Simply Astounding | G.55 Serie 1 (War Thunder)

The G.55 serie 1 completely slipped my mind until recently, and wow is it good. I forgot how much fun this thing is in Air RB.
What do you think about the G.55 Serie 1?
Enjoy :)
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0:00 Intro
0:14 Overview
0:39 Short history lesson
1:11 Props!
1:29 Armament
1:50 Performance
2:07 Weaknesses
2:33 Matchmaker lol
3:10 How I play
3:31 Dogfight With Zero
5:21 Dogfight With Yak3u
9:33 Dogfight vs 3 x xp50's
12:21 Conclusion

[@_Joob]

0:54 minor correction: they served with the northern Italian Air Force who were still loyal to Germany after the armistice. (I think? History is complicated lol)

[@deadeyecpt.7765]

I'm a little late but yes, that is accurate. Northern Italy was under German control by proxy, the Italian Socialist Republic was its official name. Basically the Vichy France of Italy.

[@swoosh_italia_328]

@@deadeyecpt.7765 never compare italy and france in front of an italian Joke (:

[@deadeyecpt.7765]

@@swoosh_italia_328 sono italiano pure io hahaha

[@danielefabbro822]

It was called "Italian Socialist Republic" (that had nothing to do with socialism by the way). It was opposed to the Southern Kingdom of Italy during the Italian Civil War.

[@swoosh_italia_328]

​@@deadeyecpt.7765 *rumore di scimmia che riconosce suoi simili (neuron deactivation)*

[@IHaevATajpo]

i think the italian planes biggest strength is that not a lot of people know what it is, how it behaves, and how to counterplay it, which is a huge advantage against the common player, especially in a gamemode where knowing your enemy is the absolute key to winning a dogfight against them

[@_Joob]

That’s a great point. I’ve definitely been in that position plenty of times myself where I don’t exactly know the performance of my opponents aircraft.

[@IHaevATajpo]

Which is a good reason to grind out every tech tree, to know how to deal with each aircraft you face. Still having trouble at high tier props with Ta-152s, so that’s the line I’m going after currently

[@_Joob]

@@IHaevATajpo man if only I had the time to grind out everything. I’ve got tier 5 in just about every nation except Japan and France. For some reason I have yet to grind out past tier 3 in Japan and 4 in France hahaha

[@sr7129]

@@_Joob Well the French aviation tree is the French aviation tree

[@jayklink851]

Yes, the Germans found the Fiat to be better in almost every regard, especially while allied strategic bombing occurred. The General Staff/Luftwaffe funded a study, they found that a Fiat would take 40% more man hours for each plane, 'Military Aviation' has a good video covering this.

[@_Joob]

i'll definitely give that a watch.

[@getehrwolf6111]

There could been better german airplanes tbh, but the german air ministry was very corrupt

[@jayklink851]

@@getehrwolf6111 Yeah, as were the Wehrmacht's ordinance/ procurement department, or at least in the anti-tank cannons realm. For years, German industry continued to manufacture and equip Panzer IIIs with the 37mm, aka "the door knocker," which, as you know, are almost completely useless against T-34s. Hitler himself ordered the change, but it switching to the production of the 50 & 75mm anti-tank cannons would have cut into the companies' profits; so they went against Dolf's orders. *A very costly mistake

[@andrejguesswho9837]

@@jayklink851 Easy to blame the resistance of german industry to Adolfs orders on "profit" - actually a lot of germans tried to sabotage Hitlers war machine like that, risking to be executed by SS and some industrialists were shot indeed.

[@TheAmazingCowpig]

Yeah... back when faction matchmaking was still a thing, the G.55 series was the bane of my existence in anything I flew. Their maneuvering characteristics were so small, that it made fighting the Axis even worse of an experience, since good pilots could even hold their own against the more maneuverable Allied planes. It also still had stupid good climb rate. I made the decision to buy the G.55S back when it was still 4.7. Those were absolutely stupid days. It just printed so much SL for so little effort. The only thing this plane lacked was speed.

