Can I Carpet Bomb with the FIRST STEALTH Aircraft in War Thunder?! F-117 Nighthawk

[@TheCodMineMan]

Decal coming SOON!!!! Join my discord to be a part of these events: discord.gg/UDNak2JbnR Hawk Tuah *yes, I know you have to close the Bombay for stealth, I kept forgetting*

[@RBXWT-Niam]

your bombay has to be closed for stealth

[@ESL-Free-Money]

Dude you had to Visualize the brave heli behind you all too in cinematic, that guy gave some extra badass vibe .

[@kerberos623]

nice. but know that you are lockable when your bomb bay is open. thus open bay, drop, close bay. the least time you do it, the less radar visible you are.

[@davidstevens-k6f]

Sorry, but I have to say it. Is that "apart" as in further away, or "a part" as in join/participate etc?

[@TheCodMineMan]

@ I haven’t slept in 24hrs leave alone 🤯

[@OddBawZ]

I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU GOT JOHN NIGHTHAWK TO BE IN YOUR VIDEO!

[@MakarovTheRealBasementDweller]

Nice to meet you

[@jackfionn]

NightHawk Tuah*

[@ERROR_F1LE]

Nighthawk-Tuah

[@MakarovTheRealBasementDweller]

@@jackfionn tf

[@OurT-10M]

Hi odd

[@G_de_Coligny]

Bomb bay, high altitude, high speed, close formation, daytime. Those guys are playing the reverse uno user manual for the F117. The only way to frackup better would be to fly with the ID radar reflector for ferry flights.

[@TheCodMineMan]

It was a test to see if I could pull off some ridiculous maneuvers, I may have failed.

[@jamesstevenson9056]

@@TheCodMineMan Story of my every attempt at CAS

[@bloodreaper8822]

@@TheCodMineMan when you're flying in keep your bomb bay close until you are ready to bomb because you lose any stealth capabilities you have when it is open.

[@CallmeRoth]

The plane wasn't designed for anything we have in WT. Maybe in sim nights strat bombing bases from space is the closest thing

[@romanvarcolac2238]

So pretty much never fly the plane, got it XD. I think its stealth capabilities in Warthunder are just very underperforming. If it was this bad in real life, it would have never really been used.

[@javiersavala2385]

I don't know if they added this fact into the game. But you're not supposed to open you bomb bay until the last moment, while the bomber is stealthy, the missiles are not.

[@gilanorodrigues7049]

I want to say the exact same thing

[@warriorhc172]

Yes, and they even forget to close the bomb bay after dropping!!!!

[@thatoneclone]

Trooper get back to the republic

[@deathninja16]

as a kid i remember me and my old man sitting on the porch and seeing a nighthawk fly overhead when i was around 12. were in a flight line between two military bases. we get to see when they go out every third week for drills. but that was the only time i saw one that close to the ground. CORE memory.

[@devanshyadu1229]

The radar picked up the plane at start maybe because of the open bomb bay (and that's how the actual nighthawk was ever shot down)

[@gilanorodrigues7049]

I was wondering that

[@edgychico9311]

And then the Chinese agents trying to stole some of the wreckage into their embassy and got their ass being blown away by America for stealing their stuff.

[@BSenta]

They need to test that though

[@joedingo7022]

That isn't even radar, it's IRST, which the nighthawk has very little defenses for.

[@colinmclenaghan515]

Why do you fly around with your Bombay open so much? It completely ruins the point of any “stealth” they gave the aircraft.

[@BabaGrill69-cb8zn]

Buddy… hush

[@mepmop-m610]

Finally someone adressing this

[@fishpeuo2409]

Hear me out who cares it is a game

[@johnkorhonen2721]

@@fishpeuo2409well if you want to be more stealthy you shud fly with it closed bruh

[@soupcangaming662]

@@fishpeuo2409 Yeah, tell that to every sports fan. I mean, hell, you could apply this argument to religion, work, life... What a dumb argument.

[@KokotoHero-N3]

Damn, you had a perfect opportunity to use the camera colliding with the F117 at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="313">5:13</a> for the cut...

