The New Best CAS Annihilator

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The new War Thunder update added a lot of new top tier main battle tanks which aren't that interesting to me. It did add the F-15A though, which is great for destroying CAS planes.
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The New Best CAS Annihilator

[@Spookston]

I know I suck at planes please do not bully me :(

[@SeaLion-wu4lk]

Nah Ur thé best player 🔥🔥💯

[@affa_lol]

bullies

[@En1i1y]

It’s okay, we won’t but where is the Strv 103C Spookston :)

[@FinnishSmitty]

Still better than me.

[@KgaogelokhumoMojalefa]

Can you plz the G6 Rhino plz

[@monolith_sim_squad_veteran]

>jet video >look inside >HSTVL gameplay

[@Sten05]

You can't get plane without tonk gameplay

[@whohashamburger855]

@@Sten05 Heli rush into a jet

[@Cinco555WasTaken]

@@whohashamburger855ew

[@LunaLunara2904]

​@@whohashamburger855ur the ultimate evil

[@SpruceReduce8854]

I love how Spookston treats his missiles like they're pokemon

[@dasji2]

I do it to sometimes in air rb. Its something to cope with my bitterness of playing this game lmao

[@TangiersIntrigue]

NGL, that was both hilarious and endearing lol

[@spliffy98]

As you should

[@Janternal]

Gaijin casually recruiting FBI agents to spawn CAS whenever Spookston plays ground vehicles, and to take them down the moment he spawns in a fighter or in a SPAA:

[@SportyMabamba]

T H E Y C A N T K E E P G E T T I N G A W A Y W I T H I T

[@-----Alcatraz------]

FBI: Target has launched War Thunder. Its a 7.0 BR. Ok hes got one kill, get the planes ready.

[@Janternal]

@@-----Alcatraz------ 1-1 TO BROADWAY. HE'S ATTEMPTING TO HAVE FUN. REQUESTING AIR SUPPORT AT THE DESIGNATED COORDINATES

[@Nick-hm9rh]

The Rothschields actually

[@averyziglar4681]

​@@SportyMabamba😂😂 frfr

[@thisguyyyyyyy2723]

5:56 “What’s this? Clouds? I think I will dive straight down!” Lmao

[@jb13611]

The complete disregard for the "pull up" as well.

[@Sten05]

It dont matter pull up or not fog maps should be removed they don't look cool because you literally have Can't see anything and it's not good for the game as you can't see anything

[@a.zrael_]

@@Sten05 I for one think they are pretty cool

[@Ikaros0153]

Its not fog, those are clouds around a mountain ​@Sten05

[@nanni-buyerofcopper]

Iranian heli pilots

[@Juel92]

They've actually kinda nerfed CAS sometime earlier this year. It's waaay more common with maps with haze nowadays. Makes it harder to see ground targets (sometimes much harder).

[@keelled]

and they gave some brit tanks a proper reverse gear

[@user-si5fm8ql3c]

Haze just means the fighters take longer to find my HS129B, meaning i can sneak an additional kill or two in

[@samadams2203]

And it was a great change. The same map can play a bit differently with different weather and there are more clouds now which makes air-to-air more interesting too.

[@iwhu707]

@@samadams2203Especially in Ground RB where planes don’t get indicators for their position

[@Juel92]

@@user-si5fm8ql3c If there is enough haze aircraft look white instead of black. Can be easier to see than usually tbh.

[@iBlameRiya]

Pookie Playing JETS???

[@Vipixz109]

🤨

[@Mr_bad_iDEA]

pookie?

[@youknowwhoelseisthehonoredone]

🤨🤨🤨

[@Star_Spangled_Man_With_A_Plan]

Spookie pookie

[@MaxxFujikawa]

Brother?

[@petrwolansky8088]

5:10 I love how it does nothing to the ammo but kills the crew behind it

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

He was shooting a T-80. You know, because Gajin gives Russian tanks "Spall Liners" before the actual ones that get it.

