Su-25BM In War Thunder : A Basic Review

[@TimsVariety]

Complete guide on air to ground weapons if you need a refresher: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5KnfqyBerxojMU

[@bendawg8-wi4dr]

Random players; hmm should they add something unique and special like the F-20 Tigershark? Gaijn; ehh I’m tired, just make a 5th Su-25, slap some R-73’s on it and call it a day.

[@ICECAPPEDSKY]

I wouldn’t want the F20 as an event vehicle really, either tech tree or premium personally

[@Kinghans-fc1do]

To their credit, they have been working on some very positive changes recently

[@zanaduz2018]

I wouldn’t call the Tigershark particularly unique and special, given that it’s heavily based on the F-5.

[@Tigershark_3082]

@@zanaduz2018 That is somewhat true, though the changes made to it quite radically alter its performance

[@briartousley9806]

Well, ya got it now

[@Prometheus-r6m]

Outstanding reviews mate! I hope one day you could do the Pe-8.

[@TimsVariety]

I'll get to it eventually.

[@TimsVariety]

I _do_ have a Pe-8 video up by the way, its just not a review in my usual format....

[@marc13bautista]

​@@TimsVarietyDo mention how op it is with a naval lineup with the SKR-7. I love nonstop nuking with it's shortish 30 second arcade reload when uncontested.

[@justmarc2015]

Pe-8 review: BIG BOMB, amazing handling and defensive armament. Flawless bomber 10/10

[@ClownAsleep]

@@TimsVariety I killed last top-tier Abrahams with Lancia 3ro, I'm happy

[@gendo1]

A rare reupload. Will watch again, because such a good video. Thanks for all the hard work Tim, you inspire me!

[@skilz2kil528]

i also

[@DieErsteKartoffel]

Third times the charm

[@TimsVariety]

Right?!

[@LOLOtheFNG]

Beat me to it!

[@micah4993]

>look inside air event award >Plane only useful in ground RB

[@talltale9760]

And not even that great there either. MiG-27 is still king.

[@rxzxqx6982]

and you need to grind upgrades to make it more usable in ground RB

[@diprosla592]

I think its Time for USA to get A-10C or even better version of it with laser guided munitions

[@spacedoutchimp4454]

we need the F-111

[@talltale9760]

⁠@@spacedoutchimp4454 god please I want it so bad. A-10 will never be competitive but the VARK will be.

[@Tigershark_3082]

​@@talltale9760Eh F-111F would unfortunately immediately become redundant as soon as the F-16C-40, F-15E, or even later F/A-18C got added

[@_sickaduck]

Av8B, gr7 is already in britain.

[@1uca_]

American mains complaining about a lack of content… absolutely hilarious.

[@wing_sweep]

I love the way you make your reviews cinematic like, they’re always made professionally you can easily tell. Could you make a review on the saab 105?

[@TimsVariety]

The Saab 105 was one of my very first reviews. Its badly out of date though, and I'm re-doing it from scratch soon. (In the "collecting footage" stage)

[@jaredbrinkley2810]

It’s so overhated, even though it’s kinda bad, it’s so lovable

[@bendawg8-wi4dr]

Honestly wish people would stop hating on this thing publicly since I want to sell it enough to get the kfir canard on sale.

[@rxzxqx6982]

lmao yeah, some random youtubers start to hate this when bigger CC said it's quite underwhelming i mean, what do you expect from dedicated ground attack eh?

[@TimsVariety]

Unfortunately there are a lot of folks who will always hate on anything that doesn't "push the dogfight meta" at the top tiers.

[@bendawg8-wi4dr]

@@TimsVariety hey Tim, thanks for the reply, love your content man and have a blessed day. Hope to run across ya again some time in game. 👋

[@Sagaleon14]

Lol as a fighting game player I really appreciate that fatality reference

[@Ravnican127]

Honestly, right now, the biggest issue with trying to fly the plane is the absolutely toxic player base. Of the dozen matches I have flown 8 of them ended at the runway because of either getting gunned down during takeoff, or being rammed into and force into the ground by friendly aircraft. Then being told that I was "ruining the game by bringing that garbage plane" or "hope the event grind was worth getting bullied" Honestly, I want to at least TRY to enjoy the plane. But it seems the community has decided that only sweat lords are allowed to play at 11-12 BR right now.

