Video Digest 24.02.2025

It’s Monday, which means it’s time to catch up on all the videos we’ve posted on our YouTube channel last week!

Don't forget, you can now use video subtitles!

CAS with 45-mm Cannons

Most of the time, close air support uses bombs, with rockets and guided munitions coming in close. Still, autocannons would always have a special place in ground strikes. And while open-top anti-aircraft guns don’t take more than a biplane with machine guns, medium and heavy tanks are much tougher nuts to crack, which means you need something special. Today we’d like to talk about Soviet aircraft with 45-mm cannons — and by the way, they’ve recently received new APHE shells!

Hail of Fire: How to Play on British SPAAs

Bulky and slow-moving British tanks require protection from aircraft just as much as any other heavy vehicles. To address this, the United Kingdom’s tech tree offers a variety of anti-aircraft vehicles: from humble gun trucks to complicated missile systems. Today, we’ll discuss how to use them in battle, keeping the skies clear, supporting tanks, and leading your team to victory.

Thunder Show: SNEAK 100

Today we have a few tricks, some alternative uses for expensive vehicles, and lots of simply stunning destruction.

F-5A(G): Norwegian Hunter

The ‘Freedom Fighter’ event is almost over now, and many players have already received its main reward! This is the first ever Norwegian aircraft in the game: a special modification of the American F-5. Norway was the first foreign operator of this plane, and the machine got a few extra additions to adapt it to the harsh northern climes.

OTOMATIC: Multirole Weapon

In the last decade of the Cold War, the military shifted its attention to ‘multirole combat vehicles’ that could be used against both ground vehicles and aircraft. Most of the projects, although there weren’t too many of them to begin with, eventually got discarded, but some machines managed to see the light of day. The Italian OTO Melara company, for instance, created a new system with the sophisticated name of ‘OTO main anti-aircraft tank for intercept and combat’, better known as the ‘OTOMATIC’.


We invite YouTubers and Streamers to cooperate and offer support depending on the quantity and popularity of your content. Click here for more information.

6 Likes

Any more buffs to ADATS/Stormer in the works? The removal of the tracers would make them really nice to have. Either that or have them only be visible in thermals.

6 Likes

Ah so you do Remember that the otomatic exist. After ignoring so many feedback i tought you forgot about that spaa

8 Likes

that and moving the skink down in BR, along with all the Oerlikon SPAA, its not that good a gun, i don’t understand how it can be the same BR as the Bosvark, or the Crusader AA the same BR as the Ystervark, the AEC, Crusader AA Mk.II and Skink are all quite sad honestly

1 Like

Well they’re closed and reasonably armoured. It’d be nice to have the first Skink proto with the welded turret and Hispanos.

still die to a 1000lb applied nearby due to the piss poor damage and velocity not allowing you to shoot down the enemy.

In the bosvark i rarely ever get strafed cause i can shoot the bugger down before they shoot me

meanwhile i get cleaved by 45mm APHE and MK 103s in the Skink, god damnit I hate them bloody polstens, id do better with the staghound at that BR Honestly, let alone a Ystervark which is somehow 1.3 lower in BR

Oh wow, a video on the 45mm cannon planes with the fake APHE shells? Amazing.

1 Like