War Thunder Complete Guide - Radar 101

[@snottytoe6957]

I am not going to watch this video so that I can continue to complain about how I don't understand how it works on your other videos. I hope you understand.

[@DEFYN]

I value the support by keeping my engagement up on the other videos

[@vraku9624]

Wierd way to support, butnaight i guess 😂

[@GeneralLee2000]

The collaboration we needed, absolute massive Ws all around

[@irontaoist2665]

Glad to see guides like this coming up. I had to learn a lot about them by experimentation and learning how they operate on my own.

[@bosmith4560]

Your channel has taken me from scared to play anything but arcade to refusing to play it. Thanks for the great content.

[@jamesdavies7891]

same bro really thank you defyn it took me 1700 hours to get to the f16 c iv just unlocked it lol

[@malithaw]

Same man

[@unoriginalplays120]

Great guide, now its easier for me to continue to mess up radar modes and kill teammates

[@perennialE]

An absolute S tier cook. Thank you Jaek and Defyn

[@SomeOrdinaryJanitor]

as a 10,500+ hour veteran, i am still learning a lot about this game. and i have played well over 5 years.

[@averies23]

insane!

[@Hadgerz]

"Too many missions? This is what you signed up for, pilot!"

[@Debate_Pervert]

Skill issue

[@mjw3877]

Thanks

[@skilz2kil528]

I've seen a tone of WT radar guides from CC's this is definitely among the best for a thorough breakdown when new to radar sets - great visual aids, straight to the point and easy to understand. Great job Defyn, and big thanks to Jaek too 👍

[@poliznia]

@AchillesclipsBecause Defyn isn’t a native English speaker you racist moron. he isn’t even english

[@edwardking9359]

​@AchillesclipsDefyn's English is pretty much perfect, he just happens to have a Dutch accent on account of being Dutch.

[@martijn9568]

​@@edwardking9359That. There are native English accents out there that aren't nearly as comprehensible.

[@milkelangelo1]

One thing about MTI: usually the range in which the MTI can see is a bit over half of the range in which the normal search mode can see, and this applies both for searching and tracking

[@mrno4hh]

Much needed video, just hit higher tier and had not idea how to efficiently use radar. You’re the man Defyn!

[@APerson.43]

I think this is literally the best video on the internet for war thunder radar and I haven’t even started talking about your other videos how do you only have 130k subs you deserve so much more with the quality and efficiency of your videos

[@DEFYN]

Thanks a lot Another one coming in the next few days :) Mostly focused on the missiles

[@APerson.43]

@@DEFYN can’t wait, recently just bought the mig23ml and have been grinding the ussr tree I’m going to get both eventually but do you think I should go for mig29 or su27 first?

[@littletweeter1327]

@@APerson.43definitely the su27’s. They got the new shiny toys and the new one has the biggest guided bomb in the game, if you ever play tank rb

[@cookiecraze1310]

Having had to just fight with a Lvl 15 F4S player who didn't know what countermeasures are or how to use radar, I am very glad you and Jaek have made this. At this point Gaijin should just link to these videos and Jaek's video on missiles for the top tier guide.

[@dedneyder3586]

Italian Accent: someone has to do it. Monatone: THE MISSILE KNOWS WHERE IT IS, IT KNOWS THIS BECAUSE IT KNOWS WHERE IT ISN'T.

[@dedneyder3586]

I should be shot 😢

[@zuzzolo395]

Yes! I was waiting for this guide, thanks DEFYN!

[@damocles8159]

Although I only fly stuff that has a proper engine (meaning propeller) and thus am not bothered with radar, I very much appreciate your continuous effort to provide helpful guidance to the WT player-base.

[@averytiredman4857]

Now have you seen the F6F-5N? It has a propeller and a radar. Good for finding airfield campers when they try to sneak away.

[@rileymccabe2732]

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[@patriktoth6258]

Hungarian premium Bf110 on the italian tree has a radar too

[@Ntgaming26]

The german DO-217-J2 also has an radar and its like br 2.7

[@commoncents6831]

Thre absolute BEST how to use radar guide out there period....bravo and thank you

[@BazzRahulGaming]

Just one word for the Radar Guide : - PERFECT

[@Grimmy_Grimes]

The single best piece of media War Thunder has ever seen. Thank you.

[@melihcigdm]

Whole video is like explaning a dumb. Even with 1.5k hours in game i still love it. Great job greatest pilot.

[@jjfelldownawell]

Simply put this is the war thunder content that we need. I really appreciate the high-quality work that went into helping me understand radars!