[@TimsVariety]

There are, unfortunately, a lot of players .. including a few other youtubers by the way .. at the top tier who honestly believe if you aren't flying the vehicle that currently pushes the edge of the meta that you're just a complete drain on your team and shouldn't be allowed to try to have any fun. Then they wonder why people quit the game.

[@CokenOpi]

i can't wait to get mine! I don't have any of the other su25s

[@hory121]

8:02 This is an ideal situation to catch someone off guard but still, the missile performance is crazy!

[@TimsVariety]

I was honestly a little surprised that shot connected.

[@Sgt_Recka]

I’m going to keep it even though I’ve grinded the Soviet tech tree because I love the Su-25 and the cockpit is great

[@Lord.Kiltridge]

I'm selling mine. But I have to buy one star to do it. How much do you think it will go for?

[@TimsVariety]

Probably around 50ish, same as most of the others.

[@fixit9844]

this is weird, youtube hasnt put you in my recommendations in a while, but ah well, it's here now.

[@TimsVariety]

You'd be surprised how many people have told me that ... even people who are double-subscribed with the bell and shit, but still not getting notices or recommends ..... :-\

[@jovanhardianto4658]

Is it worth it to grind this plane? I have some top tier russian tanks but cannot be bothered grinding planes, I want to have some capable cas on my lineup.

[@TimsVariety]

This is quite the capable cas jet, for sure.

[@tomyostorero1152]

Amazing video as always , thanks for the hard work and dedication you put on your videos. Honestly, you deserve so much subscribers 👍🏻👍🏻

[@TimsVariety]

Sadly, it seems sometimes like the more shallow the content, the better it does.

[@Mr_Snek037]

Even though it sucks, i think itll be great for my top tier Russian ground loadout. I never got around to grinding Russian air so this is gonna be perfect!

[@TimsVariety]

I think a lot of people are going to be in that situation.

[@Mr_Snek037]

​@@TimsVarietynot sure if ur gonna see this, but i came back to this jet and it actually ended up being a good sl griner in arb. I would just fly around the edge of the map, get bases, and then pick out ground targets while occasionally getting an air target. I would just turn on my periodic cm in enemy territory and id be fine

[@rileygayming6933]

Something of note for the Su-25BM I saw Hunter use the Kab-500/Kh-29T as a makeshift camera for the laser designator. Doesn't give you tracking but it does allow you to get a much better picture for the laser, plus the laser marker shows up in the middle of the sight so you can see where you're lasing. Not nearly as good as the Su-25T/39s targeting pod, but definitely will let you use the Kh-25MLs along with some bombs and missiles A decent free* option to the Su-39 (*the Su-25T exists plus anyone who wants it now has to spend money if they dont already have the stars)

[@Panocek]

Su-25T requires any progress made in Strike branch, which I'm afraid might take longer than 8 stars for close enough copy. And then as I have rather modest progress in Russian Air in general, I'll take it anyway, probably for Sim though whenever 10.7-11.3 bracket returns.

[@TimsVariety]

That's a somewhat common trick, but I haven't mentioned it because TBH I'm not entirely sure if its intended behavior or is going to get patched out at some point (like the LOAL with the R-27ER). Taking a single KAB-500 as an improvised targeting pod is, **for now** , a pretty legit thing to do.

[@Ome99]

I'd rather sell and use the profit to help with the cost of buying an Su-39.

[@Anti-Villain-Wolf]

If you ever decide to change your name to something else, it should be Top Gun Tim

[@ClockWork-zj7zy]

Great review, I love the small editing tidbits they add a bit of flavor and personality to the video

[@dotnask0001]

As a Bulgarian I can confirm they were in Bulgaria at the May 6 military parade. Sadly I missed the opportunity to record them, I got the mig-29s though.

[@veselinstoyanov576]

Нямаме BM модел в България, но имаме K/UBK (UBK са двуместни, но с изключение на това са еднакви)

[@mwrightinnit]

I only really wanted this jet for the new cockpit tbh, It's much more usable than the other Su-25s but this one also doesnt have the ugliness of the Su-25T/39. The only downside is the non-upgraded optics but I'll be mainly using this in sim anyways to grind my Russian TT at the higher tiers. Also man is it a lot more of a handful to fly in comparison to my Harriers lmao, something about low level pilots?