[@xnopyt13]

@@aiedenoldstien9751I think nato tanks got it as well, even some light tanks

[@vekst]

@@aiedenoldstien9751 You do realize that multiple other tanks that arent Russian got spall liners too right?

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

@vekst TWO other tanks. Plus the way I worded what I was saying was implying all the Spall liner tanks. Including the ones that should have it. *The new American and British tank.*

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

@@xnopyt13 They do, but Gajin doesn't put them in.

[@snipermaninside]

This might be a little bit unrelated to top tier but i once had a Shot Mk8 shell bounce off a M4A1 center hull at a slight hull position truly solid shot and sabot is unpredictable EDIT: the British tech tree being a complete hit or miss is the main reason why I skipped both rank 1 and rank 2 vehicles with the good old TOG II until I could get up to rank 3 one of the very only british vehicles imo that's actually justifiable

[@Star_Spangled_Man_With_A_Plan]

Definitely one of the munitions of all time

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

That's because Gajin is focused on making Russian explosive filled rounds better.

[@quadri31]

I had the Comet's sabot round bounce of a chaffee's front plate once, it was looking straight at me

[@SydneySighs]

I had a Soviet 85 bounce off my front plate of my M4 Tipo IC one time

[@bigturn1051]

@@aiedenoldstien9751German aphe isnt really good?

[@GipsyDanger41]

5:56 Betty: PULL UP, PULL UP Spookston: Guess ill dive straight down

[@unimportanthandler]

I was getting eepy but Spookston uploaded. Now I’m wide awake in a very happy mood, Dankeschön Spookston ❤

[@OrileyOwnage]

das sind doch zwo Wörter

[@cabbageashthe1st594]

2:49 I dont wanna sound like I didnt enjoy the video, but this part literally mentally flashbanged me

[@kiktik2413]

yk where i can find the video?

[@AshVQ35]

@@kiktik2413did u find it

[@generalmcshooty397]

Y'know what else is a CAS annihilator? The AS-42/47.

[@_thisnameistaken]

honestly an incredible vehicle. it’s like an object 906 but for low tier italy. ok gun, good reload, good mobility and low profile. I played it last night and got lots of 8-15 kill games

[@KarmelKoloredKilla]

@@_thisnameistakensame lol, that thing is way underrated

[@casematecardinal]

@@_thisnameistaken ok gun? The 906 has almost a good penetration as the crappy apds the m60aos gets

[@thedandy6765]

they meant the as-42/47 has an ok gun the 906 has a great gun @@casematecardinal

[@KenMochii]

They fixed it already in a recent hotfix, but I love the bugged out ammo replenishment on 10:30.

[@Ciasiab-san]

I was like No way he reloads that fast

[@vegetablefeces7368]

nah he got the "crew on meth" booster its very rare

[@xm8239]

Spookston making an aircraft focused video? the CAS has truly driven him insane

[@crazy_badger400]

Man, i need that video of the mig 23 "thats why yo shoes raggety"

[@AshVQ35]

Did u find it

[@LimeInDisguise]

Day 49: Spookston you should play the russian traktor tank destroyer, the Zis-30, its so hilarious to play with its wacky suspension and to use in an uptier

[@biggiecheese7562]

>Want to watch F-15 gameplay >Looks inside >HSTVL video

[@Jerry-cg9ni]

Literally just top comment bro... do better.

[@gampexhd5672]

Day 14 of asking for Leopard 1

[@danielc.284]

Spookston saying "Yeah buddy, good one!" to his Sidewinder is not where I expected to get my daily dose of wholesome today. Also finally had a game where I swear half the team was asleep. Snuck around with a T-34 and just...oh hey there's 5 kills. Lost the game but it was really funny!

[@jdreyes3745]

All the time playing the Chaparral has conditioned him to be nice to the missiles...

[@TrepidDestiny]

Even though the Abrams didn't get spall liners (much to my chagrin) I have noticed a boost in it's survivability This is even reflected in the protection analysis, as an APFSDS pen doesn't become a giant shotgun blast to the whole interior like it used to. Pre patch a pen to an Abrams might as well have been an APHE round.

