Best Boom & Zoom Fighters

Boom & Zoom is a very popular playstyle in Air Battles that any pilot is bound to experience sooner or later. A lightning-quick dive, a few well-placed shots... and the enemy gets to rethink their life choices on the way to the ground. Today we’re going to talk about the best fighters for Boom & Zoom tactics and suggest some picks for both veterans and absolute beginners.
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[@AllenLu]

PLEASE make online campaign that you can play with friends, like escorting bombers or intercepting. These game modes will become extremely popular trust me

[@thepakistanipotato]

Air assault?

[@CaptainLegionary]

Something more like the dynamic campaign or historical campaign you need to buy?

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

Or give us Air RB Enduring Confrontation. This way there would be AI Bomber formations and players flying in formation and hunting in packs would be viable.

[@AllenLu]

not air assault, all are real players and they switch side so everyone can be attacker or defender based on true history campaign.. but anyway they wont add it cuz it's gaijin

[@Reheheha-ln5wb]

They would be very cool

[@elitely6748]

Love these info filled videos very helpful for new players and current. Plus cinematics are always satisfying.

[@Disliker11]

These videos are useless

[@snowrider289]

You learn real quick when playing Germany lol

[@pepemak4297]

As a german main, i confirm i can read

[@Luger_P08]

you have to do it with Germany :)

[@petrikchamula1670]

​@@pepemak4297and also type!

[@pmthekillerr]

Ja

[@Boringhuman420]

Meanwhile tanks:

[@anthony7697]

1: unless you guys did something weird in game - the 30 mm gunpods on the G-14 impact performance less according to the modifications/secondary weapons screens 2: The 30 mm, while having less ammo and perhaps a little trickier to aim with different drop on a 3rd weapon type, are way more efficient at sending someone back to the hanger 3: The most important one - say 'they don't really impact performance', when the guy running a clean set up can run them down, out climb them, and out turn them. There's a reason even in reality modifications with the gunpods were viewed and used more with the idea of bomber destroyers because of the impacts it had on fighter vs fighter performance.

[@dinomillio]

USA: Boom & Zoom Japan: Zoom & Boom

[@doid3r4s]

Underrated joke!

[@anselmolima144]

P-47 is my true love in boom & Zoom.

[@Zealot2024]

Personally I love to use the Do 335 B-2 for booming and zooming. It's definitely more of a boomer than a zoomer, but it usually has just enough speed to do the job

[@vizender]

I would also have mentioned the French VB10s. They can dive to ridiculous speeds for their BRs, and can maintain those speeds and climb back up really easily

[@Jxles_cantshoot]

The F-84B is another great B&Z fighter but it’s a bit harder to obtain

[@yosef_tetro]

The S-199 Sakeen is a suprisingly amazing Boom-And-Zoomer at its Battle Rating, having ridiculously strong armament (but pretty medicore accuracy, especially for players like me, who got used to Soviet nose-mounted guns).

[@Skafreund91]

Just wanna mention the underrated french VB.10, especially in Air-Sim. Flight handles more like a Jet. Its basically a Hornet just 2 BRs lower, except the gorgeous climb rate.

[@thestarrun]

I personnally use the P38 L-0 with 2 gun pods (2 12.7mm guns each). It's not the best at its BR, and It's quite hard to use it properly when you don't have a lot of experience, I use it simply because It's my favorite airctaft from ww2.

[@King63Kobra]

I love the P-38s. Fast and punchy but still agile enough to keep up with lighter fighters if they aren't expecting it

[@thestarrun]

@@King63Kobra With the gun pods it's not very agile anymore. But yeah you can still escape some other fighters in a dive if you are in danger

[@draconon7072]

Will there ever be an update to the older test flights that add enemy planes to shoot down like in both high tier jet test flights and the test flights of the newer nations?

[@NoiseHunter-ux9vm]

In the Polish chat, activity froze, thanks to the moderator who gave the chat bans left and right, for example, biting comments about errors in the game, bravo, you are on the right track to make this game fall

[@SmolTeaKat]

Let’s go my favorite playing style!❤

[@katqcentertainment8754]

Boom and zoom is the best way to bring out the salt of any opponents

[@Mr_ADS]

Kinda sad that my baby the Ta-152H didn't get a mention here :'(

[@tianhaoju4634]

I think the RE.2005 is also a great B-Z fighter, granted that it is a decent turnfighter too however

[@hashteraksgage3281]

That plane is good at everything

[@elnewbie2611]

It lacks engine power, out of that, good on everything else.