[@jakobc.2558]

I also highly recommend setting up controlls for moving around the dish manualy. I use controll as a combo key. So while I use WASD normaly for flying, when I hold Controll I controll the radar with WASD instead. It's especialy handy at top tier since you can stay at tree top level safe from radar missiles and aim the radar with Controll+WASD at enemys instead of having to point my nose up.

[@Ronnie_McDoggle]

Thanks for the tip

[@SGt_RaZeR]

deam bro that is a ton of work on this video thank you sooooo much

[@discochicken4622]

This was a long awaited video. Thank you so much I’m sure I can speak for everyone when I say thank you for these awesome tutorials

[@AhmedAmr-tw1tk]

so I've been here watching your gameplay, guides, and your tremendous effort into making us better at the game by showing how skilful, funny and charismatic you are when its come to warthunder air RB, I came here when i was about rank 3 because i felt like i need to get better at the game, now im at top tier and i came across this video but felt like its time going to come some day, thank you for your effort, time and amazing gameplay.

[@ryanyang2669]

I believe the only other radar guide video I've ever seen was by Tim. This was very much needed, thanks defyn!

[@user-ee1fn4vt8b]

Defyn x Shrek, the collab we never knew we needed.

[@Cam_Wight]

This is the definative WT Radar video! no more needed, well played define

[@vladyslavivanchenko6071]

Спасибо огромное, искал подобное видео очень давно, но их просто нет на ютубе, а сами гайджин объяснили лишь косвенно. Было познавательно!

[@poliznia]

If you need another one Tim’s Variety has a good one too. Both of these are the videos I would recommend.

[@vladyslavivanchenko6071]

@@poliznia спасибо, сейчас посмотрю

[@SlicerJen]

Best radar guide out there for getting into the details.

[@ArmaBulgarian]

This banger of a video drops as I am working on getting the MiG-23M. Definetely a nice explanation to start working on using the radar and IRST

[@TheDAWinz]

Shoutout Jek the Jaek of all time!

[@AceOfThunderYT]

Best radar guide yet, nice work defyn.

[@monkesoldier3002]

Great video, you didn't miss a single thing about radars in war thunder and managed to explain everything in a bit over 20min. Impressive.

[@riuneko]

i will say, i can’t seem to find if he covered entering ACM from a radar shut off position? i know he mentioned pressing Lock in ACM toggles the radar (in video - turns off) but i don’t think he mentions specifically turning off the radar and locking to activate ACM

[@jaek_898]

​​​@@riuneko10:35, thought it was intuitive enough but it probably could have been explained a little better

[@tytusel]

Amazing Guide! One thing that I hoped to see was mentioning that PDV (HDN) and MTI do not support/don't work with IFF. I, as a sim player, get a bit annoyed when I get missiled by a tm8 and then hear that I was marked as a enemy. I'm sure a few viewers here play sim battles and might not know about it yet, or they are just starting to play sim battles in F-4S and end up killing tm8s (to be fair, I did so too in the mig-23). Nonetheless, it is a very helpful and high quality guide :D!

[@miguelnarciso496]

I wish i had this guide when I started to play high tiers. Super well made.

[@Kamil666O6]

Very good guide! Sadly, i did not learn anything from it, but for a new player i think it is the most in depth guide, that will be much of a help. Keep it up, while i show this to few of my friends, which are approaching their first radar jets.

[@Buzz-vq5gz]

This is very spad

[@williewilson2250]

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[@FishFlys]

I'm a little late sorry but I just had to say that while I am a newer player (lvl50) im still learning the ropes on props and jets, but your channel is by far the most helpful when I am trying to figure out where I went wrong. Sure I have had my good moments and clips, but this channel made me realize early on that the most important part of the game when learning is dying and figuring out how I could have reduced the chance of that happening that way. I'm already writing an essay but the jist is thank you for being here mate!

[@hammermigg]

Absolutely 10/10 guide, very well explained. Lovef to see this collab! The only small thing i could nitpick is that some IRST systems, like the mig29´s, can actually show the range and closure rate of the locked target.

[@ozz8939]

I was waiting for this for a long time, thanks!

[@RalfG999]

I Love this kind of Videos so much

[@neverhook]

This video is what i was looking for and the king uploads!! Thanks for the work

[@Blanchboi]

I will definitely be sharing this video! Thank you for this amazing resource, it'll help a ton with new players getting to top tier!!

[@SolemnGW2]

Thank you, no one has been able to explain it quite like this.

[@alfredoacuna9794]

An absolutely great video. Will definitely watch it a few times, there's too much info to take in. Thank you Defyn, I assure you we appreciate your efforts!