[@Wotplaya4]

So it's not just me... hm, because I noticed this also on the dev server, to a more extreme degree, where all APFSDS just spalled less. I now pretty much can't kill the entire turret crew anymore with one shot at the very bottom of the hull. Before I could, which was admittedly rather sad to begin with.

[@TrepidDestiny]

@@Wotplaya4 I think it was a stealth buff. I don't recall seeing any mention of it in the patch notes, but it was definitely something I immediately noticed. Maybe they were throwing the US a bone since they seem to refuse to give us spall liners lol.

[@Wotplaya4]

@@TrepidDestiny Not sure if it's only against the Abrams however. On the dev server it was incredibly noticeable that all darts did less against everything. The AI enemies were just soaking APFSDS rounds. Anyways, it helps those who did not receive spall liners so there's that. However it's still not totally impossible to completely nuke the turret crew, but much less so. I'm now mostly just looking forward to the promised devblogs regarding the Abrams (and chally 2) armor reports. Though I can totally imagine it won't lead to anything happening.

[@TheGoober404]

10:28 comedic timing for him to resupply of of his ammo at light speed

[@bayuaziz3641]

Hi spook, i think you should try the amx 10 m, it's basically a saint chamond with atgm but it's fairly good at it's br, hope you get some fun with it

[@FinnishSmitty]

Love that you don’t use bushes, and the content! Video 7 of asking for Sho’t Kal Dalet

[@lightleft3626]

I really like the part around 2:50 , it gives me something beyond the game itself

[@planesrkool2727]

Not as bad as the Foxbat

[@kiktik2413]

yk where I can find a link to the video?

[@planesrkool2727]

@@kiktik2413 look up gulf of sidra 1989 footage

[@AshVQ35]

@@kiktik2413did you find it?

[@kiktik2413]

@@AshVQ35 no :(

[@STORMTROOPER-vo1wn]

The F-15 being used as it was intended is great to see, meaning sweeping the skies clean of enemy planes so ground forces can do their thing uninterrupted

[@ieatplastic2367]

we need a defyn collab sometime to ensure maximum CAS eradication efficiency

[@nezhaprime6195]

I need a link to that mig23 video

[@devinhallsworth5531]

"Just a casual 41 year difference in construction time." Aka, what it feels like being a tiger main playing against soviet cold war tech.

[@thedungeondelver]

I'm pretty sure that T90 kill in the HSTV-L means Gaijin will nerf it. Again.

[@dantem4119]

Oh my god the mig23 bit completely caught me off guard lmao

[@wingcommanderbob8268]

5:50 Betty gave you plenty of time to avoid that

[@bagelmaster2498]

Ik top tier sucks but could you try the Leo 2a7?

[@Fancy_Frost]

F15 GPWS: PULL UP! PULL UP! PULL UP! Spookston: huh

[@sergiuszkonczak1166]

Its no logic in this game said hstvl Player

[@mustafasattar8452]

My 43th attempt at asking spookston to play the t26e1-1 super pershing

[@mitchellmann5674]

Day 10 of asking for the American t34

[@foe111]

Yo can you do the ASU-85?? It’s rly good and I think it will fit your play style fr

[@TheGoldenAce603]

Day 10 of asking spookston to play the super Pershing

[@Marshmellowman47]

4 yr old vrs 41 yr old who wins?

[@globalvirtualmilitary2051]

2:50 where can I find that MiG-23 video lmao, I laughed so hard at that

[@kiktik2413]

lmk if you find it, I want it too

[@AshVQ35]

@@kiktik2413did u find it

[@thegunguy7513]

did you find it?​@@kiktik2413

[@gavincross5719]

@@kiktik2413Did you ever find it?

[@celi3437]

I think Spookston would have fun if he plays the M2A2

[@RandomHui]

in case if you're wondering why the BMP-2M at 11:50 whiffed all of its shots, it was because of its piss poor gun depression

[@foz9470]

🥰 it's quite satisfying to watch some spawn CAS to counter CAS purpose, you're doing god work. Hope you feeling better soon

[@Orangefan77]

Calling the F-15A CAS is certainly.... a decision

[@dbzfanexwarbrady]

F-15 is CAS?