[@aiden9252]

No love for the F4u 4b 4×20mm

[@RuseGuise]

Cool to see tips and tricks for aviation, I'm gonna be booming and zooming much more haha

[@niclasjohansson4333]

You should have included the Tempest instead of thr Typhoon.

[@A.G.798]

Die Kanonenportz der deutschen Me.109,hießen Waffen Gondeln! Mit je einer 20 mm. Maschinenkanone (MG 151/20)und 120-200 Schuss Munition. Die hier gezeigte Hornet sieht wie eine Mosquito aus ?

[@jop7574]

the f4d-1 is a great b&z fighter

[@hansrudi7595]

My personal favorite will always be the Bf110 G-2. Only need one barrage and the enemy burns, and if i get targeted, i can just outrun them.

[@zen-spoon608]

The Ki-44 II Hei is a whole lot worse than the Ki-44 II Otsu, once you consider the Otsu is 0.7 BR lower just because it has weaker fire power.

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

pretty sure the ki 44 hei has a stronger engine

[@zen-spoon608]

@@theoneandonlyartyom Identical engines. You're likely thinking of the Ki-44 I which uses the Ha-41 powerplant, but the II Otsu and II Hei are both updated models with the Nakajima Ha-109 engine.

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

@@zen-spoon608 true mb

[@floatingcereal4874]

why talk about the P-51 in boom and zoom when theres the P-47

[@NathanielNerquaye-Tetteh-uz2nf]

I wish I could research these planes but I don’t have the time good video though👍

[@fangorn9368]

i love b&z in J2M2

[@hellothere753]

love your vids

[@methcooker6402]

And I thought this would be another short meme💀 but nice video

[@j_tha_panther]

Unfortunate that the “zoom” part doesn’t outrun bullets

[@mxy-7ohka413]

While we're at BnZ planes : Can you give the J7W it's airspawn ? Geez, it's an interceptor and it got an average climb rate. Give it something good to work with.

[@Todo592]

My friend, the J7 is not russian or german so…

[@mxy-7ohka413]

​@@Todo592You're right. I forgot that detail.

[@mr.markit5606]

All these awesome planes and then there's me: stuck in the P-36 G. It's technically a boom and zoomer. Still, much, much pain.

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

1:17 also I love how you even in the cinematic polished stuff you publish don´t even bother to gloss over the bad hit reg.. second aircraft doesnt get hit once and still goes up in flames 11/10

[@KolnBruck]

That is how it looks in the replay and spectating system.

[@liambell708]

Did you know that most bullets move fast and are hard to see? The plane was hit enough to catch fire, that is all that was needed.

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

@@liambell708 So you are telling me the tracer rounds fly like a couple of hundred meters per second slower then the other types of ammo in the belt? That would make sense.. but no. The velocity on all the different .50 cal round should be equal so it´s nonesense.

[@XimTraax]

​@@Fischbroetchen2kwdym regular bullets don't have trails that's the point of tracers😂. Also tracers burn magnesium if the tracers miss it's gonna keep burning as it goes nvr rely just on a tracer trail

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

@@XimTraax I´ve never said that, I said that the tracer rounds should have close to identical velocity to the non tracer rounds and thus making the statement of the guy before invalid. Why the hell would you use tracers when they have a different trajectory then normal rounds? Wouldn´t that defeat the purpose of tracer ammunition entirely? And if you hit nothing, it can´t ignite nothing.. of course it could ignite a vapor trail of fuel.. but an undamage aircraft won´t leak that amounts of fuel to be ignited. Except the SR-2 until a certain altitude and speed of course.

[@nebojsanesic5326]

It took years of playing to get enough gold to get an MB5! But it made a turny Boom'n'Zoomer and I've never regretted it!

[@bsinforoso]

Boom and Zoom is my life

[@Leon_der_Luftige]

The P47 is a lot better than a P51 at BnZ.

[@Cheesedip47]

I have also found out that the p47 is extremely good in head ons

[@carlosadonayguardadogaleas6150]

Some p47 takes too much time to get altitude 😅. Your team will be dead already most times.

