This Tank Is Pure Suffering

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The American M48 Chaparral is one of the new vehicles added with the recent War Thunder update. It's an anti-air vehicle with essentially ground-launched AIM-9 sidewinder missiles. It is not great.
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This Tank Is Pure Suffering

[@Spookston]

Basically, it would be good if the missiles weren't superelevated and if you could uncage the seeker. Right now it doesn't work against anything flying towards you or maneuvering in the slightest, and can't lock helicopters unless they are around 2-3km away. The York is just better. Also the MBT-70's round is, unfortunately, correct as it is now. However the meme still applies because XM885 is still missing like 40% of its penetration :)

[@serdarcam99]

York is painful its trigger fuze doesent work properly just use LAV-AD

[@mote_vengador2832]

At this point misile anti air are almost completely useless in their only role truly amazing

[@yazovgang]

Day 68 of asking spookston to play the sturmpanzer

[@DubloDuck]

Basically, it would be good if you played the Chi Ha Navy Short Gun. pls bruh its like day 84

[@spectre0969]

Holy shit spookston knows the missile words and stuff

[@dragoneye0979]

Apparently the reason why the MIM-72C's are elevated like that is on the real system if the target is under 17 degrees it automatically elevates like that to loft the missile but will direct fire from above 17 degrees, however, gaijin couldnt get that system working so they just decided to make it always elevated

[@LewisB3217]

Too hard for soviet brain comrade (who knows why they didn’t make it so if you aim up past a certain degree, the missiles lift lmao)

[@collander7766]

Mistral is also modeled the same

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

​@@LewisB3217Because they're too busy making Russian vehicles more overpowered than they already are while nerfing anything from America to the ground.

[@joshhanklon]

Classic gaijin spaghetti code

[@LewisB3217]

@@aiedenoldstien9751 perfectly balanced, as all things should be 😞

[@toaster3048]

I wish they gave the chaparral its windscreen so it didnt look so weird and flat, I also wish we got SPAA to fill in the gap between the m16 mgmc and m163 instead of stuffing more SPAA into top tier

[@fraservickers1257]

What gap do you mean? You have the M19 and M42

[@predatorx8434]

​@@fraservickers1257these spaa work better as tank than anti air

[@torifin755]

@@predatorx8434 thats probably because gaijin *in their infinite wisdom* didnt allow us or code it to have the guns fire in a sequence to make it seem like its firerate is boosted *as it was designed to* and instead just made you fire them both at once. :)

[@reinbeers5322]

M77 Machinegun Chaffee when

[@toaster3048]

honestly bro@@reinbeers5322

[@Randomsomewhat-kinda-quasi-sem]

I think the Gajin paradox happens to you because it’s *you* killing so many ground targets that a large number come back in planes, hence you getting bombed

[@temkin9298]

So plane are never at the back and always bombing/kamikaze the battle field.

[@vgames1543]

The very definition of a Skill Issue. His Skill is so great that the enemies just want to bomb him quick.

[@erickwalter2828]

​@@vgames1543 Reverse skill issue

[@srthebox4946]

Never gets tiring to smack cas players out of the sky

[@ogsturmtiger8576]

gook jumpscare

[@tomsmith476]

Half the time I just play anti-air I really do hate airplane helicopter

[@maverickwildwolf3871]

I only play fighters and AA for that reason, rest is light tanks

[@joe_do3114]

If planes are flying head on to me i would just mian gun them (They dont know i can move my gun up)

[@Littlefish1239]

Fr

[@megan00b8]

I think the reason why IR missiles track so bad in this game is that Gaijin is considering them tracking the hot nozzle of the engine, that's why they also have huge problem locking onto the helicopters at all, but irl there's also a giant cloud of hot air right behind it, not visible to the human eye, but still visible to the missile, and unlike the jet that can be easily obscured by the plane, the hot air around it is much more visible to a real missile which just isn't a thing in the game unfortunately.

