target lock if the target turns off its engine?
- Metal Beasts: The pros and cons of the French Sabre (F-86K).
- Pages of History: Michel Vernisse and his outside the box thinking.
- Tactics and Strategy: Top 10 useful advice for tankers.
- Hotline: Tank snorkel, single-shot kills, climbing the ranks with British aeroplanes, tank shell characteristics
- Metal Beasts: A2D-1
- Pages of History: Shoichi Sugita, Japanese ace pilot
- Tank triathlon: top MBTs
- Hotline: how to look around in a tank without having to turn the turret, exhaust of helicopter turboshaft engines, requirements needed for a vehicle to be added to the game, how to determine the optimal climbing angle of an aircraft, is the weight of a vehicle affected by the quantity of ammo onboard?
- Metal Beasts: AH-1S Kisarazu
- Pages of History: Yak-1
- Tactics and strategy: how to deal with heavily-armoured opponents
- Hotline: wood-steel equivalency on HEAT projectiles due to Munroe effect, best belts for dogfighting
- Metal Beasts: Type 16
- Pages of History: H-34 (France)
- Tactics and strategy: gameplay effects of different types of terrain
- Hotline: fire extinguishers for bombers, Ho-Ro accessories, Marcel Bloch's flying hospital
- Metal Beasts: Hunter F.6
- Pages of History: Kelly Johnson’s P-38 Lightning
- Triathlon: Twin-engine fighters
- Hotline: explanation of the term SPG (self-propelled gun), killing a tank by shooting the ground beneath him, turning off your stabilizer, are the penetration values increased by the velocity of an aircraft?
- Metal Beasts: Shturm-S
- Pages of History: Marcel Bloch, a humanist with a vision
- Challenge: death defying stunts on a... heavy bomber!
- Hotline: in which game modes Shooting Range clips are recorded, why modern tanks have been added recently, how to access the wiki from the game
- Metal Beasts: AMX-30 Super
- Pages of History: the Japanese Zero, a miracle of engineering
- Tactics and strategy: SPGs of different nations, and how to play them
- Hotline: why some planes do not have combat flaps, BMP-1's water deflections shield explained, how much explosive is needed to cut off a plane's wing, Pages of History for more recent conflicts
- Metal Beasts: Ariete
- Pages of History: J5N1
- Tactics and strategy: flaps explained
- Hotline: how the section Pages of History of the show is created
- Metal Beasts: Stormer HVM
- Pages of History: the Battle for Caen
- Tactics and strategy: naval triathlon
- Hotline: marks on the horizontal axis of a tank's scope explained, realistic sound of speed for distance explosions, what Gaijin would add to the game if it wasn't for technical limitations
- Metal Beasts: PG 02
- Pages of History: SRAAM
- Tactics and strategy: shooting down bombs, torpedoes and ATGMs
- Hotline: destroying a missile or a bomb in the air, watching the show in 4K
- Metal Beasts: Leclerc
- Pages of History: Me 264
- Tactics and strategy: playing on a heavy cruiser
- Hotline: how subjects for Pages of History are selected, realistic tank barrel collision with environment
- Metal Beasts: AMX-13 (Family)
- Pages of History: Tu-4
- Air triathlon: looking for the best fighter
- Hotline: how to get into custom battles
- World War: what you need to know
- Tactics and strategy: World War game modes
- Pages of History: The Battle of Vitebsk
- Hotline: learning how to shoot on the move, textolite explained, what happens if Gaijin runs out of vehicles to add to the game, best tank in the game, effect of the amount of fuel on the plane's performance
- Metal Beasts: Challenger 2
- Pages of History: Alexander Milyukov, Soviet ace tanker
- Tactics and strategy: strategic bombers
- Hotline: music used in the War Thunder channel, landing a plane on a plane, bore evacuator on modern tanks cannon barrel
- Metal Beasts: Mi-35M
- Pages of History: Partisan of Minsk, how a lone T-28 defended the city
- Tactics and strategy: Gun stabilizers
- Hotline: open positions at Gaijin, how vehicle triathlons are performed
- Metal Beasts: Meteor F Mk.8 Reaper
- Pages of History: Colin Kelly, the “American Samurai”
- Tank Triathlon: the fastest tanks
- Hotline: earn Golden Eagles with wagers, where War Thunder devs find info to model vehicles in 3D, metal plates on the sides of the T-64A explained
- Special Event: Battlefield Engineer, a chance to obtain several unique vehicles!