[@EuropaTelesBTR]

Such a beautiful plane

[@GeneralArmchair]

Tim, thanks for finally answering the question that none of the other content creators were answering: "Does it have an auto-tracker?" Its absence makes me wonder if this frogfoot will eventually be downtiered once the hype around the R-73 dies off and the Su-25T and Su-39 get given their R-73s?

[@TimsVariety]

Yeah, that's ... a really critical detail .... (the autotracker)

[@exoltal]

hopefully it gets put to 10.7 with little to no downteirs.. and zero upteirs because this suffers in 11.3

[@mayonotes9849]

​@@exoltalMy guy that's not how matchmaking works. 10.7 BR will get you downtiers like at least 50% of the time.

[@exoltal]

@@mayonotes9849 They were able to limit M1 spawns to 4 M1s every game when it came out due to how broken it was. If they can do that, they should be able to limit how much a certain vehicle gets downteired or upteired.

[@thatoneguy1741]

@@mayonotes9849yeah R73s at 10.7 is crazy

[@gansior4744]

Russia is getting Another Strike Aircraft and Italy can't even get AMX/A-11. It has been on forums for 6 Years now. Italy still doesnt have Mavericks and only CAS jet is a tornado

[@Divergent7899]

Great video get up the amazing work

[@MatchingUser]

Do I want this? Eh, a little. Will I watch this twice because funny telephone pole go nyoom from plane? Yes.

[@ivanjerginov1729]

Wait why does this Su-25 get R-73s when other jets that used it doesn't? Are they using the Su-25BN as a testbed to balance the R-73?

[@TimsVariety]

The answers from snailstaff are that they wanted to give this one something to stand out, and yes to testbed the missile. I didnt mention it in the vid but its confirmed bugged to shit, and being actively worked on for a fix.

[@dd-gl2qf]

Yeah, it seems to have an issue where it loses a lot of energy at range because it wobbles massively when trying to fly straight (or mostly straight) which limits the range quite a lot. It's still absolutely monstrous at R-60 ranges though which is quite amusing.

[@TimsVariety]

@@dd-gl2qf Yep - that wobble is crazy lol

[@ivanjerginov1729]

@@TimsVariety Seems like most of the R missiles are buggy. I R-27R1s like to do barrel rolls and then fuck off to the sun. Maybe the snail snorted some coke and accidentally added a wobble code to all missiles while trying to find a way to push premium to new people.

[@pomelo9840]

This video has been plaguing my hotbar for the past 6 hours, hope this one won't be taken down too 😅

[@TimsVariety]

Nope - fixed!!! :-)

[@ianm-y5s]

I dont care if it sucks, I just want an Su-25 thats not blatantly overpowered in every aspect

[@aqui1ifer]

Looking for the Fatality pop up after you used “Finish Him”, felt blue balled just a bit. Seems to be about right in terms of flight & ordnance.

[@arrow8559]

11.3 br is too high its just a normal su25 with tv guided missils it should be 10.7

[@williamgunter4268]

Comment for Tims stats! I wanted to grind this but im an old(42) and priorities came up. Oh well seems like its nothing special but i do like my SU25k.

[@EmeraldDuke]

Note it seems the ECCM isnt really working the thing is more hungry for flares then the R60m.

[@TimsVariety]

I didn't mention it in the review, but the R-73 has some issues/bugs confirmed by the snail, and they told me the issues are being worked on right now. We'll see, I guess. ...

[@EmeraldDuke]

@TimsVariety ya I saw the post they made about them. I can only hope it gets a proper fix. Not sure why they havnt been testing it noting it was removed when the Mig 29 got added. Kinda expected it to be ready but maybe it was a different problem that popped up when they added it to the game.

[@Mr__Sauce]

Excellent review! I feel like it was worth it for the easy grind. Now the frustrating stock grind begins!

[@Apollo_Tsakiris]

Since the R-73 is added in the game, something tells me that we are getting Su-27s and F-15s soon.

[@friesingcold]

Reupload?