[@NagoyaRR]

5:20 he literally just has to machine gun the 4 guys in the hot tub to kill you and he really shoots his main gun 2 times...

[@SteelxWolf]

2:00 the Mistral SATCP was tested on boats and theoretically should lock onto tanks like the BMP as well

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

Yea, but I think we all know Gajin wouldn't give something like that to America. Can't have the American vehicles outclassing daddy Russias vehicles.

[@okand1921]

​@@aiedenoldstien9751he was talking about Mistral rockets bro, not American ones

[@randomguyingasmask]

I just wish IR missiles locked on aerial targets properely first - I'm looking at you helicopters.

[@TheT-90thatstaresintoyoursoul]

Attempt #20: KV-2 (ZiS-6). The 107 one shots just about everything it pens, the armor can be good at times and paper at others, and an ok speed

[@Scongi]

Oke

[@cheekibreeki4638]

The AP shell has really been kicked in the dick over time, still pretty good and fun

[@IGNEOUSROCKK]

i absolutely despise fighting that thing with all of my heart

[@okand1921]

​@@IGNEOUSROCKKbro it has kv-2 base tf u on about you can pen it even with long barrel 50mm on Pz 3

[@IGNEOUSROCKK]

@@okand1921 maybe it's just because all the seal clubbers use it

[@ethanbowmar1976]

Brøther, I crave the forbidden heat signature **flys into the sun**

[@Highest-Ground]

I'd like to say a few things. 1. Back to asking for HEAT slinging lights, Day One of asking for the AMX-13-90 2. Spookston, love your videos. I learned alot of my War Thunder skills from watching you even before I had gone back to WT, and they always crack me up.

[@lq4322]

I have never played this game in my life but somehow watch every single one of these videos. They are neat. Spookston is chill .

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

Spookston is incredibly chill. Which is surprising with how toxic the War Thunder community can be.

[@Torben-u8u]

My advice to you no matter how many warthunder videos you watch NEVER PLAY THE GAME its a painful experience

[@mylifeisajoke1]

It'd be nice to get like... the Linebacker or something.

[@LewisB3217]

Next update should be the linebacker and the Stryker SHORAD

[@reinbeers5322]

That's just a Bradley with Stingers

[@thesupreme8062]

​@@reinbeers5322which js good

[@YukarisGearReviews]

​@@reinbeers5322it'd be a massive improvement over the chaparral

[@waterdamagedtextbook9858]

Quarterback getting added when?

[@ErikHusky]

Can you give Britain some love ? Play the Firefly and don’t forget to put in the title: “This tank kills tiger aces”.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Sometimes, when it does something.

[@luisurdiales3091]

Love the thing. I mean, you're just playing a worse 76mm Sherman in my opinion but the sights and extra pen work wonders at killing pesky german TDs at range.

[@jdawwwgytb]

Day 77 of asking spookston to play the Is-4m

[@ArthurMorgan-cu6gj]

Keep going, he’ll do it some day

[@tylnozcn27]

I concur.

[@charlyspor7594]

I concur

[@cyansphere3394]

It would be great if he try the USSR 7.7 line up, the supposed biggest winner of BR change earlier

[@Scongi]

Goolyszlii😮

[@swissfreek]

10:17 the worst is when you get CASed to death by an Air Force of like five planes, respawn in an SPAA and… they’re all gone.

[@projectincomperablesloth3324]

I highly recommend the m18 hellcat. Im pretty sure you would like it day 44

[@-Hari-03]

he has played it many times, but i also would like to see a new video on it

[@BananowyDoktorXOXOXO]

Yes, we all wanna see lower tier shenanigans 🐶

[@BruceLeeroy94]

A M163/Chapparel duo combo would have been fun if the enemy spammed the air.

[@Tomfooleryman57]

Would love to see a video on the M43 75/46 please

[@syrez156]

6:49 tis why LAV is one of the most fun AA. Can just go for ground vehicles if there's no air to lock on because of dual purpose ability, either run while locking to an aircraft, hit em with the 25 mm, or run down an enemy vehicle on 85km/h and rain rockets on them.