[@BlitZnGodzilla117]

The G55S was like a Zero with god cannons back in the day

[@Jordan_213]

You are the only youtuber that has managed to make me enjoy watching a game I don't play

[@_Joob]

[@willieo6025]

I agree with you Jordan, except i do play everyday....

[@lukrenyt]

And trust me you dont want to play

[@cookiecraze1310]

Do not play it. Watching it through the lens of KZbinrs is a much, much better choice.

[@liamleclair1663]

I always loved this plane, italians planes are just perfect.

[@thinkingdokutah3490]

Ye same but the repair cost make me rarely played it

[@gabrielesiragusa3426]

@@thinkingdokutah3490 after the last update with all of the repair cost updates they went WAAAY down. U should give them a second chance

[@thinkingdokutah3490]

@@gabrielesiragusa3426 really? Guess I'll play it

[@charlesc.9012]

This one was, but the rest weren't. Not only were the G.50 and C.200 slow, they also had a dangerous habit of entering uncontrollable spins. Until the G.55, Italian planes had very light armament, so they couldn't actually inflict damage quickly enough to shoot down a soviet or US plane

[@sealioso]

​@@charlesc.9012not many planes were perfect early on either

[@Thunderbox247]

I have always been terrified of the G.55's (all of them). If I see one I will wait for it to dive and loose its energy before going within 7km of it

[@BlitZnGodzilla117]

G.55s are all fun to play with, my personal favorite being the premium G.55S. It's just unfortunate that the repair cost for the G.56 is so high or at least it was when I grinded out the Italian tree

[@EdibleRockingChair]

Weaponized hypersonic pizza cutter on route to ruin your day

[@lolsadboi1238]

Awesome vid, love the Italian props. Your channel is definitely growing, awesome job man.

[@naolevemeusvideosaserio]

your videos are very well made, i don't know why, but you're way better then most of the youtubers

[@linkgaze4076]

I love how you simplify things for those of us that aren’t pilots😂love the content

[@kingghidorah8106]

Despite being (relatively) slow in straight line, the g55s and it's successors make some of the best boom and zoom props in the entire game, vastly outdiving 109s and p47s and being literally impossible to reverse for how little they compress.

[@depilot2035]

Nice review

[@marcocarboni6133]

nah you quite nailed the pronunciation of "regia aeronautica"

[@maxwellmaragia2272]

yak3u is quite a tough plane to beat at low alt. Well done

[@maxwellpyle2848]

That last battle was dope!

[@_Joob]

:D

[@GusdeSyakti]

Man im gonna give this plane a shot later

[@alexsabau5942]

You should try the IAR 81c. It doesn’t have the best stats but it is super fun to play

[@napoleonetalcei1242]

I would suggest you to try the Re. 2005 Serie 0 if you liked dogfighting with the G55 It has a better turn rate and climb rate but bleeds more energy

[@_Joob]

I’ll give it a try soon, those aircraft looks o strange to me and it makes me want to play it haha

[@bornonthebattlefront4883]

THIS! I was gonna say the same thing And with its bomb load, it’s a great CAS machine, even though that’s not its primary function

[@Andrzej360]

​@@_JoobI want to see a video on it as well.

[@jillkang6526]

Also - are there plane recommendations for lower-tier AB? I would be so happy if you could do something on that front!

[@GlobalMovie_Plus]

you have to try out the RE2005 mate. GOOD FIGHTS

[@jillkang6526]

Speaking of fun planes, the premium Ki-44 otsu with the twin 40mm grenade launchers is also very fun. The cannons have like 270m/s muzzle velocity so you have to basically be at point blank to fire. But besides that it is still twin 40mm that vaporizes anything on first contact.

[@_Joob]

I’ve been meaning to use that. Meme cannons are super fun

[@Andrzej360]

@@_Joob P108A with the 102mm antiship cannon.