[@sebastianprimomija8375]

Stealth bomber with no stealth is like a yankee with no brim.

[@ghOStDiVision790]

Cut it some slack, it was the first one, obviously it wouldn't be that good by todays standards

[@donovanchau3483]

Still a smaller RCS than our adversarial stealth fighters, 100-300 times smaller than Su-57 and J-20 (granted F-117 is also a smaller aircraft overall).

[@georgy1858]

@@donovanchau3483 so stealthy that it was shot down by a SAM system from 1960s...

[@soupcangaming662]

@@georgy1858 Hey, it was so stealthy, they didn't even know it was stealthy.

[@nercksrule]

@@donovanchau3483 It has a smaller RCS, but it comes at a cost of no offensive weapons, no maneuverability, no speed, and no bitches.

[@koc988]

The F-117's success is due to some parts stealth and most parts mission planning, you should all be coming in from different directions, low and quickly as you can doing a popup and being over the target all at once.

[@TheCodMineMan]

You are correct, I'm just a KZbinr, not a military strategist!

[@Ze_Taco_Guy]

Damn, didn't know the CCVL had teleportation tech!

[@Afiriss]

Fire pfp, love that comic :)

[@Pandacorps]

nah as soon as I heard that 'tuah' i immediately went to the comments 💀

[@toxicbavariankitten]

Ngl that hawk tuah thingy meme is so fricking annoying

[@joshuamattingly1232]

@@toxicbavariankittenit’s like the what are those memes, they were funny at first but got old kinda quick

[@toxicbavariankitten]

@@joshuamattingly1232 The "hawk tuah" meme isnt even funny at all tbh, like >*makes 'spitting on a certain shaft' noises* >crowd: errupts in laughter >> happened never

[@joshuamattingly1232]

@ fair, I never really found it funny either, when my cousin showed me it first just bursting out laughing I looked at her like she was insane

[@soupcangaming662]

@@toxicbavariankitten It's one of those memes I just don't care about. It's not any interesting. It's just dumb, and not even like a funny, ironic dumb, it's just dumb. Inverse Willy Wonka Grape simulating oral on a microphone at the stand was pretty funny, but I don't see much reusability.

[@Osca3007]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="180">3:00</a> lore accurate desert storm friendly fire incident

[@oflofl7177]

😂

[@handen]

close your bomb doors if you don't want to get locked on?? flying with bombs out is asking for problems.

[@Mattsunx]

Spaa still locks on way too early I guess just need to max out the height

[@puwaGT]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="31">0:31</a> it is IRST so it no wonder there

[@M0LOCK]

Just americans twisting reality as aways

[@Mike_Oxard]

keep your bomb doors closed until the last second. they are massive radar reflectors. that’s how the only f117 was shot down irl

[@AshenVanguard]

I just knew, when I heard just the first notes of the new trailer song, it will be used to create masterpieces, that match it's vibe

[@Creeperssuck769]

fr

[@Gary_The_Metro]

Gaijin just decided not to add any stealth to the f117 lol

[@維尼評]

if you really wanna be stealthy you need to first have your bombay doors CLOSED not OPENED or else you can just say goodbye to your stealth bonus, second dont fly in the day its called the "night" hawk (tuah) for a god darn reason, if i miss anything or if im wrong tell me

[@CharlieHendrix-cn1vj]

Tuah 9:06

[@CharlieHendrix-cn1vj]

I didn’t mean to ad the timestamp

[@OldDragon0]

If the did the Stealth right and this plane (and they did not even up that in the game). The nighthawk can only be spotted on Rader when it opens its bomb bay or landing gear, and if turns on it's radar. The in game plane did not have the Stealth added. Just the plane.

[@swissfreek]

The problem with stealth airplanes (like Fox-3 missiles, and glide bombs, and self-propelled howitzers, and and and) is that WarThunder just isn’t built for it. These are systems meant to be used at ranges and altitudes of at least two-, maybe even three-digit kilometers, and Ground RB all happens basically within 10km range and under 2000 meters altitude. In daylight. You’re not getting any advantage with stealth or active radar homing missiles or glide bombs in that tiny little bubble.