- Metal Beasts: AH-1Z
- Pages of History: Joe Ekins, British ace tanker
- Hotline: meaning of "no armour is best armour", why speed of sound travel delay is not implemented in the game
- Metal Beasts: Mitsubishi T-2
- Pages of History: SUD Aviation Alouette
- Challenge: High-Altitude Bombing
- Hotline: historical accuracy vs battle rating, sharing your creations via WT Live, options for setting units metric or imperial, purpose of the wood log on Soviet tanks, Never in a Hurri
- Metal Beasts: P.7.T AA
- Pages of History: the peculiar diet of the Luftwaffe pilots
- A Gentleman’s Guide to Winning: Playing on Ground Vehicles
- Hotline: purpose of the wood log on Soviet tanks, April Fool's Day Event, bias against Royal Navy
- Metal Beasts: M1A1 Abrams
- Pages of History: American Shermans in Tunisia
- Tactics and strategy: playing on bigger ships (destroyer/cruiser)
- Hotline: how to escape from missile radar lock, radar detection of the Ho 229
- Metal Beasts: T-80U
- Map: Alaska
- Tactics and strategy: how to play with radar stations
- Hotline: climbing the ranks with a nation
- Metal Beasts: R3 T106 FA
- Pages of History: USS William D. Porter, the destroyer that almost killed a US president
- Challenge: what can you destroy with rockets?
- Hotline: Serbian localization, gun barrel as solid object, why some APCBC shells have a better penetration than some AP shots, why the Maus fights against post-WW2 tanks in-game, how to submit a video for the Thunder Show
- Metal Beasts: MiG-19PT
- Pages of History: Italian bombing of Gibraltar
- Tactics and strategy: a new method of armour penetration calculation for shells
- Hotline: increased penetration of a projectile when the target flies towards it
- Metal Beasts: Köln
- Pages of History: Ray Holmes and the first ever aerial ramming of WW2
- Tactics and strategy: reading the map
- Hotline: from which country Gaijin is, why Swastikas are not displayed in the game, community feedback and suggestions
- Metal Beasts: Panthers
- Pages of History: the Battle of Ushant (1944)
- Tank Triathlon: heavy SPGs
- Hotline: War Thunder cinematic trailers, correct pronunciation of Centauro, adding birds to the game
- Metal Beasts: Centauro
- Pages of History: Alexander Fadin, Soviet ace tanker who shot down a plane with a tank
- Challenge: depth charges
- Hotline: creating in-game content with CDK, fuel options for tanks, T-72A turret convoy IR light
- Metal Beasts: F-100D
- Pages of History: battles of Khalkhin Gol (1939), the first time fighter planes used rocket-powered projectiles
- Tank Triathlon: wheeled tanks
- Hotline: licensing issues for adding modern military vehicles and technology in the game, horns for tanks and ships, April's Fool plans
- Metal Beasts: T-72A
- Pages of History: Schweinfurt-Regensburg mission
- Tactics and strategy: sideslip shooting
- Hotline: how to defeat Tiger IIs
- Metal Beasts: OTOMATIC
- Pages of History: N.C.223.3
- Test Drive: tank triathlon with IFVs
- Hotline: supersonic fighters for Italy
Episode 130 (Shooting Range 2.0)
- Metal Beasts: Sho't Kal Dalet
- Pages of History: conquering the sound barrier
- Tactics and strategy: hull break
- Hotline: client stability has improved, supersonic fighters for Great Britain
- Metal Beasts: MiG-15bis ISH
- Pages of History: Centauro
- Pages of History: a Taiwanese Sidewinder
- Hotline: wind as a parameter in the game, map voting system, Nigel says goodbye
2018
Episodes 77-128
- Special: War Thunder in 2018
- Metal Beasts: M26 Pershing Ariete
- Special: Holiday Sale
- Hotline: Merkava, Player-controlled Aircraft Carriers, Submarines, World War mode
- Metal Beasts: Semovente 105/25 M43
- Pages of History: Origins of Air to Air guided missiles
- Map Guide: Vietnam Hills
- Hotline: British helicopters, Italian tanks, supersonic planes
- Metal Beasts: AMX-50 Surbaissé
- Pages of History: M3 Bradley
- Tactics and strategy: Shooting over covers
- Hotline: Planes with high calibre guns, subs and missiles in naval battles, Thunder Stories: Never in a Hurri, vehicle lighting
- Metal Beasts: PGH-2
- Pages of History: Semovente 105/25 M43
- Tactics and strategy: Using your suspension while aiming
- Hotline: Bruce voicing tank commander, plans for 2019, Chaffee
- War Machines: Griffons
- Pages of History: Attack on Bari Harbor
- Tactics and strategy: Drum autoloaders
- Hotline: Bomber cockpits, armour customization, world war mode
- War Machines: Project 159
- Pages of History: TAM
- Challenge: Small bombs vs cruisers
- Hotline: 100 years since the Great War, Japanese naval tree
- War Machines: Dark FPB 1101
- Pages of History: F4U Corsair and The Football War
- Special: Getting used to air SB
