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:''Map Guide:'' [[Ash River]]
 
:''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.
 
:''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.
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'''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTVTgZh5s74 Episode 245]'''
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:''Metal Beasts:'' [[F-5A (China)|F-5A Freedom Fighter]]
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:''Pages of History:'' Bruce Carr
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:''Challenge:'' Auxiliary weapons
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:''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]].
 
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Revision as of 17:12, 28 March 2021

The Shooting Range is a series of video produced by the War Thunder YouTube Community for the purpose of aiding the player base on certain aspects of the game such as game mechanics, pages of history, Q&A's, tactics, strategies, and more.

Summary

Before the series aired on June 9th, 2016, Gaijin releases various of informative videos online separately. "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 War Thunder veterans.

The Shooting Range airs every Sunday at 04:00 PM GMT (noon in Eastern time).

Playlist for the whole series can be found here.

Videos

Latest videos

Latest three videos!

Video Summaries

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2018


2019


2020


2021


Trivia

Format

  • 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).

Voice-over

  • Bruce is the regular voice actor of the show since episode 52.
  • Shawn (Thunder Show) used to voice the show during its first year (episodes 1 to 51).

Special episodes