[@tomasmisek5598]

Attempt 17 of suggesting Spookston plays the british tortoise to see if he can do well with it

[@temkin9298]

Do it with" day ... of..." template instead it may work better.

[@tomasmisek5598]

@@temkin9298 i sometimes miss a day so i'm going with attempt

[@randomguyingasmask]

8:00 You were actually locked on the missile there. Happens a lot with Strela too, because it won't see a heli beyond 1.5km, but it will lock on the missile at any range (inside the lock range)

[@damio6865]

That reticle being so low has to a bug surely if not it’s scuffed as hell

[@David-ew5sx]

About the seeker being wayyyy lower than the reticle: if you scroll down a bunch you can make them line up and make it work, if a bit wonky when you go into 'sniper' view. works on the VAB SANTAL anyways

[@jangustl_wt2358]

They fixed it in the Santal.

[@Rangers1-x8o]

You should try the T34, big gun enough to generate shrapnel to one shot something (the American 1)

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

Until Gajin decides that it is doing too well and nerfs it into the ground like most vehicles

[@Tanker000]

@@aiedenoldstien9751 and Gaijin doesn't do the same for Russian and Soviet Tree cause it's Russian Bias

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

@@Tanker000 Most soviet vehicles are indeed Russian. Not all of them, but a lot of them.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@aiedenoldstien9751 Because russia still cant make tank of its own in any numbers that mean something. I guess we will see T-90MS-MLD-M before russian army finally receive a new tank.

[@colinwalsh1818]

The American t34 is so good, it has to be one of my favorite tanks

[@somewierdoonline2402]

Funniest part about gaijin thinking ir missiles won’t lock helicopters is that there is so much footage of them doing so due to *recent events* and the fact that helicopters literally have flares don’t they? Why would they have flares if IR missiles couldn’t lock them

[@chrisp3085]

Gaijin deliberately trying not to artificially nerf American tanks challenge (impossible)

[@krunchyninja7206]

Gaijin said "let's put rear aspect missiles on an spaa which will only ever see aircraft from the front. I am smart."

[@hiruko2373]

This is my 1st attempt at asking spookston to play the stuh 42 since its a bit weird to me. Well I guess I know what anti air to avoid when i start grinding Israel.

[@CT-ww7yi]

Agreed, it’s very strong in my opinion

[@Martin-ot6kw]

On paper the Israeli one might be better for more missiles since it gets a version with a stinger seeker, but still.

[@CT-ww7yi]

@@Martin-ot6kw I was talking about the StuH 42, sorry for not being clear.

[@Martin-ot6kw]

@@CT-ww7yi I was purely replying to OP :p

[@crustymeatflaps7874]

Babe, wake up. New Spookston video

[@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. (Day 87)

[@FwuffyNardobean]

day 87- wow o.o

[@ultravioletsus]

Bro's name is semovente

[@juusolatva]

the Israeli one has different missiles including MIM-72E with the smokeless motor and MIM-72G that has ECCM, but it does have a battle rating of 10.3 compared to 9.3 of the US one that only gets MIM-72A and MIM-72C.

[@Major_Bomber187]

great video today, always interesting seeing these new vehicles🤣 Could you do the T26E1-1?

[@kenitoken6869]

Spookston not playing the Zachlam Tager is pure suffering

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

Gajin casually laughing at America by giving a disappointing top tier AA instead of a mid tier one that would work for the tier. All doing this while adding more and more powerful planes and tanks to literally every other tree. Especially the Russian tree.