- Hotline: New nations, when T-72, Vietnam as a map
- War Machines: Type 75 MLRS
- Pages of History: Otto Carius and the battle of Malinovo village
- War Machines: Ya-5M
- Hotline: Short stories, nukes, the black helicopter
- Special: New Vessel Damage Model
- Pages of History: Emden III
- Special: Switching from AB to RB in aviation battles
- Hotline: Customizable ammo belts, more countries (Sweden), P.1000 Ratte
- Pages of Terror: The Black Helicopter (staring M22 and Mi-24 in US markings)
- Dreaded Beasts: M1-IP
- Panic & Strategy: Destroying M1-IP
- Hotline: French/Italian planes, hint for American Desert, Russian Bias
- Metal Beasts: T-80B
- Pages of History: F4F Wildcat
- Map Guide: American Desert
- Hotline: Criteria for including aircraft, German helicopters
- Metal Beasts: Leopard A1A1 (L/44)
- Pages of History: Sukhoi Su-6
- Challenge: Small bombs vs top tanks
- Hotline: Requests to changes to SB
- Metal Beasts: FV510 Warrior
- Tactics and strategy: Dealing with intel in ground battles
- Pages of History: Me.163
- Hotline: Parts & FPE
- War Machines: T54E1
- Pages of History: I-225
- Tactics and strategy: Angling 2.0 (continuation of episode 19)
- Hotline: French medals, Italian Tanks, removed decals and African tech tree
- War Machines: Mi-24D
- War Machines: UH-1C XM-30
- Pages of History: Lafayette G. Pool, US tank ace
- Hotline: 400K YT subscribers, markings on Ju 87 bombs and EC Helicopters.
- War Machines: FJ-4B VMF-232
- Pages of History: Mi-4AV
- War Machines: Sd.Kfz.234/3
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Japanese tech tree, Missing bomb/rocket loadouts, Multi-nation tech trees, He 111.
- Special: Multi-Turreted Tanks
- War Machines: IL-28Sh
- Pages of History: MO-4
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Partnering with tank collectors, Otto Carius, Modern Day Tanks (Armata).
- Special: ATGM vehicles
- War Machines: C.205N2
- Pages of History: Alexandra Boiko, Soviet tank commander
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Answer more questions in hotline, British Helicopters, Shell prices.
- Pages of History: UH-1 Huey
- Pages of History: AH-1 Cobra
- Pages of History: Mi-24
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Swastika, Italian Tanks, Bf 109 & Bf 110.
- Metal Beasts: IS-7
- Pages of History: Ar-2
- Tactics & Strategy: Fritz-X
- Hotline: Special video for questions, DMM events, Hotline answers, submarines.
- Metal Beasts: Conqueror Mk.2
- Pages of History: G.56
- Tactics & Strategy: Heavy Calibre Weapons
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Playable infantry, Release date for Italian tanks.
- Metal Beasts: Type 90
- Pages of History: IS-7
- Tactics & Strategy: Glass Cannons
- Hotline: Special video for questions, SMK history, Gaijin financial situation, working anchors for ships.
- Metal Beasts: 89 ft PT-810
- Pages of History: XM-803
- Tactics & Strategy: Playing Aircraft In Naval Battles
- Hotline: Special video for questions, IS-7 Gameplay, Episode about M24 Chaffee, Girls und Panzer decals, chat bug.
- Metal Beasts: Chieftain Marksman
- Pages of History: Z-21 Wilhelm Heidkamp
- Map Guide: Northern Port
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Battleships, Episode about Object 120, Dutch Planes, BT-42.
- Metal Beasts: Jaguar-Klasse (140)
- Pages of History: Arseniy Vorozheykin, Soviet ace pilot
- Metal Beasts: XM-803
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Tier 6 Jets, New Tech Tree, Optimize to run on weaker computers, adding Yugoslavia to the game.
- Special: #100 episodes (contest winners)
- Metal Beasts: T-62M-1
- Pages of History: Ki-32
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Swastikas, Object 279, Ju 87 C-1 (and more naval planes), F-84F-25.
- Metal Beasts: Z20 Karl Galster
- Pages of History: Cowell (DD-547)
- Special: The best Torpedo bombers for naval battles
- Hotline: Special video for questions, P-51 History, World War Mode Beta, Renault FT-17, Spaceships.
- Metal Beasts: Leopard 2A4
- Pages of History: Fritz-X
- Special: Bf 110
- Hotline: Special video for questions, T-72, Job at Gaijin, Michael Wittmann's Tiger 1, change ammo without firing shot.
- Special: The Shooting Range (the making of)
- Special: What lies ahead (plans for the future of the show)
- Special: The creative celebration (skin contest with IS-6 as a prize)
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Dogfighting tips, Free money, cup of tea decal.
- Metal Beasts: AMX-50 Foch
- Pages of History: IAR-80
- Tactics & Strategy: Heavy Fighters
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Helicopters, Xbox Edition, Italy captured planes, How to get on Dev Server.
