A $70 pixel plane you should actually buy... | F-4S Phantom II

WARNING! Everything I say about the F-4S in this video holds true to this day, except for one thing... It is no longer the tier 7 premium that I would recommend for the US; buy the F-5C instead, since the F-5C was changed into a tier 7 premium.

I impulse bought this thing after going on a huge loss streak in the Mig-23M.

Honestly one of my best spending decisions yet. The bundled in premium time let me geind all the way up to about the F-100 in the tech tree, going from pretty much 0. That much grind in 2-3 weeks is not bad.

It's actually a great plane to learn radar combat on, as it doesn't have an overwhelming ammount of radar modes, just two, plus the ACM and HMD versions of both. It shows the differences of pulse and pulse doppler great, and I say it prepares a pilot for top tier combat leagues better than the F-5C can.

If you grind out the F-16/F-14 in your F-5C, without touching anything else, you'll have no god damn clue how the mor advanced weapon systems work and you'll end up resorting to the ol' reliable F-5 tactic of "hold elevator untill enemy in crosshair", which will get you killed at top tier

Il vaut le coup ?

had 80gaijij coins and bought f4s today, playing for 2 h and I'm very happy, watched this video and was with my friends on discord and in the second game i got 5 kills lmao, 2 F16 and 1 mig 29 and other f4s killed by me , those sparrow missiles on head on are OP, even had a few kills from 30km away lol

Watched your video and ended up getting the F4J(UK) love it but got to remember it’s really a bomber and not a true fighter

The F4s is a surprisingly good bomber so long as you know how to hide from enemies. Unlike other jets such as the F-14B or the F5c that have a great top speed and so can get a base before the enemy is ready to fight, the F4s is sluggish and much slower especially if running a full bomb payload and so it helps to know how to fly low, notch radar, and just avoid being spotted in the first place. I can get usually 2 basses before needing to rearm.

but the radar missiles suck now

I find it hilarious that an F-4 in War Thunder costs more than the F-4 in DCS. 🤣

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Idk man. That gunpod is for cowards that can’t use their missiles to their advantages. For real though, I don’t use it with the F-4C. Haven’t had any reason to use the gun. The gun is overrated. In fact people think they’re going to use it often. You aren’t. Just like irl, majority of the time that gun is useless, and your basically hurting yourself carrying deadweight.

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You have a relaxing voice

its 25 bucks in my country

So I just got this plane on Xbox and I’m running into a problem where in rb battles the Aim7F does not want to start locking onto a target that has already been radar locked. But this works just fine in the test drive. Is there any way to fix this?

What’s max range w missiles

Its worth it

Editing in this video go brrrrr, (meaning its fire)

Not even gonna watch the video after 46 seconds. The moment I hear ear rape audio I'm gone and no longer interested.

The mig is better for new players while the f4s is better for experianced players

I played before this plane came out and now I'm left with the av-8a😢

Me: Oh i've flown and countered the F-4J before, this thing should be easy to notch
Also the F-4S: gets a hit with a sparrow behind the mountain i just hid while flying 90 degrees perfectly near the ground.

Average DCS module price and there people say they are overpriced bruh

Imagine spending a single penny on war thunder

70 dollars😢 that ain't cheap

i got it but radar sucks

Five months later but iirc AIM-9H have better tracking rate.

You see... its $90

I doubt you'll respond but how do you use that free-look radar on console whenever I switch to it on the F4-S for me it just doesn't do anything

WarThunder Community in 2023:

"So the plane is s+&! but the missles are good! You should totally pay the amount of a full release AAA game on top of your subscription to grind out a ton of outdated trash tech tree planes you will never touch nor should you nor do you have a reason to since you bought this not-pay-to-win pay to win premium"

So to grind the aerial american tech tree, should I buy the F5E or the F4S ?

love it grinding the usa aviation tech tree is super fun with this either i bomb to chill or go fight others

As an experienced F4S pilot, I can confirm everything this man says is true💀

That headon strategy is so damn stupid... You're just going to get 7F/Md by F-14/16/otherF4S or even 27ERd by MiG-29s...

Other than IT ALWAYS GETS UPTEIRD

how do you see all of the premiums? i can only see a few. the most advanced one I can see is the A-4

My mans with that sector PPI radar

Lets be honest, unless you're Jeff Bezos, no premium is worth $70.00. Only when it's on sale then it's worth it.

The F4s can actually retain energy decently in shallow turns. But if you yank on that stick and pull the surface and leading edge flaps along with the Ailerons you stoppin.

Also people miss that you can radar Slave the AIM9H
Also yes it is worth it to fly without the gun pod. You really only run into situations where you need it when you don’t have it BECAUSE you are just flighty more maneuverable and quicker. So then you put it on and lose just enough of both to miss the opportunity to use it 90% of the time and just get slower for using it.

Its 90$ in Canada

if you guys are grinding with f4s for bombing take 11 1000lbs for two bases

wish Id watched this before I bought the A-6

For a second there, I thought I saw a colonial viper sticking out of that mach cloud.

u kinda forgot how hard air ab loves to downtier f4s

Super 530F missile is def better than the AIM7