[@TimsVariety]

Yeah, I had to fix an error in editing. Whoops.

[@QqQq-fi4el]

clean point,easy to understand.Thanks for the review

[@aliceWT]

I think this plane suppose to have a auto tracker, because the laser missile lock in the game is bugged

[@Mr.TangerineMan]

Hey tim, late comment I know, but I was wondering when you mentioned the low optic zoom if it's like the su25/su25k or if it's just a lower zoom tgp like on the su25t,su39, and mig27k

[@TimsVariety]

You can see me use the laser optic zoom at 5:30 , thats its max zoom.

[@Mr.TangerineMan]

Oh thanks, thats a weird optic

[@RealPigeon]

Seems...worth selling currently lol (for an Air RB player). I wonder though eventually when more advanced vehicles get added if this thing might start to see more downtiers, similar to current 10.7. They will certainly raise the BR ceiling up to 12.3 or 12.7, meaning 12.0 will then get uptiered lots at that point. That plus them fixing the R-73s soonish, this plane might become much more enjoyable in Air RB. Maybe it's worth holding onto then? Tough

[@MarcoChurchH]

Reupload>relike❤

[@GalaxyGmWT]

Hello Tim! Great to hear you again :D

[@TreXoniKs]

A high-quality production from start to finish. Thank you for the video!

[@gtmike916]

I missed out on the plane but I honestly don’t care though. It’s nice that it got R-73s, but it only carries two of them, and it’s not an Air Superiority Fighter or Multirole Fighter which is what you want in Air SB or RB. Cool plane nonetheless.

[@chaosinsurgency6636]

Sad thing for AIR battles the sim especially the wings being cantilevered meaning attempting to maneuver quickly to get to the ground to be more protected from aim7s

[@fenrirtyr8577]

Humble request for the Gloster meteor being the first allied jet in mass production(to my knowledge) look forward to your next vid regardless tho.

[@solvdev]

Re upload? Doesn’t matter, I’ll watch it again 😎

[@TimsVariety]

I had an editing error that I needed to fix.

[@lewislaws6770]

Hey Tim, there was a post on reddit yesterday talking about this being the target towing version of the su-25, and in the comments someone did point out that its not the Russian bm, but the Belarusian bm, they're not the same thing. the Belarusian bm was an upgrade to bolster the armament and weapons systems, thus lengthening its service life.

[@TimsVariety]

The info I was able to find suggested the upgraded planes kept their original designations, and nothing mentioned the BM suffix.

[@jonesy279]

Imagine a Frogfoot going 8.3 Mach 😂 I assume you meant .83 Mach

[@TimsVariety]

Did I say 8.3? .. whoops.

[@jonesy279]

@@TimsVariety Great vid by the way! I just unlocked my Su-25BM and I really appreciated your review.

[@KiwiFlyer100]

should i sell or get it? looking for air RB and probably ground eventually

[@samkerkhof7520]

Last few event prizes were terrible they should of done the a10 if anything there are to many su25s now

[@ThePenguins4life]

would you say its ok for 20 gajin coin just for fun instead of getting a premium ones?

[@Ayequian]

I am outraged by this event. Not by the vehicles but by the camos it offers for those vehicles, for the su-25bm it has a camo called "digital" but it is the exact same camo as the su-25k "Bulgarian 24," It pisses me off because i collect camos for vehicles for historical rp but the bm has the complete copy camo and im upset i wasted time on it

[@TimsVariety]

You know, I had considered talking about that for a minute in the review, but decided against it. The Bulgarian camo is, as you said, basically a copy and I expect some folks might get annoyed by that.

[@Brzzzyexe]

mfw gaijn adds another shitty air frame with better missiles than anyone else to the air rb matchmaker

[@marc13bautista]

Was on the fence about grinding for this but glad i skipped it. No vikhrs and high br. Defyn played it nicely though.

[@ozelotsoffunT-jz2rt]

Should i pay 700GE for it??- i didnt have time for the event

[@Siddich]

its gun is great too

[@MandaCoster]

Tim upload I watch till the end!

[@TimsVariety]

o7

[@Unaware217]

like I always say "there's never a bad plane only bad pilots."