- Metal Beasts: F4U-1A
- Pages of History: AMX-50
- Pages of History: P-40F
- Hotline: Special video for questions, future plans for German ground forces, armed jeeps, pronunciation of SNECMA.
- Metal Beasts: Gun Trucks
- Pages of History: Dassault Mystère II
- Special: Getting ready for the Type 90
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Australian vehicles, sponsorship, choose tracer colour.
- Metal Beasts: Lorraine 155 Mle.50
- Metal Beasts: T18E2 "Boarhound"
- Pages of History: F3F-2
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Bf 109 series, what comes after modern tanks, GDR vehicles for German tree.
- Metal Beasts: Spitfires, pt. 2 - Rank IV
- Pages of History: IS-4M
- Pages of History: Do.217N
- Hotline: Special video for questions, More wheeled ground vehicles, WWI and early WWII vehicles, Fritz X glide bomb.
- Metal Beasts: Leopard 2K
- Pages of History: M1 Abrams
- Pages of History: Tandem MAI
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Problem with Rank 6 aircraft, More Leopards, Two step authentication and Steam for market place.
- Metal Beasts: Martin-Baker MB.5
- Pages of History: PV-2D Harpoon
- Special: WW2 Chronicles
- Hotline: Special video for questions, M60A1 APFSDS, Air to Air Missiles, Special event for world cup.
- Metal Beasts: Spitfires, pt. 1 - Ranks II & III
- Pages of History: S.81
- Tactics & Strategy: How to play the Tiger E
- Hotline: Special video for questions, T-72, stop adding vehicles and fix the game, Shooting Range on Thursday instead of Sunday.
- Metal Beasts: Magach 3
- Pages of History: P-36
- Tactics & Strategy: The Best SPAA Vehicles
- Hotline: Special video for questions, BT-42, not using the market place, Flying Pancake.
- Metal Beasts: T-64B
- Pages of History: La-200
- Special: War Thunder Marketplace
- Hotline: Special video for questions, how long to make a Shooting Range script, Swiss Army, How to make user made model.
- Metal Beasts: KV-6 Behemoth
- Special: Happy Birthday, RAF!
- Special: The legends of War Thunder
- Hotline: Special video for questions, M1 Abrams announcement, Axis subnations, Cadillac Gage Commando V-150, Russians.
- Metal Beasts: M1 Abrams
- Pages of History: The Soviet MBTs (T-64, T-72 & T-80)
- Pages of History: Heinkel He 177 Greif
- Hotline: Special video for questions, New Jets, Custom Ammo Belts, More French Tanks.
- Metal Beasts: Challenger 1
- Pages of History: Re.2000
- Special: New Visual Effects
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Turning tank engines off / on, More stories about Axis forces, Banned account.
- War Machines: ARL-44
- Pages of History: Vasiliy Golubief, Soviet ace pilot
- Pages of History: Women in the Royal Air Force
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Classified Armour Values, World War Mode, BT-42.
- War Machines: A30 Challenger
- Pages of History: FCM.36
- Pages of History: Vampire FB 5
- Hotline: Special video for questions, shooting down ATGMs, Italian tanks / Reggiane planes, disappearing decals, New gamemodes.
- War Machines: T-34
- Pages of History: T20
- Pages of History: Hampden TB Mk.1
- Hotline: Special video for questions, French Ships, F4 Phantom, Ocean Map.
- War Machines: AMX-30B2
- Pages of History: The last King Tigers
- Pages of History: Douglas A-26 Invader
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Single Player tank campaign, Aircraft Carriers in naval battles, British light tank line.
- Tactics & Strategy: MiG-17 vs. ground forces
- Pages of History: Ki-94-II
- Map Guide: Maginot Line
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Tiger II history, Improvements to damage in test flights, World War Mode Release.
- War Machines: F3D-1
- Pages of History: Panzer 1
- Pages of History: Westland Whirlwind
- Hotline: Special video for questions, War Thunder Xbox One X ETA, Me-410 History, More german planes.
- War Machines: AEC Mk.II
- Special: Active scouting
- Pages of History: Hotchkiss H35
- Hotline: Special video for questions, War Thunder Nintendo switch, History of Vampire FB 5, Error in previous episode.
- War Machines: Lorraine 40t
- Pages of History: Somua S35
- Map Guide: Middle East
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Italian Tanks / Reggiane Planes, Modern Tanks, International Tech Tree.
- War Machines: M4A1 (FL10)
- Pages of History: One-Man Turrets
- Pages of History: MC.205N
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Italian Tanks, When ships will be in OBT, FuldaMap Size.
2017
Episodes 26-76
- Special: War Thunder in 2017
- Special: Holiday Etiquette
- Special: Christmas Events
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Button for backflips, What comment was number 402, how many kg of baguettes french bombers carry.