[@iiKiboshii-c3z]

I mean, they didn't even get the stealth aspect right. These things flew right over the best Russian radars of the early 2000's without ever being picked up. In this game, the 1982 version of the Tunguska can pick this thing up at 15-12km without filtering, bomb bay open or closed. That's not even getting into the IR sig of this in game. It can be locked out, in front aspect, at 7-6km all the time. For reference, most early afterburning jets can't be front aspected 100% at those ranges. This whole plane was designed to reduce it's IR sig, that's why the engines are shortened and why they sit well inside the aircraft, the exhaust gets extensivly cooled before going out, and then the outlet is further designed to flatten and dissipate that heat quickly. In our test, it's more reliable to lock this thing further out in the rear than a mig-21. What.

[@swissfreek]

I like that you got the different paint schemes, the flag one, the gray one. Pretty cool. Just missing the one they did (I think?) in desert camo. Also, I forgot how ridiculous the forward view from the cockpit was in these things. Almost like the old Delta Darts (and I think the SR-71) that had a pillar right in the dead center of the pilot’s vision.

[@jamesstevenson9056]

Some planes have almost no good visibility. The Do 335 for example

[@InvaderKush]

I was born on Holloman AFB and grew up near by, so I literally grew up with this jet. It’s crazy to see how accurate the game is, those tail markings are pretty accurate, they even have the black sheep lol. We also had the German AF for like 25 years, so the tornadoes would be flying around too.

[@Its-Just-Zip]

There is a reason the nighthawk flew at medium to medium high altitudes, at night, and only opened its bay at the last possible second. Your bay blooms your radar cross section from that of a relatively large bird to something that could be mistaken for a 747. Your flat bottom on the Nighthawk doesnt do you any favors either if you point it at the radar.

[@Heitor_1.2.2]

Dude, that's because the F117 carries 2 bombs. Imagine if they put the B2 Spirit that carries several bombs, if you're not careful it would even be Premium.

[@larkvoid]

bro! those cinematics were insane!

[@Skaztek733]

if you don't hawk tuah i don't talk tuah 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@spud4839]

As soon as the update came out I tested the f117 and did a kvotcher bell in it (just hold like q and a that’s how I did it) 👍

[@altaccount4697]

If the nighthawk was implemented correctly it would be essentially invisible. So i guess I'm glad it isnt.

[@froddoradda94]

I would have been super excited about this vehicle... If I hadn't known Gaijin very well by this time 🤣 On a positive note, Cod keeps producing epic cinematics and this one might be the best one yet IMO!

[@Fooxey]

This is actually fun to watch, using it how its supposed to be used and not flying it like a BF 109 and saying F117 Suffers.

[@thomasmedveddubois4566]

Mmmmmh you open your bomb bay and a ground-to-air missile lock you and approche Where did I saw that ?

[@themaximumgamer7834]

As great as the video already is <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="128">2:08</a> is my favourite. The cinematic with the trailers music is amazing

[@groundon83]

the reason why the enemy was able to lock you so easyly is very simple. the bomb bay does not have the same stealth coating like the entiree plane so when its opened it makes it available to rader

[@edgychico9311]

It's not really a stealthy if you open the bomb bay door and that's exactly how it was shot down in Serbia.

[@vincentbotha1096]

Hi I've said it before I love your videos, and the cinematics are like something out of a Tom Clancy movie, great cinema. I'm still a long way from putting videos of such high quality online, but I'm learning something new every day ;)

[@donovanchau3483]

You should be flying at around 8,000m and only open the bomb bay for about 1 second. At that altitude it would require fighter interception to take you guys out.

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

Yup now if they were escorted by low flying aircraft they would have had the advantage

[@TheRealLemon27]

Not the hawk tuah girl in the beginning 😂😂

[@KellyAnderaon]

The cinematic is crazy I got shivers up my spine

[@MilkTruck1210]

I can predict he will spam the T77E1 for the 50 cal memes

[@Battlestargroup]

Figured Gaijin wouldn’t model stealth in correct way, even if they made its RCS the size of a beach ball

[@slummy1873]

And yet another absolute cinematic masterpiece! 🫡 good shit

[@Generlc_Human]

Imagine you're some random Iraqi, just chilling, then you see 5 triangles in the sky in a triangle formation, the leading one with the American flag painted on it. Next thing you know everything around you is on fire.

