Getting A Nuke With Anti-Air

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One of the most outstanding achievements in War Thunder is getting enough kills, assists, and point captures to spawn a nuke in tank battles. There are some vehicles that make this task relatively trivial, though. The PT-76-57 is probably the easiest tank to get a nuke with, but the AMX-30 DCA isn't too far off I think. This French SPAA is a close relative to the British Falcon, but lacks a stabilizer and has a radar. The cannons on the DCA are absolutely devastating and allow you to tackle most threats with ease, as you have access to both APDS and AP-I which acts like APHE.
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[@Spookston]

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[@MEERKAQ]

Sponsons 😱

[@jonathanwilliams1644]

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[@maymay-id8cj]

under the partners tab it says you play WoT lol

[@jaidenlopez9032]

spooky, yehhh

[@familyjobe853]

Spookston ! you own me a computer ! I want it! and make a video about the rank 3 medium sweden

[@connordalton4553]

"Behold! My AA gun." "But sir you spent your time bulking M60's." "Could have have been flying M60's."

[@jaidenlopez9032]

Lmao

[@cortexoftheego4568]

or turn it into a helicopter, just remove the turret, tracks, engine and remodel back, make armor thinner, no more than 30mm on front armor, add a helicopter engine and tail and everything alse that is needed.

[@mlgrocket]

idk if it was a dev server thing only, but getting a nuke in ground arcade actually stops the game from ending even if either team runs out of tickets unless the nuke gets shot down, but as long as the nuke is spawned and flying the game won't end, why can't that be a thing in round rb

[@Genuinespaceman]

I have never had nuke in ground AB

[@Nightmare_52]

never even seen a nuke in arcade

[@ДАНЯ_МГЕ]

@@Nightmare_52 i got it once with 15 kills with germany 5.3 and it was the most pog moment of my War Thunder career

[@mlgrocket]

@@Nightmare_52 you get it the same way as the other aircraft, only available to the same br's as ground rb, takes 25 kills

[@syphon6125]

I've gotten a nuke in arcade once in the amx 13, the game doesn't end even if one team loses all of their tickets

[@Pancaika]

That face will haunt my dreams. I want it for myself

[@AlexT-34]

Seventeenth video asking for the Spj fm/43-44, it has a 15 sec reload, and fires 8kg TNT equivalent HE shells, while at br 1.7.

[@valian8985]

SPOOKSTON STOP !!!! the snail will upbr the Amx 30 DCA even more...

[@fidgetjack7641]

Just wait until spookston plays the zut 37, its a better td than aa

[@lightspeedvictory]

Requesting the U-SH and the Merkava 4M plz

[@BOKCGrizzlyWarlord]

Try one with the locust, 6.7, and against Germany and Russia

[@simethigsomethingidfk]

turns out the AMX-30 DCA has a very very small spot under both guns near the turret ring that has 320mm of effective armor. So it can just barely block a M48A2C APCR. That man got extraordinarily unlucky 2:45

[@koalatv315]

not less than me non-penning a stock t34 using a Dicker Max

[@Sp4rkofD4rk]

@@koalatv315 i got 2x nonpen on a t34 with the leo 1 sabot

[@dust_gale3108]

Nah... dude, he just shoot through the tank with APCR that didn't do any damage because there was nothing in the line. It just barely scratched the viewports of the other side of the tank

[@simethigsomethingidfk]

@@dust_gale3108 You can very clearly see where the shell is in one frame of the video. It is going for the right side of the turret just bellow the barrel. Not the view port on the far left. A bit of spalling from the impact probably just hit the view port. Also literally any penetration of the AMX-30 DCA will detonate the massive wall of ammo that makes of the entier front of the tank lol. The armor on the DCA is also plenty thick enough to generate alot of spalling

[@TheEpicNoob]

@@koalatv315t34 or t-34?

[@DerpeyGnome]

Now do "Getting a nuke with only air". First spawn heli into another aircraft

[@treekid7455]

thats really disgusting

[@Will_Is_Awesome]

I think Spookston would rather bomb a children's hospital than do that

[@Coldbenchwarmer]

That’s illegal.

[@Genuinespaceman]

Bro dirty mind

[@Coldbenchwarmer]

@@Will_Is_Awesome it is 🤨

[@user-ru9pd6tf4s]

Perhaps you should make a, serious, "The Spookston Problem" video. I honestly feel like you make every vehicle look good when you play it. And should should the opinions of above-average players really influence the game for those who aren't so good?

[@OneAngryVelociraptor]

Most vehicles he says are op are pretty op tho.

[@hatman4818]

*Lone psychopath deletes enemy team with 30mm Hacker Shells, as the Doom theme intensifies* "Yeah, this tank is pretty mediocre now I guess."