- Metal Beasts: B1 ter
- Pages of History: Char B1 bis and B1 ter
- Pages of History: Nakajima Ki-44
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Soviet Hurricanes, G.91Y, Experimental Soviet Fighters.
- Metal Beasts: Waffenträger
- Pages of History: Char B1
- Pages of History: That mimic Hurriton
- Hotline: Special video for questions, History of the Vampire FB.5, More He-162 versions, Blackburn Buccaneer.
- Metal Beasts: Begleitpanzer 57
- Pages of History: Forward Swept Wings
- Pages of History: Yak-3 and the Nomandie-Niemen Regiment
- Hotline: Special video for questions, cross platform gaming, He-177, Replays.
- Metal Beasts: S.O.8000 Narval
- Pages of History: IS-2
- Pages of History: Arsenal VG.33
- Hotline: Special video for questions, French Tanks, BA-3 & BA-6, KV-6.
- Metal Beasts: N.C.223.3
- Pages of History: Vultee A-35
- Metal Beasts: Fiat P40 "Leoncello"
- Hotline: Special video for questions, More heavy bombers, B-26, Lowe.
- Metal Beasts: S.O.4050 Vautour IIA
- Special: VB.10-02 vs. P-47N-15
- Pages of History: Dassault MD.450B Ouragan
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Tier 6 Japanese Tanks, Sturmtiger, Object 279.
- War Machines: D.371 H.S.9
- Special: French Planes
- Pages of History: S.O.4050 Vautour II
- Hotline: Special video for questions, IFVs and Scout Vehicles, Attack Helicopters, Is it boring to read the comments, Where is footage from.
- Pages of History: Ferdinand Porsche
- Pages of History: Porsche's projects during WW2
- Pages of History: Maus
- Hotline: Special video for questions, A-10 Warthog, Ju-287, French Decals, War thunder on Xbox One.
- War Machines: He 100 D-1
- Pages of History: Caudron CR.714
- Special: New Battle Ratings
- Hotline: Special video for questions, French Tanks, Swedish Tech Tree, Rank 6 Aircraft.
- Special: The French are coming!
- Pages of History: D.371
- Pages of History: S.O.8000 Narval
- Hotline: Special video for questions, M-51 Super Sherman, Panzer 2 L "Luchs", Custom Tanks.
- Pages of History: T-64 (and Soviet MBT development)
- War Machines: Do.335B-2
- Pages of History: Mitsubishi A5M
- Hotline: Special video for questions, MiG-19, More WW2 Vehicles, More air bombing targets.
- War Machines: T114
- Pages of History: Heinz Knoke
- Special: Wagers
- Hotline: Special video for questions, Cold War Matchmaking, Calculations per second, Easter eggs.
- Pages of History: Leopard
- War Machines: BMP-1
- Pages of History: Hornet
- Hotline: AP vs HE bombs, Rank VI naval forces, Tank single missions, 5 million GE.
- Metal beasts: Object 120 "Taran"
- Special: The Update 1.71
- Map Guide: Emperor's Garden & Fulda Gap
- Hotline: Number of players per team, B-36 bomber, US M8 Greyhound armoured car, fps limit.
- Special: Preparing for the new tanks
- Pages of History: Richard P. Stevens
- Pages of History: IS-1
- Hotline: Rank VI tanks for nations, free-to-play game, A-36 HVAR rockets, host's name.
- Metal beasts: Ki-94-II
- Special: Rank 6 Armoured Vehicles
- Pages of History: J7W1
- Hotline: Rank VI aircraft, mixed RB maps, 1.71 update release, Quidditch gamemode
- Pages of History: The Soviet Shermans
- Special: User-made Missions
- Pages of History: P-43A-1 Lancer
- Hotline: Horton 18, armoured cars, KV-2 reloads, combined arms game mode.
- Tactics & Strategy: MTB vs Destroyer
- Pages of History: The 3rd of November, 1943
- Metal beasts: Sd.Kfz.234/4
- Hotline: More British planes, submarines, aircraft carriers; events against the dev team, Super Saian modes.
- War Machines: 29-K
- Special: Operation S.U.M.M.E.R.
- Pages of History: The two turrets of the "King Tiger"
- Hotline: Fairey Gannet, AI planes in test flights, More wheeled tanks, Stalinium.
- Tactics & Strategy: Crash Course: Italian Planes
- Pages of History: The low profile of the T-44
- Pages of History: Swordfish
- Hotline: Long-range bombers for Germany, Ilyushin IL-40, Zeppelins, Shenanigans!
- Metal beasts: Spähpanzer Ru 251
- Pages of History: Bell P-39 Airacobra
- Challenge: Racing on a Jet Bomber
- Hotline: B-29 nuclear armament, bigger ships, and Gaijin's name in Japanese.
