Every Remote Turret in War Thunder - Planes

If I missed any please let me know in the comments :)

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[TheIronArmenianakaGIHaigs]

I enjoy looking at stuff to much in ther hangar so I wanted to share the little things I've been starting at instead of playing the game :)

[corvo]

It's wild thinking they had remote-controlled turrets in ww2, It's something i still find difficult to grasp

[joshuadickinson]

12:24 The nose is boxy because curved glass distorts the image through it and makes the sun glint at more angles. It's the same reason the canopy of the AH-1 cobra became more boxy over time. Note that on most aircraft until quite recently you'll find an optically flat panel of glass in most cockpits and bomb aimer positions.

[phloppyphish]

2:09 I forgot there I heard it from, but I believe the pilot could lock the turret forward, basically giving the pilot 4 extra forward facing .50's on top of the 20mm cannons. Sadly this feature is not in War Thunder :(

[Spartan-irzf]

The B-17 with the remote ball turret control was the glass bubble right behind the turret.

[Lykas_mitts]

No doubt everyone will be flooding you with this comment, but the P-61's turret actually defaults forward facing not rear facing. Which makes it bad if you're being intercepted from the rear.

[teodor]

the Bottom turret on the G8N simply uses a reflective gunsight. the crew sits above and will have to move the turret himself.

Edit: surprised people liked this.

[bkam]

2:35 You are correct, the P-61 was designed to be a Heavy Night Fighter, using its radar to find, track, and destroy enemy aircraft in the dark.

[biomike]

The fixed mgs were controlled by the pilot, they would have a trigger to fire them to try and scare off planes on their tail

[loganrapp]

im surprised the XA-38 grizzly was missed out, but either way it was neat to learn about the planes with these turrets, its easy to forget how many of them actually have remote controlled turrets.

[BrownFoxWarrior]

What I heard from those WWII vet interviews was that tge B-17E's remote turret used a mirror to aim, which made aiming difficult. That's why it was changed to a ball turret.

[MBkufel]

4:40 The rear turret in the B-29 was also just optionally manned if I remember it correctly. It could be remote controlled.

[_Funtime]

The 1 degree traversal on the fixed guns isn't Gaijin being nice, it's needed in order to use them at ALL. Since in gunner mode you can move the aim point outside the field of fire, it'd be impossible to stay within a 0 degree area to actually fire the guns.

[maverickf]

The black widdow still lacks the function of the turret beeing able to be fired from the Pilot in normal mode

[fangride]

I love the SM. 91 turret it’s gotten me plenty of kills on players

[xXEGLEyEXx]

The He-111 rear gun I heard from someone that Hungary had one scout/recon he-111 fitted with that, it is supposed to be stationary, and only really used as scare tactics. The enemy pilots knew (Soviets) that behind the plane they are safe from the gunners, so this gun was stuck there to just fire at them and put them off from sitting behind the plane freely. I guess it moves similar to other stationary guns in game, some sort of a gameplay reason.

[dylanbartlett]

I love the J1n1 people almost never expect that much rear firepower

[thelonious]

The S.M.91 and S.M.92 have different turret guns if I recall correctly. The S.M.91 has the 20 mm MG-151, while the S.M.92 has a 12.7 mm Breda SAFAT HMG.
Gotta love the turrets honestly!

[nihil]

iirc pe-3 mgs are controlled by pilot and could be replaced to flamethrower or a parachuted anti-air mine launcher

[simplsquam]

12:10 On the B29 you can see a flat glass pannel on the bomb sight due to the curved glass causing distortion. That same distortion may be the reason why its not curved glass but thats just my theory