[@Leon_der_Luftige]

@@carlosadonayguardadogaleas6150 not the P47M. The premium 47. The ultimate one.

[@carlosadonayguardadogaleas6150]

@@Leon_der_Luftige of course. I mean the normal ones

[@Leon_der_Luftige]

@@carlosadonayguardadogaleas6150 climb speed does not mean anything in terms of BnZ capabilities. Energy Retention does.

[@cadenreker]

When are you going to cover the I-185?

[@ops5161]

Q: What tactics do you recommend for the J22-B?

[@Someonethatyouysedtoknowlol]

Play It like a p51 mustang

[@apendragon53]

Best tactics for playing Swedish planes is not to play them

[@ops5161]

@@apendragon53 Why lmao??

[@Disliker11]

@@ops5161 bad flight performance

[@chary6095]

A6M5a is my B&Z choice.

[@Whyareyouhere-w7z]

hello. I am a fan of war thunder and I have one question: can you guys make it so that you can test flight also non researched planes? Because i want to fly (in test flight of course) planes like the Hs 129 B-3 of f-16 if yes or no, Then please tell me

[@ClevorBelmont]

Finally my P-51 got the spotlight it deserves.

[@TheSpi1]

Give me the air spawn in the Swedish a32 it’s almost useless

[@governor6594]

can you remove the automatic eject after getting your plane "killed" so that we can try and get back to the base to repair? the enemy can still get the kill rewards, but give us a change to get back into the fight.

[@DaisiesTC]

Thats just an arcade thing, in RB and SB you have to manually eject (unless your pilot dies).

[@scyobiempire4450]

That only happens in AAB, ARB and ASB don’t have it

[@aidanlouw4274]

I used War thunder wiki to become an ace in air realistic battles

[@Turloghan]

So what? Its like drobne steering, not more realistic fight in SB mode😏.

[@swizzzy4962]

I'm a German main, proud of it (AYO NOT FOR MUSTACHE MAN)

[@The_Bermuda_Nonagon]

Minengeschoss - all of our airplanes end up schnitzel. : (

[@swizzzy4962]

@@The_Bermuda_Nonagon :[... I WILL GET REVENGE ›:D

[@vicfufu8166]

Ta 152 c3, the great one

[@RiderRohanG]

Day 13: Please add the Defiant in the British tech tree at battle rating 2.0-2.7 not a premium please ik its not that great but i just want an intercepter at 2.0 to take out Bombers i mean like its just a fighter that can engage enemy bombers quiker which can help alot with te back guns you can take out bombers from 500m under the bomber so it will be a good bomber killer but is weak againtst fighters i think

[@HunterZTheLunatic]

Question: Will we get more Advanced ships like 60s 70s?

[@stefanrontu1518]

Q: hi . Wil you WT team do a console update so we can do the coll stuf wat PC can do ? Like dowlong a free skin or test drive a old vechicel like tisma or the ju 388 or the tb3 i tink the long range ww1 bomber for russia . And if not why ? You dont want it or is a cosol problem . Thx ( day 2 ask )

[@xivw01]

been waiting 3 years for that bf109 k14 to come to war thunder, the forum post said it developers are already workingon it and they closed it... still 3 years and nothing

[@hermanzhang6494]

Gaijin, please add vapour vorticies in the next update. Also please add the Chinese J-10(and also make a premium version).

[@The8bitsamuraiOFFICIAL]

Q: Could you redo the IFV TRIATHLON since there has been some major changes to IFVS in the last couple of weeks/months. Thanks DAY: idk

[@dougshelton69]

He said pull out...i never pull out...i just tell them that😅

[@qaterdargon4041]

Shoki my beloved

[@chimkinman1573]

What is the most effective climb angle

[@The_Bermuda_Nonagon]

D.371 H.S.9 - victimizing all those unsuspecting biplanes with two 20mm cannon. >:D

[@kiri101]

Please do something about the cheaters in Naval, getting focus fired by almost the entire enemy team at once is ridiculuous - there are literally entire squadrons of cheaters (127 players) for the benefit of a single real player running each of these cheating squadrons.

[@alex_4cj64]

i thought that adding gunpods does hinder the planes ability to turn 1:45

[@alexanderjones7769]

Well the point is to NOT turn

[@alex_4cj64]

@@alexanderjones7769 I know 😂 but it does lower the performance a lot doesn't it??