[@yubisnake]

Could have sworn I saw this earlier then it was removed wtf

[@TimsVariety]

There was an editing error that needed to be fixed.

[@yubisnake]

@@TimsVariety gotcha coach

[@volatile5460]

Suffer extreme!!

[@TheDgamesD]

i really see this, the SU-39 and other ones of the improved 25’s being moved down to 10.3 and beware the storm when it does…

[@ivanivkovic573]

Its not premium, going on sale around Christmas 😂

[@steffent.6477]

Is it worth my 20 bucks? I wonder^^

[@FTL1511]

The game totally needed 5000 of these jets, while the A10 is still incredibly useless in practice.

[@4Tay96]

Basically the games worst jet, gotcha.

[@GuyInBlackClothes]

It's also just 21 bucks rn.

[@0Ploxx]

Cmon where’s the F-104C review? Stop having fun and suffer like the rest of us))))

[@TimsVariety]

F-104J is coming soon, the C will be a while.

[@AJ.Arciniega]

Good vid Tim 👍

[@Reliq.]

i saw a video where he just zoomed the hell out of the tv missle scope but no idea how they do it

[@TimsVariety]

That may be a bug, which is why I didn't mention it in the video. You use one of the KAB-500 tv bombs as an improvised targeting pod and use its camera zoom to find targets for the laser.

[@zetho807]

the cannon have EEGS but useless

[@TimsVariety]

When I first saw that, I had hoped it would slave to the laser ..... but no auto tracker ..... :-\

[@zetho807]

@@TimsVariety either they going to remove the EEGS or give it radar/targeting pod

[@dd-gl2qf]

@@zetho807Even the Su-39 which does have the Kopyo radar pod doesn't get EEGS, so it makes you wonder why they gave this thing EEGS.

[@zetho807]

@@dd-gl2qf probably just another useless feature like what happened to tornado ids, but i hope not

[@cliffthelightning]

I grinded out Renown and cannot be arsed to do any more. Great review as usual!

[@GatorGreenGladiator]

Excellent review.

[@charliezw3287]

EXTREME!!

[@TimsVariety]

Straight outta '96 !

[@kiri101]

It's cute but I think I'll stick with the tech tree Su-25 when I get to it, nothing wrong with this plane but the BR it's at isn't so fun to play. After playing the Chinese starter heli I'm starting to really appreciate the well designed cockpits in game (you need to use the pilot gunsight to score accurate hits with the fixed MG on the pylon), the cabin lights actually lit up dials and displays when I turned it on! I'd really appreciate some content on Sim modes if you play them much.

[@kajmak64bit76]

Chinese Starter heli is straight up just better then the next one the Z-9W coz thermals and they have same missile too Z-9W doesn't get thermals for some reason idk why it doesn't make much sense However it does get TY-90's max 4... and it gets the Tandem variant of the ATGM that Z-11WA uses but it's basically same missile... and it's bad Edit: However the Z-9WA gets thermals... and like double the loadouts... it can carry like what 8x TY-90's and 8x ATGM's and gets 4x ATGM's stock compared to only 2x like the previous helis Also range of them is 3km still... RIP... at 10.3 too Not to mention it all needs to be spaded first to be used lol

[@ObusPerduYT]

Damn, we're blessed with all these uploads today, have some rest Tim ^^

[@johnroscoe2406]

Su-25 Bowel Movement

[@KaguyasBeat]

Tim sounding so hyped when saying Summer Extreeeeme xD On another note... was kinda surprised how many of these were in Air RB today. It's still an Su-25 and on that front... all it has going for it is the R-73... which roughly acts like a 9L in regards to flare resistance. Don't see it being too popular when the 73 gets put on actual fighters and stuff. Guess this is a decent enough way to test it since it seems so many people are still scarred from its original iteration when the MiG-29 was in testing. I did have one straight up eat a direct hit from my Sparrow and keep flying to... teammates Sparrow right behind mine actually killed it lol

[@TimsVariety]

Air RB is going to be flooded with them for a week or two as everyone who got one has to grind the upgrades for it before putting it in their CAS lineup.

[@KaguyasBeat]

@@TimsVariety Huh I actually didn't know that. Thought all the upgrades were default like a premium? I've never gotten event vehicles or anything.