[@hatman4818]

In all seriousness though, thats how I feel any time I watch his videos, his early model abrams video recently was like that. I was like "This is what an underperforming tank looks like to you?"

[@KoishiVibin]

@@hatman4818 It's an edit of what the best moments are. I usually try to figure out how many games were stitched together for it.

[@Rumpelpumpel3]

should should

[@stevenhussey9228]

in Spookstons minds he's like yea that's another bad idea lets go do that in todays video.

[@anti5091]

I think the reason that one guy brought the SAV 20.12.48 up to 8.3 is because its HE is surprisingly capable, and can easily one-shot most missile carriers, armored cars, and SPAA. It also reloads faster than any of them save the SPAA, and is surprisingly mobile. Also it's funny when it works, like bringing the Sturmpanzer to top tier.

[@Milesofgaming]

The SAV is honestly a god tier tank. I love using it in high tier because it's so fast and can pretty reliably one shot.

[@Evaunit98]

Is say same goes for the Brummbar, it man have a slow reload but it can turn most A113 derivatives and any other missile carrier for that matter into a large crater

[@sargesacker2599]

1:40 Perfect example of why you need to bind a key for switching targets on radar.

[@yutuniopati]

Just done this few hours ago. I was constantly opening Windows help manager or something like that...

[@tf2spydumbone221]

2:12 but you didn't apologize. All he knows is that you killed him

[@NoOneAlive_]

To be perfectly honest not a lot of WT KZbinrs notice that key existence

[@tf2spydumbone221]

@@NoOneAlive_ damn. Is every KZbinr a serial team killer?! We should go to our theory mobile!

[@nicm.z9868]

if he clicks that, it sounds very sarcastic

[@jakedavids9017]

Hey Spookston, you should check out the change for the M247. They removed its AP shell and replaced it with a SAP shell. What used to be 94mm of pen is now 36mm, but with the same explosive filler as its HE shells (262gram equivalence!). Will we get a video on it?

[@hoodedmirror1051]

Nukes should halt ticket bleed. This has been a suggestion by so many for so long, big names to. I remember Phly was complaining about it.

[@gergoszabo7168]

4:42 that thing can be good even in 8.3 considering if u can flank and hide pretty good

[@xavierwright719]

Nothing quite puts a smile on my face like Spookston saying 'That was quite foolish'

[@Momomaster25]

Gotta love how snail guy couldn't be arsed to even clip the radar of the DCA into the protective housing when you turn it off, they just half-arsed folding it down. But they'll model the most minor details of other vehicles in the big3. French tree moment.

[@Fgekc]

I started laughing so hard when you friendly fired that plane. The moment of silence was so relatable.

[@gafeleon9032]

Spawning a nuke should stop ticket bleed at 100 so it never stops a nuke win, but doesn´t punish having the lead and a nuke simultaneously

[@luisgarces1382]

Has anyone else had stuttering problems with the frame rate while playing WT?

[@JustAnotherRandomPersonOnline]

Try out the ZSD63/PG87, it's seriously under rated especially AFTER it's reload buff.

[@ultrajesus123]

I'd be interested in a video on the Object 685, it reminds me of the 2S25 if it was built in the t-62 era

[@snepcheck2198]

You should try the sidam, either the mistral or base varient. It's certainly an spaa of all time. Being completely realistic, the lack of search radar, no mixed belts, no thermals, and a pretty poor complete ammo load makes me question why both are so high in br

[@diverman1023]

The cause is 2 fold: first, much like the amx30 dca, players who play Italy and France tend to be better at the game and overperform. Second, I genuinely find it better at taking out planes than the gepard. You just have a much nicer density of rounds shredding a wide area

[@RH0DI]

please play the goofy AMX-10RC with its thermals, APFSDS, laser rangefinder, and neutral steer (in an AC) at 8.0! fun little thing, stock grinding it as of yesterday

[@kimjanek646]

The nice thing about SPAA is that they negate Gaijins armor models that result in hits just getting absorbed into a void. The other day I shot a British Avenger with 17pdr AP into the hull and managed to hit the exact pixel that makes the round non pen for some reason 😑

[@JARV9701]

My first nuke was with the ZSU-57-2 (Honestly no one uses it as an AA, more like a Light Tank), I was just messing around the map and didn't realized I had enought points to spawn on it. I don't remember how I died, but most probably I rushed their spawn, and at the menu for respawn I noticed I had the nuke, I spawned, but it was on the Soviet TU-4. Didn't even reach the map.

[@黄辰旭]

It's too slow to as the light tank, we called it as the Apocalypse.