- Special: Playing the World War mode.
- Metal beasts: IJN Yugumo
- Pages of History: German Half-Tracks
- Hotline: Italian ground forces, dead bomber mates, E-Sports, and show name origin.
- Tactics & Strategy: Fletcher-class DD.
- Pages of History: Bf 110
- Pages of History: Aichi D3A
- Hotline: Terrain effect on tanks, artillery vehicles, Blenheims, and bargaining.
- Special: A Gentleman's Guide to Winning III
- Metal beasts: 152mm Gun Tank M60A2 <<Starship>>.
- Pages of History: Consolidated PBY Catalina
- Hotline: British vs Royal Army, handling real tanks, Italian jets, the M41 Walker Bulldog, and camouflage on PT boats.
- Special: B-29 & Tu-4
- Pages of History: Churchill Mk.III-VII
- Pages of History: The Tu-2 and Polikarpov
- Hotline: 4 questions, French error, smoke round lethality, Deus Vult.
- Special: War Thunder Veterans Club
- Hotline: Special Q&A with Kirill Yudintsev, Creative Director of Gaijin Entertainment.
- Special: World War Q&A
- Pages of History: KV-1S
- Pages of History: MC.205V
- Hotline: Pilot models, sniper rifles, Italian tanks, 2-OP PO-2, 1 year anniversary.
- Special: A Gentleman's Guide to Winning II
- Metal beasts: P.108A
- Pages of History: Ki-10
- Hotline: Ammo weight, naval forces, office tour, French tree.
- Special: How to Flak
- Metal beasts: BM-13N "Katyusha"
- Pages of History: Hawker Hunter
- Hotline: Rank 5 smoke, multinational tree, Italian white flag, I like trains.
- Special: Update 1.69
- Metal beasts: T-55A
- Pages of History: G.91
- Hotline: All-vehicle events, bomber repairs, spoiling the community, human writer.
- Special: Introducing the Italian Aviation
- Pages of History: CR.32
- Pages of History: G.55S
- Hotline: Model creation, X-ray cam for planes, airfield loadout changes, most played song.
- Metal beasts: P-63A-5 Kingcobra
- Special: [tss.warthunder.com]
- Special: User-made Missions III
- Hotline: Program language, underdog trees, assault mode difficulty, robbery, stupid questions.
- Tactics & Strategy: A Gentleman's Guide to Winning
- Pages of History: Ki-61
- Special: User-made Missions II
- Hotline: VE Day, bomber gunner FPS, cruisers & destroyers, international tree, did you read this?
- Tactics & Strategy: Flying with a Single Flap
- Pages of History: Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill
- Pages of History: Yak-3T
- Hotline: Destroyers & cruisers, Soviet Rank II stabilization, Type 60 ATM issue, and pancakes.
- Special: Stabilized Shermans
- Pages of History: Fw 190 D-13
- Special: User-made Camouflages III
- Hotline: More AF maps, replay system, ground assault, Thunder League.
- Special: Air Assault
- Metal beasts: Sturmpanzer II
- Pages of History: Gloster Gladiator
- Hotline: Tanker profile pictures, Fairey Gannet, ramming ships.
- Pages of History: N1K1-Ja Shiden
- Special: How do Tanks Steer
- Special: The Weirdest British Vehicles
- Hotline: Hull machine gun, armoured trains, and tank smokes.
- Metal beasts: XF5U-1
- Pages of History: Eisen Kaputt
- Metal beasts: Project Bigfoot
- Hotline: Submarines, World War I vehicles, flying tanks, and Lowes.
- Metal beasts: IS-6
- Special: Gun Stabilizers
- Map Guide: Guiana Highlands
- Hotline: Single-player missions, British APHE, 3D modeling references, and the P1000 Ratte.
- Tactics & Strategy: Heavy Fighters
- Pages of History: T29
- Pages of History: Ju.87 Stuka
- Hotline: Professional E-Sports, mobile release, and test ranges.
- Metal beasts: Super Pershing
- Pages of History: Women Pilots
- Special: User-made Camouflages II
- Hotline: Italian armour, engineer vehicles, radars, and the Kugelpanzer.
- Tactics & Strategy: Fighting more manoeuvrable enemies
- Pages of History: Pz.Kpfw.V Panther
- Challenge: Fighting AA Guns on Their Turf
- Hotline: More RB maps, O-I heavy tank, sandbag armour, and BR change satisfaction.
- Metal Beasts: Flugabwehrkanonenpanzer Gepard
- Pages of History: SB-2
- Special: User-made Camouflages
- Hotline: Reporting process, skip bombing, Japanese tanks, and game experience.
- Tactics & Strategy: Working in Tandem II
- Special: The Best Medium Tank at Around BR 5.0
- Special: Soviet Modifications
- Hotline: More tank skins, Free non-Rank I premium vehicle, Ka-Mi amphibious capabilities, and War Thunder mechanics.