[@TimsVariety]

@@KaguyasBeat No, the silver non-premium event vehicles usually come stock like a regular vehicle out of the tech tree.

[@merc7806]

its rather frustrating that these air event vehicles seem to be more geared toward ground battles than air battles, great video

[@TimsVariety]

On one hand, I think its nice for ground mains to get an opportunity to get a cas jet without grinding the tech tree, but on the other hand it would be REALLY nice to get a little variety from the events.....

[@kVidStream]

Isn't it supposed to be used for CAS?

[@TimsVariety]

Yes (at least in my opinion), I'd think thats pretty clear from the review.

[@askamikaze3936]

TBH, as vet of War Thunder this star event, wasn't worth the grind at all. Fight me, but previous rewards were better.

[@ICECAPPEDSKY]

The tier 1 German armored car was probably the best reward lmao HMS Renown is cool but bots and aimbot have ruined naval

[@askamikaze3936]

@@ICECAPPEDSKY I can agree on the Sd.Kf.z (car) reward, I always wanted it, it's just too cool, I wasn't aviable to do it, so I missed out on it. Nowadays it seems like most of the rewards for stars are underwhelming. I sold every single one of them. Object 279 included (just because I needed gaijin coins,, still 90-95 coins profit). I haven't got the incentive to work towards a vehicle, excluding sturmtiger, since most of the rewards were hit or miss. Sure I was doing them, but just to sell them on the market, not for myself.

[@farmcat9873]

@TimsVariety glad you did a Review on this Su you do a pretty good one every time. But what I don't like about the Su25's is that IRL the gun pods had the ability to move up and down during flight to certain angles but Gaijin didn't model this into the game for them.

[@kajmak64bit76]

I mean it's kinda useless It's made for infantry... you fly straight and shoot gunpods down It would be cool to have but useless to... well... use lol

[@farmcat9873]

@@kajmak64bit76 I like realism and gaijin gives a tiny bit of this but that's why I play DCS usually when I want realism for a Jet. But they actually do have those gun pods on DCS and it makes a big difference even in a dog fight if your choice is to have one with it.

[@kajmak64bit76]

@@farmcat9873 i mean i'm not against it... it would be cool But it's really low priority for Gaijin to add

[@farmcat9873]

got ya sorry bout that @@kajmak64bit76

[@RienRocks]

How much time did it take to grind for the plane?

[@TimsVariety]

A few hours per day per star for me.

[@ricardogunnz2]

As per usual in these events, the tank is alright and the aircraft is just garbage. Sure the R-73s are good in general, it's just not good for the plane.

[@ICECAPPEDSKY]

Are there not modernized MIG-21’s with R73 capability. If so that would’ve been a good vehicle.

[@sargesacker2599]

@@ICECAPPEDSKY Modernised Indian and Romanian Mig-21’s are R-73 capable.

[@ICECAPPEDSKY]

@@sargesacker2599 would’ve been cool to see.

[@ayylmao9697]

​@icecappedskies2144 there's the MiG-21-93 which I believe uses the radar the Su-39 has for its radar pod

[@Bhob138]

Feels similar to a10a

[@retrorally-c7k]

Do the buccaneer jet

[@TimsVariety]

Ive got one of them done, will get to the other eventually.

[@retrorally-c7k]

@@TimsVariety thanks

[@farmcat9873]

The Su-25 has a G limit of 6.5 IRL but not in WT and a top speed of Mach 0.79 or 950km/h but not in WT so guess Gaijin cut a lot more than a few corners. But I'm sure Gaijin isn't done adding more variants of the Su-25 cause there is still more

[@chaosinsurgency6636]

This is the SU25BM a towing version of it an id like your sources of these claims

[@farmcat9873]

from a pilot of one and if you are well inclined to look it up for yourself ANYWHERE on the internet @@chaosinsurgency6636 😉 heck even Wiki has it if you want to see it just type in what you want to know. Here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-25 Here go right to "performance" I make it easy for you don't worry I will hold your hand threw it. This is just the easiest one that anyone can go to on the net.

[@davidreinl7965]

You are the first cc that gives a realistic view of that plane.. 🤌

[@TimsVariety]

o7