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

Ask them where the T56 radar is for the M42. Ask them about the T52 Sherman. Ask them about the T77. Ask about the T22. Ask them about the T249. Ask them about the Avenger. [This thread was hidden by the cOmMuNiTy] Ask them where our HMC/GMC's are at while everyone else gets them. Ask them about the T37 light tank (two plane stabilized before the bulldog existed) since BTR's are multiplying. Where are the conventional turret US T54's at (105's and 120) when the Russians got another T-55 at 8.0?... [User has been banned for this post] Moderator writes on reddit bitching about US players complaining

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

@@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537 But you find a crayon drawing of a tank made by a soviet child and send it to them. Premium tank that is unkillable

[@micahengan8762]

The four dudes just sitting side by side is what makes it top tier

[@TheArklyte]

What I don't get is why they gave US "improvised" Chaparral, but not Mauler. Sergeant York is in the game in usable condition, Yak-141 is in the game too with armaments and avionics it COULD have gotten. Not to mention many other "what if" vehicles. So why not Mauler?

[@eaglesblades]

Mauler would be super hard to model - the missiles are effectively beam riders and the system, as built (which barely worked) could engage a singular target at time. T249 would be a more interesting vehicle to add.

[@TheArklyte]

@@eaglesblades "which barely worked" Yak-141...

[@eaglesblades]

@@TheArklyte Totally true my man but I'm unsure if WT has *any* beam riding guidance modeled. It would be incredibly tough to use

[@aiedenoldstien9751]

​@@TheArklyteIt's like that with a lot of Russian vehicles. A lot of parts that barely worked or prototypes that said they could do things on paper with no testing. Gajin just gives them all these abilities. Like the Object 279 being able to just ignore bombs. Another good example is the Object 120. In testing. The vehicle itself would never be able to fire on the move. When they moved the vehicle, the entire cannon became dislodged and had to be put back into place. Though in War Thunder it is an 8.0 TD that can fight 11.0

[@sturmgeschutze3070]

@@eaglesbladesKh-66? Fireflash? It’s modelled.

[@la200dool4]

I absolutely love how you added the flood theme when the enemy tanks appeared on the minimap. brings back memories (and ptsd)

[@superbrain3848]

the MI-24 kinda has the ability IRL to lock R-60 onto ground targets (atleast on the P) so yea why not implement that as a feature, since it would give these IR seeker based SPAAs some way to fight armor

[@ryanweintraub9448]

That smoke effect was sick. Also, M163 and Chaparral next to each other supporting each other is historically accurate

[@mote_vengador2832]

I was really hoping usa would get something cool like a spg of doom and stabilized t95 if the snail had mercy on us but not they really blue balled me every update

[@naamadossantossilva4736]

Were the 6 years of T33 bug reports not a clue for you?Gaijin is a russian copium outlet.

[@thesupreme8062]

​@@naamadossantossilva4736the mbt 70/xm 903 got 100mm of pen removed from their round and theyre still at 9.0/.3

[@okand1921]

​@@naamadossantossilva4736sure, and megalodon is real too mate

[@taomongkol5921]

​@@okand1921Megalodon IS real.

[@okand1921]

@@taomongkol5921 💀

[@Cosmetic_Cat.]

Spookston did you know On July 25, 1944, an Me 262 became the first jet airplane used in combat when it attacked a British photo-reconnaissance Mosquito flying over Munich. As a fighter, the German jet scored heavily against Allied bomber formations. U.S. Army Air Forces bombers, however, destroyed hundreds of Me 262s on the ground.

[@LimeInDisguise]

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 day 30

[@Iden_in_the_Rain]

1:34 His position is being approached! They’re finding where he isn’t and where he wasn’t!

[@salty7720]

Maybe try out the Object 685 ? It's been in the game for quite sometime now but no one is using it

[@HNNLUND]

the planes thing is confirmation bias in a nutshell

[@nguyenanhkhoa3766]

Can you play the su-100p, would love to see u play it.

[@cerisuite9076]

I didn't think anything could be worse than the stingers, now an elevated caged hot tub mobile has appeared.

[@arlobones3410]

It’s a good day when spook uploads, how about the new 10M spook?

