War Thunder - Typhoon Mk 1b, Tier 2-3 / Rank 2-3 Review

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Published on April 29, 2014 10:50:09 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CphNwyaNEC0

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War Thunder (2016)

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Review

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/// NOTICE : This video is intended for a "Mature Audience" only. \\\
In this War Thunder video tutorial, I fly and review the Hawker Typhoon Mk 1, Tier 2-3 / Rank 2-3 British Fighter / Fighter Bomber. Equipped with (12) 7.7 mm MG on the Mk la, or (4) 20mm cannons on the Mk lb, the Typhoon is a very stable firing platform and I fine it to be a very good aircraft for joystick users.
The Hawker Typhoon (Tiffy in RAF slang), was a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was designed to be a medium--high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.
The more modern design and all metal construction techniques of the Typhoon was a vast improvement over the metal, wood and canvas construction of the Hurricane .
Its service introduction in mid-1941 was plagued with problems and for several months the aircraft faced a doubtful future. When the Luftwaffe brought the formidable Focke-Wulf Fw 190 into service in 1941, the Typhoon was the only RAF fighter capable of catching it at low altitudes; as a result it secured a new role as a low-altitude interceptor.
By 1943, the RAF needed a ground attack fighter more than a "pure" fighter and the Typhoon was perfectly suited to the role. The powerful engine allowed the aircraft to carry a load of up to two 1,000 lb bombs, equal to the light bombers of only a few years earlier. From late 1942 the Typhoon was equipped with bombs and from late 1943 RP-3 ground attack rockets were added to its armory. Using these two weapons, the Typhoon became one of the Second World War's most successful ground-attack aircraft.
By the end of the war 3,317 Typhoons had been built. Hawker developed an improved version of the Typhoon, the Typhoon II but the differences between it and the Mk I were so great that it was effectively a different aircraft, thus it was renamed the Tempest. If you liked the Video, Please Subscribe and check out some of my other videos. Thanks for Watching. Angry

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