[@foz9470]

I’m not really familiar with air vehicles so i just call all plane/heli CAS in general xD

[@SqaurebearSqaurebear]

@@foz9470yeah historically the f15 has been a a2a only aircraft with the f15e having some a2g munition

[@proofostrich9061]

@@SqaurebearSqaurebear”Some” a2g munition? Brother it is called the Strike Eagle for a reason

[@comradevlad7459]

Spookston fighting the T-80 series: ammo is inert, i refuse to explode Me playing T-80 series: op your ammo was sneezed on from 30 m away your whole ammo rack and fuel tanks exploded

[@ceres_mars8137]

9:21 He's talking about the voice warning system's nickname "Bit**in' Betty"

[@dbzfanexwarbrady]

The Radar might be good but we still using relativly early Aim-7 sparrows in game, when facing the ground they tend to have a tendancy to just lose connection

[@jaek__]

that's all radar missiles, the 7M is a fairly modern variant of the Sparrow and has ground clutter rejection, though it doesn't have the DL or optimized trajectories or pathing of an P/MH

[@dbzfanexwarbrady]

@@jaek__ the 7M is 1982 , thats not reletivly modern thats 42 years ago

[@jaek__]

@@dbzfanexwarbrady that is modern for a 7M, a non modern Sparrow would be one from the 70's like a 7F, the P/MH are only older by a few years or decade at most, the AIM-120A is well over 30 years old, so is the B you can't really get much more modern than a 7M other than a few years of development and even then the later models really wouldn't do much for sparrows in game

[@supermarinespitfire3760]

i really dont understand radar missiles in the game in general. like half the time when i get a lock on a enemy with radar the missile just doesnt wanna lock/ become red circle it just stays my reticle colour all the time for no reason

[@Panocek]

@@supermarinespitfire3760 Radar lock isn't the same as missile lock. In simplest of terms radar missiles are head on only. Sparrows are notoriously easy to notch (flying sideways) to break their tracking, even if radar lock is solid. Tracking in side or rear aspect depends on target altitude, but in general you want to be much closer to the enemy to the point you might as well toss a IR missile.

[@soldiert0144]

i like how that now gaijin added spall liners the HSTV-L does even less damage now. honestly quite incredible. (should go down to like 10.0)

[@casualspawnpeeking3680]

spall liners also make the M3A3 infinitely more unbearable than it already was when I get a max up tier

[@Miratesus]

Halo 1 flood music at 4:42, Gave me some sweet ptsd 🤩

[@Owlzz_]

13:36 straight from horror movie

[@aeri1148]

F-16C is still better for this role, simply because the HMD and 6 aim9Ms, aim7ms are unreliable as all hell

[@matchc0635]

Seeing him playing modern planes are like witnessing a creature of all time

[@Iron_Blood_Enjoyer1933]

I'm surprised that you've not done a video on the Type 99 already, the L15A2 HE round is so good & it's another SPH meme machine.

[@liladoodle]

I mean, OddBawZ did make a video on it & showed how much of a meme (In a positive connotation, mind you) the vehicle is.

[@GooberD]

Siwwy little goober checking in :3

[@PineCone227_]

You're only bringing flares - bring chaff too, especially in ground RB against SAM's

[@gustanut2209]

This is a massive gamer moment. Continue you the great work Mr spook. Hope you are feeling well!

[@whozmanz]

The best anti-cas plane has to be the German MiG-29G. You get R-27’s R-73’s and you fight against Russia

[@Mean_Beans_]

spookston playing planes is so nice to see ngl

[@SemoventeDa]

Hey Spook, you should play the Semovente 75/46 M43. It's a deeply overshadowed italian tank destroyer which can deliver an heavy punch but it's deeply ignored the potential it has. I am not gonna surrender in proposing this. I AM NOT GONNA SURRENDER, BE CLEAR! I A M N O T B A C K I N G O F F! Y O U C A N' T K E E P G E T T I N G A W A Y W I T H I T ! Eyo, don't yo dare ignoring me, I won't surrender until you play it! (Day 125)

[@EnterpriseKnight]

"you can't preflare 20mm bullets can't you" I'mma steal this one.