[@superstapler3829]

"the missile knows where it is at all times by knowing where it is not"

[@erikschlaubi7095]

Hey i think you’d have a great time in the funny Bt-7A. Vast versatile and scouting.

[@theagentofchaos1600]

Spookston inciting his missiles to violence is just the best

[@nobody5217]

Spookston I really appreciate if you could make a video on the Jagtiger or the Tiger 2h? You havent made a video on a German vehicle for quite a while and are constantly making videos on US vehicles.

[@dylanholven6375]

Because they suck, boomcalat

[@vangard9725]

1:34 the mic'ed up squad of up tiered T72 Turms start approaching

[@FearlessLeader2001]

Please play the 8.3 M3 Bradley

[@HeavenlyMandate]

Before you said it was derived from M113. I never knew it was, it looked so diff

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

Can you play the VIDAR? that thing is pure balance with thermals, laser rangefinder and 61mm HE with over 900m/s at 7.7, so fun to fight that in a medium tank on Maginot or something like that you tank will just randomly explode.

[@lector-dogmatixsicarii1537]

T32 from last video seeing this update going live like: WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK Fucking VIDAR at the same BR French thing with turbo missiles at 7.3 400pen HEAT artillery at 6.0 (2 of them) T-55 premo for the Soviets at 8.0 Another BTR chucking fully automatic APDS at fair and balans BR Another ZSU-57-2 where the WW2 tanks be ... and at the bottom of all this is some retard saying this is fine.

[@Nikolay_Slavov]

7:37 - Thank you for including this certified hood classic.

[@MrAviator10]

0:55 ye I said the same thing 22 years ago 💀💀 (This is a joke I’m not even that old)

[@EchoLasev]

Legend has it, that Type 16's turret is still rolling to this day.

[@JohnDoe-kw9ex]

Love the unloved M47 Patton day 49. Howdy! Thank you for another day of wonderful content! Please play the chubby Bulldog!

[@rogermcbadlad2812]

That M47 is awesome. Once you get the rangefinder and HEAT-FS it’s really fun to play even in uptiers to 8.0, at least in my experience

[@MichalKolac]

M47 105?

[@rogermcbadlad2812]

@@MichalKolac Nah, I don’t have the Italian one yet.

[@MichalKolac]

@@rogermcbadlad2812 i dont have it either but i would like to see a videí about the m47 or the m47 105

[@rogermcbadlad2812]

@@MichalKolac I agree, or some of the many many Magach variants to.

[@icy3-1]

Chaparral crew totally not getting harmed by rocket exhaust going into their faces

[@popinmo]

play the best anti air the pbv301!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Not only do you have to identify with ears and eyeballs, could you imagine doing this in real life when there's no giant red "ENEMY" attached to the bad guys? "Is that one of ours? Are you _suuuuure?"_

[@Perculsus_]

day 138 of asking spookston to play the american M60A3 TTS

[@sonarcha1711]

I like the attempts at communicating to the missile what it's supposed to do. "GO, KILL"

[@En1i1y]

Okey Spookston could you please play the Strv 103C?

[@MisterMainiac]

Some people claim to see that turret is still rolling, even to this day.

[@MiikaVornanen]

Day 3 of asking spook to play the SU-122

[@CT--ym5mn]

"...the moment you want planes to appear, they just dont." can relate as an air superiority player, spawned a fighter after got bombed to oblivion and all enemy CAS just gone without a trace

[@incorrectbeans]

I love waiting at the back with an SPAA for planes to appear. I call it Chill Thunder.

[@safetybirb1577]

Spookston every time a plane committed face plant: Okey :)

[@gelatinoussire7772]

The Type 91, a short-range missile with an imaging seeker, not being able to lock helicopters past 3km and not being able to maneuver to kill anything below 1km: "You get used to it."