[@thegaminodst1630]

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO MAKE THIS SO EPIC?!?!?! WHYYYYYY?!?!?!? LMAO Excellent Work! xD

[@DavidLee-sw2cy]

i was in the t64b that your team was angry with and my buddy ivan in the tunguska who shot you down at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="352">5:52</a>. Me and my buddy have never seen a formation like that in ground rb, that was rad.

[@Rolf_the_Loaf]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="681">11:21</a> the guy's name was literally Hawktuah

[@CloudlessTen4]

That first cinematic gave me proper bond vibes with that song. Defo one of my favourites you have done.

[@The_last_slice_0f_pizza]

Sisu just sniffing ur stabilisers

[@TheTalkingUshanka]

The bomb bays opening sounds like a 203 launching a grenade.

[@iiKiboshii-c3z]

The fact that IR missiles can lock the nighthawk out further in front aspect than most afterburning jets is fucking insane. Gaijin really has no clue, or they are malicious with particular countries, take your pick. Lets not even talk about helicopters and IR locks.

[@4kpingu]

my god am i happy that i found this channel, the cinematic bits are amazing

[@ulfhedtyrsson]

"The NightHawks are Hawk Tuahing." That's it. I'm canceling my internet subscription.

[@legrosleon556]

I rarely leave a comment on a video but i just wanted to say that your cinematic are absolutely beautiful! You definitely deserves that like and subscribe!

[@non-illegal-illegitimate]

To properly play this jet you simply have to make them not know the direction to look for you because search will struggle to pick up you and circling around will make the aircraft do its whole purpose of surprising the enemy

[@baine1985]

I'm shocked you guys didn't realize you had Paveway IIIs on your racks. Those things can be dropped nearly 10km away from your target at the altitudes you were flying!

[@austink4712]

That American flag belly paint job is 👌

[@AdamasBagdonas-f6x]

the c point glitch is because of solar particles hitting your pc probably and telling war thunder programing to put you there

[@Markty07]

you're more stealthy when facing the target, shallow dive towards it and only go up when in range

[@gabet7593]

Every video, every single one, absolutely GORGEOUS!

[@swaffelsmurf424]

hahah cheeky transition into the second cinematic. good job bud, ya got me

[@mystlcgreatness]

I hear the eagles screeching

[@rubypallan4777]

Nighthawks aren’t for carpet bombing,usually it’s one nighthawk,at night,and it’s one target,like two bombs,and it’s one target,like a radar station or a research facility or something like that

[@easyfoxproductions]

F-22 NEXT BABY 🗣🗣🔥🔥🇺🇸🦅🦅 (yes ik that its most likely never gonna happen)

[@Mantis_YT10]

I was the FlaRakPz 1, i though it was some event or something, but then i got bombed, that match was definitely fun!

[@bloodreaper8822]

From what I noticed about this is that you lose your stealth when you open your bomb bays so maybe don't open them until just before you drop.

[@The-Red-Baron]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="309">5:09</a> " lore accurate serbia 🇷🇸 "

[@RussianRainbow]

Ozelot isn't a normal radar it's the same IR search as the Stormer, it's the main reason they don't give a radar ping to any aircraft.

[@Taturo]

The Ozelot uses IRST and not Radar, that is why it was so easy for it to lock on.

[@EpicGamingKid245]

"now this is real desert storm" hell yeah it is guy in the chat

[@Trauma_Teamm]

Warthunder try not to be the most cinematic game: challenge impossible

[@ace_ofchaos9292]

Stealth in the sense that despite it being invisible to radar with its bay closed irl Gaijin made it detectable regardless.

[@coltonpetit3358]

It came out yesterday and you already have a awesome montage!