[@kiawjrm]

All you really need to know is that the missile knows where it is at all times

[@danielcamacho1913]

...Because it knows where it *isn't* 😄

[@farmcat9873]

Nice explanations for radar real good and some details that people need to know.

[@TriangleV]

The almighty Jaek cook

[@theduck3961]

Love how the swift f7 missiles work best with the radar turned off

[@Rorywizz]

Yup, the missiles work really well but most people do not know how to turn the radar off by the time they get it

[@rags417]

Thanks for all that - REALLY helpful (or will be when i finally get in to higher tiers). Other tutorials have focused on the technology whereas your video focused on the usage, both are good to know but yours are much more useful. Your video brought to my mind at least three things things that Gaijin still needs to do. The first is to add radio direction finding or RDF on certain older aircraft. This wasn't a big thing in combat and was designed mainly to help friendly aircraft navigate in bad weather to an airfield or carrier but I could see this being used in game whenever an enemy aircraft used chat to give a quick clue as to which direction they a rein reference to the player, very handy in late game battles where there are only a few enemy left. The second would be to overhaul the gunsight system to show the differences between fixed, gyrostabilised and radar directed gunsights. Gyrostabilised sights should move the pipper in 3rd person mode away from the direction of turn based on g-pull while radar gunsights would do the same but also show a simplified form of the arcade style lead indicator. One of the big advantages of the F-86 over the MiG-15 in Korea was having radar gunsights yet as you point out this is nearly useless in game. The last big change would be to add a DCS-style "Jester" or guy in back function for multi-seat aircraft, including all bombers. This would be a series of audible clues as to enemies spotted, missile launches, incoming gunfire and so on and could like radar be set to more or less detail - having half a dozen gunners on your B-17 call a passing FW-190 might be overload but having just the left and right waist gunners call out as he passed would be very useful. It may be crew skill based so more experienced crews give shorter, more accurate and more relevant shout outs. While I am dreaming there is one last bonus change I would like and that would be a GCI function for certain matches that had it for one or both sides. The function would be initiated by a bound keystroke and would give the bearing range and altitude (BRA) info of the last known location of the nearest enemy to the player. This would replace the current battlefield radar minimap in RB and would IMO be a lot more useful then a field of cluttered red and blue markers.

[@blitzhacker6981]

Thank you so much for this. I wasn't able to find anything about radar that was up to date or relevant.

[@luisbarrera2427]

Amazing explanation about RDt systems and how they work on all acft in War Thunder

[@syrup8783]

As a lvl 9 F5-C Ace pilot, this video helps me understand that I will continue to use only my cannons as heat sync is useless.

[@NotOlzen]

Love the work you 2 did. Its been great for a player thats still quite new to Air RB

[@tgcgaming8614]

Thanks bro. Literally the first match after watching this video I went from getting 0 kills consistently in the f14 to getting 2-3 per game

[@zhon8650]

i love defyn's c-scope

[@cyberdroid2300]

Wow this was incredibly helpful, I've gone from not understanding radar at all to getting the grasp of it in 1 day. I don't have any top tier radar missile vehicles unlocked but I hoped into the premium F-4S for a test drive and I've gotten the jist of how these systems work. Thanks again.

[@occho787]

Thank you for this video man, i immediately got way too better with my newly researched R-27E1

[@newguyiswinning]

Nice, great video. Always love a 101 video since they arent many

[@brandoncrooks1681]

5:56 HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

[@Chieftian101]

A really helpful guide, been struggling to figure out how to use my radar, this video helped a ton. Cheers!

[@Shinito2]

real fancy guide on how to press ACM and then mash lock and fire

[@DEFYN]

So true bestie, spit your shit indeed

[@andre232323]

Thanks for this guide!

[@OoZeD]

I'm only starting to dip my toes inside 13.0 but thanks to you i managed to get out some informations that helped me get started at least.

[@Budkitkat]

This was very helpful Defyn thanks a lot

[@JDoeX]

Instructions unclear, killed 2 teammates on takeoff.

[@RorchaksRevenge]

Finaly a useful guide video from you bro. The rest of your guide videos are "heres how to fly a jet! There's a 262 were gunna go up and he stalls and now we click him out of the sky" this is actually a guide is what im sayin so thx for that

[@ians1706]

thank you for the effort put into this very detailed tutorial

[@weewoomanv2116]

Out of 6 vids I watch this one is the only one that helped me

[@v3es473]

I know all of this, but i will still watch intensely because the chad himself made it

[@jberg351]

Thanks for making such great content. It is the reason I have progressed and am able to actually enjoy war thunder at all lol

[@elgrandjefe4661]

Great video! This summer sale got 2 packs with your code and well deserved.