[@alexanderjones7769]

@ALEXTROD6963 the point is to not be in a situation where you need that extra performance

[@alex_4cj64]

@@alexanderjones7769 looks like you don't want to answer my question sir

[@ninpgmer8959]

@@alex_4cj64 Don't use gunpods on 109s period.

[@Werry_Rang]

Laughing in my P-47😂

[@battiatus1]

Why does the Tiger H1 have smoke grenade launchers on the hull but you can't use them and they get in the way of the turret traverse?

[@j_tha_panther]

If only enemies didn’t climb

[@dumpsterfire42]

Q when can we have the isu-152 in metal beasts?

[@SonamGyeltshen-kw8xi]

American plane are great boom and zoomer but they have a very horrible or average climbrate. German prop other hand has a beast of a climbrate like the 109 which has 3 20mm guns for g2 varient and above.( However they were nerf)

[@dr.luizvalerio1424]

in the game description yes, but when you join in the map to play... the things are different. much different! even the P47 D can outclimb anything in germany prop tech. ANYTHING. and perfom much better, has more power on engine and better guns and turn rate. Germany tree line is good in terms of history, but is very poor in terms of performance. the only planes there i really trust is the FW 190 A1 and A 4 and bf 109 G2 trop. and BF 190 F series. all others aircrafts, i am serious, ALL others, have no advatage.

[@OlsterM]

Q: Is there any difference between the "K" variants of soviet aircrafts/missiles??

[@Bf109F-4lover]

Gaijin pls fix this: why I need to buy Ju-88A-1 first to be able to buy Ju-88A-4??? Or Ju-87D-3 to be able to buy Hs 129B-3???

[@georges.patton4241]

Where P47 and F6f-5

[@balthasargelt4075]

In the dirt as usual

[@PawlysBartys]

mustangs are cool and all, but it would be cool if they didn't cost a small fortune to repair in higher BRs, when you're matched up versus jets.

[@TheFightingHaggis]

Can you make campaign for tanks and ships pls

[@ww2gaming-3473]

Please add the p-35 to Us air 🙏

[@karkinos5398]

2:28 yea, no. Not with "realshatter" mechanic in game.

[@Goofster-goober]

I swear, I use the spitfire vc. It feels like I’m tickling enemies with a 7.7 at times.

[@shawiiu]

This is lit

[@Apostletrades]

Spitfire has the worst flight module, pls do something to it, Spitfire LF MK IX is my favorite but its frustrating how its difficult to aim with.

[@gabriel-leonard9779]

Fw190d - Ta 152

[@Fischbroetchen2k]

So Air Realism Enduring Confrontation when? Gaijin, it´s time to stop pretending and stop the nonesense that you guys for some reason do everything in your power to not implement it. It would make air RB great again and be a real game changer and especially finally a good sandbox for using all the awesome aircraft we have at our disposal!

[@76456]

I dont use gun pods on Bf 109 G or K because it does make the performance worse even if just for a bit. 20mm gun pods have more drag and weight than 30mm ones. I use just the engine cannon either 20 or 30mm one along side the 13mm

[@cerealenjoyer3000]

tbh the extra firepower is really worth the little bit of extra drag. being able to destroy a target in a single pass with your guns is pretty important because of how pitiful thw damage output of the guns are from realshatter. the small performance hit shouldnt really matter anyways, unless you're fighting someone that has equal skill to you in the exact same place, which shouldnt be too common

[@76456]

@@cerealenjoyer3000 30mm mk 108 can one shots any fighter. And i dont have problem doing some passes if i have too. I recomend no gun pods because i think its over kill and you might need any performance you can get

[@ikbalshaikh3614]

@@76456 usually you need that extra firepower for bombers

[@Jayjay-ef2gt]

I wouldn't really call the p-51 "versatile" It's mainly just a boom& zoomer. A bf 109 has more options in combat style than the mustang

[@williandaltonDJ]

Amigos poderiam ne ajudar estou com um problemas ao jogar batalhas arcada com tanque, ao pegar o avião no meio de batalha de tanques os alvos terrestres somem.