[@Blurr_VR]

Maby when you hear “pull up Pull up” you should probably pull up

[@cato2k182]

Spookston: "CAS players are so braindead!" Also Spookston: *Uses an AIM-7 point blank against a helicopter*

[@_Azulite_]

The HSTV-L is dead now. 11.3 for this thing while it basically performs like a 10.0 2S38, but slightly more survivable, much more depression, but WAY worse AA capability. The HSTV-L deserves 11.3 ... If it were modelled correctly. No HE-VT, XM885 should be an M774 equivalent, no aerial tracking, no 1 second reload...

[@Unknown-he8ej]

thinking of the hstv-l, i think it would be funny if you played the italian vcc 80/60. it has a reload of 2 seconds, but i can't decide if it is good or not

[@Adam-hi3vg]

he already played it I'm pretty sure

[@casematecardinal]

Its pretty good. The lower br and better armor helps.

[@thecrab2791]

i frequently bring it to 10.0, and used to take it out at top tier. Anything is better than the ariete lol

[@Unknown-he8ej]

@@Adam-hi3vg oh yeah, he did. thanks for telling me!

[@Riverchalice441]

Day 5/Video 3 of asking Spookston to play the T26E1-1.

[@SkyChaser-]

What is cas?

[@clydedoris5002]

Close air support

[@turtledovechen176]

i use to play a lot of CAP with jet like the F-4EJ Kai or Mig-23MLA, but after Pantsir been added it have become so hard to do, trying to fight an air battle with multiple aircraft when there is a 18km mobile no fly zone on the ground is just a struggle so i just play top tier air RB and mid-low tier ground now, been having tons of fun

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

Gotta love that Gajin will add a Russian AA that for some reason is just better than anything. While not giving any other nations anything on par. Though Russian mains will just say "Skill issue" rather than addressing the real problem that Gajin does.

[@turtledovechen176]

@@aiedenoldstien9751 Gaijin dev A: what if we add a SPAA, that have range that cover the enemy air spawn, have 12 SAM shot without need to reload, and have guns for close-in use or killing tank Gaijin dev B : sound lame, what else can it do Gaijin dev A : we add it at the same BR as FlaRakRad(which we will nerf), and just a tiny bit higher than the otomatic Gaijin dev B : brillant

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

@turtledovechen176 There isn't enough of the devs praising Putin or Stalin as they make the decision to add the op Russian things, but you got their reactions to adding it right

[@turtledovechen176]

@@aiedenoldstien9751 and the really brilliant part is, there is no vehicles that is on par with Panstir IRL, the "all in one SPAA vehicle" is something basically only Russian do, all the other major power switch to multi vehicles platform long ago Gaijin could've add Tor for Russia, but they added Panstir, insured there is little chance other tree could get vehicles that is on par, because there is none IRL

[@Panocek]

15:18 - Sparrows and radar missiles in general are target altitude dependent when it comes to keeping rear aspect lock. And then Sparrows, unlike R24R/R27R/R27ER don't have inertial guidance to take over in event of brief loss of contact, thus they self destruct.

[@rare_kumiko]

Laughed my ass off at that CV90120 you suddenly crashed into in smoke. Also, man, high tier in general looks so unfun. Except for the part of using an F-15 in GRB to kill planes that looks fun.

[@casualspawnpeeking3680]

Personally my favorite CAS annihilation tool is the strela-10m2 absolutely cracked missiles that make easy work of any goober trying to lob gbu's

[@saltysteel3996]

Sparrows are modeled very badly by Gaijin.

[@AdmiralJT]

Low Mid tier is where the game is most fun I think. Id I need a good time I roll out my Pak40 Halftrack. Thing is beastly.