[@roadhigher]

Honestly an amazing video, I've been using radars ever since Fox 1's have been added and thought I had it all figured out but it turns out I had a lot of misconceptions about what the things actually mean, for example I thought the square display was a C scope and not just the same thing as conical and the little dot with the line once you lock someone was the direction the plane was traveling not its direction relative to you. Super helpful guide Defyn thank you so much for taking the time to explain all this, especially with how key radar is to top tier its dumb that Gaijin leaves players to figure everything out on their own. One question I do have, whenever I'm using TWS on my Mirage 2000 or MiG-29, using the switch target button to cycle through the TWS targets will switch my radar to ACM for a few seconds before actually changing the TWS lock. I've fiddled around with my controls and there doesn't seem to be a conflict in buttons between them, do you know what could possibly be causing this?

[@vizender]

Playing all the mirage 2000s, I don’t think I have experienced this. Haven’t played them for a few days, but maybe there’s a bit of delay, and the default state is ACM ? However, I can assure you that during the time you switch to and from TWS, it does NOT lock anything, so it’s not really doing ACM, maybe it’s just visual

[@robertgaudet7407]

You really ought to be using the moving box to select TWS targets over cycling through them all anyway. You gotta go change it in the control settings.

[@tilman80ify]

Just what I needed! thanks!!!!

[@JuneJaguar]

Good timing. Im getting near to radar tier. Watched all of ur dogfighting videos thanks for existing pX

[@alles213]

this is an awesome video, thank you so much for explaining all this. I recently go really into Air RB and this was super helpful

[@ajetauto5592]

This is going to help me a lot in sim battles not so much in air RB.

[@josephballin464]

If I knew you personaly i would give you a kiss for this amazing tutorial

[@benjamins.7093]

Thank you for this awesome radar guide!

[@56Seeker]

Thanks for that. A lot of info to take in, in one vid.

[@professorgrouch]

This video should make you the biggest WT KZbinr. Love your content!!

[@ATGM_Main]

We let the man cook, he gives us the most basic radar than even monkes can even understand thank you defyn, I can now die in high tier, now that I know what Im doing

[@helonidas4011]

I know i'm ruining everyone fun at top tier but for me, as new player i really liked your guide you made me learn how the radar works and now i am learning how to use the radar ^^ finally i can launch 3 of my rockets of the 5 that i carry bec they were sarh and i couldnt use them, thanks for the guide

[@helltoncek6572]

Awesome video. I knew all of these, but I love your style of making videos. 🚀

[@a_stone]

Slight correction for TWS, TWS will still set off the RWR as it's still pinging the target however the target will not get the lock warning, ie you will track them without spiking them.

[@Panocek]

And up close it will give everyone a radar lock warning. Friendly F-14 locking you shortly after takeoff? Thats not dum player, thats TWS user up close

[@braedynhoward3644]

For the radar modes and controls, I just learned the number of the Y menu controls and then set them to my number pad. 1-8 control all of my radar settings and are easy to reach for the most part.

[@tsu2516]

Best guide out there

[@eliasa.5408]

I don’t fly top tier but I’m sure others that need it, will appreciate the hell out of it

[@Hagop64]

It's a great summary overall. I still would love to see a radar section when you do a video on each jet. Say you're doing a video on the Mig 29 and how to fly it, while you're talking about the missiles it has include the best way to utilize them (which radar modes you switch between and when/why.)

[@MrScientifictutor]

Beautiful work as always

[@warthunderclipsthesecond]

Been dying to use radar on my controller, thank you🙏

[@NPC-0013]

Now a lot of it makes some sense!!!! Thanks mate good video 👍

[@-myhcroft-8475]

Thanks for this. Excellent guide

[@zbee-nah-lah]

someone needs to show this to jester so that he can actually be decent with the radar

[@Korixon.]

The only bad thing is people are going to know how to use radar now and I can’t mess with people any more

[@VERTIGO1327]

Common jaek W

[@xanderwusky]

absolutely awesome video

[@dominicseng2315]

gj on this vid

[@kisbiflos]

Damn. Thanks for this video. Nice job.

[@North_Florida_Shooter]

Thank you for making this guide.

[@Supernover1000]

rhx for ur unbeliveble help i saw ur on oddz vid and u are a so good in air ur vid helps me a lot my second second premium jet (f4s) i used ur code as tnaks pls make more vid like this :)