[@masterDevis]

Why am I not surprised? The moment I heard they were adding a stealth aircraft to the game - I knew they were gonna mess up. Adding such an aircraft already is a very, very bad idea anyway, especially since there is no mechanic for such an aircraft to function as designed anyway.

[@LeftyTheHefty]

that low alt strike was so sick

[@gimpyo3354]

Fighter Pilot Podcast has a fantastic nighthawk episode if anyone is curious.

[@FürDeustchland]

The tuah in the beginning was WILD

[@drvinylscratch1936]

Not surprised. The nighthawk is meant for high altitude, long range, precision strikes. That isnt warthunder at all. Any stealth plane will get locked up by ground based radar when it flies in close. Look at DCS players getting locked by patriot/s400 and awacs in a raptor when they get too close.

[@CUWHIP97]

For good results (usually) I fly my F-117 at 17,000ft, 18,000ft is when con trails start. Lock a target that ISN'T ALREADY SURRONDED BY FRIENDLYS, Keep bomb bay CLOSED until seconds before your drop. OPEN, DROP, CLOSE, GTFO!

[@JadenT-i9z]

the nighthawk would be much more useable if there was a game mode for strategic bombing

[@a_spoon2822]

For real life reasons if your plane is facing their radar it will have a much smaller detection range.

[@stijnjanssens571]

i'ma be honnest, i need a stand allone vid of those edits.. damn they go hard!

[@duvagr007]

Yknow... since we have RTX in the game now and the engine can handle ray path tracing and simulate a realistic interaction of invisible rays, I think they should really pivot that code into ALSO accurately simulating radar waves. It would give the 117 slightly less visibility and also improve a lot of other vehicles visibility that traditionally have a pretty big radar cross section. (You know like helicopters, which seem to be invisible outside of 3km on every radar that isn't russian.)

[@LaYarddog]

Love the music in your cinematic

[@diegotostado8817]

We need a cinematic compilation for Christmas (edit) or new years

[@TheDgamesD]

if the bomb bay door is open you loose stealth. it’s literally how they got shot down IRL.

[@cristobalalvarez5491]

That and they had them fly the same route

[@jordan_777-n9e]

W cinematic editing 🤯

[@gageosteen5784]

Brother you have GYATT to close the bomb bay. Your B-17 is showing ;)

[@Basta_Fox]

that reworked map is completly broken, my first match there everybody got spawned in the water and drowned :D

[@IsfetSolaris]

Does anyone know the name of the song at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="130">2:10</a>? Your music choices continue to impress me :P

[@miltrion]

Dancing on the Edge, which, surprise, is made by Gaijin for one of their trailers

[@ChrishenJamesYap]

fits the vibe perfectly

[@ChrishenJamesYap]

fits the vibe perfectly

[@ChrishenJamesYap]

fits the vibe perfectly

[@Jetblacksteel]

fits the vibe perfectly

[@Nate0493]

Been waiting for this! Imagine looking up and seeing this! Would be Terrifying!

[@Tortdidit]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="290">4:50</a> seeing that in game would be the most horrifying thing ever.

[@G_de_Coligny]

Yea but the 5:11 flight behaviour is near spot on, smallest airframe/flight computer problem and you are in an overpriced anvil…

[@Anirossa]

The best video on a aircraft in WT, but it's on the worst aircraft in WT, really cool

[@_Frozen_mamba_]

man you keep cooking with these cinematics

[@JotaDeeMeO]

MAAAN that cinematic was soo good. had me giggling of excitment.

[@got_lucky7683]

Gotta appreciate the Nighthawk tuah joke

[@Hudson2094]

The f 117 !NIGHT! Hawk was made for bombing Missions at NIGHT...😮 Så Maybe try it in a night battle

[@Jackson-mx9wx]

Now they need to add the B-2 with the M.O.P

[@flixiers]

Mr Beast of War Thunder , you make the movie .

[@joelfrantz3189]

The F-111: looks good but a total waste of taxpayer dollars

[@kburton1651]

I don’t think this plane is not suppose to fly at day time…. You got to use it at night time maps, that’s the true power of the F-117…