- Tactics & Strategy: Working in Tandem
- Pages of History: Heinkel He 100
- Metal Beasts: Vickers A1E1 Independent
- Hotline: Armoured cars, new Chieftain, meaning of "bis", and a face reveal.
- Special: "Convoy"
- Metal Beasts: MZ1 & the Project 122bis
- Pages of History: Lockheed Super Electra/Hudson
- Hotline: Japanese heavy tank, future of Japanese ground forces, PS VR support, and over-powered terrain.
- Special: RAAF Aircraft Set
- Special: Soviet Tank Camouflage
- Challenge: Shooting at a Plane From the Other Side of the Map.
- Hotline: Sonic booms, French armour, Churchill AVRE, and sushi.
- Metal Beasts: Object 906
- Pages of History: Sukhoi Su-2
- Map Guide: Abandoned Factory
- Hotline: Hydropneumatic suspension, ToG II, and 1/2 year anniversary of Shooting Range.
- Metal Beasts: Type 60
- Pages of History: Ki-43 & Itokawa Hideo
- Map Guide: 38th Parallel
- Hotline: Sound rework, plane ramming damage effect, and World War mode.
- Metal Beasts: Chi-Ri II
- Pages of History: 18th of August, 1919
- Pages of History: Focke-Wulf Ta 154
- Hotline: Time cursor in replay, ram kills, Japanese crew names, and first year experience.
2016
Episodes 1-25
- Pages of History: Douglas A-20 Havoc
- Special: Nose Art
- Challenge: Skip Bombing
- Hotline: Performances in old computers, bomber cockpit details, Naval closed beta test, and happy holidays!
- Special: Playing the World War Mode!
- Special: The Japanese are rolling out!
- Pages of History: Charlie Brown and Franz Stigler incident.
- Hotline: more detailed plane damage model.
- Special: A set for a Japanese ace.
- Metal Beasts: Heavy tank T29.
- Pages of History: Tempest Mk II and its engine.
- Hotline: naval forces release date, parasite fighters, French tanks, tank machine guns.
- Metal Beasts: RAM Mk.II (M4A5).
- Pages of History: TB-3.
- Special: The best top tier tank.
- Hotline: F6F-5N, Project 1124 rockets, depth charges.
- Special: The start of the naval pre-beta test.
- Special: Our fleet... so far!
- Pages of History: Exercise Tiger.
- Hotline: How does the CBT work?, Participating in the CBT after purchasing a pre-order pack, pre-order pack vessel receiving, PS4 support.
- Metal Beasts: Nakajima Ki-87.
- Special: The size of a tank crew.
- Challenge: Bringing a torpedo to a tank fight.
- Hotline: Jet flame visual effect, sights for SPAAs, Boulton Paul Defiant.
- Pages of History: CAC Boomerang.
- Tactics & Strategy: Finding angles for angling.
- Special: Best aircraft for SB.
- Hotline: B-26 Marauder, multi-crewed planes controlled by more than one player.
- Metal Beasts: M163 VADS.
- Pages of History: Focke-Wulf 190A.
- Challenge: Tank bowling.
- Hotline: Italian aircraft tree, lobby system for map choosing, Xbox One support.
- Tactics & Strategy: Spotting the enemy.
- Science of War: G-forces & G-LOC.
- Special: Earning silver.
- Hotline: Pilot models, Golden Eagles transfer, user skins in PS4.
- Metal Beasts: Blohm und Voss BV-238.
- Pages of History: F9F Panther & F-9 Cougar.
- Special: High calibre soviet bias set.
- Hotline: World War mode, flamethrowers, sound effects.
- Metal Beasts: Pz.II H.
- Pages of History: Japanese aircraft markings.
- Map Guide: Sinai.
- Hotline: IAR 80, camouflages for ships, F-100 Super Sabre, Gaijin logo.
- Tactics & Strategy: A few tips for air battles.
- Wooden Beasts: 8.8 cm FlaK 37 (sf.) auf s. Zgkw. 18t.
- Pages of History: Kikka and Schwalbe.
- Hotline: Japanese tanks, reloading animations, PS VR.
- Metal Beasts: Mosquito FB Mk VI & Mosquito FB Mk XVIII
- Pages of History: Elco 80 ft PT-109
- Special: A vehicle set for an SP gun enthusiast
- Hotline: custom test drive missions.
- Tactics & Strategy: Flaps
- Science of War: Damage calculation
- Pages of History: the Douglas SBD Dauntless
- Hotline: aerobatics maps, CDK for Mac users, future armoured cars.
- Tactics & Strategy: Spin recovery
- Pages of History: Pr.1124 MLRS
- Challenge: Fighting the Maus with a reserve tank
- Hotline: Fokker G.1 and Westland Whirlwind, plane in test drive map for AA training, Avro Vulcan.