[@nekomakhea9440]

Gaijin's really going for historical accuracy on Sparrow reliability =/

[@Miikkii_21]

The plane literally tells you to PULL UP multiple times before you crash BRUH how did you ignored that

[@bubblegumsimulatorinfo9798]

12:03 this isn't a HSTV-L game come on I want to see MERICA FREEDOM

[@prometheus-2362]

Day 84 of asking Spookston to play the Type 90s Edit: As an aside, AIM-7s tend to detonate when launched in rear aspect/chase shots because the on board computer can't properly calculate how to achieve a hit. Sparrows are, above all else, BVR head on missiles. They'll perform great head on and some side aspect, as long as they're not notched, but chase shots have to be very shot range, sub-5km in my experience.

[@salt5879]

10:30 Did Gaijin update reload

[@copycat5187]

Gajin watching spookston getting nuke with HSTVL after: only 244 swear words 164 times times getting cas'ed 161 games where he died after a single kill 2 broken keyboards and making a video about a plane not the tank knowing full well that now they have yet another reason to place said tank at 12.0 br

[@Spinosaur_32]

Day 47 of requesting CV9030fin , since you had a blast with other terrible IFV's this one should be fun.

[@harry-John785]

There is nothing that brings me more unadulterated rage than the hstvl

[@jackzhang8677]

The Sparrow will explode if it can’t see the target. Make sure the reticle goes red before firing. Also be aware of how the target is maneuvering before firing. The AIM-7M has an inverse mono pulse seeker so it has look-down capability, but it filters out the aircraft’s radar returns from ground clutter by Doppler analysis, so if it is flying perpendicular to you and the aircraft’s radar is looking downward, you run the risk of the target “flying through the notch” and breaking radar lock after launch. If the aircraft is turning erratically, suddenly flying perpendicular can notch your radar, so don’t engage with a sparrow unless you just want to force them to go defensive. It’s also been widely complained about that radars with look down capability are losing lock against aircraft that aren’t notching when they shouldn’t be. The thing is that even if this bug occurs for a split second, the moment the missile loses lock (whether it should or just because of buggy game logic) it will explode.

[@lurker1245]

if you want to do an Anti Cas video play 6.3 USA and fly out the P-51-H5, its stupidly good

[@barrybend7189]

Spookston if you play F14 Tomcat please fly with the Macross VF-1S Roy Fokker skin.

[@lildovehunta]

He saids he doesn’t play planes and has the newly added F-15A💀☠️

[@catzeball8047]

if you put Kavinsky - Nightcall from drive in the 1:10 minute and put this spookston video since mine 10:00 it will sync almost perfectly

[@Smashmous]

Just play the F-16 in groundbattle... even the F-14A and B are better in ground battle than the F-15

[@plat09]

i have a challenge for ya spook. play a goofy artillery vehicle from every county and you have to get 5 kills with each of them to move on. have fun if want to!

[@aurelian2738]

Play the SAu 40 IT IS VERY FUN LOW TIER FRENCH APHE(day10😊)

[@user-mk6qr1wq4b]

Every War Thunder air player knows that mountain and clouds in the spawn of that Vietnam map

[@ComfortsSpecter]

10:00 High Octane Spook Gameplay

[@dyncoder]

10:30 How fast do you want to replenish your ammo? yes

[@kiel_3222]

Kinda surprised there's still no Random Spookston Noises compilation out there tbh...

[@bennosvab6294]

I choose not to bully Spookston about his planes skills, I will bully him so he makes a pizza video tho

[@Masamarsu123]

yay another goofy spookston "tries" cas video! also the mandatory please play a chieftain.

[@Miikkii_21]

bro just showed us that when you fight plane 2 generations older you will win XD

[@Startingfires4u]

Day 3 of asking for the Finnish T-54 or the T-54 (1951)

[@frosty_shiba4311]

“Maybe a sparrow will work better” 💀💀💀

[@enkilav2472]

10:32 what the hell is that replenishment speed LMAO

[@pfguy.]

its a bug i will never hope of getting fixed

[@terribleplayerWT]

lmao the way you encourage you missles is kinda cute

[@turtlelord46]

spookston whats your favorite card in clash royale