[@onecheman]

Nice video, I was just wondering, why is this plane so uptiered in all the video? Like Yak3U wtf, F2Gs :V I would spect this oponets to be more mixed with the G.56

[@twbones99]

Wish you could do this in the S199 the maneuverability of the G55(worse actually) with the zeros engine power

[@sirbonobo3907]

the problems are always the sl repair costs when it comes to the g5 series, atleast for me .

[@Miles26545]

Epic intro! Unfortunately repair costs kill the viability of this plane

[@vedeved5246]

If you play correctly not at all.

[@Miles26545]

@@vedeved5246 but it’s not realistic to learn and not lose money with super props

[@rileyxbell]

The c203 also really good

[@_Joob]

I’ll give it a try soon!

[@Drakuba]

Thoughts on premium G55? Got taht one about a 1.5 year ago thinking ill grind pizza bois but i was super disappointed in that, bad climb, bad speed bad turn. It have 3 20mms but i suck ass with german guns for some reason as well. Had like 30 games in it and it collect dust ever since

[@johnnycab8986]

The G55S premium is the plane that made me the most SL, typical 3 kills a match when it was 4.7 BR, used to continually give me 100k SL a match with premium. Amazing turn, amazing guns, great low alt performance, good energy retention, fantastic rudder. Basically plays like a Yak with better guns, it doesn't have the UFO flight models of the Yaks but it's similar...it doesn't accelerate as fast or retain energy as (unrealistically) good as the Yaks, but it dives better and is a more stable gun platform and it has lot more ammo. It's at 5.0 now which makes it sort of disappointing, in a downtier or match where everything is 5.0 it's still good, problem is 90% of matches you get now with it are full uptiers where you have 4 JU288s, 1 me264 or He177 and a DO335 against an enemy team usually consisting of 4 F2Gs, maybe a singular bomber and another Allied 6.0 superprop so you just get gangbanged by superprops, making the plane pretty garbage. There's also the issue that Gaijin completely fk'd cannons now where the HE filler basically doesn't work, so the 20mms don't blast stuff like they used to.

[@danielefabbro822]

Yeah, the plane performed really well during the war. It was able to face every allied plane without problems and shoot down also the bombers. After the war, a lot of G55 was given to Israel to fight their wars against the Muslims.

[@nikolassmith7381]

I haven't played the Italian tech tree really. Think it's worth grinding out?

[@stormjet814]

I’ve heard they have good planes, and the lower tiers have good guns now with the air targets belts for the 12.7’s Repair cost for some of them tho

[@nikolassmith7381]

@@stormjet814 ah alrighty gotcha. Thanks

[@Dimitry-abdul]

I'm stronger.... I'm smarter.... IM BETTER I AM BETTER

[@Alan-fv1or]

Only issue I have with these planes is losing the pilot in 1 hit

[@azza1383]

Only con is the repair cost 😢

[@tiezel5656]

It has this weird woble when turning

[@teddyreynolds2852]

People don't believe me when I tell them low tier Italy is op because they have HEF rounds and 1 shot other bi planes

[@XSpamDragonX]

Serie 0 with the 12.7mms is way better

[@danielefabbro822]

Probably the only fighter that was superior to the G55 was the Corsair F4U. Yeah, that fighter plane was almost excellent.

[@jakobbohman549]

Very strong engine? It has barely 1200hp

[@unixfool]

It has a power to weight advantage.

[@lukefrombk]

2:10 - 2:33 Lightweight construction doesn't hinder a planes performance in the vertical exactly the opposite. The reason why you won't "overshoot" isn't because you're "Too light" lmao. You're very confused on your physics

[@unixfool]

Do you have any video content to share, Blue Wriver? Wondering if you can do it better than JetNoob, since you think he's very confused.

[@chrisszpeterz642]

hey my IGN is _Just_A_Boomer_, remember me from f8e vid?