[@elcangry855]

Boom a zoom that what mid map aa dose to us bom and zoom and you guys still they see they fixed and now even worst you can't event bomb a target or even fight close because you get boom a zoom frome geopard aa gajing fix air arb and take off that deam aa and clouds out

[@rvb_crusader9142]

Hey lie with the brits, the thypoon gets outspeeded by everything

[@CheshireSB]

I'm frustrated by enemy rounds by chasing fighters doing absolutely nothing to friendly ground targets I'm flying over... Don't believe me, blast your own AAA and nothing.

[@navesqqxe]

What about the g55/56 series?

[@lucalongiardi3824]

The c205 is better

[@BIOSHOCKFOXX]

Why is it even called Boom & Zoom? Is the plane doing Boom sounds, or it's meant as shooting? And why Zoom? What are you zooming, or is it a reference to the sound a plane makes? Boom & Zoom since the beginning didn't made sense as a name.

[@rockystudiogaming]

Boom means boom boom. *S T U K A*

[@josephwear9572]

Might want to make a part 2 to this video. No jets at all!

[@yeetusdeletus8489]

any french picks?

[@AGM65]

I think Ta 152 is the best boom&zoom fighter

[@Kistor306]

I heard earlier about it and now even more. GIVE ME MY FW190A-1

[@LukaŠimičević-o1b]

Question, when will You add f15, f18, grippen, eurofighter and su27 Because it’s confirmed that they will be added to warthunder?

[@giolag95]

si si tutto bello... ma il P-47? il P-38? i vari La-5,7? per non parlare di altri giapponesi ed italiani... e che il bf 109 ed il p-51 o il ki 44 siano dei boom and zoom.. allora mi sa che la categoria energy è inesistente... ok che aggiungere i pod al bf 109 significa mettere un pezzo da 90 su una 500... ma chi lo fa ha problemi di mira, se lo si fa per ingaggiare altri caccia... tanto che poi muoiono come gli stronzi perchè non riescono a fare ciò per cui sono fatti e cioè manovrare da energy... c'è un abbisso tra sono boom and zoom e POSSONO essere utilizzati anche in BOOM AND ZOOM... fare video di questo genere crea solo confusione...

[@mikez3114]

As someone who only plays USA planes. You can do everything right and will still lose 85-90% of the time. It’s just the way the game is rigged. For instance today I was flying my -4 Corsair. I was at 22,000ft and a bf109 F was at 17. I dove on him. Stayed straight line. Next thing I know he has j turned is on my 6 and climbing while gaining on me. Then I watched as he dove on me to gain. I would pull away as he level or then he would climb and dove again. All the time inching closer to me. I just dragged the game out until time was up cause there was nothing I could do. My point is just accept that as USA you will lose a lot even if you do everything right.

[@PT-nh4rv]

G-A-I-J-I-N!!!!!!!!!!! why are the FW at such a high BR in SB mode? Dora 13 is in 5.3, yesterday I went to fight and I was fighting post war aircraft, with B.R 6.3!!!!!!!!! Even worse is the situation of Dora 9 and 12, which are in BR 5.7, please fix this!!! Look at the performance of the P51-D and the F4U-4, and they are in smaller BRs. You disfavor the German tree too much!!!

[@Mirkolovecivicek9]

and for italy??

[@tireless_steel401]

Wrong. the british are the ones that made the mustang so good at high altitudes

[@aragorn_]

imagine showing the Shoki instead of the J2M series on the BOOM AND ZOOM fighters. Just sayin

[@gamingnumptiesxd9032]

wut happened to p47

[@Luger_P08]

so gaijin where is the Bf-109's turning circle historical evidence? as I'm a pilot of 109 I'm very unhappy with it :(

[@PlayJasch]

Did you use full real controls? The instructor limits the pitch in air RB.

[@Luger_P08]

@@PlayJasch oh ok I heard that it could cause sipn so I didn't used it

[@mbravos]

​@@Luger_P08no, but mishandling with full real controls will totally end with you in a spin though. It takes some practice to master, but they allow you to extract more performance out of your plane.

[@Mischtory]

Day 19 of asking for the Stuka 287

[@ItzAudurite]

i swear to god whe nwill you guys add the SPAA D:: PREMIUM

[@Irishaircorpsfan66]

Are there any irish vehicles in warthunder

[@Stuka87g1]

1 ship

[@BožidarOrašanin]

Focke-wulh 190 A5 is good BZ