F-5E FCU In War Thunder : A Basic Review

Taking a look at the F-5E FCU in war thunder. In this vid, we look at the real-world history of the aircraft, its in-game weapon systems, flight performance, and combat tactics to use it effectively out in matches.

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I'm all over the place!

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00:00 Real-World History
01:55 In-Game Systems & Weapons
03:34 In-Game Flight Performance
05:26 In-Game Combat Tactics
07:26 Miscellaneous
08:08 Conclusions

[mortexic]

3:49 dude saw the "5" on the side of the plane, and immediately J'ed out.

[retromecha]

Never skip the historical intro Tim, its the best part.

[rydersanderson]

I just wanted to say that from my personal experience, you are not only one of the most informative War Thunder YouTube channels, but also one of the most positive. I never have to worry about being pummeled with constant negativity when I watch your videos, as you always manage to find something positive to say about everything. Thanks dude, love your videos :)

[Remarite]

Love the historical aspect no matter where it is in the video, keep up the good work Tim, maybe a doccu series would be cool given your amazing narration skills

[GuardianOne]

Me: Sees that Tim uploaded another in depth, high quality vehicle review.

Also Me: having dealt with the worst migraine I’ve had leaving me bedridden yesterday and just now feeling better.

Also also Me: *hits like* ❤️

[Jayhawker]

3:26 “can often but not always take out a main battle tank in one hit” that’s very generous for the Mav. I would say sometimes it can OHK. Maybe 40% of the time if it even tracks

[SapphireLordess]

These videos are fantastic, as someone who is only fairly recently getting into air combat in war thunder, these have all been incredibly helpful both for vehicles i want and for vehicles i will face

[veescnhnittger]

I've been playing the game for years now, and I've struggled with radars and different systems but thanks to you everything makes so much more sense (well on paper, i just need to put it into practice)😅
Thank you for the help you've indirectly given me, it means a lot.
Ive been loving flying the thai F 5. When i cant find a target for AGMs i usually go hunting Ka 50s. I find the AIM9s struggle locking them sometimes. Or i just end up being to close😅

[camilorodriguez]

02:44 the snail trolled you again lol, they added drop tanks for the f5 family some patches ago

[xanderwusky]

Saw this one between the squad vehicles and immediately told my friend who is new to the game to research that thing (as soon as he is done with leopard since we playing german tanks). Seems like a great squad vehicle yeah. F5E is already decent and this gets pyton 3

[Anzuu_r]

I genuinely love the F-5s and i think this is (as you stated) a great addition to the Tech Tree..

..Especially for the ones going down the route of getting the F-16AJ or F-15J (Like me) and trying to get a small Taste of Near-Top Tier Combat.

[RussiaRX]

It suppose to have 2 skins for it, the current one and one in devblog but i don't know why the dev blog one is gone (Thai king aggressor squad skins)

[PvtPartzz]

I think you forgot one of the most important bits of information regarding the radar which is that it doesn’t have IFF so it cannot be relied on in sim for that.

[tomsmith]

Wow that was some serious pro skill level gameplay haha, should call you the Timinator!!

[Kestrel-wscg]

Considering that if we got far enough the upgrade of this thing F-5TH super Tigris would be a hell of an opponent considering what it can do and carry like the derby or python 4s or 5s and considering gaijin don’t mind giving planes weapons they never got irl they can push this thing up to 13.0 easily with the derby and python 5s

[slayo]

Love in my sub box how YouTube classified this as important. YOU DAMN RIGHT YOUTUBE

[jdreyes]

This thing coming into the game couldn't have come at a better time; when it dropped, I was heading out towards Bangkok in a week (for my first excursion out of my native Philippines). The fact that this is the answer to Japan's Rank VII grinding question makes it even more attractive for me (as well as the interesting factoid that Thailand's current ruler, King Rama X, is legit qualified to fly these along with F-16s and 737s). And you've probably heard this from other commenters, but I definitely do prefer getting hit with the historical yapping first (it's basically the one reason I even watch you at all compared to other WT creators haha).

[razvy]

Regarding the missiles, it might just be me, but they seem to have gotten faster and now are dealing more damage.

[CreideikiRox]

Immediately sharing link with my discord server.

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love the random paid actor at 3:50 LMAO (no, but what was he doing actually)