I found the way. Instead of side climbing you go back climbing… Side climbing there is tons of people still tryna hunt you down. Do climbing on the opposite direction of the battlefield till your around 13K meter then you start turning and use some flaps to reach 15K meter. Some vehicle still can climb that high but they struggle to aim you.
I have my lightnings radar set at a distance where i instantly see where they go so youre just prolonging death for people using radar right. climbing high is still the most challenging bit
also a big problem right now is that the current rate of fire for the 23mm guns is half of its real fire rate. Its currently only 600 (less than tu4) when in reality its 1250rpm. Once they fix that it should have a slightly better time defending itself
And my Tu-95 RWR is unreadable; it’s not easy to notch with it.
Well if that true, I hope we can fix it quickly.
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/TrvJEjDCTyUm
Bug report got accepted. We probaly will see it fix soon.
Hey tiny heads up.
B-52H is missing its fire supression system.
Yes the B-52H doesn’t have conventional chemical EFS like halon 1301, but it does use a system where hydrolic valves and hydrolic firewalls cut iff the fuel and isolate the fire in the wing.
If they would add that, the survivability from an engine fire would be way better. (In both ground rb and air rb)
There is a bug repport on adding it:
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/x063Lk6osd3h
Every extra vote will help
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will experting my gunner help? I have already reach max level without experting it.
not really. they wont shoot back often unless you manually control the gunners
hopefully, because the make or break for a large bomber at this br is its defensive weapons. The doubling of firepower should turn it into a rather formidable aircraft even at 8.3. Not quite tu4 firepower but close-ish
Im curious how the b52 is holding up. I cant imagine its really viable even for an experienced bomber player. b29 syndrome just at 8.7. Tu95 can absolutely cheese matches in downtiers though lol, those early jets cant hang with it at high alt
There will always be atleast 2 enemy player flying higher then you and start to search for you no matter if your side climbing or not. They will literally chase you for half of the match just to kill you.
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I like to spawn on the airfield and stay semi low, generally people will escort you, and its helps both fighters and bombers, fighters get free kills because others get hyperfocused on bombers and the bombers actually get bases (sometimes generally you have to get AI targets tho)
not possible and not needed unless you face an F3H in which case rest in peace
I got another problem ONLY for the Tu-95. The fact it flares was sent very behing which sometimes those heat seeking missile simplyy just ignored it unless the missile was shot from behind.
I don’t think the link is working :(
I requested to lower the BR of this 2 heavy bombers but gaijin leave no response why they didn’t lower it as there quite a few people who supported this idea. Updated Planned Battle Rating Changes (April 2026) - #125 by O_Warrior0
It’s not popular enough to get a reply, unfortunately. The Su-30 stole the spotlight.
We cant even have a proper evaluation of tu95’s br until the major bugs for it are fixed. Right now the cannons are completely broken. The countermeasure system is also broken. AM23 is supposed to fire at 1200rpm, and uses identical ammo to the gsh23, which is higher velocity than nr23 rounds. Gaijins decision to disable one of the belly cannons for countermeasures makes zero sense, because the integrated countermeasure dispenser on tu95 is already compatible with chaff and flares… The flares themselves spawn so far away from the vehicle that ir missiles tend to ignore them completely. So we currently have a plane with less than half its defensive firepower, a disabled cannon on an extremely important part of the plane, and flares that dont really work.
For B52, I think it should absolutely go to 8.3. But Tu95 in its current state is actually worse than tu4 in actual gameplay. Hell its worse than an il28 beacuse at least that things tailgun is functional. 8.0 for it sounds perfect. Right now it faces 9.3 like 80 percent of the time
LOL thats brilliant