- Tactics & Strategy: How to land on an aircraft carrier.
- Science of war: All things armour
- Pages of History: Yak-15
- Hotline: premium jets, Saab 29 Tunnan.
- Tactics & Strategy: Turning Point
- Special: Losing a crew member
- Metal Beasts: The Bristol Beaufighter
- Hotline: All-vehicle mode, Canadian vehicles, Kamikaze in Naval Battles, Naval-counter aircraft, Wood chucks.
- Special: Naval Battles
- Pages of History: Bulkeley's Devil Boats
- Pages of History: St Nazaire Raid
- Hotline: Punishing Team-Killers, Night battles, Submarines, Update 1.61 speed.
- Metal Beasts: Ki-43-III Otsu
- Map Guide: Tunisia
- Pages of History: Fiat G.50
- Hotline: Italian defection, P-51H or P-51K, Tank lights, Bomb bay button, British Bias.
- Pages of History: Vickers Wellington
- Tactics & Strategy: Using Binoculars
- Challenge: Hunting aircraft with the T34 Calliope
- Hotline: Britain non-premium ATGM, Machine gun utility, WWII only matches, Later model corsairs, P-47 Razorback
- Tactics & Strategy: Dive Bombing
- Metal Beasts: Tiger II (H) Sla.16
- Map Guide: Frozen Pass
- Hotline: Dutch airplanes, adding the PTAB bomb, different sights for tanks, ammo weight, American Bias.
- Pages of History: Heinkel He 219 UHU
- Tactics & Strategy: How To Deal With Spawn Camping
- Map Guide: Battle of Hürtgen Forest
- Hotline: More British tanks, Focke-Wulf P VII (Flitzer), P59 Airacomet, Russian Bias.
- Special: The First ATGM-equipped tanks
- Pages of History: F2A Buffalo
- Map Guide: Port Novorossiysk
- Hotline: - Naval implementation, smoke launchers, External fuel tanks, the "Grand Slam Bomb" for the Lancaster.
- Tactics & Strategy: Flying controls with keyboard.
- Metal Beasts: P-61 Black Widow combat overview.
- Science of War: HESH shells in combat.
- Hotline: New sounds, the Canal Defense Light (CDL), and the Bf 109 Z.
- Tactics & Strategy: Tank duels, taking advantage of enemy weaknesses, mobility, and armour sloping.
- Science of War: Parallax error in third person view.
- Pages of History: F4U Corsair
- Hotline: Missile accuracy and balancing, huge maps, new German Tier V vehicles, and P-40B/C's.
Trivia
Format
- The show aired for the first time on 9 June 2016. Before the series aired, Gaijin released various informative videos online separately.
- The format of the show consists of 4 sections, 3 of which were from the following categories: War Machines, Metal Beasts, Pages of History, Tactics and strategy, Special, Science of War, Tips and tricks, Challenge, Map Guide or Tank triathlon while the 4th section always is the segment "Hotline".
- The current show (Shooting Range 2.0) started at episode 130. The main changes compared to the old format (episodes 1-129) are visual (graphics/audio/video quality).
- Video chapters and timestamp links were added from episode 262.
Voice-over
- Shawn voiced the show during its first year (episodes 1 to 51), as well as the original Thunder Show.
- Bruce was the main voice actor of the show from episode 52 to 303.
- Andrew (New Thunder Show) has voiced episodes 284, 285, 286, 304 and following episodes.
Thunder Stream: The Voices of War Thunder - War Thunder Official Channel
Special episodes
Special episodes
- Show anniversary
- Ep. 300: Longer intro thanking the player community
- Ep. 200: Shooting Range 2.1
- Ep. 150: Longer intro thanking the player community
- Ep. 100: Making-of & plans for the future of the show
- Ep. 50: War Thunder veterans club & Hotline with Kirill
- Bruce
- Ep. 233: Bruce appears on camera (Wishes for 2021)
- Ep. 232: Bruce appears on camera (Recap 2020)
- Ep. 180: Bruce appears on camera (Recap 2019)
- Ep. 175: Bruce's voice is broken
- Ep. 130: Bruce appears on camera (Shooting Range 2.0)
- Ep. 52: Bruce's 1st Shooting Range episode
- April Fool's
- Ep. 141: April Fool's Day 2019
- Ep. 89: April Fool's Day 2018
- Ep. 38: April Fool's Day 2017
- Year recap
- Ep. 335: Rewind 2022
- Ep. 284: Rewind 2021
- Ep. 232: Rewind 2020
- Ep. 180: Rewind 2019
- Ep. 128: Rewind 2018
- Ep. 76: Rewind 2017
- Ep. 24: Rewind 2016 (Christmas episode)