[@freequest]

Spookston ran out of angry dog's has to resort to putting angry eyebrows on non-angery dogs. Hehe just love it. 👍🏽👍🏽😁😁

[@foxpl9298]

I always imagine that Raiden and Bladewolf art when Spookston send a missle

[@raidkoast]

This is so relatable to an old Planetside 2 player. The damn moment you pull AA of any kind, the sky magically clears in a nanosecond.

[@MrTrool323]

These 4 dudes at the front...no cover...no nothing must be feeling comfy asf

[@The_Faceless_No_Name_Stranger]

I will never play top tier but there is something satisfying about seeing a far away dot go *boop*

[@SniperFire274]

Just wanted to say it's somewhat realistic that the heli would keep going after losing the tail. The tail rotor is just there to stop counter rotation from the main blades, but if the heli is already moving forwards, if there is enough air moving over the airframe, it would keep it straight(ish) by aerodynamics alone. Belly slide landing would be required, but I would want to be given the chance to try instead of it just being counted dead as soon as the tail rips of. I've had flying-wing style aircraft lose the tips of the wings and count the plane as dead, but enough of the control surfaces are still intact that I can still manuver the plane well enough to land if not well enough to still fight. I would love a system where the player has to decide by ejecting or not if the vheicle is recoverable instead of the game deciding it for the player.

[@kylecooper4812]

I love seeing the little barbershop quartet all sitting in the front of this thing 😂

[@TheClone37]

Spookston channeling his inner prez this episode.

[@ThatSlowTypingGuy]

I had a micromachine of this thing when I was little and I've gotta say, it looked a lot more impressive in miniature.

[@alexshepherd1741]

The rocket sees the heat signature of the jet, it is very hot, and this trail is easy to detect even from a great distance. Helicopters do not have a jet trail, but only exhaust gases, like a car, and the exhaust gases are much colder. Therefore, it is more difficult to target a helicopter than a plane.

[@MrAviator10]

Not 20mming the rakenautomat at 2:05 is stumping me so much

[@notownself]

Hearing you cheer for the missile to kill reminds me of Nixon cheering for a squirrel to fall off a power line in Futurama.

[@atomiccrown6917]

Me when spookston locks onto the forbidden heat signature

[@juusolatva]

planes are so favored in this game that even their IR missiles work better.

[@neekniggit3606]

It's not base on the M 113. Way back when i was in the U.S. Army they had these vehicles and ammo carriers for the precursor to the Paladin artillery system based on the M730 tracked chassis, created on the basis of M548, and M54 launcher.

[@blademaster2390]

2:03 Ok that meme sent me for a second there…that had no right to be that funny.

[@slateslavens]

12:45 I totally didn't hear the effect your played for that wingless jet. What I heard was _LEEERROOOOOOOOOOOOY JENKINNNNNNNNNNNNNNS_

[@ariffetorlase9783]

3:47 you got first strike for that kill. That was the first kill of that game!

[@gtmaniacmda]

Spookston: "America basically has no 9.3 lineup" Me with the MBT-70, XM-1 (GM), and Merkava Mk.2B: "I beg to differ"

[@blackcatthegreat182]

premiums don't count

[@mexicanboi9874]

i was expecting the "put your nose on him and kill it" and i lauged hard wen it poped up, keep up the good work spoonk

[@Gullideggel93]

08:43 Ghost Rider now has a flying license. 🤣

[@panzerlite8108]

helicopters sometimes have IRCM, which makes it to where you can only lock them around 3km with Stingers.

[@ozelotsoffunT-jz2rt]

I like how gaijin has now replaced the progression bar on squadron vehicles with the ge price tag

[@boisq97]

2:08 yep, happens to me everytime, sometimes theres also the problem of too many planes, so if i try to kill one the others kill me

[@Ashfielder]

Just four guys having a good time.

[@niksonrex88]

I love how heatseekers have an easier time locking and tracking drones than helicopters with massive engines…

[@GraceFoulques]

Good to know I'm not the only one who spawns in an SPAA only to find nobody on the enemy team is playing CAS.