[@Spoomf]

Not seeing the nuke go off is the second biggest coc* block I’ve had today

[@vinncent_hater9521]

Please I beg of you to play the AMR.35 ZT3 you can title this video as the French L3 or something (day 4)

[@torinmurphy4120]

Amx-30dmca. Its the same as this but all the sounds are all replaced with copyrighted ones.

[@ryuhanja3415]

I got a nuke on my first game today with the STB, to bad the game ended before I could drop it, it would be nice if the devs stopped all tickets from going down when a nuke aircraft was spawning, or if the game ends at least let me stay in and drop my damn well earnt nuke, I didn't kill 12 players and cap 2 points for nothing

[@railfan8444]

did you ever notice they removed all the destroyed tanks and replaced them with piles of rubble? even the tanks on fulda are just like a concrete block now

[@FillyCheesteak]

4:32 Me who plays 1080p on a 32” monitor:

[@Robuster13]

day 4 of asking you to play the german kv2

[@JackTheNoober]

"Most of our dudes are in planes" ahh yeah... Classic GROUND realistic battle experience.

[@drexsol2312]

Tiran 4S Israeli T54 but with a 105mm

[@Da-Real-Gigachad]

Can you play the veak40, it might be a little op

[@Nicitel94]

Last week I got a nuke using ONLY Puma (2.7 then) in a 6.7 game. That really made my day.

[@TrojanHell]

2:01 Spookston Minecraft Zombie noise timestamp

[@qaz2137]

i would like to see you play m247, saphe round do suprisingly often overpressure

[@Nightmare_52]

the best 8.0+ mbt the french have is the aa nice

[@Borderaide2005]

could you do a video on the Italian 47/32 L40?, pretty much a l3cc but with a gun that can pen tanks

[@toop1337]

Can we get some love/hate for Sweden?

[@generaldunc6460]

I've gotten a nuke with the amx-30DCA as well, that thing is a monster.

[@henryc4209]

Play the l-62 anti 2, its a rank 3 br 2.7 Swedish (but actually Finnish) AA, 66mm pen SAP round with enough HE filler to 1 shot anything it can face. I used it for the summer event and its like the low tier equivalent of the pt-76-57

[@Red29468]

could u do a vid on the amx10rc

[@flotterotter1202]

Hey Spook if you have the PT-16/T14 please make a little video how busted the 4 sec's are

[@destroy0760]

you should play either the r3 t106 FA or the fiat next

[@franekniwinski3667]

Play radkampfwagen 90

[@Gh0st_Eye]

Its a shame that with 30% tickets left players are unable to drop the nuke. Imo if there is a nuke, tickets should only drop down by kills

[@littlebeaver8889]

I have a suggestion for you Spookston, I can’t remember the name of the vehicle but it is a tecktree French anti air at 4.3 and I have a lot of fun whit it, 40 mm gun and awesome turret rotation and 60 km/h. Think it’s called amx- something something.

[@burlyheads]

Funny you mention the game looking grainy at 1440. I just upgraded from a 3060 to a 6700xt and suddenly, even with just FXAA the lines are way cleaner. Not sure if it's just my imagination. I would have to record side by side to be able to definitively say. But just from playing over a year with the 3060, and then immediately seeing a big difference, I think something is up.

[@termitreter6545]

Back in the day Radeon had an advantage over Nvidia in rendering some effects more cleanely. But thats was very subtle, and is a long time ago. That sounds like a driver issue or game bug.

[@nickkozak4763]

and the DCA is at 8.3. RIP SGT YORK M247 it was good but now it’s shit it used to hit but now it can’t it had AP now it has only HE Rip SGT York

[@Shimo_28]

4:33 Yeah cuz the antialiasing is so fuckin bad and the only good one is SSAA which just drops your fps by like 70, I mean yeah the players who play on 2K 60fps capped are good to go (with good enough gpu), but when you use a 150hz monitor for a long time and you switch to lower framerate it just hurts to look at

[@PilotTed]

Can't wait to see gaijin nerf this next lol. Seriously, they love to suck off USA, Germany, and Russia while screwing over every other nation its quite annoying. As soon as one nation becomes even somewhat powerful Gaijin just nerfs it by fucking up the BRs, repair costs, or just unrealistically messing with the stats. France got its time to shine when it was first introduced and Gaijin decided to be merciful and buff solid shot, then they nerfed it again and now rarely ever adds anything to France.

[@CurvinProductions]

*player misses in a tank* How did that dude miss- *spots AT missile* *EXPLODES* Oh HE didn't miss. *Seinfeld bassline* *audience laughing*

[@RubyFox_YT]

4:42 because it rymes.

[@alaska6120]

My stupid self when I was grinding down the line skipped SPAA so now I have to start from the Ostwind II all the way up to 10.7 Fun

[@chrisdix36]

Just leaves mid match and leaves rest of the team 1 player down... seriously CC's think they're better than everyone else. Gotta get content for views and $$$$$$ you guys really starting to show your true colours

[@demarkisdinkins2737]

Im not going lie spookston I love cas I’m the guy 10km out sending atgms down and refilling at the airfield spending the whole game in a jet for the price of a low tier m22 running to cap the zone and leave.

[@adamh509]

I can't run this game on high without this game stuttering every now and then. I'm on a wired connection, have a 5800x and 3080. Like wtf

[@gpziprd]

one time i was at 10.7 in my t-80 and a dang ww2 puma ammo racks my friend who is less than 5.0 or just under it and i just sat there after obliterating it with my main cannon because my machine guns had no ammuniton

[@Lovely_0190]

2nd attempt at suggesting Roblox's cursed tank simulator It's warthunder but you can mix and match hulls turret and guns, also no cas :)

[@comradetonk8280]

Gonna use this video as an example for why I hate AA vehicles. Bloody thing is straight up just a better tank than AA.

[@liamturner3358]

The editing when you're in game is top notch!

[@richardwylie1785]

Strange request but have you ever thought about playing generation zero? I think your break down of the mechs and just the game!

[@BigGreyDonut]

I’m pretty sure the anti aliasing the game uses isn’t working. I was swapping between max and none and I didn’t notice any real change

[@killroy1117]

30mm autocannons do more spalling damage then 120mm apfsds. Clown Company is running this game.

[@jetacces]

Back in the days when this thing had full APDS belt and full stabilized gun😔

[@ZzVinniezZ]

well the title said "Getting a nuke" not dropping a nuke...there are differences and Spookston already got the nuke just didn't drop it

[@octalthrower9650]

"why would you bring a sav to 8.3" the same reason people bring bt-5s to top tier or m-22s to 5.3

[@steffent.6477]

How many paper tanks are out there in RB? In AB you don't see nearly as many. Most people there drive MBTs.

[@jetknight6767]

Mr. Spookston, did you used to be an Xbox player or did you get the XM1 Chrysler through other means?

[@zagreus1249]

Wait isn’t the first 20 second ish a quote from General Shepherd from MW2 ???

[@f4uincorporated25]

When the most popular Warthunder KZbinr a gay furry It's a joke

[@NotQuiteAllHere]

Could go for the Sprut, USSR counterpart to our beloved American lights.

[@AstralHeretic]

I play on 2k and the hq fxaa barely makes a difference. if use taa if it didn't make players invisible when flying in sim

[@L1mp1nB1zk1t]

It's a 30mm spaag. Playing it against enemy tanks is NOT hard. I award you no points.

[@nikt508]

Hello, do you recommend t72 turms for new players for grinding soviet union?

[@Shadowninja1095]

The M1A1 HC and actually use dozer blade tactics if possible lol.

[@rozsia3464]

french still hated english so much they didnt want to put stabilazors on theyr tanks to differenciate from them

[@staticace4363]

I think we should see a video on the Lvt (a)(4) Zis or the T-34-85 gai

[@MrYAPP0]

They used to let it play out back in the day if there was a plane in the sky or on the airfield, and it was just really annoying/boring

[@Axle0Bullitt019]

Am I the only one who finds it incredibly cathartic to demolish IT-1 these days?

[@CT-1902]

Has somebody who has played the amx-30 MBT, yes it is most likely better

[@mecadragoon]

play stock olifant mk1a (with parts and fpe ofc i just want u to see the mobility)

[@duke0salt717]

Api rounds in warthunder are fucking wakey dude, They do so much damage

[@_berna_4707]

Remeber, this thing is 8.3, same br as the sidam that has less bullets, worst ammo belt, no radar and really really bad mobility

[@jaiden6949]

Why bring an sav to 8.3? I take a bt7 to 8.3 and regularly get aces

[@Hener-cm6iv]

I know it will make you sad but why not try the zachlam tager from Israel?

[@n1co2017]

how is the saphe on this more effective than the m247’s saphe the york has 40mm and this 30mm

[@mains8913]

Now do the russian AMX-30 DCA aka ZSU-37-2

[@amarthon6597]

Those 30-mils Sound like the beat of Run Boy run.

[@theramsey3258]

I'll say this again, French tanks are absolutely amazing.

[@USSWisconsin]

I mean the gepard and lav-ad are aa, shouldnt be too hard, i knoe you didnt use them but still

[@nemvallalomanevem7798]

is this a reupload? i swear i've seen and heard you getting killed bx that starship

[@ampa-3612]

Why is higher rank AA good against tanks too? It seems a little unfair.